New-York tribune., 1903-02-17
ANOTHER STORM COMING.
THREE INCHES OF .SNOW-
E2eUafed and SHrfdce IrGHsporta-
ton ONLY Slightly DeLayed

illustration of a number Of other kinds to-day.
SIeet and rain fell yesterday morning. Last
night snowstorm set in. and toward midnight
the Weather Bureau received a special storm
warning from Washington. announcing that
severe storm was central in North Carolina and
that severe northeast to northwest gales. ac-
companied with snow. might be expected here
this morning This was TO be followed later in the
day by much colder weather. Only clearing
weather. preceded by thunderstorm and hail.
will be necessary TO round out the circuit OF
possible New-YOrk weather.
Telegraph wires all over the country. 90 far
as the telegraph companies here were able to
determine were Of order. For several
hours yesterday it was impossible 70 transact
the business given 70 them The Western
Union was several hours behind in its Western
and Southern business The service improved
In the evening.
About ) D. m snow began to fall and the
prospects late last night were good FOR a con-
tinuation Of the storm throughout the night
The ferryboats had 70 reduce their regular
scredules. owing TO the binding snow that
swept across the rivers. This was particularly
true Of the boats on the North River. but they
had little trouble in making their slips with
safety on this side Of the river.
At 10 o'clock the snow had attained depth
Of three inches. and it was certain that ths
Street Cleaning Department would be obliged
to take hand in cleaning it up At the snow
office IT was said last night that nothing Wouid
be done about removing the snow until this
morning. Apparently the elevated roads and
surface cars were not seriously hampered in
their movements. as the snow was dry. The
surface lines quickly got their poughs out and
cleared their tracks.
Downtown the conditions were probably
worse than elsewhere. At the Brooklyn Bridge
Manhattan terminal between 8 and q o'clock
there was a tremendous jam. owing to the slow
moving of the trolley up the Bridge ap-
proach. The crowd became so impatient that
Roundsman Tfghe had 70 send for six more men
to keep it in check.
From the point of view OF Nature the sleet-
storm Of the morning resulted in a beautiful
spectacle From the utiIitarian point Of view
the New-Yorker who had business TO attend
to they we're FAR from being JOY. The thick
coating of shining ice that covered every tWlS
on the trees IN the park meant coated third rails,
trolley wires, pavements and leaky and broken
telegraph and telephone wires. 1t was demon
strated that the measures taken by the Manhat-
tai Elevated Railway to prevent tieup were OF
little avail When the road was tied up earlier
in the winter 1t was explained that the brushes
for cleaning the third rail had not arrived in
sufficient quantities TO be of practical use. Yes
terday nothing was said about a lack OF
brushes, yet the electric trains were much de-
Iayed in the forenoon. The shoes on the motor
cars did not clear the third rail thoroughly. and
as consequence time schedules on all pranches
were completely disrupted
Sputtering and sizzling. the electric trains
slowly wended their way downtown. causing
many person to arrive at his or her desttna-
tion late
The thin coating of ice that formed on the
third rail caused the same pyrotecnic display
that has followed every sleet storm in the city,
sheets of blue fame being thrown many feeG
in the air when the contact shoe Of the cars
passed over the fcebound rail These Hashes OF
fame in former storms. have never caused any
damage. but yesterday morning an extra heaFy
streak of blue sparks started a fire on the draw
bridge over the Harlem River at Ore-hundred-
and-twenty-ninth-st-s on the Second-ave hns-
The wooden ties caught fire. il was said oy
the sparks ignfting some oil which had oeeh
spread on the third rail to prevent the formation
of ice 4 dense cloud of smoke arose and an
alarm was turned in Before the engines ar
rived, however. some employees OF the rallroa4
had extinguished the flames which caused little
damage.
Electric trains of five cars were unable TO nnaKs
,,,,cb baadvav so extra trains with only thres
cars which relieved the congestion somewhat.
we're put on Some of the trains made such
slow time however. that. IN order 10 eaten Up
with their schedule several stations were passed
without stopping. The Thirtteth and Ihlrty-
fourth st stations the Ninth-ave. line. and
the Eighth-st- station. on the SLNIIl-dNe-' N0A1
among those Skipped.
-rba surface cars were not so badly stalled.
- sard cars were -un over the tracks at fire.
,,,an+ intervals This helped them in no small
degree In the Bronx and in Brooklyn. ths
trolley cars were at 4 disadvantage. as ths
overhead wires were heavily coated with ice
Pedestrians and horses had a trying time oe
II IT was not an unusual sight to see a man
fall fat in the street. Many people nursed
bruises on different parts of their anatomy
all day.
The Society for the Prevention OF Cruelty tn
Animals had a busy day. All Of it's ambulances
were out throughout the 5ay- Four horses.
whose right hind legs had been broken. wera
shot and twenty other horses, which were
badly strained or otherwise injured, were taken
care of by the ambuIances. One Of the aston
ishing things which the representatives of the
society found was the ignorance OF many
drivers in charge OF valuable horses. They
seemed to be helpless when their animals fell.
The society's men gave many such drivers IN
structions as TO the course they should pursue
In the suburbs the storm as trying as IN
the citv Westchester County was visited oy
what was said tC be the worst storm of the year.
When the residents awoke they found streets
and sidewalks everywhere covered with s'eet-
In some of the hilly Hudson River towns. IKE
Yonkers. Tarrytown and OssinIng' II was 1l-
most impossible for pedestrians 70 Keep their
footing even after taking the middle of the
streets Town clocks had stopped every where,
as their diaIs had become imprisoned in ice.
MANY, families went without milk and rolls for
breakfast
In New-RochelIe the condition of the streets
and sidewalks was so dangerous that the nrs