The sun., 1904-12-28
Fsrryboats Run as They Can,
With Occasional Collisions.
Storm OF Great vigor Approaching From
the west, but the Fosgy Conditions.
which 1t VIII Clear Away. Arc Likely
TO Last Another Day-Northwest Send.
ing Down the Coolest wave or the
winter, with Heavy snow in the West
and Many Wires Down-Ferrybost
Cropping Their Way without Regard
10 Schedules: Some Stop Altogether
chicago HIT by Railroad Transport,
Bergen and Musk enetconE Bump Hard.

The fog shut up this port yesterday
about as completely as London was shut
up last week. Folks who received galoshes
as Christmas presents found navigation
ashore not altogether. uncomfortable.
There was no navigation afoat except
within waters this side Of the Narrows.
The marine experts in the towers at the
Hook, the Highlands and Fire Island
could see nothing but fog at both ends
OF their telescopes, and they shut up shop
just after darkness augmented the OBJ
scuration, uniting in authorizing the man
at the Manhattan end of their wires to say
'Dense fog all round. No marine news
from any source
The slush below on land was only few
degrees thicker than the dripping grayness
aloft. The cause OF it all was the warm
breath of magician zephyrs. chiefly from
the South, blowing on the chilled surface OF
land and sea. The mist structure extended
from Maine to Virginia, stretching far in
land and away out into the Atlantic. The
tops Of the big buildings of the town were
hidden most OF the day and night in the
impalpable granite Of the air. From the
upper windows Of the tallest towers the city
seemed lost in the spindrift OF an invading
sea. Only the rumble and roar borne up
on the mist partic les with almost telephonio
distinctness told that Manhattan was still
doing holiday business at the same old
stand
Seldom has so persistent fog crippled
the commerce Of the port. Usually there
have been riffs in the gloom, permitting
the ships to leave or reach port on the in
stallment plan. There was no let-up yes
terday, even for the frsction Of a second.
The only Atlantic liner scheduled to sail
was the North German Lloyd steamship
Frankfurt, which did not get out Of port
All the Sound boats, including the Puritan,
which was to have sailed early last evening,
were still at their docks at midnight waiting
for the air to clear. The North Star Of the
Maine Steamship Company's feet. bound
for Portland. gave up hope Of getting away
until dawn to-day, when she will start,
provided, OF course, the fog lifts enough
TO let her navigators see their way up the
Sound. The Chester w. Chaplin Of the
Norwich Line, bound for New London,
was also tied up for the night. The mists
afost were heavier than those on land,
The Weather Bureau reported last night
that the centre of the great storm that drew
the mildness from the South into this neigh
borhood was over the western part OF Lake
Huron. The most violent wind here will
come after the passage of the storm centre
and blow from the northwest and of the
Atlantic Coast.
The wind was blowing a gale OF thirty
10 seventy-two miles an hour in the Central
States and lake regions last night and snow
was falling In the States on the west Of
the Mississippi and rain to the east OF that
river. The snowfall was heavy as a rule
and wires we're down in all directions in
the Western States. The storm was Great
ing warmer weather on it's eastern and
southern sides. but was being followed
form the northwest by the ooldest wave
Of the winter. The temperature touched
from 10 to 30 degrees below zero In Mon
tana and the Dakotas, and the line Of
freezing spread south into the Gulf of
Mexico over Texas.
The worst of the blow recorded in the
West was seventy-two miles. at Chicago.
There were no local or neighborhood indi-
cations last night tina; the frigid and windy
influence Of the storm would be felt severely
hereabouts until tonight or perhaps to-
morrow morning. Forecaster Emery said
that the storm was very severe. meteoro-
logically considered, having extremely low
barometers and being attended on certain
quarters by winds Of high velocities and
by unusually low temperatures. There was
no promise Of let-up in fog conditions
before this afternoon. There is a definite
prophecy, however, that the slush will turn
into ridgy ice before tomorrow afternoon.