The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-11-15
ANALYSIS Of THE
WIRES BY STORM
The Complete Isolation OF
Many Sections.
'AR0UND The ELBOW"
Many Devices Resorted to by Great
News Agency, the Associated
Press, to Record The Doings
of the World Yester-
day.
(By the Associated Press.D

NSS TIE lASSOCidltu IItSS.J
New York, Nov. 14.-That the ef-
fects of yesterdays storm were much
more far reaching than in any similar
disturbance since the great blizzard of
1888 became evident today when the
dlsarrangement of wire communities
ton continued almost as complete as
at any time during the height OF the
storm. Up to 10 o'clock many points
were completely isolated While sections
W ere reached only by most c.rcuitous
routes. To the West, the only points
having direct cCmrnGnicatiOnS with
New York were Philadelphia and Bal
tinore. The Associated Press, how
ever, had succeeded In reaching the
West and incidentally many Eastern
points by means of a telephone Wirt
between Baltimore and Chicago. The
news report carried over the regular
wires between New York and l}al:i-
more WIN il reached the latter city
was transferred a distance of ten
blocks to the telephone Office by cabs
then forwarded by telegraph TO Chi
cago and over a long distance tele-
phone wire, ard from Chicago was tel
egraphe6 back to Washington anc
other cities which could not be
reached over the regular routes.
The same plan was followed in
many other cases. For instance, the
Associated Press regular New York
State circuit. net work of wires con-
Meeting all the principal cities of the
State, was practically out of service
for a time. Newburg to the north,
mared the end of the circuit, points
beyond being completely cut off. Fin
ally, however, a temporary circuit
was set up by forming a connecting
link between Cleveland and Buffalo.
From Buffalo the report was relayed
down through the State as far as
Utica. At that point however, wire
paralysis again was encountered, leav-
ing Amsterdam, Schnectady, Albany
aand Troy completely cut off from the
outside world. The only reports re-
ceived from that section of the State
today, came by train from Albany.
Four inches Of wet snow had broken
down telephone, telegraph, electric
| light and fire alarm wires in Albany
and vicinity and badly hampered street
car and train service.
While the effect of the storm was
not so severe in New England, some
points in that section felt the full
| force of the gale. Wires were down
| in all parts of Maine. Some points
on Caoe Cod could not be reached by
wire early i'm the day, and Pittsfeld
in the Berl1shires. was cut off entirely
from both New Work and Boston.
Wire service to many points in cas-
tern Canada which was swept by the
storm also was disabled.
TWO g.. b. .yTWO TWO
THREE X
Operations in Wall Street were cur
tailed to-day by reason of yesterdays
storm. AT the opening of the stock
market the stock exchange branch of
the Western Union Telegraph Com
pany had only a few direct wires
working. These were to Philadelphia
on the South. and Hartford and Bos-
ton on the East. Western ana South
western wires were still down as were
I all wires South of Baltimore. All
messages We're accepted subject to de-
| lay. At no time since 1883 has the
| Wall Street business of the telegraph
companies been so badly crippled.
| The private wires of almost every
| stock exchange commission house
| were out of commission.
One prominent firm had CONT uni
cation over it's direct wires to Phila-
delphia and similar communication
was had with Boston thoueh with
| some difficulty. On the Cotton Ex-
change business was virtually at a
standstill. All telegraph wire COM
munications was cut off and across
/ the quotation board on the trading
| floor was written mo wires" In the
| first half hour of the cotton market
| less than a half dozen transactions
were made. At the Produce Exchange
a similar state of affairs was reported
and business there was stagnant. One
packing house reported indirect COM
munication with Pittsburg and Chica-
60 but all other financial wires were
still out of commission.