The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-01-26

Gle Made II Seem -Suburbanites
VINO Couldn't Get Home Pack Hotels.
The snowstorrn which struck these parts
Yesterday reeembled the great blizzard
Of 1888 in the character Of its formation
and Appropriated It in effect on steam
| railroad travel.
1t was altogether different though in
! the fact that the city was not isolated from
| the rest of the country. Telegraph and
! telephone wires were working and some
| traiEs did get in and out under great difh-
| cilties, in most directions.
| But the street cars ran only spasmodi
cdlly. In the suburbs the trolley lines,
with few exceptions, went out Of business
| entirely. The elevated railroads ran fairly
| well. Smaller storms have bothered them
more
Many funerals were given up. The
milk was late and most Of to-day's supply
was stalled somewhere far out on the rail-
roads late last night, and there Is prospect
OF delay az best in this morning. delivery
The ferries ran occasionally. The James
Slip ferry and the Thirty-ni street ferry
to Brooklyn quit altogether early in the
day.
From the point Of view OF folks engaged
in commerce afoat and ashore, on the
oIogged conditions of thoroughfares and
fairways The disturbance mora nearly re-
senbled the blizzard of ss than any storm
that has stalled traffic within tho records
Of the Weather Bureau and the memory
OF veracious natives who have seen some
winter buster.
LAKE AND GULF STORMS MET HERE,
The experts saw nothing on their charts
on Monday 10 indicate the approach of
anything out of the normal An innocent
looking "low" forming over the upper
lake region was preparing TO waltz down
this way. simultaneously. Off the Texas
coast, in the Gulf. southern twister Of
efleminate power was being born. Neither
storm, individually, would have amounted
TO anything In its transit SEWARD here
abouts.
The two storms united their comparatively
feeble forces Off on the Jersey coast in the
vicinity Of Atlantic City yesterday morning
and became formidable allow and aloft
The atlalgamlted storms might have been
hardly worth recording II they had been
able TO gallop off to sea. But they were
held in check by a wall of high pressure.
1t resisted the onslaught like a glnnite
fertilization. and the more it resisted tho
fiercer the twin storms beat against it.
tearing their edges into tatters of snow.
Meanwhile, the high pressure to the west
was demanding way and forcing the whirl-
ing low against the high on the seward
side. Caught between the frigid squeezing
of the two clear atmospheres the doubled
storm ,lrpped snow and fine ice almost
without interInission from midnight on
Tuesday until o'clock last night.
AND THEY pRIPPEp COLD STORAGE.
1t was az if the air above had been i'm
mersed IN cold storage and then dropped
on the town. The average humidity for
the day was 100 per cent, all snow and ice.
The seward wall of resistance was not
penetrated by the storm until about o'clock
in the afternoon, when the rising of the
barometer told that the storms were rush.
ing to the northeast.
The gale, which had been from northeast
and north most Of the day, then shifted
TO northwest, dragging in with it the 10y
atmosphere Of that section.
45 MILE GALE.
Tho highest force of the wind. when il
was in the northeast was IS miles, but 1t
blew in gusts that made IT appear, with its
stingins burden Of needlelike snow, almost
OF hurricane power. The snowfall was
nine and a half inches, which has been
exceeded in January several times. The
highest wind velocity was 4s miles from
northwest at p. NJ
This morning will usher in tho coolest
weather Of the winter. 1t is not unlikely
that the mercury will drop pretty close to
zero. II had gone down to 10 degrees at
10 o'clock last night. which ia only degree
higher than the record of the winter
FIERcER APIoAT THAN ASHORE.
The blast was fercer in the open than it
was on land hereabouts. The record by
the anemometer at Sandy Hook at 2 p.
NJ was 81 miles from north-northeast.
Only one Of large >belated fleet Of liners.
the Atlantic Transport steamship Menom
inee. froml1 London, was seen passing in
by the Hook observer. This was at noon.
when there was a momentary let-up in |
the obscuring swirls Of snow
Nothing was heard Of her thereafter. !
and IL was guessed that she had anchored |
inside She would not have been cleared \
II she had got to Quarantine, as the Health |