The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-01-05
9 INCHES, 90 MILES, 10 DEGREES
HAKE-TP or THE WINTRf
WEATHER We HAD YESTERDAY.
\ Lot of Trouble Fairly In the Day Tor
Pedestrians. surface Cars and steam
Roads This Winter Has Registered
Moro snow Than Fell Last Winter.

Pedestrians. surface cars anu steam
Roads This Winter Has Registered
More snow Than Fell Last Winter.
New Workers who went 10 bed early on
Tuesday night without paying any particu-
lar attention TO the snow that had sue
ceeded the sleet and hail Of the afternoon
got surprise yesterday morning when
they found that a small edition of biz
zard had been busy while they slept ana
that fifty mile gale Of wind had piled nine
inches of snow into three foot drifts II
was the worst storm Of this young but I'M
usual winter and one OF tho most trying
that the late homegoing pedestrian has had
TO buck up against for many day Such
persons didn't need TO be told that II was
showing and blowing and freezing. lhey
had staggered along with air at the tenn
perat.Ire Of IS degrees famed into thelr
faces by a north-north west wind that seemed
10 come roundabout from the north pole
They had slipped on pavement5 swept
bare 10y the gale and as smooth is boy
skating pcnd with a quarter oil ar men oil
sleet that had formed in the afternoon.
They had ploughed knee deep the next
moment through snow drit that ex-
tended from stoop line TO stoop line. lhey
had seen surface cars hope.es5ly ued up
and trucks stalled because the horses
couldn't get footing to bulge them There
is no use comparing the storm with the
New York standard blizzard GSss), because
It was baby TO that; but it was buster
Of baby.
Mr.. Emery. the weather man, called 1t
n blizzard. He said that all New YORK
State caught 1t and that this city where at
1QA. NJ. Yesterday the mercury had dropped
10 10 degrees above zero, was the warmeSt
Mace in the storm area. Syracuse was
having zero weather.
The storm that mas just passed knocks
out the theory that the winters here are
growing milder," said MIR. Emery 80
far this winter we have had a total snow
fail of aga inches In all Of last winter
only 80 inches fell, and the heaviest snow
fall of any winter on record IS 5s.J lncIes'
This season is young yet and II may prove
a record breaker In the blizzard OF lssS
~ inches of snow fell but it was coming ior
three DAYS so the storm last night ana
this morning was heavier while it lasted
But those who saw the beginning OF the
blizzard Of 1888 will remember that in thlIty
minutes from the beginning OF the SNOWMAN
bouse stoops were buried in the drifts,
Tbe aurface cars had their troubles
soon after midnight and they DIDN'T get
ont of them until well along in the lore
noon At a or 4 in the morning some oil
the lines went out Of business altogether
and they didn't get going again until snow
rioupbs and sweepers had brought the
track, into view again. Elevated trains
kent going. but made no pretenSe ol Keep
inc 10 schedule ufuc and in some cases we're
haif an hour apart The Bronx trolley
lines nuit before midnight. lhe Whlhlhg
up there was very bad
All OF these troubles gave the subway
n chance to show what blessing II Is.
There was little to hamper the underground
trains and they ran like olockwork all night
over in Brooklyn the trolleys gave up the
ghost on some Of the suburban hneh ana
cars we're so far apart that most oil the
would-be passengers walked. on the VIZ
hamburg Bridge the snow drllted 20
heavily across tho tracks that all cars haa
TO be taken OF and ploughs and sweeper7
nut in their places to get ready LOT 'he
morning rush.
All the steam railroads suffered delays
Big drifts up Stanford way held up the
milk that comes here from Connecucut
md the New York Central and West ohore
milk trains were all very late IN 'eachlhg
the depots. few dealers got tb supply
through with only a slight delay ana Their
surnlus stock was sold in a ji1y. 1t was
| estimated at the milk depots That con-
/ sideraLly less than half Of the regular milk
supply reached this city and brooklyn IN
| tirne for delivery and the drifts IN tho streets
| further delayed those dealers VINO hau ho
| s!eighs. - -.
All tho passenger trains that came INTO
! tho Grand Central station IN the morning
we're more or less late, but the Jersey com
inuters Jared somew hat better. Dillls
! hotween Mount Vernon and stamford
! numbered the New Haven trans ara
trouble in the yards Of tae Grand central
station addeI TO the delay Ing $40
/ clorged the switches - per77teauy
! ,bnt a big force OF men couldn't keep tiein
working regularly, Some OF the through
{ trains on the Central were away belnnQ
| time The Chicago express, due mere az
/ 10 O'Clock, was run in two sections. the INST
OF which sot IN at noon ana me oliie h., a. d.
3 O'Clock, The Adirondack express que az
$50. was two and half hour late; the Cen
! frnlfE crat. twenty-uUur tram, the lWen-
ueth Century Limited, which il due az y g.
! was two hour. behind time and al oil the
locals We're anywhere from a hun h'"r TO
an hour behind their schedules.
The Pennsylvania kept its Jersey coast
ana Philadelphia trains pretty close 70
/ schedule, but the PlttsburR train cue al '-'u
was four hours late and Norfolk express
. didn't get m until twu hours alter IL Was
due Through trains on TIE Eric we're auou'
/ an hour on
The Long Island system was badly tee
ftp Snow filled a number of cute and H.
,,ls lato in tho forenoon before snow lougns
Ind cleared the wnv through ihcw
Contractor bradley. who has tine 100 o.
removing SNOW from the -ireet~, pot 2'"'