New-York tribune., 1905-01-04
BRONX TRAFFIC TIED UP.
STREETS SKATING Kinks.
Slipping Horses Cause Blocks
Trains Much DELAYED.


New-York squarely in the face yesterday. Incl
dentally it stung like fine grapeshot, tangled up
the feet, made pavements slides and streets
skating rnks. It caused suffering to horses and
horseless human beings, and likewise topped
chimneys, knocked off hats, smashed windows.
snapped telegraph wires and disconnected cir
cults Generally it more or less impeded or
tied UP traffic and transportation throughout
the city and filled lodging houses to overfowing.
Echoes of the general storm were heard in the
belated arrival of trains.
The subway showed a marked increase in
traffic.
In The Bronx the streetcar tie-up almost
complete before midnight. and after that hour
there was scarcely a car moving An hour after
midnight the entire system of the Union Rail
way Company was paralyzed. On the main
lines were being moved only at intervals
of from thirty to forty-five minutes. and on the
outlying lines not moving Theatre
goers on the One hundred and thirty eighth ST
lines for the most part found it quicker and
easier to walk home even in the face of the
storm. than to wait for cars
Forecaster Emery said last night: IT'S all
over now. Tomorrow will be a nice day. bright
and fair and crisp. and dry under foot"
Traffic was badly congested throughout the
afternoon and early evening along Broadway
and some of the avenues. At Thirty second-st
and Broadway at p the trolley slit in the
northbound tfatk berau4e ehoke1 s bF0ck re-
suited south to Fourteenth-st. It was almost
an hour before the trouble was adjusted. In the
mean while horses We're slipping and falling on
the treacherous asphalt. blocking still further
the trucks which. in most instances had taken
to the street car tracks.
About an hour after the first block big coal
team broke down in front of the Hotel Bresin
nd Iva
northbound track for nearly half hour. This
stopped the traffic just at the time of heaviest
travel.
The horsecar lines ran slowly and only at long
intervals long delay began on the Sixth and
Eighth ave. lines at State-st. and Battery Place
soon after 8 o'clock A heavy brewery wagon
was stalled on the tracks. car after consid-
cradle difficulty. pushed the wagon off.
on the East Side the storm was felt severely,
especially by the surface lines which were con-
tinualIy blocked. In Second, Third. Lexington
and Madison aves cars were stalled frequently
hv horses falling on the tracks Persons from
downtown offices were more than an hour late in
arriving home. On the crosstcwn lines. espe-
cially in Forty-second-st., traffic was in a bad
condition.
Numerous accidents were reported. In Third
ave near Seventy -sXth-st.. there Is a slight
grade. car IN charge Of William Hopkins
was going south. A brewery wagon. driven by
Patrick Kane, also going south on the
tracks and when Hopkins endeavored to stop
the car the wheels slipped along the rails. He
reversed the power, but too late to avoid an ac-
cident The front Of the smashed into the
brewery wagon, and the passengers. many Of
whom were standing, We're badly shaken up.
They made a rush TO the rear door and Jumped
from the platform. Several windows in the car
we're broken, and the front platform was
wrecked Traffic was blocked for about half an
hour.
POURED OUT BARRELS OF ASHES
So slippery for the horses the Fifth-ave>
pavement yesterday afternoon that many of the
merchants from Twenty-fourth to Fortieth ST.
voluntarily brought out cinders and ashes and
scattered them freely about to give man and
beast a better footing. Opposite the Waldorf
Astoria the conditions became so bad that the
downstairs help of the hotel brought out barrels
of cinders ana threw them broadcast. Horses
were led by the bride at this point for an hour
and traffic was wellnigh suspended during the
worst of the storm
T-ains on the New-York Central and on the
New York. New-Haven and Hartford railroads
we're late In arriving in the Grand Central Sta
tion last night on account of the storm. The
Central road was the more handicapped, trains
being i'm most cases at least one hour behind
their scheduled time. The Southwestern Linn
tied due at 6 o'clock old not come in until S:15:
the Lake Shore Limited was three hours behind,
tho Eastern Express l hour and 20 minutes,
the New-Yorker / hour and 20 minutes. the
day express 1 hour and II .rninutes and the
Metropolitan hour and 30 minutes behind.
The local trains the Central were all from
ten to thirty minutes late.
On the New-Hayen road all trains were de-
layed especially those from Boston. which en-
tered the station about half an hour behind time.
The CITY Lodging House was crowded When
the capacity Of $50 men accommodated the
remaining $50 applicants for nights lodging
received the order ITO the doek!" That meant
that they were first TO receive big oowl of
steaming hot brown liquid. which superintend-
emf York assured the reporters was good coffee.
and half a loaf of bread. They were then well
come 10 one Of the 250-odd cots which had been
Installed for such emergency in big room
In the Twenty -sixth-st. pier house
A. the Olive Tree Inn. where one may obtain
q aerst class bed for Il cents. the manager
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