The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-01-26
Officers boat would not have ventured
alongside her in tho high waves
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passenger. did not sail, not because their
pilots thought II dangerous TO leave port,
but because the snow blockade made 1t i'm
possible for shippers to get freight to the
piers, and nobody showed up who wanted
to go up the Sound in 80 wild a storm.
Transportation OF freight in the harbor was
brought 10 a standstill early in the morning.
Nearly every tug was tied up in dock, as
the transfer of craft Of any sort was danger
Gus in the murk of the storm.
In the afternoon wireless Mesa ges were
received from the NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
liner Moltke, two days late from Hamburg,
and the Holland-America steamship
Rotterdam, a day late from Rotterdam.
announcing that they had anchored outside
the Hook. They were not seen by the
Hook observer.
BLESSINGS PoB THE SUBWAY,
Three things there were to be thankful
for last night. the subway, the telephone
and the telegraph. The first, impervious
to anything except earthquake or tidal
wave, did an extra hard days work. earn
ing half a million blessings for itself and
John B. Mcdonald. As for the wire ger
vice. the storm had the kindness to remain
dry, The snow would not stick to the
The blizzards private character was
| devilish. Ten minutes association with
IL was enough for anybody. and only those
we're abroad who had to be. 1t blinded,
st,ng and froze. II there is anything
that IA man wants to fight and can't it's
blizzard.
People staggered along with their eyes
shut against the fusillade of needle points,
humping into one another, losing their
hats their temper and their footing, sprawl
ing on the dry, shining snow, gasping for
breath and rising to struggle on to the next
doorway or subway station. With the men
1t was not so bad. for it did them good to
stack up against something they couldn't
beat, but the case Of the women was pitt
able.
HARD FOR TIL L WOMEN
They tottered along through the cloud
of hard. dry snow, choking and sobbing.
The whirling snowfakes made the air
Opaque as a thick London fog, and they
could not see ten feet ahead. Their wells
were torn off and their hats swept away.
They were thrown down in the drifts. al
most too numb to rise.
Where the women Jared worst was at
the noted corners of the Flatiron Building.
Long Acre Square and Columbus Circle.
At each OF these Fairgrounds of the wind
there was wee for every one who tried to
cross. Men were blown two rods; women
we're fattened and Inundated.
Broadway was surrendered TO the storm
early in the afternoon. The usIinl paraders
fed to their homes. shoppers did not
come down town at all. The merchants
appreciated this, saw that their employees
would have struggle to get home and
closed their shops early. some OF them
being dark before 4 P. Nj.
STUDIES IN STORM COSTUMES.
For those who did get about there was
study In costumes. Most Of the men visi-
BILE in the business and shopping districts
seemed to be commuters, for they we're
clad in extra coats and rubber or leather
boots. Some wore automobile caps and
goggles. The bars of the Tenderloin hotels,
usually thronged with men who pretend to
fashion in some degree, had no custom
except from the booted and muffled. Those
not 30 well protected had fed homeward.
Most of the commuters who lined the
hotel bars announced their intention of
staying in New York all night. Some,
after three cocktails, seemed to think the
storm a good thing. They hadn't spent a
night away from Canarsie or Bayonne in
u long time.
MOST OF THE SURFACE CARS QUIT.
The surface roads made brave effort to
hold out against the blizzard. but soon after
noon it was seen that most of them must
abandon the effort The motormen fought
their way along, peering through the frozen
mist to avoid collisions. They froze and
thawed and froze again until they looked
like walruses Some of them had wells
which soon became as stiff as steel and had
to be discarded
Snowploughs hurried back and forth on
Broad way, but that was vain The snow
sifted down through the trolley slots to the
channel rail and then progress was i'm
possible. The gangs Of the Now York City
Street Railway Company, reinforced by
hundreds of men from the lodging houses,
had a task that was beyond them.
BROADWAY TIED UP.
Early in the afternoon Broadway was
practically tied up, In the middle Of the
afternoon the company Was able TO raise
the blockade for a while. but there was moth
ing like schedule time. II took the cars
two and a half hours to run from Ninety
9th street TO the Battery.
The crosstown lines threw up the sponge
much earlier than their big brothers did
Long strings of dark, abandoned cars lay
in Fourteenth TWeuty-third, Forty-second.
Fifty-uinth end Eighty-eixth streets after
p. NJ. The company decided to let them
90 and devoted its energies TO the longi-
tudinal roads. l. did not seem to matter
much at night.
oh, well said conductor. as he fed
from his car. what's the use? Nobody
wants TO ride in a surface car tonight,
anyway"
Upin The Bronx there was feeble effort
to run cars in the afternoon. They crawled
along a: the rate Of a mile an hour and the
shiyering public got out and RAM home
or TO the elevated, leaving the cars 10 their
doom. Nobody seemed to care what hap
pened TO the crew-not even the crew.
ELEVATED KEPT RUNNING.
The dear old elevated did better than
WAS expected OF it, 1t did not pretend 10
run onlschedule time, but it kept running
and that was about a. much as any one
asked IL had to encounter the strenuous
wind and the snow on the third rail. or
course. the shoe of the train has a scraper
attachment which covers the third rail and |
cleans il, but the extra friction il enough |
to cause delay. The elevated had an extra !
heavy job yesterday on account of the |
abandonment Of the surface cars.
Naturally. there was a great jam at the |
Bridge station Of the Second and Third !