Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1905-02-07
ROUND ABOUT NEW YORK.
Rippes on the Current Of Life in the
Metropolis.

Blizzard stories are as thick as the
STOW piles in New York and vicinity.
Fay Ored people living in the Canada
belt of the Missouri valley are able
by experience to appreciate the hard
ships which the real thing in billiards.
laviShes upon the big town and its
n"iGhborS. The article which traditi o..
tells us had its HI; bital in some unde-
fined section of the west, but which
moved east ward to grow up with the
country, was a mellow summer breeze
compared with New York's blizzard
grown TO robust maturity. Eighteen
inc he's of snow fell during the storm.
Fifteen thous"nd men and 5000 teams
Wer" employed raising the snow block
:tde on the streets of New York and
brooklyn. ii job that cost $3O0,0o0
NotOrlnen on the surface cars. having
no Sheitering veStibuleS, We're SO
mufftcd UP that they could not hear the
conductors bell signals and many Of
them, benumbed by the cold, had To be
lifted from the cars at the end of the
run. On the day of the storm $50. 90
passengers We're carried on the elevated
roads ana III 900 on the subway lines.
\ correspondent of the Philadelphia
edger puts the cost of the storm up
into The millions. The heaviest loss
falls upon the local railroads and the
trunk lines from the stoppage Of their
immense suburban traffic The big
department stores did not suffer as
ba lily as the railroad companies in pro-
portion, since their trade is of such Il
i 4
the stores during the last three days
will make up for il when the weather
mOdcrateS. but still the loss of days
business must amount to considerable.
This is true of general business. which
was completely raralyZed on WedneS-
day. The gas and electric light COM
ponies the telegraph and telephone
companies. the hotels. which accommo-
dated 15,0n0 extra guests at the lowest
calculation, and contractors who rent
their horses and carts to the city at eX-
Orbitallt prices to carry away the snow
were gamers from the storm. but the
amount on the credit side Of the ledger
is comparatively small. Experts have
deter mined that a serious London fog
costs some $3,000.000 A fog in London
is costly, but it does not tie up traffic
more completely Than it was tied up in
New York by the storm. AS the biz
card covered a much larger area, and
it's hindrance are continued, and as
positive damage to machinery is done
by the storms. it is safe to say that the
So no0, 900 estimate falls within the
actual loss on account of the blizzard of
1908.
While the wind was playing FRANKS
with womcn's skirts along One Hun
dred and Twenty-fifth street. the clerks
i'm most of the stores amused them
selves by taking observations from the
front windows. Finally. from a shoe
store which harbOred a dozen observ-
erS. n man ran out and planted this
sign, printed in rcd paint, in the high
est snow bank:
eve do all the rubbering in this
neighborhOOd."
To provide milk for his 1-yearold son
George A. Bourgeois one of the best known
attorneys in New Jersey, paid 500 for two
quart bottles of milk and the same
amount Of cream. or at the rate of $50
quart bottle. MIR. Bourgeois lives in Vent
nor. which was completely cut off from
Atlantic City. On calling up milk depot
the lawyer found that it would he impos-
sible to deliver the milk. He then hired
Archie Burrell to get the milk.
Sncw drifts ten feet high in places
blocked Burrelrs horse and carriage At
times he was obliged to drive to the
bea oh, and his Journey. ordinarily three
miles. proved to be three times that dis
lance and occupied more than four hours.
But he reached the depot and delivered
the milk. Mr.. Bourgeois has been married
about eighteen months His wife was
Miss Blanche Milliette. his stenOgra pher.
The first wife of Mr.. Bourgeois obtained IL
divorce from him. after which he ma rried
Miss Mil!iette. Mr.. Bourgeois gave Burrel
a check for 500.
The encrOa chment of trade uron the
residence section of Fifth avenue below
the park is proceeding with such rapid
and irresistible force that within five
years there probably will not be a hcme
left in the famous avenue south of the
plaza. Starting at Washington square
years ago, the upward march OF business