The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1905-01-26

as if every operative were on strike
When asked what the prospects were.
officials of ths two roads shook tlleil
heads, looked 1t at the driving blizzard
and predicted that in another two hours
everything would be stalled. An
hour later t appeared that this prsdic-
ton VIC ala he fully verified.
Instead Of abafing as the day pro-
gressed, the blizzard, which came out Of
the north some tilno during The night, in
creased in force. The early morning
snow was Of the fine. hard meal-like kind
which uss~ally charaeterizcs snow storms
Of long continuance There was also
the bitter cold which always accompanies
storms of the blizzard variety. During
the forenoon the fall Of snow increased
greatly.
Early in the afternoon the Brooklyn
Rapid Transit Company announced that
patrons who wanted to be sure of getting
home at night had better start early. par
tieularly those who lived in the suburbs.
Officials of the company said that If the
storm continued at the present rate by
nightfali they they might nok be able to
cope with it at all They sent a notice
to this effect to the large department
stores on Fulton street.
Trafic on the Brooklyn bridge during
the morning hours was regulated in such
manner as to minimize possibilities of
blocks of the structure. Chief Of the
preventive measures was the stopping of
the major portion of the surface cars on
the Brooklyn side of the bridge, where
surface car passengers were given trans
fers to the bridge trains. This plan
caused only slight delay throughout the
entire rush hour period, due to the added
traffic on the cable trains.
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In spite Of frequent blocks on the
Brooklyn side, whore the cars reached a
temporary terminal, there were no delays
Of blocks on the Manhattan side No
accidents were reported by the police of
the bridge squad.
Little BY little the car service on the
Williamsbnrgh Bridge surrendered to the
storm until shortly before noon none of
the cars was moving across the big struc-
ture. Even the hardest pedestrian re-
fused to take chances in crossing the
bridge. When they had been lei of the
few cars which reached the Manhattan
end of the bridge they turned back and
tried 10 get to the Brooklyn Bridge
In this attempt they were again sub
ject to great delays, as the horse car
lines, even though they were using teams
of four horses. were making little or no
headway. The Delaney street line gave
up the struggle shortly before noon The
wind blew the snow in such binding
gusts across The bridge that At the Man
haitian end some of the employees warned
the more foolhardy of those who decided
to essay the trip across on foot that
there was danger of their being blown
off.
Residents in the southern suburbs
woke up in the morning to find the win
dows and doors almost completely COW
cred with snow. The wind was howling
outside and after the ice and snow had
been removed from part of the win
dows the folks found that real blizzard
was raging. The trains had a hard time
of it, and many of the trolley cars were
put out of business completely. The
wind caused the snow to drift to con
siderable extent, and as fast as a side
walk would be cleaned off the wind would
fill it up again with snow.
Fortunately for business interests. the
real force of the storm did not strike the
city early enough to prevent the early
morning travel. Very few were kept
away from their offices and in the down
town sections Of Brooklyn and Manhat-
tan business was carried Oh as usual.
At the Offices Of the Long Island City
it was stated that the storm had moi
caused any serious delay, but there were
were several messages later which told
Of trouble on the several branches Of tn
system.
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