The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-01-26
WORST OF THE WINTER
Fear for Truck Gardens Of
 the South.
In tho Large Cities of the East an6 Middle West, snow Interferss With Tramc--Di.astsrs
 so shippins.

New York, Jan. 26.--Not since the blizzard Of 1888. by which all storms arc estimated as great or small. has New York been so snowbounds as 1t ia now.
 The city itself is lying under foot or snow that in many places has been banked by the wind to q height of sev- eral feet. Surface travel early in tho day was abandoned. overhead transit was irregular and slow and 1t remained for the underground roads to carry home. so far as they could reach with in tho city limits. the hundreds of thousands of workers from the down@ town districts.
 The entire coast line from the Deia- ware Capes north has been in the grasp of storm which, because of the heavy fall of snsw. intensity of cold and force of gale, has exceeded in severity any, thing experienced in years. Inland from Maine throughout the New Eng- land States, and in the Middle Atlantic States. all reports indicate q most coin~ plete winter tie-up.
 Everywhere railroad traffic Is delay~ ed; reports of disasters to shipping arc coming in and with the zapidly falling thermometer much suffering must era- sue. So severe was the storm in this oity that even during the day hours several persons were frozen to death or died from exhaustion. Hospitals are Crowded.
 Tonight the hospitals, police stationa and house of refuge are crowded to their full capacity
 Moro than once police reserves were called out to take care of the crowda that were struggling around the en- trance to some belated ferryboat which was soon to attempt another trip. Long before sundown the homeward bound learned that troIleys throughs out Manhattan had been abandoned that cable cars were stalled in many places and that for some who lived in the suburbs nothing remained but n take quarters somewher2 near q hand : t .thsss hoped t3 return to v Foras he folf lowing day.
 Soon after 2 o'clock tonight a bui. 1 letin was posted 4n the Grand Central ] station that no more trains were ex- 1 pected to arrive over che New York Central road during the night This nstiee referred to both local and ex. press trains.
 On the New Haven System very few trains were dispatched and those that arrived were four 10 eight hours be- hind the schedule time. The Boston Express. due to arrive at 4:15 ?. m.. was reported stalled in q snow drift at Rye. This was the condition that prevailed on all other roads. Not a vessel Of any kind has sailed from or arrived at this port in moro than twenty-four hours and at the port of Boston only one arrival was reported and that coastwise steamer. Two trans Atlantic liners. the Ryndam. car rying the mails, and the Nord America have been unable to leave their piers. Seven other steamers. all scheduled to leave during the day, are still in port. At Sandy Hook and Quarantine the gallo blew at sixty miles an hour and q number of vessels are reported at anchor there. The Atlantic Transport line steamer Menominee from London, the Holland American line steamer Rotterdam and the Fabere line steamer Germania, all of which have been re- ported by wireless are In Sandy Hook Bay.
 Many Steamers Overdne.
 4 dozen steamers overdue have n6t been heard from Tonight the mercury went down to about 10 degrees below at midnight and the wind at that hour was blowing forty-eight miles Less snow was falling than during the day. but 1t was still bling high.
 Along the coast of Maine and Massa- ehusetts several schooners were report ed ashore, but as the gale gave warning of It's coming. harbors were hastily found, and there were many storm bound fleets tonight lying at anchor in perfect safety.
 Down the coast as far as Norfolk only three wreeks were reported, and they were believed to be small schoon- CTS
 outside of Brooklyn and Long Islant city all traffic on Long Island was sus- 1 pended.
 All the factories in the outskirts or Brooklyn shut down carly in the day m order to afford the work people chance to reach their homes. Probably the most distressing tie-up resulting from the stalling of the trains on the Long Island Railroad was that witnessed on the Manhattan side of tho g4th Street ferry. Hundreds of girls and women who live in Long Island and work in Manhattan were unable to ger across the East River and a vast ma torIty of them were without the neces- sary funds to secure food or get lodg- ing
 The police and other kindly disposed persons had plenty to do in caring for these unfortunate Long Islanders.