New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1906-03-01
MARCH In LIKE A LION.
Hwbor Shipping Ice Ladcn-Fires
and Deaths in City.

March ushered itself in last night with
leonine bowling of wind that should presage a
most lamblke departure. All day the Eastern
seaboard shivered In the grasp of sixty mile
gale and cold that would have been
uncomfortable without the bowling nor'wester
that swept down from the Lake regions. At
daybreak the thermometer stood only IA de-
grees above zero. and It was not until two hours
later that 1t began to rise in the least.
Down the harbor much discomfort, and even
danger. were experienced by the smaller craft
Inc heavy sea made IT difficult for the boarding
cutters TO put the inspectors aboard the incom-
ing liners. Every boat came in covered from
DOW to stern with ice The Princess Irene in
quarantine at daybreak did not reach her Ho-
ooken pier until noon. The Astoria was a mass
Of ice from her stem to the crows nest. The
Sibirie, which was in a snowstorn nearly all
the way from Hatteras. was laden deep with
frozen spray and snow. The heavy gale made
it almost impossible to dock her. The decks OF
all the ferryboats were slippery with frozen
spray, and the little towboats seemed solid
masses of ice.
Ashore there were several accidents Runa-
ways were caused by the wind big plate glass
windows along upper Broadway were smashed.
and one man. bowled over by the gale had his
leg broken. He was Fred S. Brooks. an insur-
anee adjuster Of Detroit. and was caught by the
WIND as he was leaving the Hotel Netherland
ana thrown 10 the street His right leg
twisted under him he fell, and was broken
midway between ankle and knee.
Bernard Smith. a truckman, of No. 1924 1st-
ave. was blown from his wagon seat at Waverley
Place and West 10th-str and his skull tract
ured. He was taken to st. Vincent's Hospital.
where it is thought that he cannot recover.
Louisa zolzer. of No. 2s1 Clinton-st. Brook
Ign, was knocked down by a 24-foot signboard
blown over by the wind. in front of No. 1,145
Broadway. She escaped serious injury and
able to go home
More than twenty families were driven into
the street in the bitter hurricane by fire in the
five story building at 12th-st and 1st-ave early
in the morning. The fire extinguished
quickly, with little loss, and the half frozen
women and children returned to their beds
The gale nearly caused the destruction of the
bleacheries and grandstand at the Polo Grounds
later in the day. A fire started in watchmans
shanty at 159th-st. and spread to the fence Of
the coal yards of the Interborough Company.
The 1remen saved the baseball stands by hard
work.
The gale indirectly caused William T. Dixon.
OF No 100 Madison-st. to be fined SO IN the
Tombs Court. He was at the Brooklyn Bridge
watching the hosiery displayed by the breezes.
patrOlman arrested him.
While a feather bed was being placed in a
moving van at Sth-ave and 41st-st. the cover
ing was torn open. The wind emptied it Of every
feather in few seconds. and pedestrians there
abouts spent the next hour picking feathers of
their coats.
Zero weather was reported from nearly all the
upstate towns. with snOwstorms, despite the
intense cold
Two deaths due TO the cold were reported from
Brooklyn The body Of about sixty years
old found in a vacant lot at Clinton and
Creamer SITS. by ROundsman Lamb Of the Ham
ilton-aVe. station In a pile OF lumber at Met
ropolitan and Varick ayes. the body of a man
of about the same age found.