New-York tribune., 1908-01-25
FIRST BIG STORM
OF BELATED WINTER
COAST .STORMLOCKED 4S
FAR rs ALABAMA.
Father nickerbocker A5cakes Under
Foot of SnoJc-Rmlroads and
Shipping Badly Blocked


the greater city awoke yesterday morning 70
find the storm of the night before still raging
and every means of transportation disabled Il
not altogether stopped 10 was lz:J) ociocA
before the fall of snow stopped, and oy tnar
time 1902 inches had covered the ground anu
been blown into drifts six and ten feet hlsn oy
a gale which reached thirty-seven miles an
hour and played havoc with all railroad steam
ship and ferryboat lines in and around New
York
Very few business men reached their offices
less than an hour late. and many from Long
Island and Staten Island didn't come at all A
great number spent as much time in the streets
of Manhattan they did coming in from the
country 1t was noon before traffic into tns
city approached the normal over twenty aeei-
dents and deaths due TO the storm were re-
ported early last evening. while many more
men and women sustained injuries which were
not reported.
Fortunately for the poor the temperature AZ
no time fell below 22 degrees. and the WORK OF
removing the snow from the streets gave hun
dreds of the unemployed a chance to make sew
eraI dollars. Aside from the Inconvenience the
storm occasioned TO thousands who i've in the
suburbs the horses Manhattan Island were
probably the worst sufferers. The Society for
the Prevention of Cruelty TO Animals sent
wagons of sand around the city during the af-
ternoon but only out of thousand OF the
dangerous spots in the streets could be covered,
and norses slipped and plunged and fell in
heaps all over the city
SEVERAL ACCIDENTS REPORTED.
As result of the storm one ship went ashore
In the Sound. an engine turned over on tns
trestIe of the Long Island Railroad across Ja-
maica Bay and train was still snowoound
out in New Jersey at a late hour last night No
bOv
reported. That there were some who prohted
by the storm is the confirmed opinion Of enc
Manhattan lawyer. who had 70 pay SD for a
horse and sleigh on Staten Island 10 file papers
with the county clerk in time.
Street Cleaning Commissioner CroweII had his
first chance at removal yesterday From
his tone last night he was not enjoying the ex-
perience. despite the fact that before O'Clock
this morning he had ordered all his snow con-
tractors to get work AS the storm still con-
tinued it was difficult for these to get in work
ing order at once. Before night $500 men with
1000 wagons and trucks had been set 10 show
elIing the snow and carting it away
All last night a force of eight hundred men
with two hundred trucks were kept at work be-
low 18th street. principally around Broadway.
Chambers and Canal 1t is expected that five
thousand men and three thousand trucks will be
working at the snow to-day in all parts of the
CITY In the office of Snow Inspector Dunphe,
at No 800 Fifth avenue, it was estimated yester-
day afternoon that three hundred thousand cubic
yards of snow would have to be removed from
the streets of the city, a cost of about $780,
600
CROWELL'S NEW REMOVAL PLAN.
Since he became the head of the Street Clean
ing Department. about two months ago. Com
missioner CrowelI has perfected a plan for pay
ing the men who remove the snow, which got
its first trial yesterday Each driver gets a
ticket for each load of he carts, and this
ticket has to be punched at the dumping piers
before money can be collected for it, II is sx-
pected that much money and time will be saved
in this way.
Another system by which the removal forces
are centred at the most important points in
their different districts also begun. II
seemed fruitful of great efficiency during the
short time of trial it had yesterday.
The surface lines in Manhattan had hard
time all day. Horses with heavy trucks con-
tfnually blocked their way and required their
assistance Around the various steamship
piers the congestion of traffic was so great that
everything stopped The worst conditions for
both cars and vehicles were on the upper end OF
Manhattan For several hours We're
able TO get up the hill in Amsterdam avenue
north Of 125th street Many horses came to
an unlucky end the slopes of Washington
it in its danger TO carriages and trucks
BrookIynites will probably remember the
storm of night before last longer than any New
Workers All the Brooklyn Rapid Transit lines
were either tied up crippled most Of the
morning and afternoon On the Brighton
Beach line of the elevated trains were
halted the cut between Prospect Park
and Fisk Terrace. This was filed TO the street
level with drifted snow. blown in by the wind
No trains were run beyond this point all day.
All the surface lines were hours behind sehed-
uIe The cars of the Fort Hamilton line took
over two hours at their best yesterday to make
the forty five-m trip TO Borough Hail
TROUBLE ON BRIDGES
Passengers had d hard time Brooklyn
Bridge all morning but oldtime policemen
spoke of il as rather tame over fifty thousand
persons many if not most OF whom would have
used the bridge. came 10 Manhattan on the sub
way from Borough Hall Those the bridg-
surface and elevated trains seemed 20 have
more trouble reaching the bridge than getting
across.
on the Williamsburg Bridge about the same
conditions prevailed The surface lines were
practically suspended during the morning in
that part Of Brooklyn Several delays occurred
on both bridges. but did little more than lend
their hand in making all travelling uncOmfOrt-
able.
Four deaths and thirteen men and women
laid up with broken and fractured arms and
legs as a result OF the storm were reported al
a late hour last night
THE DEAD.
GREENBAUM. ADOLPH Bay SIst Bath
uue Brooklyu killed hy in binaing
KINcAID. captain WitisT IL SS - EssJ l-e'h street,
SMITH James. front OF basement OF No.