The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-01-24
WINTER AT LAST.
1t Opens a New York Engage
ment With a Blizzard.
Poorer Glasses We're Taken
Completely by Surprise.
MAN FROZE TO DEATH
In His Accustomed Lodging Un-
der StOOp.
Travell of All Kinds Is Bady
Hampered.

New York, Jan. PA snowstorm
which swept over the city late yester-
day developed into a little BLIZZARD dur
ing last night. Today the streets were
piled deep in places with drifts and
street car traffic and the movement of
river craft were badly hampered Com
ing suddenly on the heels of a long
period of unusually warm weather the
storm caught the homeless and the
poorer people of the east side totally
unprepared. Many who had found
shelter in wagon yards for the night
were driven out and there was a rush
! of the homeless to charitable institu-
tiors for shelter. For the first time this
winter the city lodging house was over
crowded and the covered pier of the
charities department at the foot of East
Twenty-sfxth street was turned into
an emergency lodging house. Several
hundred men were given work clearing
the streets of snow.
The body of man named James
Smith was found under a stoop in East
Twenty-third street into which he had
crept for protection and had frozen to
death.
In Brooklyn nearly every line of
travel was blocked, and in some cases
no attempt was made to move the
"A
lyn bridge added much to the discom-
fort and delay of the passengers bound
for Manhattan.
At Sandy Hook this forenoon a north
west gale was blowing and the swirling
snow made navigation hazardous. The
steamer Graf Waldersee which reached
the Hook last night. was still at anchor
this forenoon; also the Adriatic from
Southampton and the President Lincoln
from Hamburg. Other steamers due to-
from Genoa and the Astoria from Glas-
gov.
Retail coal dealers today advanced
the price of the domestic sizes coal 90
cents per ton, the increased price to re-
main in force until traffic conditions
become normal again. 1t was an
nounced that the increase was made to
cover the additional cost Of delivery.
Six Inches of Snow.
Philadelphia. Jan. 24.-In Pennsyl-
vania, New Jersey and Delaware
snow which began falling last evening
had this morning reached a depth
of six inches and the storm continued
through the day. A high wind pre-
walls. The storm is worst in New Jer-
sey, where the railway traffic is badly
crippled.
telegraph, telephone and railway
service in southern New Jersey is
paralyzed by the storm. No wire
City and the electric trains of the
Pennsylvania railway due to arrive
from the sea shore at midnight, and
during the early morning hours, had
not reported at noon today, owing to
broken wires. On the Reading rail-
way lines traffic was tied up below
Winslow Junction, N. J., and the Cape
May branch is showed up from Mill
Vile.
Seashore trains on the Pennsylvania
lines operated by steam are also tied
up. Most of the trouble is caused by
telegraph poles being across the rail-
way and electric tracks.
Drop of is Degrees.
Boston, Jan. 24.-Southeastern New
England is experiencing northeast
snow storm today. The thermometer
dropped Is degrees last night. The
wind at Brenton's Reef, blew 50 to
70 miles an hour. The steamer Prov
ince of the Fall river line, due at New
port at 2:30 a. m, landed her pas
sengers at New London at a. m.
Steamer Went Aground.
New York, Jan. 24.-The steamer
John Starin of the Starin line, plying
between New York and New Haven,
went ashore at Willets Point while
entering the East river this morning
en- route from New York to this city.
The pilot of the steamer was unable
to locate the light on Throgg's Neck
at the entrance of the East river in
the storm this morning. She drifted
into a bay between Willet's Point and
White Stone and finally grounded very
close to the shore. The tide was
unusually high and when it receded it
left the steamer so high and dry that
the six passengers aboard walked
ashore.