Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1908-01-25
New York Is Covered a
Foot Deep With the
Beautiful
Thousands Welcome 1t as
GOdsen!d, Giving Them
Plenty Of Work
Other Thousands Are Caused
Great Suffering. Much
Damage Done

New York, Jan. 24--New York tc
night is digging itself out of a foot
of snow so unevenly divided that
while exposed and unfrequented spots
like Coney Island have been blown
bare, the thoroughfares of millions
are left piled high with drifts that
impede progress of man and beast.
and in the more open sections, have
tied up the street car and vehicle
traffic.
Tonight the temperature was fall
ing slowly and the snow promised to
stay for another day at least.
The snow storm, which crept into
the town so slyly last night that it's
real intentions were never suspected
until it had got firm grip on things.
continued until past noon today and
even after the snowfall ceased, ha.f
a gale kept the air thick with fiurries
thai. filed the walks. as fast as they.
we're cleaned, clogged the wheels Of
traffic and blinded shippers off sho. a
Much suffering has been occasione !,
there has been the usual toll of deaths
and the monetary damage must be
recokoned by tens of thousands OF
dollars. Mercifully the snow was &C,
companied by moderate temperature
and in it's early stages it was wei.
coined by the honest part of thirty.
Ave thousand unemployed men in thu.
city. All who sought employment
from last midnight found it read
lily and at good wages, a man with 4
shovel was everywhere in demand.
Probably the most poignant dis
tress was experienced by several
thousand genuine tramps, who, hay.
ing ridden into town on the hard
times wave and since enjoyed the
city's bounty, awoke today to fluid
themselves confronted at an unmis
taxable opportunity to work. Some
rose TO the occasion and others shift
ed their lodgings.
Tonight the charity societies had
their hands full. The BOWery bread
lines, perhaps the most pitiful of the
city's public exhibitions of poverty
were extended tonight for blocks fur,
Their than at any time before this win
ter, and at an early hour it was said
that the supply would not nearly meal
the needs. The free lodging houses
were packed tonight and the Saliva
ton Army and kindred organizations
were working heroically to minimize
the effect of the sudden shift from
spring to freezing weather.
A number Of accidents and -four
fatalities were credited to the storm:
account. One man was frozen K
death near an East Twenty-third street
lodging house, from which he had bee:
elected. In Woodlawn cemetery q
special policeman died while Digging
path to a newly made grave.
Except for the subway transporta
ton facilities of the city and sub
urbs were well night demoralized
throughout the day. Surface cars
were paralyzed in all boroughs. Trains
on the railroads from outlying New
Jersey and Long Island towns were
blocked for hours in many cases.
Along the Jersey coast much dam
age is reported. Several towns, par
ticularly Seabright, were more or less
under water.
The steamer Providence. from New
York to Boston. was driven into New
London by the storm and her foul
hundred passengers proceeded to Bos
ton by rail.
Nine steamships due here today are
still unreported off Sandy Hook
night, b.