The Washington herald., 1908-01-25

The entire Atlantic Coast. from New
England southwark to Florida. struggled
for a few hours, beginning late Thursday
night and lasting through part Of yes
terday with blizzard and wlndstorm
combined that blew in some localities a.
a rate as high as seventy-two miles an
hour
In Washington tie storm aid little dam
age. although there was the usual delay
in street-csr traffic incident to such an
unusual fall Of snow
The chill wind which accompanied the
snow and the icy paYements. which
caused several bad falls. were the only
other unpleasant features Of the first day
Of real winter that this city has ex-
/ periencsd this season.
The storm seems TO have originated
from two smaller affairs, one Of which
started out over the Lakes. and the other
Of which came from off Hatteras. They
met somewhere near Chesapeake Bay.
and after doing considerable damage.
hoated off 10 sea.
/ The greatest damage so far reported.
aside from the customary tie-up in toIe-
graph and telephone communications.
which was but little felt here. was to the
transportation lines. I'm several CITIES
Of the East. street car traffic was ar ii
standstiU for many hours. while several
steam roads suffered in delayed trains
and stalled engines for many hours.
The storm was quite severe in the
South, and in addition 10 an unusually
low temperature the high velocity OF
the wind caused some damage, especially
in outbound seagoins vessels Not 70
ship vas able 20 leave the port Of New
York for many hours yesterday Oh ace
count Of the wind and The choppy sea.
and in other parts OF the coast similar
conditions confronted the shippers of all
sorts OF seag0ers from the big liners 10
the coastwise baTks
Late last night the wind had died
down. and as the snow had ceased falling
, hours before the storm is believed 10
have spent itself and departed for mid
ocean. To-day viii likely be bright and
clear and no further damage is expected.
New York. Jan zl-The nine inches of
snow that had arrived by early morning
tied mp all surface traffic in and around
Greater New York pretty thoroughly dur
ing the day. and even al uightfau. when
J. the elevated and steam railroad lines had
struggled back To nearly normal c0udi-
tions, the surface cars I'm all the bor-
oughs hampered by stalled trucks and
fallen horses. We're still crawling along
or hit-Or-miss schedule.
> The early morning rush TO New York
was brought TO a standstiH by the trouble
h Of the Brooklyn Rapid Transit System
r. and the Long Island Railroad. The rail
70 ways in New Jersey. the New York Cen
, tral and the New York New Haven and
= Hartford, were running behind schedule
Some unusual drops OF temperature were
$ reported in the far South, Down in Jack
a sonville, for instance there was a fall OF
e twenty-five degrees, the mercury reaching
= two degrees below the freezing point.
> Not a Vessel Comes In.
Between sunrise and sunset to-day, for
e the first time in many years. not one yes
sci. deep sea or coastwise. coming in by
!, way of the Hook. dropped anchor in
n
! screw. which arrived on Thursday night
+ from the Mediterranean, was forced To-
y wait until late this afternoon for the
= health officer to clear her. the water off
$ the station being too rough 10 permit
> boarding
A few minutes after sunset the Ham
burg-American liner Graf WaIdersee
which had been at anchor all night out
side the Hook, came into quarantine. was
inspected and passed on to her dock in
= Hoboken. In company with her i'm the
snow outside were the Adriatic. giantess
of the White Star fleet: the big President
p, Lincoln, Of the Hamburg-American Line
-. and the Friedrich der Crosse, of the
North German Lloyd fleet.
The outrushing gale had driven the tide
L below its normal height at low water
n I'm the afternoon. and the pilots of the
h deeper ships decided not to risk ground
ing and stayed outside until the tide
i began 10 run flood
The AdriaJic. which had been reported
: OF the Hook by wireless early in the
d morning. passed in NJ o'clock tonight
s from the open sea. where she had gone
r rather than tug at anchor off the bar
k She viii come up to dock tomorrow
& morning. The President Lincoln and the
, / FrieGl ah der Crosse remained outside
The stauchioGs and rails Of all the
, quartet OF big ones We're ice and snow
: | crusted. and every stay and shrOud was
? thrice its normal thickness with the white
: rope yarn spun by the storm.
in Brooklyn the worst tie-up was on
the Brighton Beach line which was enc
trcly out of commission from 3 o'clock
until II in the morning on the Williams
burg Bridge all the ears were stalled for
= seven hours. beginning al a. m. and the
stormb0uDd passengers got up a small
riot by way of diversion.
e subway saves situation.
e in Manhattan the subway saved the
l. situation. on the elevated lines there
t We're long delays and a broken schedule
l. during the morning, caused by fee on the
contact rail.
l. It was the street ears. especially on
$ the cross-town lines. which suffered most
o The forces from the snow-removaI bu-
e reau did not seem TO make much impress
Il sion on the streets up to late hour
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