New-York tribune., 1909-01-18
CITY COATED WITH ICE
TRANSIT MUCH DELAYED
Sno1r, Slush and SLIPPING Al an a
Sundays Experience.

-b. storm Of snow, Eleet ard rain which oe-
rcsnded On this city Saturday night was one ol
-. -ro-s+ NJ III. kiud experienced here in years
Traffic Of all kinds delayed. and the lot OF Ihe
,ufortunates Of the streets VINO were oOHseo "
faos the storm was an unhappy one one oeatn
srorr exposure was reported during the day. ano
- to~ri,a1 srnbulsaces were kept busy attending
90 those who had fallen the Icy paVeIfents or
been roughly treated by the elements.
There were many accidents throughout the city
owing TO the slippery streets. and the FIRE appa-
80 +o-csd 70 respond 10 numerous false alarms,
had rough going In several cases 1t was founo
that the wires had been put out OF business oy
the storm but luckily there were no large hres
Commissioner Edwards Of the Street Cleaning
Department and his deputies and assistants were
on tbe scene early yesterday morning with hum
dreds of men and wagons trying 10 get the city IN
rroper condition before the average man was
awake but in spite Of all their efforts no one was
able 20 walk on the streets without getting wet
almost 10 the knee. Ali Of the cutters were filed
10 overfowing, and IL was woe 10 the PEDESTRIAN
who made misstep while crossing the streets.
The ono victim OF the storm vas an unidentineo
woman about forty-ive years DID, who was founo
badly frozen in the cellar of tenement house Al
No 49e Second avenue. She vas hurried to Belie-
we Hospital. where she died A workhouse tag
in her pocket showed that she had been dlscharseo
from that institution last Friday
Every tree the city LAST night bore evidence Oh
the storm for they were all covered from the top
most branch with glistening ice making the parks
resemble crystal groves. So heavy was the coat
In Harlem and The Bronx, for the first time this
year the young folk had q chance TO enjoy gooo
old-fashioned coastinG. The steep hill in Amster-
dam avenue 135th to 18th street was tnrongeo
with men and women last night with sleds snd the
slC-fashioned ''bobs.'' When tbs -sHders" reached
the foot OF the hill they hitched their sleds to the
surface cars going UP and got back to the scaEons
point with troubie.
Cathedral Parkway was also busy place FOR the
coasters one accident there being reported Agnes
IA Vast STR
The Parkway at Eighth avenue when a sled hit her
After being attended by surgeon from harIem
Hospital she went to her home
The elevated and surface lines suffered At s
o'clock Yesterday morning the downtown tracks
Of the Sixth. Ninth, Third and Second avenue ele-
..e lines were SO covered with Zee that the trains
stopped running fer several hours The Sixth ave-
nue elevated had trouble Saturday night, travel De-
ipr interrupted for several hours. One car on
sixth axenu. train caught fire at 18th street from
g short circuit Firenen put it out
All Of the horsecars had four horses hitched TO
them but even then they had much trouble get
ting along.
The busiest man In the city yesterday was Conn-
missioner Edwards. By daylight he had twelve
hundred men and carts at work removing the snow
and dumping It into the river It was difficult to
get enough 10 do the work The inspectors
who were sent 70 the lodging houses reported that
about one man out OF every twenty wanted to
HorS-
Manhattan and The Bronx were divided into thir-
teen districts, each under the supervision OF dis
trct superintendent with district inspectors to help
81 ihen.
81 Brooklyn and Queens were divided in a similar
manner and progress reported from all points.
in the lower part Of Manhattan most OF the snow
had been removed early yesterday afternoon and
great prosress was being made in the upper part
oe he island II said at the headquarters last
risht that call for five thousand men and trucks
would issued this morning
Staten Island received the fun force Of the storm
end many residents were endangered by falling
wires. A number OF the towns were in darkness
Saturday night
In Long Island City the trolley system was tied
lrp FOR hours and as the Greensboro street clean
ing department IS without head, little progress
vas made in cleaning up the city. All over Long
Island the trolley companies had their hands full
Jcpa1ing broken wires but the electrical trains on
the Long Island Railroad, while delayed in some
cases kept close to schedule time.