New-York tribune., 1909-12-28
INCIDENTS OF STORM.
What the White Christmas Did
TO the CitY.

What the White Christmas Did
to the City.
Football and snow removal in New York
were brought closer together than ever
Yesterday when Commissioner Edwards.
himself former gridiron star of Prince
! ton. assisted by his Deputy Commissioner.
Jim Hogan, Yales hero in 1904 engaged
/ Harry Vaughn. Yale end this year. TO
/ come down to New York at IS a day as
/ checker and overscer.
The high tide which followed the snow
/ storm on the Sound side of Long Island
Gated the two Sound steamers Shinnecock
and Orient, owned by the Long Island
Railroad, over breakwater off White
stone. and then, receding. left them strand
ed inside. A big section of piling had TO
be cut away later before the big boats
could be foated.
The opening ceremonies of the new Man
haitian Bridge are likely to be delayed by
the storm. and if the second, blizzard prom
ised by the Weather Bureau comes along
according TO schedule the opening celebra-
tion will probably be postponed until after
the first of the new year, letting the new
administration cODQuct II.
Ice in the motor box of f1ve-car West
End line train on the Brooklyn Bridge
held up traffic on the Manhattan end of
the bridge for about fifteen minutes in the
rush hour last night The ice caused
blowout in the fuse boxes.
The crowds of men who were among those
present at the Christmas Day dinners of
the Salvation Army Big Tim Sullivan's
club and similar gatherings were right
hand at the various stables of the Street
Cleaning Department as soon as the word
got around the lodging house district that
the department was hiring men direct.
When a photographer getting views of the
storm and the snow removal gangs focused
ON one of these gangs yesterday, bearded
tramp looked up with a grin:
It's a shame the way youse boys folers
us capitalists said he. You took my
picture al the banquet Christmas, and now
you're getting pictures of me worIin'.
Come round to-morrer an see me get paid
off, Will you?"
Attendants at the Grand Central Station
and at the stations across the river had their
announcements that service was resumed
on schedule. One of them at the Grand
Central lost patience when an old woman
quizzed him for the third time about the
Lake Shore Limited, three hours late.
'It'll be in in twenty minutes-I amt keep
in il back, an / didn't order this storm.
neither" he snapped back, and the old
woman retired with sigh for another
tedious wait.
Mrs. Catherine Deducy, of No. sS1 For
est avenue. The Bronx, slipped down four
ice covered stone steps at her home yester-
day. and received a fractured skull, from
which she died few hours later, in the
Lebanon Hospital. She was eighty years
old. and a widow.
Daniel Cavapaugh, a guard on the Ninth
avenue elevated road, slipped ontsthe ice
as he crossing the tracks at the 155th
street terminal and his left foot was cut
off byta passing train. At the J. Hood
Wright Hospitalit was said that he would
recover.
As.5o the railroads. and their announce
ment that service was practically re-
sumed or normal basis last night, local
postofffce officials contended that it was
b' 10 bile IdlIiOduS 10 piOOCce I1cT IS-
quimaus." Thirteen through trains. each
several hours late, was the railroad record,
according tor the Postmaster.
The one automobile truck hired by the
Street Cleaning Department for snow re-
moyal work did three times the work
/ accomplished by any one-horse truck in
service yesterday.
Big Bill Edwards said Yesterday that
. he would Try to have hand a sum suffi-
/ cient TO pay all emergency laborers hired
for snow removal al the end of each days
work hereafter. These fellows are mostly
the kind that need the money right away"
said he. and I propose to be prepared
after this to give it to them when they
need it
From the wiids Of Queens came yestcr-
day story of the longest tie-up Of the
entire storm. DR.. John p. Schneble, of St
Mary's Hospital, Jamaica, with his ambu-
lance driver. Gus Lott. and their one horse
I vehicle, left that .institution at o'clock
on Saturday night to answer call from
Rosedale, where two women had been
taken i'll in a trolley car blocekd by snow
drift They reached the hospital on the
return trip al l o'clock yesterday after
noon. forty hours after rthey started. Doc
tor, driver and horse had been stalled in
the snow near Springfield, and after
night spent with farmer took ali. yester-
day morning 10 make their way back