New-York tribune., 1910-01-07
FOG, SLEET, SLUSH
WE4THER TRIES MEN.
HospitaIs Worked to Limit
-Mdny Wres Dozen.

The century old frigate Granite State
resting on her live oak ribs, as solid as
masonry, in her dock at s7th street and the
North River looked out calmly through the
thick fog yesterday afternoon on those steel
monsters of war which have made her
bscF number Once again she was the
euus : OF any craft afioat. for the thick pail
of n lst as bad to breathe as lye. had oblit-
eraC one hundred years of uneXampied
prog ess in naval construction. and her
bait lship descendants lay helpless, mark
ing lme in midstream.
Fog is a leveller at sea as a thin coating
OF ice is leveller on land and the storm
OF Wednesday evening and yesterday could
not depart, apparently, without taking the
starch of dignity out of man afioat as well
as ashore Not only warships but liners
were held up, and for a time water traffic
about the city suffered from the same de-
gree of paralysis that had tied up street
traffic. The city now waits with the pa
thence born of despair the next turn TO be
taken by the cruel humor OF the elements.
Even the weather man seems stumped
He predicted that the sloppy streets
would freeze first, and that then il would
either rain snow to-day. One blizzard
has been lost somewhere up north: another
seems TO have been spending itself down
South. and now the latest forecast says
that the next important disturbance" will
reach the Atlantic Coast about Tuesday
accompanied by q temperature above the
average for the season. Perhaps this means
a thunderstorm or two. Few would be
surprised. by Thursday the next cold wave
is due "All kinds of vedder in a bunch
is the verdict on the East Side. and maybe
that's as good a prediction for the rest of
the winter as could be evolved by more
scientific minds.
The casualties from slipping on the sleet
covered pavements continued yesterday
until late in the afternoon when the rain
and mist had thawed the sidewalks so that
pedestrianism was comparatively safe. All
through the morning hospitals doctors and
druggists did a thriving business in patch
ing up bruises and fractures Most of the
loose ashes in the city must have been
used TO sprinkle the path of the cautious
Nayfarer. Horses, too continued TO have
q hard time, especially those hauling the
heavy milk wagons in the early hours.
The deliveries were greatly delayed.
Reports from the various hospitals in
Manhattan and The Bronx alone showed
that three hundred persons were treated at
those institutions for serious injuries. tract
ures in the majority of instances; and
fully one hundred victims with minor hurts
were attended and went home. Add to
this record the injured in Brooklyn, Queens
and Staten Island and the total. it was
considered, would reach a thousand
Three men died yesterday as a direct re-
suit of the storm. Max Guenther, fifty
nine years old, Of No 1923 Bronx Boule-
ward. slipped the ice covered steps of
the Wakefield station of the New York
Central Railroad and expired shortly after
q
Tor thirty years as a carpenter. A physi-
can said that heart failure, brought on by
the fall. had caused his death
MOTHS Nistoria, seventy-three years old
O. No 2z3 East 6lst street, who slipped and
AeH IN the path OF a taXicab in Lexington
avenue, died in the Presbyterian Hospital
John Malowski, who slipped and fell on
the tracks Of the Long Island Railroad at
Richmond Hill and was hit by an electric
express died from his injuries in Jamaica
Hospital
Most Of the big liners scheduled to leave
port yesterday made an attempt to cat
through the fog. The steamship Hamburg
scheduled TO leave her pier in Hoboken AT
p m. got away ten minutes late but
was hemmed in by the fog after she nassad
quarantine She was unable TO get out to
sea and anchored until the thick blanket
HIted- La Bretagne got away from her
pier AT 10 a. m, but dropped anchor AZ
Quarantine.
The Room, bound Cor Bremen. left her
pier in Hoboken at II a. m. and il is he
heved that she went through the fog 70
sea The fruit steamer Frutera, scheduled
10 sail for Port Antonio in the forenoon.
old not bulge. Her pilot was on hand but
refused 10 take her out in the fog The
Ihames, from Kingston, due here on
Wednesday. got in late on Wednesday night
and was held off Sandy Hook throughout
the day She will dock this morning if the
weather is clear and sail for Kingston
again on Saturday
large feet Of vessels is believed to be
anchored off the Hook ONLY those which
ventured up the Narrows in the early
morning got by Quarantine They were
the Almirante. the Atlas the Bohemian
Inc Egda, the Hawaiian and the Alice The
steapboats Providence, Bunker Hill. Ros-
ton. New Hampshire and Fall River got in
from the Sound practically on schedule
time in the forenoon and departed also on
time when the fog had lifted early in the
evening The Pequannock from Provt-
dence, did not get up to her pier in the
North River until p. m. having anchored
for three hours off North Brother Island.
The seet crippled the Western Union
1eieSTaph company lines the country
over, rendering useless for time 1ls of
its wires between New York and PhiladeI-
pha. out of its l60
The sleet put the wires throughout the
country in bad condition." said one West
ern Union official. The wires beyond Buff
fslo are down. and we have gangs of men
a work repairing the damage Between
Philadelphia ard Bound Brook and Phila-
deiphla and LambertVlle we have the
greatest trouble The wires to Boston are
good and fair to Columbus Ohio
The Postal Telegraph Company was not
greatly affected save for a thirty-four-
mile stretch between Collinsville, twenty
miles west OF Buffalo. and Erie. where all
the wires were down Gangs of men. Vice
President Charles c Adams said were at
work repairing the wires
PERKINS AND WILSON HURT