Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-01-14
.FLEECY BLANKET
COVERS CITY AND
IMPEDEs TRAFFIC
Newark ia Grasp of Blizzard,
With More Snow Promised
for Tonight.
COLDER WEATHER DUE
ON TOP OF BIG STORM
Whole Country East of YeIlow-
stone Park Suffering from
Winters Bullets.


I Snow, falling in heavy, moist flakes
carried ON the wings of a clustering.
changeable northeast wind that eddied
and sank and ,swirled about the house
tops broke over the city an hour and
a half before midnight last night and
proceeded to pile drift upon drift and
make heavy walking and slow riding
for the good people of Newark
The storm, to quote Professor Will
lam Wiener, of the local weather bu-
reau;sis properly a Southwestern storm
that ventured too far North and got the
chilblains. AT noon today the barom-
eter was still low indicating that the
storm entire had not as yet been
reached. Basing his prediction on
that fact, Professor Wiener said that
the storm would probably continue
throughout the day and well into the
night. cold spell, crowding the heels
of the STORM promises to make some
interesting complications in the way Of
4 frozen drifts and sidewalks
The snow started to fall at 1890
O'Clock last night in fine, powdery
| form, resembling frozen mist. BY mid
! night half-inch had fallen. No drifts
of any extent bad formed because of
| the lightness of the east wind that had
! carried the storm up to that time. The
temperature throughout the storm has
remained practically the same, at
about so degrees.
When the city awoke this morning
there was five inches of Snow on the
ground, with a continual fall from
leaden sky offering no prospect of a
let-up. The wind had shifted in the
early hours from the east TO the north
east and blowing in gusts and sudden
starts kept things moving at the rate
of twenty-five miles an hour.
sweepers Out Early.
/ Railroad and trolley service was COM
paratively good. With the first indi-
cations of the storm last night Division
superintendent Graham ordered out
the sweepers and half-hour after mid
night the Bergen. and Clifton lines Were
! being swept clean The reason for at
tacking these two lines first was that
the cars used on this line are not as
powerful as the others throughout the
city. At | O'clock, when it was seen
that the storm meant business, addi.
tional sweepers on other lines were put
! in commission, so that by O'Clock
| twenty eight sWeepers were in opera
| ton. Four men are needed for each
sweeper, making the total number on
the car sweepers 112. Counting the
hundred or more men on duty at vari-
Gus crossings, switches and curves with
broofns to keep the tracks clear, there
were about 225 men on duty altogether
From 7 o'clock on. when the wagon
traffic of the city began to take on
active proportions, the record of night
cars, which had made their runs on
schedule time. stood in no danger of
being broken. BY noon the cars were
uniformly behind time. but in view of
the storm conditions the trolley sery-
ice was comrnendable. The four snow
plows. powerful machines recently In
stalled by the p. s. c., were not needed
because of the absence of serious drifts.
Trains Going Through.
AT all the railroad stations through
out the city trains had not fallen back
from schedule time to any great extent
up to noon. At the Lackawanna trains
from as far as Easton, Pa, came
through not later than two minutes
behind time. Eric trains came through
Lake. On the Central no trouble was
experienced at all. Pennsylvania and
Lehigh trains came through on time,
the officials not considering the fall
deep enough to warrant ordering out
the snow plows.
The city cleaning department was
early on the job. but shared serious
dearth of men with the scavenger peo-
mic Ry O'clock SiInerif,tapdant ne |
Public Works Shipman had a compile !
ment of $40 men on the job, with all
the city teams and thirty-one hired |
teams at work, making total of |
eighty-four teams. The first places to |
be attacked were the main corners of
the city, including Bergen and Clinton, |
Orange street, Orange and Broad |
streets and as much of Broad and Mar |
ket streets throughout the centre of the
city as could be covered. AS many |
men as could be obtained from the |
lodging houses throughout the city |
Shipman offers anyone twenty cents an
hour for the job
The scavenger. service is more or less
tied up because of the storm During
the past week, by virtue of the use of |
forty-two extra wagons, put into COM
mission yesterday, every household in
the city has been visited twice. 1t
was stated this morning that by Sun
day, unless freezing weather sets in, n
third round trip will have been made.
1t is feared that IL freezing weather
comes after the storm the receptacles
will freeze to the sidewalk.
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