New-York tribune., 1910-01-15
GREAT STORM
SWEEPS THE CITY
SNOW 4ND WIND TIE
Up THE TOUN.
Streets and Harbor IN Grip of
UHd Bh-=ard, 5cith Morc
IN Prospect.

Some poet evidently wanted 10 know,
and once he asked. Where are the
SHOWS of yesteryear2' Those SHOWS
came to the metropolis yesterday II
required no poet 20 notice the fact. II
was a storm of glad. sad OF bad snow
flakes. the personal preferences and
profits OF the inhabitants OF the city were
affected Traffic on land was fun o.
picturesque interest TO those who sat BE-
hind windows and compared the power
of yesterdays storm with the relatively
puny affair of Christmas
Four lives were lost IN the storm. va
rious accidents having fatal results one
man was blown from the Queensborp
Bridge; another slipped ard bIed to death
as the result of falling on a knife in his
pocket Exposure and exhaustion caused
the other deaths.
The following special weather report
sent out from the local Weather Bureau
last night. indicates a continuance of the
storm: Continued northeast storm
warnings. 9:13 D. m. Delaware Break
water 10 Portland Me-. northeast and
north gales. with snow during next
twenty-four hours"
The snow swept down with renewed
fury after midnight, and much Of the
work of removal was wiped out
In the afternoon a heavy northeasteriy
breeze-a gale. some called it-added TO
the ha-dships that made navigation in
the harbor a nerve wearing enterprise
Pilots referred to it as dirty weather.
notwithstanding the circumstances that
all the weather in sight was being
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simOn-pure. hard driven snovfakes that
should have made il clean Unable TO
see clearly at a greater distance than
one hundred yards. these pilots of ferry
boats, tugboats. lighters and other craft
were extremely careful
FERRIES RUN WELL.
While 1T was pretty thick weather OF
the East River. all the ferry companies
kept their boats running The manage
ment of the 34th street; the 92d street
and the College Point ferry companies
reported that all their boats were run
ming, but little slower than usual
The big Sound steamers were not so
fortunate. In the vicinity Of whitestons
Point the weather got so thick that sew
eraI of the big boats had 10 anchor Al
=
Schuyler were anchored the Manhattan.
bound for Portland; the Naugatuck
bound for Bridgeport, and the City OF
Boston. bound for New York These big
Ioats kept their fog whistles going con-
tinuously.
At Quarantine and Sandy Hook the
flmy outlines of only three small in
ward bound steamers rewarded the
straining gaze of marine observers yes
terday morning. IL seemed that the
snow came down in especially conducted
clouds that burst at intervals and left
the scenery similar to that observed in
an upturned Christmas crystal The ma
jestic steamship st. Louis, due at her
dock on Wednesday, lay outside Am
brose Channel subdued by the tiny
snowhakes-
Surface cars fought hard TO get down
TO the surface. In this they were as
sisted by snowpIoughs sent spinning
throughout the city by the various
streetcar companies. The Metropolitan
Street Railway Company operated thirty
sweepers, in charge OF two hundred
men. Other lines used sweepers in pro-
portion Comparatively clean tracks,
however. did not mean proper progress.
because falling horses delayed motor
men for twenty and thirty minutes at a
time Teamsters chose the car tracks
because of their temporarily inviting
condition. and by the time their horses
were coaxed upright the snow plough
was again the most needed thing in the
landscape to drivers OF both streetcars
and wagons.
The only method of transportation
that was unimpaired was the pneumatic
tube system for carrying first class mail
underground Elevated and subway
lines did well under the strain put upon
their operatives, but both suffered Sc
verely.
GIRLS GO HOME EARLY
On the principle that a train taken IN
time was better than not TO dine with
the family. the Brooklyn Rapid Transit
Company sent out a special warning 10
it's patrons advising them TO start home
early. The message was teIephoned to
factories. department. stores, etc In ac-
cordance with the suggestion. many OF
the big Brooklyn shops began closing ar
1 O'Clock New York stores let sales
women who had long trips go early, too
Trains on the New York Central were
reported from two TO three hours late
while the Pennsylvania Railroad on
Cials In Jersey City said that only slight
delays would result from the storm in
the running time of trains from ths
West.
Despite the severe storm and the drift
ing, the report az the railway stations
in Jersey City and Hoboken was that
there were no serious delays. except on
the Southern trains over the Pennsyi-
vania and the Baltimore & Ohio roads.
which were two hours or longer behind
time. The other trains were from fifteen
to thirty minutes late. as they were run
slower than usual 20 avoid accidents.
Big Bill" Edwards. OF the Street
Cleaning Department. spread his white
wings" from The Bronx 10 the Battery
and fought an heroic game with the con-
tinually reinforced foe. The enemy out
numbered the Edwards team at the
ratio of about ten million to one. but
neither the captain nor his men NUT
tered aught but Victory"
Sickness and death from exposure in
the storm and accidents OF a peculiar
kind for which the byplay OF winter was