New-York tribune., 1910-01-15

hotel saw him SIT in chair and then
fall TO the floor. He was dead when
they reached him.
Mrs Sarah Jugg. OF No. 1882 Webster
avenue, slipped on the snow in front of
her home yesterday and broke her right
leg. She was taken TO Fordham Hospi-
tai by DR.. Grossman.
After being buried in a snowdrift at
the corner Of 61st street and Columbus
avenue late yesterday afternoon. Frank
Miles. nine years old, was rescued by Pa
trolman James F. Finn. more by good
luck than design. IL the officer had not
noticed a small foot sticking out Of the
drift. while he was helping a chauffeur
20 get his machine out OF the deep snow
il would have been ''all over" for young
Miles. AS il was. the youngster was
badly frostbittcn. but the surgeons of
Roosevelt Hospital said he would pull
through.
While driving the emergency wagon
OF the Metropolitan system through
West 53d street George Cobleigh. of No.
516 West 5Sth street, fell from his scat.
He received an ugly scalp wound.
= a double force of, sweepers kept the
street crossings passable in Brooklyn.
Three. thousand shoyellers, eight hum
dred regular and as mapy mere extra
sweepers and one thousand trucks and
4. drivers We're engaged all of yesterday
fighting the storm in Brooklyn.
Brooklyn Rapid Transit officials, re-
membering the great storm of CHRIST
mas, had prepared for like emergency,
snd were well equipped yesterday to
keep their tracks clear Shortly after
midnight the company had its -sweepers
and ploughs cut securing the tracks.
Forty sweepers and twenty-siN ploughs
Continued the work throughout the day
Six salt cars were used in sprinkling the
tracks. and one thousand men kept the
switches and tuFneHts clear,
In the early morning and evening rush
hours, however, elevated and surface car
schedules were upset. and blocks due TO
trucks and wagons being stalled caused
difficulty eu most of the lines. Owing TO
this there were at different times nearly
three hundred blocks Three of these
We're caused by theatre scenery trucks.
a salt car broke down on the Ocean
Boulevard. crippiing the Church street
line for hours. a cut was made through
the snowbank on one side of the car at
the head Of the line of stalled cars, the
Passengers walking through the cars to-
the first car, whence they We're trans
ferred 10 branch lines and cars ahead.
There was q reduction of from 40 to 40
per cent in the elevated service. The
handling Of the switches at the Brooklyn
Bridge and the necessity of an increased
headway compelled the Brooklyn Rapid
Transit 10 reduce the number of trains
ordinarily running on the bridge from
sixty TO thirty-five or forty an hour.
This necessarily entailed congestion
along all the elevated Tres in Kings
County
CONEY ISLAND ISOLATED
Coney Island was one of the first
places to be seriously anected-b by- the
storm The Coney Island & Norton's
Point trolley road was put out of COM
mission early. being completely tied up
by noon The same condition affected
the Sea Gate & Sheepshead Bay line.
The Brooklyn Postoffice was much
hampered in delivering the mail All
the letter carriers were sent out an hour
earlier. The neighborhood Of fhe Bor-
ough Hall. the Kings County Courthouse
aud OF the business section, which gen.
orally is astir with human activity was-
compa ratfvely deserted after midday.
Those who thought il advisable to try
the FifHl .ayenae auto stages got. into
difficulties. Attempts had been made to
clear the avenue for traffic, but between
42d and goth streets half dozen Of the
stages got stuck, owing to the slippery
street. The stages had no chains on the
wheels and it was imp Hsible to get them
going. The drivers stayed with the stages
when they were put out of commission
and the passengers had TO get to their
homes some other way. In the streets
east of Fifth avenue many taXicabs were
deserted
At the Grand Central Station most of
the suburban trains were half an hour
70 an hour late. The long distance trains
were delayed by the heavy fall of snow
east of Buffalo. The Southwestern Linn
ited from st. Louis. which should have
arrived at 5:55 p. m, did not make its
appearance until 10 p. m: The Lake
Shore Limited was reported to be hours
and 25 minutes late.
The New Haven trains were badly de-
layed, too.
Drivers Of heavy trucks especially
those of coal dealers, had much trouble
in going about the streets, In many
cases five horses were seen attached to
an ordinary two-ton truck, and even
then it was almost an inapossibility 70
make any headway. At the same time
considerable curiosity was occasioned by
the way In which large motor trucks.
some OF them holding ten tons of coal.
av.gated the streets, apparently with
out any difficulty rhese large trucks
were able TO make deliveries as usual.
With eight inches Of snowfall recorded
81 p. IA. and the snow still coming
down, the streets at the lower end of
Manhattan were scenes of confusion
State street. from Battery Place to
Whitehall street, Battery Place from
West street TO State street and White
hall street from South street to bowling
Green were filled with tangled teams
Snd swearing teamsters.
Horses were down, cars on State street
were stalled and an additional force of
traffic squad officers were called into scr