New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-06-12


in the Croton watershed means ABOUT
3.OOO,OO0,OO0 gallons of water II is no.
hard to figure out just 10 what eH'e"'
Manhattan benefited Conihiss'oi'0'
Henry S. Thompson Of the Department
OF Water Supply. Gas and Electrlci's ms
s,cceeded in effecting an economy OF
water use in the city that mas io"e'e
the daily amount drawn from the ie'e
voirs TO approximately 3OO0Oo'ooo gar
Ions II then. all the 3,OOo,Ooo'ooo gai-
Ions contributed by the storm Of Satur-
dav nigh. and Yesterday morning Is pure
gain it will take the city ABOUT Ten Jay
to use il up.
Tho weather conditions were unsettieu
last night until about IL o'clock. wheh
rain started again and soon approx
mated q cloudburst The storm area
Yesterday centred north Of Lake Michi-
gan. between Lake Michigan and Lake
cuperior. The storm which swept this
neck of the woods was secondary
disturbance" in the language of the
Weather Bureau. an offshoct which shot
from the Great Lakes across the south
ern part of New York State and centred
Yesterday out at sea, south or Long
Island
The primary disturbance. 1t was eX-
planned, should have passed out TO sea
via the st. Lawrence ere this, but IN
summer storm areas are not so well oe-
fined as in winter and are apt to lolter
along the way. BY Wednesday New
York should be brushed by its passage.
Showers were predicted as a posi-
bjlity for to-day. After tomorrow. how
ever. scientists agree that the weather
should become clear and cooler. due TO
high pressure area Immediately fol-
lowing the storm area and centrlng yes
terday over Montana.
The wind reached a velocity Of seventy
miles an hour on Saturday night at 1913
O'Clock. That was the maximum, and 1t
continued to blow at this rate just five
minutes In that brief time, however.
things happened.
Circus Damage Not So Bad.
For instance. the Flushing circus. its
tents and shacks laid fiat like village
of cards. became a stampede. Fortu-
nately none of the twenty-five thousand
men, women and children attending the
performance was injured in the panic of
human beings or by falling canvas or
loose elephants. The managers met yes
terday to congratulate themselves on this
feature of the catastrophe, finding out
also that their financial loss would be
much smaller than at first supposed, al
lowing them. in fact. a profit OF about
$1,000 to show for their months work
in behalf of the Flushing Hospital.
a new house in Arlington, y. j., be-
longing to Edward Sergeant. which was
TO have been tenanted by Wednesday,
collapsed before the onslaught of the
gale. entaiing a loss Of Sc. 800 Another
dwelling house in the same place, only
half completed. suffered a like fate and
some Of its falling timbers pinned Fred
Evans. seventeen years old, to the
ground breaking his right leg in three
places. Young Evans crawled five hun
dred feet on his hands and knees TO
place of safety and was later conveyed
to the Newark Homeopathic Hospital.
In Kingsland, n. J.. the wind blew the
roof off q house. carrying X 200 yards.
Bloomfield, too. suffered severely Elec-
trio light wires were broken, trees up
rooted and debris strewn about the town
to such an extent that the Department
of Public Works was kept busy all day
making the place tidy once more.
The British tramp steamer Susque-
hanna and the coastwise schooner Nell
lie w. Craig did not disentangle them
selves until daybreak from collision.
The Susquehanna, being without ballast,
even, was swept from her anchorage off
Stapleton, Staten Island, and carried
down stream across the bow Of the
schooner, which was at anchor off Quar-
antine The vessels came together with
crash, carrying away the schooner's
headgear and breaking off her bowsprit
close to the hull. The damage to the
steamer was slight. and she was towed
back to her anchorage yesterday.
The Nellie w. Craig was bound for
Charleston, s. G.. and extensive repairs
will be necessary before she can proceed.
Steamer Almost Runs Down Sloop.
When the sky cleared and the incom-
ing fleet Of transatlantic liners arrived
al Quarantine the steamship Eugenia,
from Palermo, reported that she almost
ran down a small sloop off Buoy 10
in the Ambrose Channel The sloop was
stripped Of all her canvas and was
drifting before the storm.
The freighter Ragnarok, from Cuba,
picked up four men from disabled
motorboat off the Hook and transferred
them at daylight to the pilot boat, which
took the men and their small craft 10
Stapleton. The men were also seen by
the crew Of the Ambrose Channel Light
ship. who made an effort to rescue them
in the lightships yawl but were pre-
vented by the violence of the gale.
The wind that prevailed over Hacken-
sack, besides blowing down many trees
end putting Hackensack in darkness.
wrecked three hangers on the Kuhnert
Aerodrome. When Kuhnert reached the
grounds yesterday he found the Grasing
monoplane upside down, with one wing
ruined and a portion Of Raymond Rich
mans biplane torn away. These men
had planned flights Yesterday but in
stead the time was spent in making re-
rairs A large dredge owned by the
Frank r. Long Construction Company.