Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-02-22
Terrific Gale Sweeps
City; Houses Wrecked

80 t011N 49, 49,
the street. The police notified Super
visor of Roads Thomas II. Breen and
a gang of men was put to work 70
remove the debris. A branch of a tree
of unusual height on Main street, in
front of tho Belleville Reformed Church,
was torn up and fell to the ground.
Howling through the Oranges last
night and today the wind cut high
jinks in the several municipalities. and
no end of trees, wires and poles down
figured in the police reports. In Lin
coin avenue. Orange, early today the
Conover GOA sheds tumbled down on
the Lackawanna railroad, blocking
traffic for forty minutes after / o'clock
The municipal light plant workmen
were kept busy attending to broken
lamps, poles and wires and a big tree
blown down on Lincoln avenue and
Minton place held up trolley traffic for
a while.
In West Hudson the streets are lit
tered with trees, a large number of
which were ~uprooted. The streets were
without light from ! o'clock until day
break. R~entschler's Hall, Harrison,
where the annual dance of the Passaic
River Yacht Club was in progress. was
pAdiiStu lHlO udIhilGSS ABOUT 4 CLOCK.
The hall was we'll filled with people at
the time. The lights were out for ii
quarter of an hour.
Shortly after 3 o'clock a false alarm
was turned in from box 4s, at Central
avenue and North Fourth street, Har-
rison. The police have learned that
three men were lurking about the box
just before the alarm was sent in. The
ffremen were much wrought up over
the incident.
With a crash that could be heard
several blocks away the glass skylight
at the International Hotel. at so
Worthington avenue, Harrison. was
blown to the ground. The fence along
the east-bound Turnpike trolley tracks
west of the Hackensack bridge was !
blown down, and it broke the trolley
wires. 1t "a soc time before the
strands were replaced and the wrecked
fence removed from the tracks.
The telephone service in the towns
was greatly imraired. About twenty
lines were reported out of order today.
Several poles were blown down, thus
Gripping the service. At Quincy and
Schuyler avenues, Arlington. a large
tree that was uprooted broke fire.
alarm, police signal, telegraph and
electric light wires. A plate-glass win
dow In the store of Samuel Goldstein,
at sos North Fourth street. Harrison,
was destroyed when a swinging sign
crashed through It. An electric sign
in front Of the store of Adam Bosch,
at 9 North Fourth street, was wrecked.
The chimney of the house at 412 North
Fourth street, was blown down.
Damage In ~Irvington.
In Irvington tho fierce winds tore
Its ~fastenings the canopy from
he home of Francis S. Green while
his daughter, Miss lola Green, was be-
ng married. A frame house in the
of construction In Twentieth
avenue, between Twenty-second and
streets, was blown down,
into the middle Of the street
md blocking traffic. Electric wires
we're blown down at Elmwood and
Springfield avenues, at Stuyvesant and
avenues west and at Orange
avenue and Orange place; also tele-
ohone wires We're swept to the ground
n Union street. The fire department
vas called out on a still alarm to Grove
where cross wires were burn
ng near a home. Chimneys were
blown down at SO and 40 Sharon ave-
Tue. Windows were broken in the
Grove Street Public School. and at
places in Springfield avenue
md Sanford place. The chimney of
he Central Grammar School was part
Y blown down and the awnings on
he store of Isaac ]. Casey We're torn
way.
Other damage in Newark was as
Six windows in the unfinished por-
ion of the new Central High School
we're broken. l.
Skylights In the rear of 107 Bloom
leld avenue and part of the roof was
off. william Lyons Is the
Two chimneys at the home of Joseph
Tinias, 41S Bloomfield avenue. were
down.
Plate-glass window of r. Walsh &
20, 157 Market street, was broken.
other windows were broken at the
OF Mrs, A.. w. Waidhren, 4SS Or
lnge street; Atlantic and Pacific Tea
Company, Orange street and RosevilIe
venue; John j.. Mates saloon, Twelfth
venue and South Eighth street; home
If Henry c. Martin, 1872 North Seventh
street.
Two cupolas on the Richardson