Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-07-24

and assigned to any trouble re-
ported.
During the storm the electric lights
in the Keeney Theatre were put out
of commission for nearly fifteen min
utes. Louise Mayo, a pianist and
vocalist had just made her entrance.
She works with the. house and
stage lighted and with a spot light
thrown on her. Suddenly the lights
went out. 1t didn't bother the young
woman. She went through her act in
the dark. The lights flashed up be-
fore her act was completed and she
was roundly applauded. Miss Mayo's
heedlessness of the storm perhaps
prevented a commotion in the theatre.
A huge tree on Bergen street, near
Bank street, was torn from the soil
and in crashing down snapped both
Of the trolley wires. 1t was neces-
sary to "deadend" both wires and
operate the line by transferring the
passengers. 1t was late last night
when the repair gang had completed
making the connections again.
Traffic was also held up on Mt.
Prospect avenue, between Arlington
avenue and Mt. Prospect place, for a
considerable time by the falling of a
tree. The tree was an exceptionally
diameter at the base. As the wind
caught it it was uprooted and the
immense roots carried with them the
sidewalk for a distance OF from ten
to twenty feet each way, and a por-
ton of the street as we'll and hun
dreds of pounds of soil. Falling out
ward from the sidewalk, its top
caught on the telegraph, telephone
and electric wires and was in such a
position that it took several hours
for a wrecking crew to clear the
tracks of the street railway.
Huge branches were ripped off
trees on Elwood place and on Ell
wood avenue, near Summer avenue.
Trees were blown down on Twelfth
street, between Sixteenth and Eigh-
teenth avenue, and on Sixteenth ave-
nue., between Hunterdon and Bergen
streets.
Electric light wires were put out of
commission in Washington and Sum-
mer avenues, near Elwood avenue;
Lockwood street, near the canal;
Seventh street, near Sussex avenue;
Fabyan place, near Boyd street and
wainwright street and Bragaw aye4ue,
but gangs of repairers quickly set the
damage right.
Sparrows Easy Prey.
Scores of trees in various parts of
the city were uprooted or brokens off
near the roots. Thousands of young
sparrows were driven from their
nests. Cats and boys were hunting
them until dark.
The wind did considerable damage
in Military Park. Two trees, meas
uring twenty . inches in diameter,
were practically destroyed. An inn
mense limb. cracked by the wind,
fell directly across the park path
leading from the tube station.
In all the city parks considerable
damage was done 20 the trees and
shrubbery.
Many of the park squirrels lost
their homes in the park trees as a re-
suit of the heavy wind. Quantities
of nuts the squirrels had stored up
were strewn on the ground. But
when the storm had passed the squir-
rels lost no time in gathering up the
supply and replacing them in their
storehouses.
AS he was running from Military
Park during the storm Morris Cadi-
gan, thirty six years old, was struck
on the foot by a heavy branch that
was stripped from a tree. His foot
was crushed. He was removed to the
City Hospital.
The telephone and telegraph service
suffered to limited extent. At the
office of the New York Telephone
Company it was stated last night that
none of the trunk cables had been
damaged Some of the wires had been
taken down when branches of trees
were blown about by the storm in va
rious sections of the county. Both al
] the Western Union and the Posta'
Telegraph Company it was said that
the storm had hardly affected the SER
vice any except that in some cases the
wires became slack, retarding the
speed of transmitting messages some
what.
The terrific wind storm struck the
neighborhood of the Jackson street
bridge with hurricane force. Many
girls were at that time leaving the
factories and many of them were
| thrown TO the ground. While some
Of them were considerably bruised