The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-03-03
MANHATTAN ALONE
KEEPS CARS RUNNING
Four Other BOroughs Fail to
Win Fight Against
Snow Piles.
PASSENGERS NARROWED
Seek shelter With Strangers or
in HOtcls-Funerals
100 SnpnnnInl
PASSENGERS NARROWED

Manhattan va. the only borough in
when street railway service was not
wrecked by the blizzard. In Brooklyn,
Queens Richmond and The Bronx the
tieup was one OF the worst in the citys
history
The New York cty Railways Company,
warned by the Weather Bureau was
prepared and kept in operation all OF it,
surface car lines. All yesterday and last
night the company mad l?5 pieces of snow
lighting apparatus. ploughs. sweepers and
scrapers, at work that the tracks In
Manhattan were kept clear
On account OF the careless piling OF
snow by street cleaners IL was Impossible
for vehicles to use the roadways in most
Of the principal streets 50 they took to
the car lines, blocking and impeding traffic.
This was the worst annoyance encountered
by the street car companies. On this
point President Theodore p. Shonts oil
the City Railways said last night:
The conditions are highly abnormal
and most difficult for the Street Cleaning
Department and the traffic officers OF the
Police Department to deal with but II
seems only reasonable e expect that
trucks, delivery wagons and vehicles OF
all sorts should not be sent ut loaded 20
capacity Most of the trouble has been
from trucks too heavily laden FOR the
horses to draw or for motors TO propel"
was entirely or partially interrupted all
through the borough. Wheels froze to the
tracks. cars were derailed and trolley
wires fell OF poles gave way. There were
drifts 20 heavy as to halt the big snow
ploughs Thirty-six lines OF the y. II. T.
were abandoned during the storm and
service had been resumed on only a few
OF them up to last night. TIE Coney
Island. Bay Ridge. Fort Hamilton, Smith
street, Bushw!ck avenue, Jamaica avenue.
Reid avenue, Flushing avenue and the
Hoyt and Sackett street lines were help
less II required three hours TO get from
East New York TO Adams street. which
was a fair sample Of the way the cars
ran. Those who depended on surface car
| lines to reach work in Brooklyn or New
York had To walk most OF the way Many
stayed home.
Bridge service was very poor over all
the bridges. although cars and trains ran
with more regularity over the Brooklyn
Bridge than over any OF the other
bridges. The officials Of the y. X r.
had all OF their regular force and 1000
extra men at work last night. They felt
certain that service would be greatly i'm
proved by this morning although Il would
take two or three days TO get the lines
back to normal running capacity.
In Tho Bronx there was nothing but
trouble yesterday until the late afternoon.
At midnight last night no limo In The
Bronx was pretending TO handle cars on
schedule. Wire and trolley pole accidents
we're the main causes Of the tisup, Al.
though In many streets the snow had
drifted and frozen on the tracks.
All OF tho North Shore OF Queens ana
Nassau counties was isolated. Hundreds
OF persons, unable to get 10 their homes.
were compelled 10 seek shelter with
strangers.
The H. II. T. Jamaica limo WA dead al,
OF yesterday. Scores of persons caught
In stalled cars suffered from exposure and
hunger.
Funerals and burials were suspended for
the day. For the first time in years there
We're no funeral professions on the road
TO the cemeteries in Queens
or the 10000 commuters on Staten Isl
and only 5000 were able 10 get 10 New
| York. One train that left To,tenville
early yesterday morning arrived at ST
George at IL 80 A. NJ. This was the frst
| train service since I A. NJ YESTERDAY
Only two trains ventured out on the
South Beach division during the day from
st. George