The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-03-03
TELEGRAPH SILENCED
TO SOUTH AND WEST
Poles Down for Miles-Repsir
Gangs Can't Get
Trains.
PHONES STOP WORK TOO
If Weather Clears Wires MAY
Re Patched in Two
Days.

Several thousand nen dressed "a FOR
Arctic adventure were In the crowds a.
the railroad stations yesterday waiting
TO go on: on trains tina. didn't starr.
They were telegraph and telephoa" lr--
men assigned 70 the task Of PACKING
storm severed wires and 50 restore New
York's communication with the country
South and West. Few OF them penetrated
New Jersey further than the cities on the
Hudson. Therefore the wiz, men1ing
has hardly started. and the city remains
!acomnur.cato almost - the same degree
at Il was sunday night
Persons % me Il remember wheJ" sort
Will probably h. forever comparing each
little snow furry ~::A IN dear old biz
zard os 1858. Most Of Jhein can b., ~
nured. But when say haired '.l-gvjll
officials who worked sixty hours AZ g
stretch in that year d-clare--as they ga
yesteriay---that within !,s comparatively
small area the storm of sunday and yes
te.day vas just as hard on the wires
you can't help believing the disturbance
amounted 10 something
In accepting me sR.ges ,or the South
or West last night neither the Western
Union nor the Postal Telegraph companies
would even guess a. - wien t1-y would
b. delivered The Official word MAS sub
jeci 10 !UieHni;. delay
Poles Down for Miles.
! Along the railroad tracks through Sew
Jersey there was ~: sing" overhead
wire across the state. N-y York could
tax with Newark. and that Tas all,
Travellers tel. OF miles OF poles In d
single stretch. every one Of which had
snapped OF and fallen L. taug!e ~
/ ice sheathsd w!ges. And In other places.
where the poles st!l! stand, there i break
al, 400 to-
drearily from the crossarms ana are fes-
TONED among branches Ike strings -
pop corn or d Chr stuas tree. The cost
ot permanent repair WI De more than
$1,000. 900. The New York TeieThon"
Company, which suffered less tH'n th.
telegraph carriers. estimates IS "Np-rsr
B IN New Jersey alone WI. BE- 5000 900.
| Here is a sample Z what the telegraph
men ar. doing - meet y.e situation :
| Washington H. 2aj miles from New YORK.
The Postal company reached :hdt ,..y
yesterday. !; I'D /, by liking w coun-y-
lions along th!s circu!tous -pu:e: Albany.
Montreal. Detroit. Chicago. -. Louis.
B.r,uingham. Atlanta. Richmond-Wash-
inston. SO on a pinch New York could
talk with Washington, but there Vas no
direct communication. Messages were re-
lAyed three times In the course OF their
travels about the Eastern and Southern
States and Canada.
Wires In Conduits safe.
The American Telephone and Telegraph
Company had the only free wires 10
Philadelphia and Washington. They are
intact because they run underground. Tho
conduit that carries them from Boston 20
I Washington was completed only few
weeks ago II cost about 50 .0Oo.0 900. Presl-
dent Vs!l started building /; In 1905, the
immediate impulse coming from the storm
that cut on Washington on the day Presi-
dent Taft was iuaur'Irated IN 100.
An officer OF the Western Union COM
psny thus described the telegraph situa-
ton yesterday
New Jersey r. the bottle n.,,k through
which all southern and Western lines
reach New York. the storm smashed the
neck. and there you are
AT dawn this morning repair gangs
started, or tried 20 start, from every
point within 500 miles O, the storm c-ntr"
Where We could Ne got special trains
They are on the way from the dive lions
20 the south and west OF Us. as we'll IS
from the Eastern division, whose head
quarters Is New York. This morning
we sent men to every railroad station 81!
New York with Instructions TO take the
FIRST train on, and repor, the damage
sIhe loss to our company cannot De stated
Tno~ Probably Il Is not as large as that
caused b. the Dayton Hood. which was
about sa5o0OO. What-y-r II II, Il is
covered In advanc. by the coupdu ny :
annual appropriation o: between $4,000
600 and $4,000. 900 for such em.rgeI cies
| / should say that. II the weather clears
up. the lines will b. fairly open by
Thursday or Friday. OF course, all tbs
patching Is temporary. II will be long
time before new poles are IN place every
where"
Public Pays M More.
Information from the Postal T..es-ap,
Company was this
1--WE are giving a limited service 10 al
parts OF the country. but by circu!tous
! routes Our reports are that most OF tn
damage was caused by falling trees
Many OF our poles are new and In place.
where the wind has clear sweep the,
, are strongly braced. W. cannot r~eci
Philadelphia direct but have made
, Western and Southern connections boy
. way OF Boston and Montreal
! "ExpensIve telegraphlng? Yes-for US
u cost. the public mo more 20 reacl
Washington by way OF Montreal than b,
way Of Philadelphia and Baltimore"
The telephone situation in New Jerse,
10 indicated by an advertisement the com
psny sent 10 ali the newspapers OF tina
state IL could reach yesterday. The ad
vertisement said the wires had bee
harder hit than by any other storm IN tn
past fifteen years, that repairs were undo
Z way and that In the mesntims the com
! pany asked the indulgence OF It's sub
scrtberA