Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-02-14
BLIZZARD BRINGS /
MISERY IN WAKE; !
COLD WAVE OVER
Two Deaths as Storms Toll.
Railroad and Trolley Ser
vice Crippled.

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high in many parts of Essex county.
the weather bureau announced At
noon today that the blizzard which
has held the entire aBst IN its grip
since p. m. yesterday, had not YET
reached its height. and probably
would continue through tonight To
tomorrow. The arrival OF the storm,
however, the weather observers say.
las broken the backbone OF the cold
wave that preceded It.
Great suffering and much moons
venience came with the blizzard.
Trolley and train traffic was practiz
eally demoralized in Essex county ia
the early morning, but railway and
/ trolley officials announced this AFTER
noon that all available men were at
work clearing the tracks. and prob
ably would be almost normal BY
nightfall. unless the fury Of the
storm increased.
+ Three big fires. for one Of which
/ TWO alarms were sounded, and half
/ dozen smaller fires occurred during
the night. and the fire Department
was considerably hampered in fight-
ing them by the difficulty of moving
the apparatus through the snow-fiiled
! streets.
Lodging houses, as on nights dur
ing the cold wave. were filled to ca
paeity last night. and shelter for the
homeless was provided in many of the
/ rescue homes today.
/ Firemen Are Hampered
Telephone and telegraph companie.
reported the storm had done little
/ damages TO their lines Wires ara
down in few remote places. It was
said. but these places are so scattered
practically no digerence was made in
the wire service.
Charles p. Gillen. chairman of the
street committee of the Board of
+ Works said the storm will cost this
city at least 5000 Almost / eea .;>s-. =
were put to work today removing the
snow from the centre of tho city.
City laborers from all departments
were taken from their regular work.
given shovels and added to the gangs
of men who we're removing the snow.
All men who applied for work,
whether registered under Civil Service
or not were added to the force of city
laborers, and thirty additional teams
and drivers were added to the city's
4 force of fifty.
4 All funerals scheduled TO take placs
> to Essex county cemeteries today
I impossible for coaches or wagons fs
Z make their way through the city
streets. and the huge drifts on tha
suburban roads made the journey to
THE cemeteries impossible.
Two deaths occurred in this city
and nearby from the snow and cold
during the night. One man. blinded
by the snow. was killed by Mans
haitian transfer train. and another.
d NFsff r1raaG -rS1IA n
in a chair in a saloon which he had
entered for shelter.
Flakes Are of the .Dry" Kind
The snow began to fall last night at
SIS The flakes were small, dry and
light but of the kind which ordinary
persons, as well as weather Sharps
know, usually marks the entrance OF
blizzard. When the fall began the
; temperature was is degrees above
zero BY o'clock the temperatures
had fallen to II degrees After that
: the mercury began TO rise steadily, at
O'Clock this morning registering II
degrees and at noon 29 degrees
! All this time 2. high northeast wind
was blowing. This caused the lighf
snow to drift high. The wind con-
i tinued from the same direction today.
Up to midnight three and one-haif
. inches of snow had fallen. AT rooi1
there was ten inches on the srouiid
and the weather observers could hold
out no hope of the fall ceasing before
tomorrow.
A remarkable drop in the barometer
was noted between the time the snow
began to fall and this afternoon. At
6 o'clock last night the barometer
registered 307. at present it stands at
29.54
Superintendent Charles I. shipman.
of the Board of Works, placed HIS
entire force of street cleaners at work
on Broad and Market streets TODAY
to grapple with the mountains OF
snow left by the blizzard. Two hum
|, dred and twenty men were equipped
with shoVels at the City Hall stables
Fifty wagons. 110 horses and fifty
drivers, the latter with shoyels. COM
prised the outfit.
With the snow coming down in q
steady fail. the superintendent said
he would have al he could do to clear
the two main thoroughfares of the
: city. The snow shovelers will try To
clean up Market street. from the
Pennsylvania depot 10 the Court
House. and Broad street, from the
CITY Hall to the Morris Canal bridge
at the postoffice. These limits VIII
be extended if the storm abates.
The entire force viii work all day
tomorrow to relieve the crippled trsf-
fic conditions in other parts Of the
, city.
Unemployed Fail to Appear.
Tie great army of the unemployed.
' which stormed the City Hall last
week when there was no work TO
give failed to put in an appearances
today. with hundreds of jobs open.
At o'clock the city street cleaners
started in to remove the mountains
of snow which had drifted in places
along Broad and Market streets A
hurry call was sent out for reserves
when it was seen that the blizzard
had no intention of abating.
5 Superintendent Shipman expected
, to see the army storm the City Hail
with greater effort than ever. But
the snow was the only storm seen.
When the hours passed and the
: unemployed did not arrive the super
intendent gave up hope of obtaining
7 reinforcements
A Lucky Janiter.
The janitor of the new Board Of
Health building. which extends an
/ entire block along William street. be-
: tween Plane and Arlington streets, is
:. laughing at janitors of other build
ings today, who have vast expanses
$ of snow-covered sidewalks TO clear
of.
) For the Health Board janitor had
! had his breezy friend, .sOld Boreaa.
f working for him. with the result thar
every inch of the sidewalks and steps
] of the building, with the exception
e of one small drift on the Arlington
e street side, was as free of snow to-