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along the Jersey coast exposing ancient
wrecks. blowing the glass from the win
dows Of steam trains, %uprootlnG trees
and u%nroofing houses. II caused very
little damage that was not easily re-
paired. Its force served to keen down
the sea. since 1t blew from the west and
northwest In the early part Of the day
there was Interruption Of electric light
Ing. telegraph and telephone service and
trolley cars ran i~rregulariy.
Ten old women Of tho 100 sleeping
upon the top floor of the barracks on
Blackwell's Island were slightly hurt
when a fifty DOT section Of the slate
roof OF the barracks was ripped to
pieces and cast away by the force u the
gale. Many Of the old women were
badly frightened by the crash of the
dislntergrating roof, but Supt. Mcmahon
and his assistants Gained them and
attended the injuries Of those hurt by
falling debris.
The gale was especially violent over
Manhattan from Z A. NJ. until about
noon. although strong winds played
pranks throughout the day. The tall
apartment houses along Riverside Drive
were buffeted and in many Of them
plate glass windows and glass sky
lights were smashed. Early In the
morning II became necessary to station
ten policemen at the subway entrances
In the Municipal Building to help trav-
ellers fight against the wind. Women
would have found II impossible to make
their way from Centre street into the
Municipal Building II policemen hadn't
been there to give them an arm and
form "A living windshield.
A definite example Of the strength of
h gale was the litter Of automobile
tops In downtown streets, tops that had
been wrenched from the machines.
Telephone Wires Down.
Perhaps tine greatest Inconvenience
caused BY the storm was the Interior
ence with telegraph and telephone wires.
Early yesterday morning the New York
Central Railroad discovered that 4 was
unable to get Information OF train move
ments north of Pcekskiil. Somewhere
above that point wires had beer snatched
o their poles and grounded. and
the trains were running, therefore.
with extreme caution. Newspapers found
interruption to their wire service to New
England n to the West. At I p. NJ.
the operator OF the Western Union Tele-
graph Company at Quarantine reported
that the wires had been carried away by
the wind and hat he was unable to COM
municate with Sandy Hook. In Staten
Island telegraph and electric light wires
were blown down In many places and Il
will be several days before the damage
can be fully repaired.
The general railroad situation was not
serious az compared TO some experiences
tho railroads have undergone in severe
storms. The Pennsylvania Railroad re-
ported little interruption Of schedule.
The Pennsylvania Limited. for example.
due at :52 Il. NJ. arrived on the dot.
The Keystone express Just FIVE min
utes late.
IN the other hand the New Haven
road experienced many troublesome de-
lays Train No. So. which was due to
arrive here from Springfield at II :i3
A NJ. lost itself somewhere in Massa-
chusctts or Connecticut and hadn't beer
located up to late last night. The Of
hclals Of the Dad were not alarmed as
to the safety of the train or the well
being Of the passengers. figuring that
there had been "A combination OF engine
trouble and lev tracks and that the train
crew had taken their charge into a con-
venlent siding.
The New York. New Haven and Hart
ford Railroad Company Issued last night
he following:
ION account OF storms an, accumula-
tons of loaded cars. embargo is placed
on all carload and less carload freight.
except live stock. ~perishablas. food
products and coal for all points west
and exclusive Of New London and WILL
mantle and south of the Boston and
Albany Railroad. All freight for Pitts
field. Holyoke. Westfleld. Springfield,
y 1rthampton. Mass. and Hartford.
Conn. will he accepted. All freight
billed prior to and including December
- for the embargoed territory will be
received"
Considering everything, tine New York
Central trains Jared pretty well. All OF
the through trains from the West were
slowed up by the storm. The Twentieth
Century Limited was nifty nut late
IN arriving. The Detro.ter was thirty
minutes behind her schedule. Through
trains We're marked late last night all
the way from half an hour TO two hours.
Some Of the local trains had trouble yes
terday morning and there were numerous
bitches In local service.
The I.ackawsnna and Erie rains es-
capped serious difficulties and not many
Of them were more than a few minutes
late In arriving at their North River
terminals. Officials of the Long Island
railroad were concentrating themselves
that their road wasn't badly hit. On
the main limo and on the various
branches of the system there were de-
lays and Interruptions OF wire signal
service. hut service was maintained
throughout the day with reasonable reg
ularity.
The city's transportation lines were
hardly affected at all. Not a single
block of traffic Was reported from any
part of the subway system. Early In
the morning elevated railway trains
were bothered by ice coated rails but
there was no interruption to traffic. SO
far as the surface car lines were con-
cerned. the fan Of snow was much too
light TO give them real trouble. At 8
A.. NJ. the Third avenue line had an
emergency crew 81 $50 men at work
with sweepers and they made the
snow fly 40 fast that traffic kept on
as usual.
Even Street Cleaning Commissioner
Featherston was not entirely unfairly
despite the fact that he could get only
<.200 emergency shovelers and sweepers
when ne needed li,700. A \ o'clock the
commissioner had abOu 10. 900 men hard
at work in Manhattan, Brooklyn and
The BronN--4. 200 extra hands II more
regularly employed. by nishtfall he
had the streets pretty well cleaned. es-
pecially the main traffic arteries, but one
of the annoying parts OF his task was
the armorplate toughness of the weld
of snow and ice that chung to asphalt
and wooden blocks.
w came out of IL very nicely, every
thing considered" said Mr.. Feutherston
last night The storm will cost the