Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1915-12-14
SNOW KINGS
GRIP is FELT
IN THIS CITY
Suburban Towns Also Tied Up
as Result Of Big
Storm.
TROLLEY SCHEDULES
ALSO DlSARRANcED
Railroad Trains Behind Time.
Nine Inches of Snow Re-
ported Here.


Nine inches of snow fell in Newark
yesterday and half an inch of rain.
The storm did not cease until early
today. Had the downfall been entire
ly of snow we would have had four
teen inches of snow. the same amount
which fell on the day before Christ
mas in 1912. No December storm since
then has even approximated that OF
yesterday.
Cloudy weather today and tomorrow
with a drop in temperature tonight
and strong westerly winds, diminish
ing tomorrow. were the indications
seen by the local forecaster today. The
temperature today was 42. nine de-
grees above yesterdays highest and
fifteen degrees above the low mark OF
the night.
During yesterday the wind kept
up steady blow OBJ about six miles
an hour. first from the northeast and
then from the northwest. While New
York city reported gales that rose to
sixty-four miles at times, the
gauge on the roof Of the Central
High School did not show even a mo-
mentary puff of more than ten miles.
The city was favored in every way
over NEARLY every other place within
the storm zone. traffic not being seri-
ousIy interfered with at any time.
although going home Monday night
was not pleasant undertaking.
Tracks Opened.
All the steam railroads reported to-
day that heavy rails were holding the
trains fifteen or twenty minutes be-
hind schedule, but that the tracks
were not blocked in any direction. The
Erie and Lackawanna, because Of
their northerly situation west OF here,
suffered more yesterday than either
tho Pennsylvania or the Central and
were worse hit ON their through traffic
Yesterday soine of their tfnins from
the west being from two to three
hours late. This forenoon they said
conditions We're rapidly becoming nor
NAL and that the schedule would be
in force before night.
The telegraph and telephone COM
panies suffered most of all concerns
affected by the storm, but not in this
neighborhood. To the north and
west all wires were down and service
probably will not be entirely re-
stored for q week. Yesterdays was
the worst storm for wires since the
blizzard of March, 1918.
Trolley service was normal at 6
o'clock this morning. the Public Ser
vice Company officers reported. It
was evident later. however, that local
and suburban schedules were disar-
ranged, some badly. The Trenton
fast line. which went out of business
about O'Clock last night and the
Hackensack line, which was forced to
quit an hour earlier, both were back
in condition today.
Only one wire fell on the Essex
division. that in Millburn avenue,
South Orange village, about 10 o'clock
last night, tying UP that line for about
half an hour.
Wagons Stalled.
Considering everything. conditions
on the trolleys were not bad last
night ard stalled trucks were respon-
sible for most of it, The Plank Road
line was worst affected. So many
trucks were forced to quit on the
bridge over the Hackensack that pas
SengerS were CDilSeQ 10 a1Ent going
both ways and wall, across the bridge
to cars on the other side. This condi-
ton prevailed from TO 9:30 la5t night.
Two big plows and thirty Sweepers
were sent out at o'clock yesterday
afternoon and kept going all night.
This morning the company sent out
more than 100 men. ten wagons and
seven snow cars to clear the, spaces
along the tracks,
The fire department was lucky. only
two alarms coming in during the
night. One was shortly after 7 o'clock
last evening at 102 South Orange ave-
nue., a slight blaze, and the other
shortly after midnight at a Ann
street, where an overheated stove
caused slight damage.
Warning to Clear Sidewalks.
Today the police of all precincts
were directed to warn all tenants and
storekeepers to clear their walks to-
day or be summoned INTO court to-
morrow. The rain which was sand
wiched in between the first and sec
ond fall OF snow froze and forced an
icy base, making shovelling a hard
Job.
Superintendent Charles III. Shipman,
OF the Board of Works. put 500 men TO
wcrk this morning clearing of the
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