New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-12-14
WIND AND SNOW
SWEEP COAST LINE
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creditable in the circumstances. Drifts
formed in the more open country Of
Bergen County clogging the lines.
East Of Someryille the New Jersey
Central Railroad kept its trains run
ming close 10 schedule, but there was
trouble west Of that station. Wires
blown down hindered Philadelphia &
Reading trains. The Pennsylvania
Railroad reported that its trains were
from fifteen minutes TO half an hour
late TO stations this side Of Philadel-
rhia. No report could be obtained from
the Erie.
Among the results of the storm in
Westchester County was the blocking
Of the trolley line between 1onkers
and Hastings Hudson, which turned
hundreds OF passengers into the over
crowded late trains on the New YORK
Central lines. ionkers reported eight
inches of snow, Ossining ten and Peek
skill, fourteen inches.
Commissioner Featherston reported
at midnight that seventy new motor
driven snow ploughs had been used IN the
effort TO keep the streets OF Manhattan
open to traffic. More men were needed,
he said. to clean sidewalks and dump
the snow into the sewers. Slush and
Herald Square last night owing 10 the
clogging I'D Of the sewer drains.
Conditions i'm The Bronx became
serious when the fire alarm system
went out Of order Telephone service
from the outlying districts, including
the police signal wires, was also
impaired. For more than an hour
residents Of City Island were without
electric lights.
The first real touch Of winter left
the ships anchored in the harbor
sheeted with ice and sleet. Incoming
liners were delayed by the storm and
ships that reached Quarantine during
the night had hard work poklng0heir
way TO their berths.
4 wind that swept the Bay at
sixty-mile rate tore many small craft
from their moorings and drove the
hardy Staten Island commuters 10 the
shelter of ferryboat cabins.
The Espagne. of the French Line,
which was due yesterday, probably Will
not dock until this afternoon or to
morrow morning. The Tenadores. Of
the United Fruit Company, and other
ships which arrived yesterday came
into the harbor like miniature ice
bergs.
Her mainsail ripped away in the
gale. the schooner Annie Louise, loaded
with stone. from New York for lslip.
was driven aground inside Fire Island
inlet last night. She was pulled off by
motor fishing sloop and was towed in
side the bay TO anchorage. Later she
dragged her anchor and went ashore
again, but was reported by the Fire
Island coastguard TO be in no danger.
Tug Sent TO Aid Tanker.
The Standard Oil Company sent a
tug 10 the assistance Of the tanker
Nesta, which reported by wireless that
while anchored of Staten Island she
had lost her starboard anchor and was
dragging her other anchor.
All the rules and formalties which
govern admission 20 the Municipal
Lodging House were dispensed with by
| William A. White, the superintendent.
in his plans to give relief 10 the storm
sufferers. Up 10 10 o'clock. he said. SOP
men, women and children had been ad-
mitted. Each received a not bath, a
warm meal and a clean bed. Eighteen of
the woman had children with them.
Firemen were assigned, IN conjunc-
] ton with the police, in patrolling the
streets on the lookout for fires in all
parts of The Bronx. To add TO the
difficulties OF telephone service. a tele-
/ graph and telephone pole at Arthur and
| fremont avenues fell soon after 10
o'clock, carrying with it 100 or more
/ trunk lines
A report from Netcong. y. j., said
/ that the town was covered by three
/ feet Of snow and the surrounding roads
were blocked with six to ten-foot
/ drifts. All trolleys were stalled. and
the Netcong express was held up in
drifts one mile from the city. Auto
mobile parties caught in the storm had
| to stop FOR the night with farmers.
"Not an electric train has moved
/ since o'clock" said A. r. Whaley,
president Of the New Haven rail-
road, in statement issued at mid