Evening star., 1915-04-04

The temperature in New York fingered
around freezing
Liners Venture Out.
The wind shifting to north late to-
day and the fall of snow becoming a
little lighter, two transatlantic liners
ventured out. They were the steam
ships New York of the American line
and the Cameronia of the Anchor line.
The New York. bound for Liverpool.
carried 120 cabin passengers. ana the
Cameronia started for Glasgow with
twenty people in her cabins The Gu
harder I,usitania and the Duca dAosta
of the Italian Royal Mail line. were the
only transatlantic liners held in port
by the storm The steamer Hamilton
of the Old Dominion line arrivea 10
night from Newport News and Norfolk.
All incoming trains from the south
were late. The Pennsylvania railroad
reported that most OF the delay was
due to late connections with trans
south of Washington. Trans from
points north of here also were gener-
ally late Trains from the west were
running on time.
Commissioner Fetherston of the street
cleaning department, said tonight that
he had Is, 900 men at work removing
snow Special attention was given to
the business sections of broadway ana
eth avenue The Commi SSloner SAID
that he expected to have 5th avenue
cleared for the Easter parade toinor-
row.
The snowfall broke all existing rec
ords for April, nine inches having fall
en- during the day
Atlantic City Trains Cancelled.
PHILADELPHIA, Pa, April S-Nine-
teen inches of snow fell in Philadelphia
in twelve hours today, breaking all
records for any twelve hours In the
history of the federal weather bureau
! here.
Coming UP from the south Atlantic
coast, the storm struck this vicinity at
s o'clock in the morning. At first the
snow melted, but after an hour 1t De-
gan to lay with the result that an
average of fifteen inches are on the
ground tonight, according to an estl-
mate by the weather forecaster. De-
spite the gale, which reached maxi
mum velocity of fifty-two miles an hour,
the snow did not drift much, as 1t was
too wet and heavy. The temperature
at am was 80 and tonight it had
fallen to 81 degrees.
Railroad trains to Atlantic City and
Ocean City, n. J., on both the steam
and electric roads. were annulled late
in the afternoon, and all wire COM
munication with the seashore resorts
on the south Jersey coast is inter-
rupted It is expected that conditions
will be much improved by tomorrow
morning, the snow has ceased TO
fall and the gale is rapidly diminish
ing.
in a tangled condition most of the day,
with the result that Easter shopping
was interfered with greatly.
Easter Traffic to Seashore.
Easter traffic to the seashore points
had dwindled almost to nothing before
the railroads got into serious trouble.
The Pennsylvania railroad experienced
| the most difficulty on its Jersey lines.
Conditions became so bad that shortly
after o'clock it stopped all train serv-
ice to Atlantic City and Ocean City. To-
night the West Jersey and Seashore
electric train which left Atlantic City
at 1245 pm. and two or three others
sent out from there on the electric road
| in the early afternoon, were stalled
somewhere in southern New Jersey be-
| tween the coast and Newfield. The COM
| pany cannot locate them because all
wires are down.
A large force of men were sum-
| moned from Altoona. Pa; Trenton and
Jersey City to repair wires and get the
various lines opened up tomorrow.
| The Ocean City branches of both the
| Pennsylvania and Reading railroads
were under water tonight, due to high
| tides. These tracks parallel the beach
| City train on the Reading arrived
! from Atlantic City shortly before II
| o'clock tonight, several hours late.
Passengers reported that the wind
blew a gale at Atlantic City, accom-
| panied by heavy rain and snow. The
! tide was high, but no serious dam
| age was done.
| The Pennsylvania trains on the New
| York division were all late. Engineers
| were compelled to run slowly in order
| to see the signals in the thick snow
| Snow -clogged switches also helped tc
| slow up traffic. Trains from the south
| were several hours late.
| West of Philadelphia conditions were
not so bad. as the snow did not tail
| further west than eighty miles. Local
train service was also seriously at
| fected, the railroads being compelled to
annul many of the suburban trains.
| Despite the high wind and deep snow
| there were no serious accidents re-
| ported.
Gale of Seventy Miles in Boston.
| BOSTON. April 3.-An Easter snow
| storm, driven before a northeast gale
| that at times reached a velocity of
nearly seventy miles an hour, swept the
| New England coast tonight, crippled
| wire COmmulllCatl anu leiePiioiio
| service and caused anxiety in shipping
| circles for at least five craft knoWn to
| be in distress.
| Hyannis, on the southeastern coast.
| reported that the three -masted schoon-
| err George Churchman from Nantucket
| for New York had piled up on the
| end of the breakwater. The coast
| guard cutter Acushnet late tonight
| sent a radio that she had rendered
| assistance to the schooner, indicating
| that the Churchman was safe.
| OFF Highland Light. lie savers were
standing by three barges. Two OF them
we're reported ashore and another was
dragging close to me breakers, De-
tween Highland and High Head.
Decentralization in North Carolina.
RALEIGH, N. c., April 3.-One OF the
worst storms in the history of central
and eastern North Carolina swept this
section late last night and early today,
wrecking miles of telephone. telegraph
and power lines and demoralizinS busi-
ness in a score of towns within a
radius of seventy-fve miles. Nearly
two feet of snow fell here. The wind,
which at times reached a velocity of
sixtv miles an hour. wrecked a number