The sun., 1916-03-07
SNOWSTORM TIES
UP CITY'S TRAFFIC
Six Inch Fall Comes Unher-
aldcd-Rafn to Add Dis
comfort To-day.
SEVERAL PERSONS HURT

y thoroughly old fashioned snows:orlr,
without blizzard attachments. formed y
soft quilt of just six inches, tuckiA2 100
all the boroughs last night. After the
official measurers had announced the
depth of snow. they began 10 have trouble
with their weather reports. delayed ny
s,ee; storms that put the wires out OF
business north. south and west OF Kew
York.
The Official GoreC asst dill not arrive at the
Whitehall tower until nearly II o'clock
thus being about an hour behind lime
and ordinary reports from distant cities
We're sill coming in after tha; hour.
The national prophets missed telling
about the snow coming yesterday. but
they feel pretty sure that they have. hit
IL right to-day when they say that II
will be warmer with rain. and that to-
morrow will be fair and colder with
strong northw.stcrly winds increasing
to gale force. The whirling low that
caused the trouble was central over Chi
cago last night and Is expected To head
northeast and finally go to sea BY way
OF the St. Lawrence Nalley.
When the prophets went to bed they
left a brisk northeasterly wind sprink-
ling fine slect on streets and elevated
platforms and there were many folks
hurt by falls. The temperature had
risen from II IN the afternoon to 2s at
midnight and still had an upward ten
dency so 1t looks ~ II the soothsayers
were going to strike it right
The SHOWS effect was felt more by
transportation companies within the
city limits than by railroad companies
with terminals here. Slow progress was
made by trolleys and elevated lines last
n s,.,t. ll,. l,. I'm
In many OF the outlying sections COM
muters were delayed In stalled cars.
Trucking along the waterfront was
hard hit during the late afternoon. But
all railroad lines coming into New York
reported last night that trains we're run.
ming on schedule time
All the trolleys in Brooklyn we're
;wenty-iive minutes behind schedules az
Q o'clock at nigh, The line running
south on Utica avenue from Church
avenue 70 Avenue y vas tied up from
J 80 in the afternoon until late into
the might
On tn. Hrooklyn Bridge the surface
lines 20 New York wer. snow bound from
1910 J.. NJ to 1.31 | NJ when "A motor
truck h"came stalled on the tracks The
congestion was relieved by having about
forty cars reverse their poles. go back
across the bridge and then come 10 New
York over the Manhattan Bridge.
street Cleaning Commissioner Fether-
ston had '.5oh emergency men pili'g up
the snow in Manhattan. especially In the
main thoroughfares about 5000 extras
IN brooklyn and about l.5OO laborers in
The Bronx. Besides. forty-six motor snow
blows were In operation all afternoon
and night In Manhattan and twelv. in
Brooklyn. There were 5000 regular de.
par''nent men on the job. too.
Mr.. Fetherston expected that the snow
would he piled mp in most OF the prin.
cipai streets this morning for the con.
tractors TO cart away.
The Municipal Lodging House. which
this time last year housed about c.iOO
PERSONS. last night had only ESQ men
applicants for sleeping quarters. eighteen
women and live children. Sup,. Stuart
\. Rice sent hf;y-three men TO the Bridge
department to work at snow removal
and TAG more 70 the New England
steamship Company's pier for the same
kind ot jobs
Several minor nishaps were reported
by the police as due 10 the storm. Rose
Wall, 81 years Old. slipped on the el.
waited stairs AZ Fiftieth street and Sec
ond avenu, and fractured an arm. Luig o
Spie2io OF ?5l East Thirty-second street
also Slipped on the station steps at
Forty-second street and Third avenue
and was 50 badly bruised that DIR. over
ton took him 10 Bellevue Hospital
James Fitzpatrick. of 3jl Jennings
the street, The Bronx. "A track foreman
on the Broadway division of the subway
was knocked down by southbound ex-
press while hoss!ng snow cleaning
gang on the viaduct near the Manhattan
street station last night. He was re-
moved to the knIckernocker Hospital
with u fracture Of the skull