The sun., 1919-03-29
Spring Hurricane Recalls
Famous Storm Which
Tied Up Town in 1888.
LIKE A BOMBARDM-ENT
Two Inches Of Snow, just
as Much as Fell in the
Entire Winter.
TWO VESSELS GO ASHORE
People Knocked Down in the
Streets-Motor Trucks
and Cars Stalled.
TWO VESSELS 60 ASHORE

New York's freak winter being over,
freak spring yesterday flung an eighty
mile gale bowling across the city-a
gale exceeded in violence only three
times here in thirty-flve years. With
II came two inches Of singing snow
crystals, which outdid in a day the
combined fall Of the eccentric and de-
parted winter.
The gale drove two vessels aground,
caused innumerable minor accidents
and trining damages to windows, signs
and trees. 1t slowed, but did not stop.
traffic by steam, trolley, third rail.
horse or motor. On the whole, New
York got off lightly. with slight dis
comfort. 1t was not cold-22 degrees
was the lowest-except by contrast
with the balmy days preceding.
The cause Of the mighty disturbance
was easily located. 1t was plain as
p.kestaff even to the amateur meteor
ologist with a weather chart At night
fall on Thursday an elongated cyclonic
disturbance was central In the neigh
borhood Of Philadelphia. II came into
swirling being down in Texas, and the
object OF It's orief Ike seemed 10 oe "
show folks who thought that spring
was here or hereabout that nobody
really could tell anything about
weather until after II had passed.
80 ,,,,,o ,on,, ,A,, newspapers on
i'd, corrsrs nm day, and nights that
~. yy..,h.r p,rsau nerlects to foretell
.,,.s ., n-,s oerce dav for busI-
- N.u.naners e,pecially those nlled
E,.s ,i.h, rsed,n. matter want a,rplan-
- a., n. hIa,,. ana oos Of the results
az the storm was a Assxs.,ished -eirni,iA-
,ion .rcent In the nnappreciatiye air.
More snow Than All Last
Two real inches Of snow fell In the
nhSnomenally mild winter that went out
Of the game on March 81, and yesterday
more than two inches covered such parts
Of the ground as were not exposed to the
rales and could hold the snow lons
enough TO permit meteorologists with
.n,r.,, a, We. mora SNOW
.ov' - 4, al, the davs nj
leh YESTERDAY '' ''' ~ &,
the winter.
But II was not the snow that niaoe
the day one Of the most memorable .ol
sn,, early sprine day in an unmelodious
v.rc, 7, was the wind. March was
-. =. IA ,r,oS =, going out nk,
uohs "'e o,u .rts,, r,rcu.
one ol .'e i'ohs iio."
There are some facts In the case De
sides the mere sta'i'tics OF 'he "ea'". .,
Bureau, which are Fio'eh' eou.n
suit the fancy OF most anarcnisu'
weather expert. If the city had beer
under the fire of a feet Of German sub
,,s.,n.. {, could not have been doinJ
- oar a,d 4, nrob
tess 80,
ABLY ~ouio NOT hA'o io'' "'oe
glass. Maybe also there might haT'
been fewer persons hurt than the poiic'
records showed.
The snow contributed to the casualt.
-. x,s, A.. .,.., 10 .,L.uo.ur,
"st oy o"'u"s Wv - -, -
ana persons ""o o
their cars, put the cniei cause OF tn
fatalities ana tne accioeh's "as III
great gale
Early IN the si'ernooh .no ao.i i,.,
eter on TOP OF tne Mhitenal 'us,,' en-
hau recorueu
"''1u'es' S s,,,,,t.,i,e ,h,
As the snow r,In,,,as aus
,,,. IT,, ~, ths ,orcs n
-. oiaSs 20 w., ., a hurri
a,ah,,, ,,,,,as and FOR twenty min
~,ns san, ,he thermometer spinning a
ssSs,ty'eys r,,Iea
Men and wom.n Knocked -Down
- ...,,. -. Al,