The New York herald., 1922-01-30
BLIZZARD DAMAGES
CITY BEACH RESORTS
Coney Island, ROckaway and
Jersey Coast Are Lashed
Badly by the Storm.
TAIL HITS MANHATTAN
Street Cleaners Win Fight
Against 8 Inch Snow,
Despite Drifts. !.
SHIPS AND TRAINS LATE
Parks Filled With Joyous Chill
dren-Two Little Coast
ers Injured.
SHIPS AND TRAINS LATE

The blizzard that swept up the coast
from the Carolinas Saturday and the
tail of which held the city in it's grip
for more than twenty-five hours did
damage at the beaches In and near
New York which will run into the
hundreds Of thousands Of dollars.
Bungalows were blown down and
swept out to sea by one of the highest
tides in years, innumerable other
dwellings, were inundated and many
torn from their foundation, and
boardwalks which even had concrete
foundations were ripped out. AS the
tide receded it left in its wake water
several feet deep, forcing the winter
boats to get in or out Of their homes.
An average Of four feet of beach
was washed away at Coney Island,
and the wreckage from the storm In
that vicinity extended all the way
from Manhattan Beach to Sea Gate, a
distance of more than four miles. The
Rockaways suffered heavily, Hamels,
Rockaway Park and Arverne receiv-
ing the full fury Of the storm. At
Midland Beach, on Staten Island and
Asbury Park, N. J., the property DAM
age was heavy.
There was two feet of water in Ocean
Parkway. Immediately In front of the
Shelburne Hotel. last night. The water
was so deep. in fact. that policemen had
to abandon a police booth a short dis
tance from the hotel. Several bath
houses at Coney Island we're ripped up
by the cyclonic winds and washed out to
sea. The Phoenix Construction Com
structing the new Coney Island board
walk, suffered damages estimated at
$4,000.
The company had all its material, boil
ers, derricks and heavier tools stacked
on the Dreamland Park beach, which was
under water the greater part of the day.
The boilers were flooded and large
quantity of timber was washed away.
1t was estimated that the damage at
Coney Island, Brighton and Manhattan
beaches would amount to $4,000 in ad-
dtion to the loss Of the construction
company.
BUNGALOW Colonies Suffer.
The bungalow colonies at the Rock
aways and Midland Beach were hit hard
by the storm. Probably score of them
completely washed from their founda-
tions and made uninhabitable. and at
Rockaway Beach five bungalows and
five bathhouses collapsed and were
washed out to sea. Three of these were
In Division avenue and were owned by
August Groetz. the fourth was In Dogge
avenue and was owned by Joseph Rosen-
field. who also owned the bathhouses
that we're destroyed, and the fifth was
situated at sixty-seventh street and
ocean rfont and was owned by Henry
Margolis.
Tent city at Rockaway Beach suffered
to the extent of having the framework of
ut least twenty tents blown away. The
boardwalk, between Sixty-seventh- and
Sixty-eighth streets and in front of the
Arverne Hotel at Sixty-fourth street
was washed away.
Fifteen hundred feet of the concrete
boardwalk at Midland Beach also was
destroyed. The seas washed UP over the
railroad tracks running close to the
Staten Island waterfront. The storm
was at It's worst in the beach sections
between and z o'clock yesterday morn
ing. The wind reached velocity esti-
mated at ninety miles an hour. Road
ways were made impossible by snow
drifts. particularly along the south
shore. Trolley service was maintained,
but at much reduced headway. The
municipal railroad plows broke down
and 1t became necessary to hire automo-
bile sweepe-s to clear the rails to per-
NIT the movement OF cars
The damage at Asbury Park was esti-
mated last night at $4,000, being
largely to the piers. Two large timbers
that at one time were part of coal
barge and had been washed upon the
beach during a storm six weeks ago
were lashed about by the sea and be-
came entangled In the piles of the
piers They tore away thirty piles,
most of which had been supporting the
Arcade, where the large dances of the
boardwalk are held, and small pa
vilion dropped into the sea.
The outside promenade of the pier
also was ripped away before the tim
bers freed themselves and drifted along
the beach to a fishing pavilion. where
moro piles were ripped away. En-
ployees OF the Arcade pier feared the
outer part would collapse. and at great
risk rescued a pipe organ said
to be worth $1,000.
scabrfght TracLs Submerged.
The seas broke over the walls at Sea-