The New York herald., 1922-01-30

the piles were ready for trucking Wnen
the weather cleared at about III A. Nj.
In Manhattan the storm did little dam
age. Street cars, ferries, elevated
trains and suburban railroad trains
moved reasonably close to schedule.
While the Weather Bureau said Satur-
day night that the storm would pass out
TO sea before dawn yesterday, New York
awoke to find the storm raging as
angrily as on Saturday. but at 10 A. M.
the change began to appear. Persons
going to church went with their furs
tightly wrapped around them, fighting
their way along the streets through
binding storm, but on the return the
snow had stopped. The heavy winds
continued. however. throughout the day
and the temperature fluctuated between
the freezing point and 40 above zero.
The fury of the storm In its assault
on the Atlantic coast from Georgia to
Massachusetts was attested by the fact
that not single transatlantic steam
ship. freighter or passenger, passed In
Sandy Hook, and only one vessel from
a foreign port, the Norwegian freighter
Bueland, from Havana, reached this
port. Two coastwise American cargo
carriers. the Currier. from Port Arthur,
Tex. and the Southern Pacific liner El
Occidente. from Galveston. each more
than a day late. arrived in the after
noon,
wireless Equipment Suffers.
Little wireless information came from
the troubled waters, and 1t was sur
missed that the fierce blasts had carried
away or disabled much wireless equip
ment More than dozen freighters and
one liner. the Acropolis. bound for Pi-
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urday and sailed yesterday for various
overseas, West Indian and domestic
ports.
The Clyde liner Comanche, which
sailed from Jacksonville on January "a,
and which usually makes the trip to
Sandy Hook in three days. was reported
as having made heavy weather of 1t for
several days. She will arrive this MORN
ing simultaneously with her sister, the
Apache. which sailed from Jacksonville
two days later ana caught only the tail
Of the cyclone.
Among the liners that doubtless were
lashed by the say4ge twister as 1t
headed eastwer.S 11ler curving of the
New England cnoR. several are due to-
day. including - Cunarder Carmania,
with Margot Asqufth aboard; the An
chor liner Assyria, the Holland-America
steamship Ryndam and the Cunarder
Pannonia.
The municipal lodging house and all
the lodging houses in the Bowery were
combed by the Street Cleaning Depart
ment in the search for men. Despite the
reported large amount of unemployment
the department was able to obtain only
1000. while 1t easily could have used
1000 or 5000 more. Many of the men
were found to have such poor shoes and
stockings that gunny sacks had to be
provided for them. They were paid at
the rate of so cents an hour and worked
in twelve hour shifts.
The latest addition to the depart
ments snow removal apparatus.
Friedman tractor. was tried in Fifth
avenue below Forty-second street This
apparatus shovels snow up onto a NOV
ing platform. from which It Is dumped
into trucks that run alongside of the
machine as it moves along the street
According to Harry Hart. assistant
superintendent Of snow removal, the
tractor can dispatch snow at the rate of
twenty cubic yards minute, and the
soft snow 1t contended with yesterday
enabled the making Of even greater
speed. The sidewalks on both sides Of
Fifth avenue were crowded with per-
cons who stood watching the new ap-
paratus. The clearing Of Fifth avenue
caused delays ranging from half an hour
to an hour In the schedule of the buses.
Water Aids White Wings.
When the thermometer climbed UP to
38 degrees, at about p. NJ. Street
Cleaning Commissioner Taylor issued
orders to use water The white wings
were out along the main thoroughfares
few minutes later decimating huge
mounds of snow with streams of water.
In this way the work of removal went
ahead with tightening rapidity and be-
fore sundown the streets were in a
condition which assured good traffic con-
ditions to-day. Particular attention was
paid to the waterfront, which Is the first
point trucks begin to move to and from
In the morning. David Robinson. pres
ident of the Downtown League, COM
mended the Street Cleaning Department
for the work 1t had done.
Railroad travel from the South still
was more or less tied up at a late hour
last night. Oficials Of the Pennsylvania
Railroad said the main delay was in
travel south of Baltimore. Some trains
that were due here Friday night or Sat
urday morning did not arrive until yes
terday morning. A general delay of
twenty-four hours on all Southern trains
was noted. Three trains arrived from
the South during the morning and they
were the first to get through since the
storm broke on the Southern coast late
Friday afternoon.
Among the effects of the storm in the
harbor was a tide which rose to within
three feet of the top Of the sea wall at
the Battery. necessitating the use of
planks In getting passengers off ferry
boats. The Bureau Of Naval Communi-
cation sent a wireless warning out early
in the day that two scows had broken
loose from their moorings and were
floating aimlessly around the bay. a
menace to navigation.
Transit Lines Keep Running.
The elevated railroads and street car
lines of the city kept up the fight against
the storm throughout the night, with
the result that there were no serious
delays. Such delays as occurred were
due chiefly to trucks and other vehicles
getting stuck on the street car tracks.
The street railways in Manhattan and
Brooklyn kept their sweepers and
ploughs running throughout the storm