Evening star., 1926-02-10
NEW YORK HARD HIT
BY HEAVY SHOWS.
Second Fall flinders Traffic,
Maroons Suburbanites
and Blocks Walks.
BY the Associated Press

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK. February l0.-New
York City, just cleaning off a i0-inch
snow of last week. has another fail
with which 70 contend.
This morning the fan was fully
3 inches, heaps Of snow and ice
still on the city's streets being mantled
with a fresh snow coat. The lowest
drop of the mercury was to It degrees
above zero.
New England yesterday reported
the coolest weather this Winter.
Winterfield, \. H., was the coldest
spot. with the mercury at 80 degrees
below zero. 1t was 13 above in Boston
and zero in Maine.
Lake Champlain was completely
bridged with ice yesterday at Burling-
ton, Vt. for the first time this year.
The freeze-over was about Il week
later than usual.
Man Hit by Sweeper.
Only one death because Of the snow
was reported in New York yesterday.
A track walker on the elevated was
struck by a snow sweeper.
At Ogdensburg. Y. Y, j men of a
ferry have been marooned since yes
terday in the st. Lawrence River. The
ferry Charles Lyon. valued at S400,-
Prescott, Ont, got caught N an ice
field Just above the long Saulte
Rapids
Attempts 10 release the ferry We're
abandoned last night because of the
hazardous condition of the ice and
darkness. Today % men equipped
with saws and ice-cutting tools We're
ordered to cut a channel
Many Showed In.
Many residents of suburban towns
were nlarooned in their homes uy the
deep snow. Streets were impossible,
even taxi cab service being practically
at standstill. Thousands Of com
muters were unable to reach their
places of business in New York on
time. On some of the principal busi-
ness streets Of the metropolis there
were only footpaths on the sidewalks
and tens of thousa nds Of persons on
their way to work plowed single
file through the snow instead OF
swarming seven ard eight abreast as
thev do under normal conditions.
Hurry calls We're sent by the street
cleaning department for more shovel
ers. but the response was sCant. Hun
dreds of men who sought shelter at
municipal lodging houses during the
night We're sent to work with shovels.
The New York Central. Pernsyl-
vania and New Haven Railroads re-
ported a delay in the arrival Of their
fast trains.
4 number Of ships at sea. sent wire
less requests for compass bearings.
Railway Suspends.
The Brockton division OF the East
ern Massachusetts Railway, serving
southeastern Massachusetts, aba u
doned all service. except for few
cars running behind snow ploWs. In
Brockton. all schools We're closed,
and factories and business houses
planned to close earlier than usual.
Early reports told of six deaths on
land and sea due to the storm.
OFF Sandy Hook, the wind reached
a velocity of 90 miles an hour. as
compared with the So mile per hour
blow that swept over New York City.
The French liner Paris crept
through the storm to quarantine this
morning.
The army Of 1900 snow shovelers
employed by the city concentrated
their efforts on the cross streets in
the business section. Hundreds Of
motor plows were operated in the
downtown section.
On Staten Island, the steam loco
motives, which were discarded more
than a year ago in favor of electric
trains, were called out to push the
latter to their destination. Snow and
ice insulated the third rail to such
an extent that the electric trains
We're poWerleSs.
During the height of the storm. 10
armed men swoped down upon a
garage in South street and stole an
automobile truck loaded with $4,000
worth of chewing gum. Two negro
watchmen were kidnapped by the men
and driven away in a smaller auto
mobile to Mount Vernon. where they
We're freed. and, reported the rob
berry to the police.
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