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I TODAY, Friday, July 1177 5A Power Loss Cost to City 'Enormous' NEW YOTMC (AP) The economic costs of New York City's power blackout will. run Info hundreds of millions of dollars, city officials said Thursday. The cost! stems from looting, loss of business activity and rty taxes and emergency overtime to and other city workers Mayor Abraham Beame said at a news con "ference that the shutdown of a Con Edison power facility, which lasted more 'than 12 hours, "seriously "impacted our economy. "cost "when finally tallied will be enormous," Beajne said. A spokesman for City Comptroller Harrison J.

Goldin said that perhaps' $5 million in sales tax and stock transfer tax had been lost because the city's two stock exchanges were closed Thursday, and because thousands of busjnes 'were curtailed "or closed. A CityHall spokesman added that virtually all areas of the city's delicate finances would face new because of the blackout. Much of the city's 25, 000 person police! force was ijn emergency 12 hour shifts, meaning overtime costs. The blackouts will also cost the transit authority "a small fortune" in lost fares personnel costs, an authority spokesman said. Police estimated they made nearly looting arrests, and damages and losses those thefts cerlain to total milrl lions.

Losses in the city's financial industry were equally hard to estimate, "but GeorgeFrBallnhe former undersecretary of state now' with the brokerage firm of E.F. Hutton, said that the power' failure may have cost Wall Street firms $15 million JialL Jhe. usual daily take of 130 million. But since much, of Wall Street's lost brokerage, business 'simply be postponed, more conservative estimates among financial observers put Wall Street's possible Tosses at $3 6 million. New York's Broadway theaters were also among the financial Ashton a said most' plays were in pro gress" at around 9:30 and; "we'll have to honor the tickets." Special perform ances for blackout ticket holders at the 25 Broadway' plays could cost, theater companies $300,000..

The. city's thousands of restaurants lost virtually all of their thriving after movie and after theater business Wednesday night for multimillion dollar losses. The losses also included tons of spoiled food. Some' of the sky line restaurants atop the city tallest buildings lik'e The Rainbow Room and Top of The Park had little choice but to feed nervous patrons on the With no subways In service during the blackout, it was either boom or bust for the "city's "11,000 taxicab" drivers. The 8,000 independent cab owners had a ield day, some of them reportedly charging pedestrians desperate to reach their destinations exorbitant fees.

But owners of. the .3,200.. fleet operated taxis lost probably 70 percent of their: day shift' or nearly $200,000, because, many rof their driverr couldn't get to their garages. Stores Stripped, Masses Arrested NEW YORK (AP) An Mayor Abraham D. Beame urged Thursday that Jhe nearly 3,000 "hoodlums" arrested for looting and, vandalism during the.

city's massive' blackout be "punished to the fullest extent of the The Tombs, a cavernous old Jail in wer Manhattan, ordered closed by a federal judge three years ago because of overcrowding and poor conditions, was rbo pened to house the alleged looters. Correction Commissioner Benjamin J. Malcolm declared a state of emergency in the city's suddenly filled "jail system after riot erupted in the TODAY UPI TltoOlwt YOUNGSTERS WALK OFF WITH GAMES FROM BUSHWICK STORES rash of fires combined with Inoperative traffic lights The number of arrests was roughly six times the number of. arrests for all causes' during a normal night. Seventy eight police officers were Injured.

The majority' of those headed there and being detained elsewhere were from the city's most impoverished ghetto area: Harlem, the' South Bronx and Bed ford Stuyvesant in Brook lyn. It was in those areas where miles' of streets were littered with broken, glass from shop windows and. lined; 'with hollow, ptun dered shops. Countless minor were reported, including about 80 to police; one officer was shot in the leg. But the only fatality recorded by mid day Thursday was a 2 month old infant who perished in a fire.

In Harlem, the city's poor lobbed bricks through windows, broke through steel security grates and carted away armloads of booty. The night was heavy with shrill, echoing burglar alarms, crashing glass, dis cordant sirens and a haze of smoke from dozens of fires. As dawn, arrived, the looting ebbed and the fluid crowds on the sidewalks of Bedford Stuyvesant and Harlem thinned. That's when Nat Krohn put. down his shotgun; ducked under the tprn.Jron grating of his store and emerged blinking onto 125th Street, in the heart of Harlem.

Wirtphoto SHATTERED GLASS PROVIDES ENTRY to loot Jewelry store oh Utlca Avenue UPI Ttltpholo POLICE COLLARS LOOTER IN BUSHWICK SECTION OF BROOKLYN thousands arrested while New Yorkers stumble in dark "I got here, about 11:15." he said. "And I was just In time to keep them from taking It all." 1 More than an hour after the streetlights blackened, Krohn drove up furnl lure storeand hit the pavement carrying his It set the looters eelng. Then h'settlio" Into a black reclining chair and, shotgun across knees', waited for dajKn. But by TKrtime he arrived at his shop, looters had escaped with $12,000 worth of television and stereo" equipment, a "sum" that matched the amount of insurance Krohn was carrying. No other insurance been made available to him, he said, adding: "Harlem is a lousy Insurance risk, It was Wednesday night." The looters carried, laundry bags, filled grocery carts', loaded car' trunks.

They made their escapes on foot, by bicycle and in cars. At 8 th Avenue and 123rd Street, a large supermarket was gutted. Bananas, grapes and letfuce carpeted the streef. In the dead of night, a stench, of souring food filled the air. Sanitation Commissioner Anthony Vaccarello said looters in East Harlem stayed a step ahead of sanitation workers, who were trying to clear glass from the streets.

Others, however, were Caught. Those who didn't get away filled the 28th Precinct police station. So did their booty. There was liquor and drugs and Tipptiances and, electronic equipment. Later, less discriminating crowds took clothing, baby diapers and hair dryers.

The. pile' behind the ser geant's desk grew by the hour until dawn. New Yorkers Prove Resi lie Resou reef I NEW YORK (AP) The blackout that crippled the nation's biggest city 'was'just another crisis in; the Big Apple, forcing its residents'" to "cope with" a characteristic blend of heroics, lunacies and not a little larceny. With the worst seem ingly over by midday Thursday, New Yorkers rallied with resilience laced with odd contradictions and by good humor. To wit: "Where is Kennedy a pilot making 5 his descent at Kennedy Air jort exclaimed as jhe lights lashed off below him.

Diverted to Philadelphia while, delivering perishable strawberries for the lew York market, he asked 'ihe control, tower, "What I supposed to do with Came the "Eat ihem." Actor Peter Landers "stopped by a candlelit coffee shop that he regiments. In a booth was a llind couple who also. aw egular customers. "They didn't change, the fascinated tJaelor related. "They talked 'Tor a while, went up to the Ktash register, paid their check.

They were laughing about everybody else's In the. Fprdharn.sec i 'tiori of the Bronx long after 'idawn on Thursday, women through a bridal One of them emerged. unchallenged, carrying a lovely lace gown. Street comer en jjrepreneurs did of Mice business in candies' and matches. It was seller's market.

There was a pre STATUE SHINES ON power from New Jersey and soda $3 in Forest Hills, Queens. Cabs were also in short supply, and some drivers. charged four and five times the legal fare. For every of gouging, however, there seemed to be one of neighborly helping. Ordinary citizens sprang into intersections and directed.

Oraffic with aplomb. Every time one young man wanted the cars to stop in one direction, he lit a string of firecrackers: At another, intersection. Police Officer Robert Hodnik ob served from his patrol car that "everything is going pretty as Jiis driver partner waitedTpatientlyTor a citizen cop to wave them on. cop explained, between gesticulations why he had gone Into, the' steamy night to direct "I realize, society. pretty helpless without electricity or gadgets," Ken 27, explained while" exhorting a.

cab driver like a pro lb "come on, come on, get going." Usually Jhe New York Telephone gets about 10,000 calls each da to a number that gives the latest information on traffic conditions, bottlenecks, transit flow, parking rule suspensions and other general information. That information number was dialed by 159,000 callers during the blackout, but the number of callers to dial a joke declined by 25 per cent. Bronx Dist. Atty. Mario Merola canceled a news conference, because, of the blackout, at which he was to announce indictments against individuals accused of stealing power from Consolidated Edison Co.

"Dancing in the Dark" had to be the most popular song 'in town. It was; played at Roseland, where the management reported much sleeping in the dark overnight. It was also played by. the, harpistata. performance of the' National Ballet of Canada at the Metropolitan Opera House as the audience filed out.

Although It was interrupted, a performance of the "Cherry Orchard" at Lincoln Center continued by flashlight and candle. Not untirafterward did some one announce there was no power in Manhattan and I the Bronxi as well as other sections. The show also went on at theaters' playing and "Otherwise Engaged." but.the. latter play ended without the usual recorded rendition of Wagner's "Parsifal." At the four er satz Beatles led a singalong for 35 minutes before the decided to offer More than dozen po lice officers and passersby from the upcoming movie Superman i we re Shooting scenes outside the Daily using bright spotlights powered by gas genera wheel" around, tors: The building'on Manhattan's East Side is of a SUdden, every being used as the "Daily Planet" home ing went dark," Marvin Clark Kent, Lois Lane and friends. Dove, 23.

a rider on the fer Inside, real life reporters were working by ris wheeMike rnnrllelieht. we jusi iookwi arounu nu Then we brought in superman generaiui, mjum onj cold cans of beer' Meyerson, 'Superman 'Helps Out NEW YORK (AP) The New York Daily. News got through the night' Wednesday with a little help from Superman. When the lights went out iNew iotr, views started hollering, to see If said Glenn Erlandsen. assistant to the night, city De' editor.

"We: got three' their, spotlights and Uni shined them off the ceiling. The ceiling is white mucn good Flnally; SO they reflected Very well." someone answered us. And The News managed to print 50,000 copies of a lt was some girts, so we reduced 32 pags final edition at the facilities of surted talking and 'they CTewsdaya Island newspaper. seemed nice." 'rj' What Blackout Did to the City NEW YORK API Here is a summary of what a massive power blatkout did to the largest.cityi Area Affected: Ten million people in all five New York City boroughs, Westchester County to the. north and parts.of Long.Is land to the east were without power overnight and into Thursday, Public Safety: Nearly 3,000 people were arrested for looting at least six times the normal number of arrests in all categories and 78 policemen were Injured, in eluding one who was sho't.

There were 1,500 fire alarms overnight double the normal number, and about two thirds or tnem laise. Gov. Hugh Carey ordered state police into Jhe city assist local police. Transportation: Subways, commuter rail services, Amtrak service through the city were closed. Kennedy and LaGuardia airports were closed, with airliners diverted to Newark, Boston and other cities.

Municipal buses remained running as did many taxicabs some charging exotbitant fees. supplies began running low because electric powered pumps could not operate. Thousands of people trapped in subways were led to emergency exits. Hospitals: A state law made it manda teiy fof hospitals to have goners NETWORKS FLICKER edia WaverSI ightly atnrs after the 1965 blackout, but at Bel levue and Metropolitan, hospitals, the generators proved unequal to the job. Police and fire units sent auxiliary power units.

Other Services: Most telephones remained working, but the lines were jammed in the first several hours. Residents of high rise buildings had no water or toilets because water pumps did not workr Business: Mayor Abraham Beame urged businesses not to open. Financial markets in Wall Street wer.e shut, as were banks, state, off ice' Builings and Off Track Betting offices and summer schools': Cost: Official's said the will run into hundreds of millions of. dollars. The city lOst.

perhaps $5 million in sales tax and stock transfer taxes because financial markets and businesses were closed Most of the city's officers were on 12r hour shifts, andwXW off duty officers reported for work. Estimates of. the cost to Wall Street firms ranged from $3 million to $15 million. Cause: Lightning' storms in Westchester first knocked out transmission lines that might have drawn power from other utilities, then a large power transformer, which exploded. The explosion forced shutdown of a large nuclear generating plant nearby, putting a heavier load on other power plants on a muggy nigTit when demand was'highfor air conditioning.

Additional lines were also hit. To keep the system running, Consolidated Edison ordered voltage reductions first of 5 percent, then 8 percent. But when another plant, in the bof ough of Queens, tripped out, safety, devices designed to protect against overloads shut the whole network down a p.m. NEW YORK (AP) The massive power failure which blacked out New York City caused the three nationanetevTsiofTneTwOrk? to flicker off the air for. a few minutes across most of the nation Wednesday night.

NBC and CBS switched to emergency power and resumed transmissions to the eastern United States from New York, while ABC oper ations were fed from Los Angeles. When power went out Wednesday night, the New York Daily News had already printed 400,000 copies. The News prepared new front page on the blackout to be printed at Newsday on Long Island, but only 50,000 copies were printed there. The New York Times' Thursday edition was nearly ready to be printed when the power went off. A four page wrap around section was put together tp cover the blackout.

Plates were made at The Record ffjfM New York JlnlHliULlL a Powerless City lish Friday morning editions. The New York Post, an afternoon newspaper, did noj publish on Thursday but planned, to publish on Friday. The blackout temporarily shut down computers at the headquarters of The Associated Press, but the world's largest news gah ering organization shifted to its regional computers around the country and maintained service through the night. United Press Interna tional, with its main computer in New York dead Wednesday night and Thursday, said it converted to manual wire operations in many states. Reuters, the British news agency, said the blackout fhuAjdown itsNew York operations.

''Nation ally it just about closed us down completely. Internationally we are still iunc Uoningr a spokesman News stories were transmitted overseas through' Reuters' Washington office. in Bergen County, N.J., affd the paper went to press at the Times' second printing plant in Carlstadt, N.J. Both the News and the Times said they would pub Wait Street 'Day Off' Cost Plenty NEW YORK; (AP) Wall Street, the nation's financial center, was forced to take a multimillion dollardollar holiday Thursday after New York City was crippled by a massive power failure. The New York and American' stock exchanges and the New York based commodity exchanges In the lower Manhattan financial district were unable to open for" business.

And that prompted most of the na tion's other markets to either remain closed for the day or delay openings. A spokesman said the exchange expects to resume trading today where it left off at th close of the market on Wednesday. The market shutdowns meant that hundreds of millions of' dollars worth of business was not transacted Thursday. George Ball, 'of E.F. said Wall Street firms may have lost $15 Irif commissions, halt their uial daily take.

TODAY UPI TtlMlwto BELLEVUE NURSj: FILES REPORT by light of emergency generator ospita I a ckup Fails) Staff Handles Crisis NEW YORK (AP) The city's 17 unit hospital system managed to carry on during Wednesday "night's blackout with emergency backup generators, but Bellevue Hospital faced problems When its backup generators failed, a spokesman said Thursday. No deaths were attributed, to the crisis at Bellevue! but doctors and nurses who worked In the dark hess using flashlights chalked up one new life a 7' pound baby girl delivered in the hospitalWater nityunit. Deaths were prevented at Bellevue when doctors and nurses squeezed air bags by hand to revive patients on respirators' in intensive care units who went into respiratory failure when the backup system failed shortly after 10 p.m. Wednesday. Shortly midnight, the hospital closed its emergency room and directed all patients who came in for treatment to other hospitals until generators were brought by police anoUire department units..