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WS behind The MEWS CLASSIFIED COMICS FEATURES SPORTS Daily SAGJL Ulll IN WASHINGTON 1 TTie iVeir DeaVs Yardstick Last of two articles defining TVA, the Roosevelt administration's "yardstick" for national economic planning. (Copyright 103 Th Brooklyn Dlly KlU wi BROOKLYN, N. SATURDAY, MARCH 12, 1938 Stories of That Storm 50 Years Ago Today Gain in Color and The Biggest Bfizzard TAKE the long view of the Tennessee Valley project and you are likely to conclude that: 1. The half billion dollar project ultimately will be completed. 2.

It will result in expansion of industry in the six or seven Southern States it is expected to affect. 3. It will be attended year after year by the same sort of disputes in which it now is involved. None of the three directors of the TVA ever has argued that the immim-mM Veterans of Famous Snowfall Perpetuate Their Reminiscences With Organization Which Meets Yearly on the Blizzard Anniversary By LESTER DAVID FROM the ashes of the tragedy and humor that surrounded this greatest of blizzards arose an organization of veterans to keep alive the memory of that eventful week. Not that it needed It.

For as the years went on, the wonderment grew. Stories of those days when Nature had the bit between her teeth A lilmard trene from Frank Leslie' $rilluttraled newnpaper of Marrh 2t, 1H88, on exhibition at the Americnn Telephone anil Telegraph liuilding, Manhattan. project should be held up, nor has any substantial wing of Congress. That, in brief, disposes of 1 number one. As to number two, when 600 miles of low-cost river navigation are opened up to connect a vast inland empire with the ocean by way of the Mississippi, and when power is supplied at low cost to big and little projects alike, industry is likely to move in, particularly when it can expect, at least for a time, to benefit by low cost Southern labor.

As to number three, the dispute which involves Congress, the President, om-monwealth and Last Arjicle in a Series came down through the years, turned the corner of the century and, gaining in color, strength and endurance, galloped headlong through the war, in and out of prohibition and the flapper era, through the depression and into the ears of the present generation. Today they are livelier than ever, and if twice as harrowing, it is only because time has convinced the veteran? that nothing could be strong enough accurately to describe those horrendous days. Society Formed Now future generations were to have high winds and driving snowstorms of their own, and an earth Golden Anniversary Fifty years ago, when New York was in the grip of its greatest blizzard, Mr, and Mrs. Adolph Moskovitz were married on Manhattan's lower East Side. On Sunday, surrounded by their five children and seven grandchildren, the couple will celebrate their golden wedding anniversary at their home, 454 E.

46th St. Mr. Moskovitz today that a good many guests, unable to get home because of the deep snows, remained at his home until they were able to travel. quake or two was to be added to Nature's handiwork in the New York area, so, in sell-preservation, a society of blizzard veterans was formed. Its purpose was to maintain unsullied the good name of the great blizzard as the greatest and worst, the most terrifying and the most glorious and tne best all-around blow in the his- niversary of the storm, the Blizzard Men of '88 convened once again at the Hotel Pennsylvania in Manhattan to swap more stories and recall more terrors.

Meet to Swap Tales Borough President George U. Harvey of Queens welcomed the group, following invocation by the Rev. George Drew Egbert, pastor of the First Congregational Church of Flushing and chairman of the New York State Crime Commission. Mrs. Theodorus Van Wyck, wife of the first president, sang the National Anthem.

Experiences were related by Capt. W. T. Cox, secretary of the New Jersey Pilots Association of Elizabeth, N. former Representative Allen Benny of Perth Amboy, N.

Maj. Anthony Fiala, Polar explorer, and Capt. H. L. Davisson, member of the bllzzardeer's publicity tory of the Atlantic seaboard, They Front page of Frank Lenlie't illuntrnted newtpaper.

So the storms will come and the winds will blow, but the stories will fall more thickly and the memories will rise higher, and no blizzard on earth will ever come near the famous Burial Delayed John Schlltz, an undertaker of 985 Putnam recalls that on the day of the blizzard he conducted a funeral for "a big contractor named Mead." There were 100 coaches In the procession, he said, and the cortege was an hour and 15 minutes late arriving at St. Bridget's Church on Linden St. The procession made its way along the eight blocks to the church with great difficulty, but after the services, the snow was go high that it was impossible to continue to Holy Cross' Cemetery, where burial was to be made. The body, he said, was left at the church for two days before it was possible to continue on the way to the cemetery. Men are making more and more famous as the years go by.

Blizzard of '88, which the Blizzard I Blizzard Survivors Recall Experiences Southern corpora- Vulty In Baltimore Son fartionf on" toe 'Straightening Things Up At Last-TVA board, is fundamental. It hinges largely on the extent to which the Government shall direct the use of the power developed from its string of dams. At the outset of TVA, Commonwealth and Southern, headed by a Hoosler lawyer, Wendell L. Willkie, decided to fight It out to prevent Government power invading its markets for electricity in Knoxville, Memphis, Atlanta and elsewhere. Because Willkie went to the courts and for a time tied up the Government invasion by injunction, David Lilienthal, lawyer member of the TVA board, wanted to hit back hard, squeeze the big corporation Into submission.

Family Fight CHAIRMAN ARTHUR MORGAN of the board urged a more patient plan of painless absorption of the private company by the Government enterprise where the two could not operate together. But the persuasive Lilienthal won the support of the third member of the board, H. A. Morgan, an agricultural specialist, and his way has prevailed since. Bitterness on the board increased.

Lilienthal, in a letter published by President Roosevelt, urged Chairman Morgan's resignation. From Arthur Morgan came accusations of dealings by the majority members about which he raised questions of fairness and integrity. Yet while Lilienthal was pictured as the bitter foe of the power interests, Rep. Maury Maverick of Texas, after a one-man investigation, stated in the Congressional Record that TVA had betrayed its purpose by selling such large blocks of power to what he termed "monopolies" that little power will be left for domestic users in the area. Working on another front, Lilienthal suggested a deal for purchase of portions of Commonwealth and Southern on a cost basis.

Willkie replied with an offer to sell whole hog on a "going concern" basis and suggested negotiations. There the situation stands as Congress debates whether to probe the fores with a Congressional investigation or to permit the Federal Trade Commission to dig and dig and report in 50 volumes. PRESTON ROVER. have done well. It began on a bitingly cold day in early January, 1929, when two men shook numbed hands in City Hall Park.

Theodorus Van Wyck, a writer of Valley Stream, met Thomas Gllleran, a lawyer of 51 Chambers Manhattan, and the two talked about the weather. Cold as It was, they agreed that present-day Winters were frolicsome affairs compared to the Big Storm, which both went through. Soon they fell to wondering how many other survivors were alive, and if something couldn't be done to bring them together. Mr. Van Wyck wrote a diminutive newspaper notice, stowed away among classified advertisements, asking those who had lived through the week to communicate with Mr.

Gllleran. Fourteen enthusiastic men responded, and the venture was launched. Greeted at City Hall On March 12 of that year more than 100 blizzard men marched to City Hall and were greeted by Mayor Walker and Sir Hubert Wil-kins, the explorer, and the society was launched. Theodorus Van Wyck was elected president, and with him, James Madden, treasurer; R. H.

Tingley, secretary; Prof. Otto Raubenheimer, historian, and D. A. Woodhouse, James E. Algeo, Thomas Gllleran, H.

C. Smith and Samuel M. Strong, directors. The next year it was decided to begin the collection of historical thankfulness that it has never been repeated." Mr. White recalls how the snow and hail made his flesh "sting as If hit by so many needles." On the 6th Ave.

elevated, his train was otalled after it had passed 14th St. "Looking out of the windows we would ee train after train on ahead extending in a solid line tar beyond the next station. To add to our discomfort, the steam went down in the engine, for this was before the day of electric trains, and the cars grew colder and colder At last somebody lowered "a basket by a rope to the sidewalk with cash in it. Boys on the street quickly filled it with sandwiches, and willing hands drew it aboard with all speed. Finally, after being Imprisoned for work for three days, bufsuffered no other inconvenience.

Snow Up to Waift By FRANK 3. PFISTER Becchurst On Monday, March 12, 1888 at 7 o'clock in the morning, when I left to go to my business, I stepped into snow up to my waist and I had to struggle to get the car at Central Ave. and Hutton Jersey City Heights. We rode about two blocks when the horses and car could not go any farther. We got out and walked to the elevated road that ran down from the Heights to the Ho-boken Ferry.

The conductor told us we were taking it at our own risk. When we reached the ferry the river looked quite clear on the Jersey side, the ice was on the New stiff I could hardly walk. I worked as a printer for the American Bank Note Company on Trinity Place. At 2 they announced that all transportation was stopped and we could stay there or go home. I started out with two friends.

It was easy going at times, because the wind had blown one side of the street clean and piled the snow on the other side over the lamp post tops. But at the intersections the wind was terrific. Crossing Dey St. and Broadway a gust of wind separated us. I went sailing up Broadway and landed against the newsstand at Knox Hat store, one of my companions landed in the Western Union Building, the other went up Park Row and landed at the old World Building.

After getting together again, we had to wait for a lull and then make a dash. Sometimes Coal in Rowboat By DANIEL SAMMIS 157 E. 8th St. One of the most amusing recollections of the famous storm, still vivid in my memory, is the sight of a load of coal being towed up Fulton St. for delivery in a flat bottom row-boat hitched to a team of horses.

Big sleds were at a premium, so S. Tiutle Sons coal dealers, used the boat to haul their wares in the snow. I lived then at 216 Harrison now Kane and one of the quirks of the blizzard was that the sidewalk was clear In front of our home but the snow was piled high to the second floor of the house across the over six hours the firemen came to our relief. Ladders were raised to York side, but the pilot of the boat ronlfi nnt'mnkf Hip din nn ncrnimt sprinting with all your might and the windows and platforms of the street. 11 iook tne people two weeKs I of the drift ice that clogsed the slip "mj" -uulu muie uiuu cars, ana at ine imminent tisk 01 kj ten feet a minute.

At Frankfort St. being blown from our oorch on them to dig themselves out. In the mean- -0 it was lniossible to get a land- and vice president of the Flushing National Bank. Record Perpetuated In his preface, Mr. Strong has written "This storm was Interesting from its inception to the day the sun melted the last drift.

From clear transparent air came condensation of invisible vapor, forming rain. These clouds gave partial darkness screening from this lithosphere the solar heat, causing htat above these clouds and cold air below them. Hot air rises; cold air falls; and with its falling this day, it became colder close to the earth, thus later we had snow. Night darkness assisted in the process. The changing temperature aided the violent agitation of the air, which became winds.

Changed air pressure and the concussion of two different storms mingling into one, the end result was violent wind accompanied by huge volumes of snow in proportions to be classified technically as a blizzard. Its terrific expenditure of energy brought with it the resulting ill effects upon man and his earthly creations but carved upon his cerebral tissue indelible memories such as are recorded here, not only of wind and snow but also of the habits and customs and existing conditions of the period about 1888, helping us to perpetuate this record for history." And now today, on the 50th an MJ1MM lime, the families on the upper lng- There Has onlv one tlun 10 1 1 do, Jump on the ice rnd climb up floo.s received food and other sup- tne "bl.idge Umt the me) plies by lowering a clothes basket able to make, but the ladies had to from the windows. be helped up on the bridge but could Not so pleasant is the recollection not leave the f('rry ll0USC on account one of the three said. "Boys, I can't by the wind, we all managed to stand it any more. I have an aunt reach the street, in Cherry St.

and I'm going there." Bewildered by the raging wind But my other companion and I and stung by the frozen snow, Mr. voted to po ahead. White put all his strength into male- There were abandoned wagons ing the 3d Ave. elevated, only to horse cars here and there, and find that no trains were running a frozen horse. At beyond Grand St.

otuyvesant St. and 3d Ave. we were I He then decided bo return to picked up by the gale and before we Newtown. Because the uptown could recover landed at 2d Ave. and trains were all congessted, he was 10th St.

We had to fight our way obliged first to ride down to Grand of the snow. However, I made my of two men who drowned when a fireboat was sent out from Brooklyn Bridge pier to break the ice pack data and to deposit all letters, stories and documents with the New York Historical Society. The members scattered and began a diligent search of all records and papers available on the blizzard. They wrote up Jheir personal reminiscences and urged all descendants of survivors to inscribe all they knew. They made intensive searches of newspaper files; they consulted meteorologists and statisticians of all sorts, and soon a literature of the blizzard, unequalled by any survey group, had been built up.

The richest and most pertinent material the blizzardeers collected in a 90-page pamphlet. "The Great Blizzard of 1888," compiled by Samuel M. Stro'ng, a former president blocking the Hudson River. The way up Christopher St. to Ave.

and 10th then up University Place and 13th St. wlv-rc I had a bookbindery. Only one of my employes, a boy, who lived cn the Jersey City Heights, also had come on an earlier boat. As the day went on the storm became more violent and by night all traffic was at a standstill. The only to 3d Ave.

It took us about St. before m-ooeedini! in the direc Editor's Note Mr. Kaltenborn's article was completed before Chancellor Schuschnlgg resigned and the plebiscite postponed. Aetna's Ill-Starred Plebiscite SUNDAY'S plebiscite in Austria to the extent that it can be held at all will prove nothing. Chancellor Schuschnlgg has made the mistake of applying a democratic method under undemocratic conditions.

He, something of a dictator, is following dictatorial methods in an effort to prove that Austria prefers his ways to Hitler's. For years the Austrian Nazis have challenged their five hours to work our way uptown to 67th St. where my companion lived. My home was at 84th St. and tion he desired.

He at last arrived at the 34th St. ferry and reached Long Island City only to find that day after the storm subsided I went down to the river intending to walk across the ice to Manhattan. Three men were on the ice when the fire-boat was sent out and they fell through. Only one was rescued. I was at that time a stenographer for an insurance brokerage firm in New York City and did not get to Eat End Ave.

That was the hard- not a train was running on the Long est part of my journey; all alone Island Railroad, which was the only persons that came to the bindery were my partner and a friend. At wimi 1 reaencu connecting llnK with Newtown, about 7:30 D.m. the three of as went st- lhe 11,0 strPel Having repressed the ferry and government to permit a free vote. Always the government has replied that conditions made a free vote impossible. Now suddenly, after the Berchtesgaden peace AnnfaranM ft a- lnnln.in r.t 1 to Tony Pastor's Theater at 14th was rlrar' "ul the north side the ridden to 59th St.

nn the 3d Ave. 1 The admission was 25 cents for f''now ns in som( I)laccs to tnc I elevated, he once more faced the Jy LlClltV seat in the balcony. The audience fross Pei'e of llK' 'mP l)ust- When storm on foot, his destination now I readied my house the only way I beine the Osborn aDartment hoiii. consisted of just four in Grin and Bear It jf Cabinet, after releasing imprisoned Nazis from jail, persons, could tell was by the lamp post in It was dark, intensely cold, and still front of the door. I had to crawl snowing.

"More than once a sleenv over the snow to get in. cluding the three of us and one other man. When it came time for the show to start, Mr. Pastor came to the footlights and said owing to tl.c weather only a few of his performers had shown up and a lew musicians. He said If we wished we could go to the box office and get a refund; he announced the total receipts were just however, that when the entire country and all Europe, for that matter, is boiling with excitement over the possible loss of Austria's independence, the doughty Chancellor hurls his plebiscite challenge in the face of the Nazis.

The conditions of the plebiscite were not much more fair than those under which Hitler secured huge popular indorsement of his policies. The question submitted to Austrian voters is whether they favor "a free, German, independent and social, a Christian and united Austria." Originally the official ballots provided for only an affirmative answer. This was later changed so that feeling would creep over me, and I 1 thought it would be heaven if I 1 roulrl lie down in the snow and take a nap. Hardly a soul was on the recto, and a deathly silence prevailed over the usually busy, noisy city." Milkman' Slorv By C. A.

WICKS Hu 11 tins ton I am an old man of 83, so I was In did not matter If we wished, he Kallcnborn "No ballots will also be provided. But practically would go on with the show with my prime at that time. I was en-j what he had. I called down to go gas(Vi in delivering milk tn the 0011- Hand in llir Snow By DANIEL C. I'NNION on iui tne snow, ine orencstra consisted of five men, and the performers were Maggie Cline and a company of three persons styled as the Reade Birds-.

Ail the performers responded to our applause just the same as if the house was crowded. After the show we went I to the bindery and marie a bank Uumcr in Brooklyn. As I remember, it rained all Sunday and at 12:30 a.m. Monday, it staru-d to and within an hour there was a raging blizzard. I can find no words to express tne force of the storm.

I received my full supply of milk Sunday evening from Long Island for Monday morning delivery. I could not see how any more trams could come, and a shortage of milk seemed inevitable, so I purchased on an entire of milk, the horse and driver of which u-rre rvhn ikipH Manhattan I From 1886 to 1890. I was stationed. assistant priest, at the Church of St. Raphael, then on W.

40th St, between 10th and 11th Aves. Father John Gleason wa.s the founder of the parish in 1886. On the day of the great blizzard I was on sick call duty, and on my rounds passed through W. 39th St. between 10th and 11th Aves.

I heard a wail as of a eat in distress, but on looking about, spied a little hand Just above the snow about half way down the blix'k. I plowed through the snow. 01 tne snavmg.s and had a line sleep. 1 Copr. 1938 by United Feature Syndicate, Ine.

312. With 82 cans of 40 quarts each, th" anri Pkcd a boy, about 10 or 11, Tonkin-el Way I Ionic By JA.MF.S A. ALGEO Port Jefferson On March 11, 18H8, I was in West Farms with my wife and four-year-old son. It started raining in the afternoon, so about 8 we started for home on the hor.se car line. When about half way down the Boston Read, the car jumped the trark.

the driver said If the men folks didn't get out and help he would lake the recognizing him as one of niv Sun truck was stalled at 5th Ave. and 9th St. I was right: no more milk day school children. I picked him every condition imposed on the voters is intended to favor Schuschnlgg's Fatherland Front against the Nazis. By bailing everyone less than 24 years old, the Government has excluded the majority of the youthful Nazis.

By permitting members of the Fatherland Front to vote upon presentation of membership cards makes it easy for all Government supporters, young and old, to cast affirmative ballots. By allowing only three days for the opposition to organize, it deprives the Nazis of a fair opportunity to conduct a campaign. Germany Threaten Invasion HPHE result might have been anticipated. Riots are under way in Austria's leading cities. Germany threatens invasion by mobilizing troops on the Austrian frontier.

This threat is unlikely to be carried out. Hints from Britain and Italy have already warned Hitler that he must not go too far. Austria will be under something resembling martial law when voting begins on Sunday. This in itself will make an honest vote impossible. But one happy result may grow out of Chancellor Schuschnlgg's unhappy plebiscite.

The Rome end of the famous axis has again made it clear to the Berlin end that it does not desire Anschluss. Rome's official press welcomed the idea of Sunday's vote. Berlin's official press was furious over the proposal. Minister Gocbbcls' official organ bitterly rebukes Chancellor Schuschnlgg for his undemocratic methods in organizing Sunday's vote. It is something to find Dcr Angriff breaking a lance for free expression of the popular will I Because of the Cabinet crisis, Btench warning to Berlin has been delayed, but it Is safe to say that, in the face of the Austrian situation, France will promptly patch up internal differences to stand with Britain and Italy against any German invasion of Austria.

The Austrian Nazis have been ordered to abstain from voting and unless Chancellor Schuschnlgg has better luck than his Cabinet associates in reconciling Austria's labor elements, they, too, may abstain. This would mean that less than one-half of Austria's eligible voters will go to the polls. The Austrian Chancellor's courageous but ill-advised move seems likely to provide him with an internal rebellion Instead of an indorsement. Copyright. 1938 Locust Valley Club Invites British Vets arrived until Thursday, so I had a nl-s0 llif of cual- an1 toolt him to the top floor of the house limited supply for the slek and the babies.

To deliver It wa.s a question of exposure and good judgment, but we did it sureesMuily. I suffered i 10:11 1 xxiurp an.l from losing the hearing 1:1 my lell ear. where he lived. The mother not sensing, of course, the violence of the storm, had sent the boy ncros-a 'he street to "Buttermilk John's" stove 1 Gallagher by name, and well known In lie neighborhood). I do believe that had not Providence gu.ded that boy.

he would have died, for the storm wa.s raging more and more. I do not recall now. the name of the boy. That same evening, my brother the Rev. M.

A. horses- and leave 11s, so alter helping to the car on the track we reached Harlem about 10. I lived on 84th St. near the River. It was raining and blowing a 1 pcrtcct hurricane when we reached filth St.

and 3d Ave. W.th me, carrying a font -year-old boy and I my wife holding on by my coiiliail. we reached home about 11:30. What a night I Deathly Silence Art llvint: White of Flmhurst, was at Newtown in 1H8K. hut dur- Ciiiuiioii, stationed at the Church th blizzard he was viting in the 'of St.

Michael then on 9th Ave. On Monday morning It was blow- lowborn apartment house at 7Ui Ave. Ing great, guns and snowing as 1 and 31st St. told me that a well dressed man had been found in the gutter in front of the rectory. He was dead.

That same afternoon, I had occasion to get over to Broad way and had to step Into the then and aifh fot. He attempted to go from there, while th? storm raged, to a place down town to procure blank books to deliver to the town officials of Newtown for the 1 never saw it before or since, when I took the 3d Ave. elevated at 7. After three trains stopped wouldn't open the gates to let any more on, I went to the end of the platform and when the next train came along I oivned the gate on the la.st car and got on. but the door was loeked and I could not get rmniiii, on uns v.

as oeioie 1 noiei Mctropoic, w. Via St. for a the town had become- a part of rest up and protection. While there. Greater New York, and it had its New York Senator Conkling with a own elections.

friend I believe, passed the hotel. The intense role! with tin- tilch Mlneola, March 12 British World War Veterans In Nassau County have been Invited to attend a meeting of the recently formed lodge of British War Veterans fit the Ma-tlnccock Neighborhood House, Locust Valley, Monday night. Officers of the new organization were elected at a meeting ir. the American Legion room of the Neighborhood House last night. W.

E. Britton was named president; John DishlnRton, vice president; David Baron, secretary; A. W. Sten-liford, treasure; William Nye and Frank Cornford, directors, and Arthur Buchanan, chnplain. 'it mast educate the public that ixy Inside.

The train started I wa.s, wind and the general su.srcn ioi of which finnllv rn.led in his rieBth. nearly blown away I go: off the traillc made the dav reme.vh rM itv.f.m. i oj ins, and they should he rare- Jul not to handle loo much of ii' train at Hanover Square. I was so with feelings of dread and also nic.l to that..