The Sun from New York, New York • Page 1

4A I A rl I 77 1 THE EVENING SUN THE EVENING SUN I HM a largar circulation than any Jj Is the moat EENINO popular and successful I other waning newspaper printed evening paper ever known In English Price One Cent VOL LYNO 105 NEW YORK TUESDAY MARCH 1 1888 PRICE TWO CENTS 1 BLIZZARD WAS KING The Metropolis Helpless Under Snow HARDLY WHEEL TURNS Business Knockel Flat as a Panic PLAYS TRIALS FUNERALS ALL POSTPONED Fifty Train Loads of Passengers Black on the Main Lines WHERE THEY ARE HEAVEN KNOWS A fonder Change in Onr Ways of Urine and Maying Sprung onUs in a Night ELECTRIC LIGHTS OUT MIGHTY LITTLE NEWS GOT INTO TOWN OR GOT OUT OF IT GOING TO LET UP NOW I The Elevated Roads After a Days I Paralysis Get a laU Hold Again on Travel Agin rave It was i New York had been a burning Midi upon which nature bad clapped a mutter leaTinr nothing ot the citys activity but 0 strui allng ember At little after 18 oclock on Sunday nl bt or Monday monitor the lover rain that had been pelting doW aoe the moment ot the opening I tho church doors sudd nly changed a ileet etorm that plated the sidewalks with Ico Then bgu the great ittorm that Is 1 to become r0 years household word a symbol ol the worst of weathers and the limit ot natures possibilities under normal conditions At quarter past 8 oclock when the extremely modified sunlight forced Its way to earth the Boon In tb two great cities that the bridge unites was remarkable beyond any winter sight remembered bJ the people The streets were blocked with snowdrifts The car tricks went hid bore cars were not in the range ot possibilities a wind of wild velocity bowled between the rows ot houses the nlr was burdened with soft wet clinging enow only bore and there was a wagon to be aeon only here and there a feebly moving man The wind howled whittled banged roared and moaned aa it rushed alone It fell upon the house aides In fearful Busts I strained great plate glass windows rocked the frame houses pressed against doors so that It was almost dangerous open thorn I was a visible substantial wind so freighted was It wlt enow I camo In wulrla It descended In layers I shot along In lat blocks It rose and jell and corkscrewed and zigzagged and played merry bavoo with everything It could swing or bat or banK or carry away It was Monday morning when a day of rest I from shopping hud depleted the larders In every house and yet there wore no milk carts no butcher wagons no basketladen grocer boys no bakers carrier In great districts no attempt was made to delIver the morning papers The cities wore paralyzed Few of th women who work for their living could get to their wont places Nover perhaps In the history of petMcoats was the Imbecility their designer better Illustrated Toot here I bad to take my Bklrts up and clamber through tim snowdrifts said awash woman when she caine to tho house ot the reporter oJan porter who writes this Bho was tho only mes eoger from the world at large that reached that house up hall past 10 oclock With my I dress down I uouM not move bull A block It was so with thousands of women the thou sand few who did not turn back when they had started out Thus women were seen to cross In front of THE Bux office and at many of the busiest comers up town But all tho Women In the streets assembled together would have made a small showing They are Lgd much averse to staying In but they tayed in Aa a rule yesterday At half past 10 oclock not a dozen stores on Fulton street In this city hud opened for business Men were making wild efforto to clean the walks only sea eaoh shovelful of now blown back upon them and piled ogulns Ib doors acaln eo loon ua Have the girls come an employer asked 0 his porter Qlrisr said the porter I have not Been 0 woman blow through Fulton street since Ive ein hire The street was dead Here and there I truck moved laboriously but more trucks were stuck la drifts ad the horse were being led away from them The elevated roads were running trains semloeMslonally at this early hour and mainly over only certain parts of their rooUi Only on Eat Hirer ferry the Fulton was making Its trips The Brooklyn elevated I was chockablock with an engine broken down and a solid lIne of trains from the tarry to Greene avenue The bU bridge was next to Is A dsase mass of men wero packed Into Brooklyn depot and a shuttle train run by a dummy was peeking dainty mouthful out of the iroat multitude running now and tbon The cable whirred along but It never would bare done to bitch oars to It That would Imply baT been to have the grip torn out of the oar bottoms The attendants would not aow any man to attempt to walk over the aerial footway atemp The Fulton ferryboats picked their way across tbe turbulent river A blind men grope without their flicks The watervt black all boisterous the air above It white and roaring boat would hole not another paisenctr 4 Ut Mono Tb auua I tland boats ran in a desperate effort mind holr time table Nothing was ever known to moke any difference to a Staten Island boat except when the Westdeld burst her boiler In 871 The Jersey ferries at least those that wharf down town ran as best they could and they brought unofficial rumors that not a rail rosd wheel was turning In New Jersey You could not see Now Jersey from Now York you could not BOO Brooklyn or even Governors ernors Island But the storm was plain to see to hear to feel and to fight What a storm I What a dayl I What a crippling of Industry I Policemen who did nothtde In doorways nloddod along the middle of the Itreotl In Brooklyn a chimney took fire somewhere up at the bead ot Broadway and 1 hose carriage was seen going to It with four horses at the rate of two miles an hour At mloo iroadway the firemen must have thought all the horso cam In town were huddled there in a hoar for they were blockaded there Nassau street from the Tribune building to the southern ond of tho Vanderbilt building and tho Kelly building opposite hnd become 0 funnel I windcondensing cation Tho Kale there swout the flagging clour and took men oft their foot so Irresistibly that they were Been I falling and lying down everywhere and thoroI I while tho seemed littarodwlth flying huts and ilorccd with the yells of the merry idlers who I blocked tho doorways and looked on at the fun Cabmen at tho Astor House were demanding five to eight dollars to carry passengers Bionrtwny below Central Park Cab horses wore breaking down nnd tiring out and their drivers were resting them wherever ono went Whoever faced the wind had his breath driven down his throat his blinded his hil eyes blnded curs frozen and his hands numbed Whoever went with the gala achieved tho velocity of 1 cutter As Is usual when thorn Is snow in tho air the laboring men and the small boys yelled at the lop of their voices Never was there hoard In Sew York such I chorus of shouts curses ap Iiouls idle screams and peals of laughter low on earth did you get here what I onch man askod every other man who appeared In the downtown streets Every man had I moving tale of hairbreadth escapes of blockades and breakdown of pucll Btia settos with tho gale of miriness in fabulous drifts of queer sights ot hampered business and snowchoked plans gone In the slorm The Block Exchange could not provide the means cumblinc the banks wore without lands to do their work the Stewart will casa In thu surrogates Court developed nothing but nn abandoned court room THE BUN found Its nevorbtuderod energy confronted with I sltun ton wherein reporters could not make their way about messages by wire would not go or come nnd for a time all the news seemed to be of wires down business suspended public place Rapine tenttntless and only 0 ohone wire to Philadelphia and another to Boston in shape for work THE EVENING Bus was on dock precisely as I the element were at refit and a summer calm hallowed the atmosphere I brought out what it huppy called 0 Blizzard edition to find Us wny to tho eager hand of ovary man on the Streets who could read to be welcomed with exclamations of delight In tho clubs and hotels better yot to do what no other evening newspaper succeeded in doing to present fully and compactly and in its own Inimitable stylo a compluto view of tbe atmospheric disaster that had befallen every Inch of the country that could be beard from Its account of the desired fate of the or provided great metropolis loft nothing to be As the hours went on and noon draw nigh the torm lost none of Its severity Dusk came and then darkness and the wonderful visitation was etlll In progress Still tho streets were banked high wIth rifts ot snow still the wind roared and bowled and hollowed and flung itself against tbe citys walls still the horse cars were out off from their tracks and the pillared roads wero idle still the wagons were few the women were obliterated from the outdoor scenes the polling snow and sleet blinded mens ayes tho cold wind numbed man and beast the uproar of wild voices continued The streets were littered with blowndown signs topS 01 fancy lamps and all the wreck and debris ot projections ornaments and movables Everywhere horse cars were lying on theli sides Intrenched in deep snow lying across the tracks jammed together und In every conceivable position Tho citys surface was like a wreckstrewn battle Hold Locomotion was especially dlfQcult on account of human helplessness Men wore constantly thrown against ono another and were continually falling on the sidewalks A woman attempting to cross Nassau street was obliged to call for help She Bald she had lost her strength and her clothing was entangled she could not Two with her limbs that cold move men helped her to the sidewalk Up town welldressed women bogged tbe drivers of private vate carriages to let them Into the vehicles Their manifest helplessness often cot them tho opportunities to ride Bo llorco was the wind that sparrows could not fly azulnst it They rested in the windows of THE BUN building and started out against the air to stand still with wings fluttering vainly I they attempted to fly with the gale they wore hustled along like stones thrown with fearful force So nmu7lng so unprecedented was the situation that 3 oclock in the afternoon the only vehicles In Printing House square wore two abandoned horse curs covered with sleot stuck horccbA In the snow The only human beings to bo neon wero I fat nollcomitn knee deep In adrift nil three boyit on the sidewalk Clothing tim like or which Is seldom Been In town was brought out Men appeared In quaint caps In enormous thigh boots some looking llko theatrical properties In vast cants of cloth rubber canvass fur oilskin souwoslers Indian moccasins trousers legs tied at the bottom with twine everything anything that could keoii out the weather was to bo found on tho puohle In the street Thu husloHt streets woro lifeless the wires were down nt last not subwayod but hanging In tailors The houses were coated with sloot the general tone of every scene was white the general motion was whirling tbo general sound was roaring When dusk came there was no abatement of the fury of the blizzard I howled more and more loudly accentuated by the darkness and absence of all distracting sounds New York had nt last experienced at least ono day with a Western blizzard At last weather had been felt the like of which no old inhabitant ventured to nay he had over seen in this neighborhood The city went Into Its gaslighted rooms and Its boated houses and Its parlors and beds tired wot helpless and full of amazement Tie an ill blizzard that blows no one good says the proverb and In this cate the good came to the liverymen Here Is bow It worked A gentleman living near Central Park went to tho Fiftyninth street station of Ibo Third avenue elevated I WAS packed and the reo plo snld they had been there two hours He went homo was thawod and dried and made roady for another venture Ho plodded between tween ankledeep and kneedeep to the Sixth avenue road Tbe same conditions there He turned back and wont a stable There they would take him to the Post Office for 110 He would not pay so much for he did not know that at that time there were no carriages in most stables and men were paying 8 to go down town from Twenty third street Whtlo this traveller waited he learned that I carrIage was to be sent down to the Product Exchange to bring a broker baok Could he not KO In that for 15 Noi i but ba oonld for no He would not pay 110 Would hp y7 JJoiaotuwntmorttiuwMi Well I oould 1 for that He was a lucky man Others walked or stayed at home Men walked to business from the other side 5f Brooklyn from Harlem from Jersey City Heights Those who chose the main avenues made their way with reasonable ease but nearly every one had more or lees of side street experiences and those they will narrate for twenty years or a lone a they may lve AN VKUEAHDOF DAr Uf OWl Ways Wlthnt Zn4 la Which that Storm FubtercMlM 1 Tho morning rush down Broadway wan avery little one considered at a rush I was be called that only because I was the time when thero usually is i a rush A thin stream of plodding pedestrians strung along the drift heaped sidewalks struggled down town snow covered Ice fringed breathless and perspiring under the close wraps that wore necessary to shut the line snow out from nook and wrists They wore mostly young men and boys who wero continuing the journoy Interrupted by blocked elevated trains or Mailed street car A few elderly men struggled with thor In tho restless eager mood that conies of tho fact that promissory notos and little matters of that sort stop not for blizzards i I A few women nnd girls also faced tho storm I They wore tho weakest nnd least prepared of I any for tho contest Yet many of them laughed I I gnyly at they plunged and slipped along I Others proceeded slowly and painfully and despite additional pairs of coarse stockings drawn over their shoos and the most careful use ot their meagre wraps thoy were evidently suffering They attracted attention and excited I I pity no doubt but no one could spnio tho time i 1 tme nnd strength to turn this sentiment Into practical tical iissl ance Bo thoy helped thomsolvos as best they could and floundered thronirli drifts and across streets knoodoop with floury snow or wIth elulI effort tried to braco themselves I against the wind when they struck clear snot I TiLe contort was bitter nnd thoy wore often driven to doorways to gain breath and strength I In the roadway the yellow cars were few and I far between Tho reporter saw but three between I Tonth street and the City Hall Mono ot i them was making any progress though In ono I case six horses wore tugging In vain at the truces One with four horses was In much the eaton fix and tho third with a single team stood motionless no effort or strength being left In horses or driver The vehicles that were getting along wore very few Cubs coupes and carriages were the liveliest while the big double wagons of tho express companies seemed to be making pretty good weather ot I Trucks wero far from plenty but their drivers were us usual In good spirits nnd good tongue Ono ol them advised the three drivers ot tho slxhorso car team to swim out when you are over your hld As be disappeared in the snowclouded aIr 1 burst of profanity followed him that ought to have melted the snow which elected tho wheels of the oar UnOiDWXT STORE SHUT AND SNOWED UHDXR The persistency with which these men and women struggled toward the usual scone of their daily labors was usually but poorly rewarded The business done anywhere was Inconsiderable and In many oaf OB the doors were closed altogether and half hidden in drifted snow As Into as 10 oclock In tbe downtown streets nnd aonuos clerks and shop girls stood shivering lu doorways und hallways sheltering themselves ns well as they could and anxiously waiting for tho arrival of the bolder of the keys Only about half as 0 rule of the force In all the business houses banks and offices was on hand by noon and this number was not added to during the slowmoving hours of the afternoon up to the time that an early closing was generally determined on to give everybody a chance to try and let homo In the Equitable Insurance office OS out of 205 clerks made their appearance and no offi car of higher rank than tho assistant cashier was on hand The offices throughout thlrt and the other big buildings were only half of them oponed and these but half tenanted Business was practically at 0 standstill and one or two elevators were enough In the biggest buildings to take care of all the traffic Those who had persevered In their efforts to get to business despite tim elevated surface bridge and ferry blockades had done so In the hope that things would bo cleared up during the day and tbe homo trip would tbe easy As the day wore on and this hop faded away they began to regret their success of the morning and to wish that they had not left homo The scones of the morning were the suggestion of yet more I trouble to come Men who had nald 5 or 10 for a short carriage I rIde on the way down or anything from 25 cents to 1 for the privilege of using I ladder to climb down from an elevated train stalled between stations ware quite naturally prone to wonder bow much It was going to cost them to got homo as tho conditions had grown worse Instead of bettor The only way thoy could withdraw their minds from those dreary forebodings was to ulscuss the peculiar experiences I of the citys blizzard day When snugly ensconced for the time being It added to their feeling of comfort to relate tho Incidents they had observed of tim details of the hard lot of others The policemen tho letter carriers the newsmen and the milkmen woro tbo principal objects of this kind of attention WOKS OF MILKMEN NEWSMEN LETTEB CARRIEES Tho milkmen hail all succeeded in getting their supplied from the railroad depots before the storm had developed to itt full Intensity But in the work of distribution they were caught badly in many ctihoa I was nearly noon before with their horses jaded and themselves half frozen thoy stopped the service with most of their customers supplied With the newsdealers was much tho same They got their usual btoros of capers In duo season but when it care to Borvlnc routes the conditions wore such that tow attempted It Customers who came after their papers were vary welcome to them but tho job of leavIng them from duor to door was too much for the dealers Thoy preferred to be stuck with whatever unsold papors their luck might determine The letter carriers made great etrug cle to lot out the two early delveries or Sunday stuff but so many business places wore closed and the work was no difficult that not much headway was made Tbo DOllccmen roscarcely to be Aoen The snowwas so thick and their utorracoated uniforms looked so much lIke everybody oltoVi clothes that It took eharp eyes to tell where they wore But they were on hand when anything happened and that was all tbo time for events crowded each others heels all day long Falling awnings signs and telegraph wires wore constantly endangering lives and not a few narrow escapes wero recorded At 32 Vesey street Becton of the Iron awning in front of the Metropolitan Hardware Companys store fell under its weight of snow A postman had just passed under it and just missed being caught In tho wreck In Courtlandt street Capt Blevin stopped I lady who was rushing blindly along A falling sign that the Captains quick eye bad espied fell just In front of her It smashed a big plateglass window Spruce and Nassau streets was one of the breeziest corners down town Park row and Beekman street was an equally exposed plaee Men and women alike were unable to retain their feet there They were blown with wildly fluttnrlng garments and most undignified haste across the street and landed In tho oppo to gutter every Whloh wny The Western Union corner was In some mysterious manner made equally difficult to travel upon Th wind bad iwspt It olsar ol snow and on Its glare Ii IUr promt could 1 made cept on all fours Jinny I man rounded I In this fashion careless of tbe fate 01 tho hat or umbrella that had gone In the first gust MARKETS IDLESCHOOLS CLOSED Washington Markets early birds ot businessmen woro on hand and ready for customers before the storm had entirely blocked mer tblpls But tho blockade WAS around ahead of the buyers and they were BO few that there was Wil really no use for tbo stand keepers to have opened nt all I Is positively stated by some ol tho markotmen that thor was not an average of two customers to each stand In all the reonle that had visited the place up to noon By that time nearly every ono hnd given up tle expectation of doing any business and closed up Tho public schools were all opened on time the resident janitors making this certainty but the toachorn and scholars reported In such ruencre numbers that scuroely rJrl of them remained open for an entire session The slim attendance and tho general disorganisation of the day made tho exercises necos srlly brief And Intnlorant Borne of the children narrowly escaped getting lost on their way home No schools were open in the afternoon at all WHAT WAS TUB DAY MAE ron A messenger boy whoso errand tot his roluo tant face against tho lull fury of tho storm said siitlly to a companion I wonder what a day like thin IH marie lor any how Ho bail just floundered through adrift tirree feet high on the sidewalk In front of Ht Pauls Church It was ono of tho most peculiar unow formations I In the city Between I nod the Iron railing of the church yard a space two feet wide was loft I comparatively free from know There Is no better Way of phoning how completely busings and traffic woro at a standstill than to say that this space am I RI 811CO pie her whore twenttfont sidewalk Is I ordinarily nil too narrow Other big and dangerous drills wore on the Park row side of the I IOBt Office Two men were actually pulled out of it uimblo to help themselves Una of them who Is bitppoHDil to bo Herman OclKe of 1 Cannon I SIrIOHlt so thoroughly overcome by ox I pnsurtt that lludimts brandy did not revive I 10Rur und ho was taken to thihumborn Street Hospital in a comatose condition On West I street the drifts wero very deen and tho wind i that hwcpt ovor tho river was piercing 1 and strong Women hero had frequently to call along upon utter strangers for ObSlslance to get I1LI7ZAHD mos I The blizzard rigs of tho downtowners wore I ilhertillud and curious bOier In full suits fiom HOU westers to rubber boots were eon I and all sorts of moccasins and waterproof footgear I I were common IMwanl Innett one 01 I thl GovornorM or the New York Athletic Club I i I was ono of th hest IJxtd men about With perfect protection ho had provided for a fair degree of activity In getting about Over a I stout pair of walking shoes he bad drawn a pair ot bicycle blockings that reached outside I his trousers above hl knons Over the stock Ino wore ordinary light rubbers Ills overcoat was short anti ho wore Hunt bilk bundkttrchluf about his nock to keep tho snow out A thin skull cap antler 0 soft felt hat comnloled his costumo and made his comlort Hocuro Some English tourists wore his only mals OB to completeness of preparation for the arctic weather but the I homely though excellent ilovlce of heavy woollen nook overshoes and trousers bottoms I WIK frequently keen Porters awl others who believed In this but who were frugalmlndvd tied bandages or bagging around their feat I The practice or tying tho trouser about the ankles to prevent tuo linn know Irom jetting pevelt over tho tops callers and low shoes was very general A large proportion of row Yorkers foyer woturany heavier loot gear tlrrrn calfskin shoe or gaiter These peonlo wore In I fine llx yesterday despite tire strings thus brought to their aid Thoy started nut blithely in the morning in thepnme spirit that the scoffers I felt wlion they told Old oaU that It wasnt going to ha much of a shower Thoy got back I thoy Jot back at all with frosted toes wet foot and a stock of the soeds ofjineu mania rheumatism and other ills sufficient loran army I The people unprepared for such an experience an yesterday and yet Bufllclent ly unwlbo to venture out and toy with the hliz znrd were legion and the doctore and the un tlurmkerx will be tho beneficiaries 1 0 Ron jatnln of tbo Merchants National Dunk of Wall trot who walked down from the Ninth ward nnd arrived on tlnio lthout any elaborate preparations for the experience IH not otto nr these He declared to coiiirrntuutini friends that his loot wero not even wet MAILS AT A STAND TIL The mull service of tiredly sbtf nmbed to the MOrn early In tho day Tho employees came to their mills pretty promptly but the carriers went out almost empty hamltd as the railway mall tervlc was about paralyzed Superintendent Jackson of the railway mail service Enid that all his meals of obtaining information Wore iut off Irat little mail was brought In by the collectors and trorn the substations during the morning was despatched from the CBiierul office At 1 oclock ho telegraphed to nil tho railway termini for advlcu as tn the possibility of getting the afternoon mulls out Postmaster IVarmm said Uiat tbo servlco was about demorUied and that business wus nearly at I standstill There were forty outoftown malls duo between 4 oclock yesterday morning und noon Of these only four arrived the Washington Baltimore imd Philadelphia mal over the Pennsylvanlit Hotel at 405 A came In the onice ut G3U Thu Boston mall fine nt 410 A over the New York und Now England Itoad was received ut Knn oolock Tire Chicago mall due oer the New York Central Itoad at 645 reached the ofllco ut five minutes belorx 1 oclock The Boston and HnrlnKflelU express duo at 705 arrived 1240 A the close 01 the days business no other malls had been received und tho oxuct locations oftho trains unknown YOU COULD TELEOIlAril IUBDIY ANTWnEIlE Thero Is tot a single wire working between New York alI I the houth said Wlro Chief Baldwin of the Western Union Telegraph Company In tIre afternoon As early as 980 lust received to the effect thut night we rcolved news sixty poles bearing borne of our most imnortunt wires had fallen in Washington Hbortly utter that Information we lost Baltimore then we lost Washington and then Philadelphia We hae but ten wires to Buffalo and should have fifty while to Albany we havu not quite ten and they are workins very badly Our only WilY to roach Chicago Is uronnd by the Lako Bhore and Weler through Buffalo 1on tho wires may be down beforo Monday As far as mil and little bo ond where our lines run In uerlul cables wo me all right but past the point where the wires separate wo have no connect Ion Never before in the history I of telegraphy hart New rork been cut off from coramuntaitlon with the rest of the ot Tbe European cables while all right in world I selves are useless on account of tho destruction of the shore lines NVhy waliava no con necllon with Nowurkund NewJersay is further I away than wr Thi dumaco I cannot oven approximate rite sleet storm of Ml was tho moat distiiietlvo ever known boforo this the damage runnlnc into the thousands We tie hundreds of men tenth to Bond out for repairs but cannot crnd them now aa they could do no work As boon as the Btorm ceases we slll at I once bunlu repairing our Hues The Hudson lihor Ills camo out Letter than nil und wo have nonireirtiort with Ionehkoepsle yet The I lines in und around Now ork I will bo fixed as I soon as possible tire vicinity of the damage making the work of repairing easier Hhould tire storm ahitr tonight we will probably bo all right by tIre end of the week TBUCPIIONK WWH IN AN AWFUL NOE The telephone wlros thpngh In short circuits and short Matches did not escape dam age Emi I they lord held their own weluht of snow and iosl tod the strength of the wind the wreck of 1 the other wlrn vioulit have brought them to grief There wore a great many subscribers who could ring up the cen tral offices yot It seldom happened that any two of those wanted each other tio tbe operators spent the day in varying tho Hello hollol of everyday with nn en uolly monotonous cry of We cant get thetnr Huparlntoniinnt Hlbtmrd ol the Metropolitan Telephone Company was far from being cheerful man yesterday 8 are In bad IK said ho but WO unnot tell how qailly off quly wo oar Ve cannot loll how much of our trout ble Is due to our own wires being down und how much of it is i due to other wires being down on our In eat Eleventh street there are several blocks of poles down They curried hundred of wires and munyof them are ours Home of the poles crashed through the house windows and the wreck was I lively ono At Fulton and Washington BtreetH 1ulon Brooklyn there Is another bad moss und in tlere Molt Haven the breaks and tangles ure fright ful We have I strong force of linemen ut work They cannol ollmb poles or make repaint In Mich a Btrrm us this but they cal un iiHicIo the wire straighten thorn out mid roll thorn up Thut will get them out nf tho way of travel und anul grout deal or danger THE InoULEM OP CIBTmO HOME By 3 oclock the generally hopeless character of the outlook Imd entirely donreienf those who had ventured out to dn busIntM but Iloi bad been rewarded with very Indifferent result Anxious Inquiries a to whether any cars were running on the surface or anywhere wer rUDnlna anywhr had been made all day whenever two persons met and the answer was uniformly dUoourag let anl ins Bo the thoughts of home beoame stronger with every moment and the wonder of how it was to bo reached became greater By 4 oclock nil considerations of builiem lied been nut welched uy thoM und nothinK was left area except HH saloons wnloh had been pretty excJ filled all day In tbe absence of any business stir The abMnc of lbs usual 1 I crowd ow town wu a matter of oonirratnlatlon when ths tide sat homeward with not a wheel toning on any of the regular lines of travel was well that scarcely five Inl elt or tb usual crowds were down town The majority under the Impulse of stern necessity set themselves sturdily to the task of footing It Broadway was the most popuar track although the Bowery was bitter and a black procession of pe destrians soon marched along Its more sheltered western sidewalk It was laborious work Ork the wind being dead ahead and laden with cold fine snow as well as keener nod harder particles blown off the roofs But many of th bravest walkers ot tho morning faltered at the thought of the return I wna not alone the difference between a fair wind and 0 head wind Tbe lameness and fatigue resulting from tho unaccustomed and vigorous work of the down trip wan the chief trouble And so it happened that hundreds nf men who are In a position to look lightly on five or twenty dollars when compared to comfort and oat determined that there should bo no more walking In theirs I IANa vntaxa ron CADS I was thei a question between getting hotel nccommodatL or getting conveyance And I It was speedily developed that there was not I enough nf either sort of relief to go round The back men wore the first to ba found In Inado quate supply Huch of them nA bad braved tho storm and there were many who would not on their own account nnd on account of thair horses were nil too few to take the anxiou up owners homo The work was ton slow anti hard for many trips to be mado The Astor House was the bust place to see the demand AU below that were exhausted by 4 oclock or engaged at a price that put thor beyond tornptution and the improvident men who hud rested In tho belle thut the railroads would bo all right by hilt time and had not ordered curilaeen from uptown Bet their faces toward tho Astor Hotice to get cabs hero I Tire down townerit hud all got 120 for a trip up town A coupe or a roach either not this price In one ease it WIIH tlO apIece and In tim other It was 5 ns four anuld bo carried A eontlcrtmn with lady at the corner of Courtlandt street and Broadway paid 20 to ba taken Fiftieth street Detective Phil Rollly waited throe hours for a clrancuu tn pay 15 to be driven to his home In Bank street Ho bill walked down and figured that It would ha more economical to ride than to take the risk of walking back The struggle for carriages was very exciting The starter and the colored boss porter In tIre corridor were subjected to nil sorts of blandishments by the applicants It finally got to be necessary for a man to canvass the crowd until he found three others who lived near him Then by compact job with tho customary ti head the Jehu could be tempted Thin linen was frequently raised to10 itplore for four by Impatient ones who were afrnld of getting loft it looked like big money but it wan killing work and the livery mnn slid they did not fool ns though they could Afford to work their hOles oven at thoso prices DOWNTOWN HOTELS SA PED The men who determined to stay down Urn nnd thus provide fur both the getting Home and getting back to business In the moinlic woro soon Tn as bad a fix as tuoso who Bought transportation The Astor Houe wu the first point of attack naturally I began very early in turn away applicants for rooms At 5 oclock Manager Keofe said that ho had refused iOI who wanted to register Later on lie booked some more HB I special favor and gave them cots and shake downs In the corners of the balls The astern Hotel the Hto yeas House the United Hiatus Hotel I Bwecnyn and Everetts were soon Mvampoa At oclock not a room could be cot In any of them Extra cots and nil sorts of makeshifts were brought Into play unit as many as four men In nn ordinary single rom was I froiiuont occurrence Tire opportunities for racketlm und unlimited poker wore not to be neglected Tho stock of playing cards nt tho stands In the hotel corridors was Boon exhausted in every case and the absence of sleeping accommodations did not bother deck many of those who got shelter and a MACYS oiitis BLEEP IN TiE STOlE The saleswoman In Mncys store who live too tOO far from tho store to walk homo and dellenl eton tire cars woro Invited to stay all night by the proprietors It was 0 regular plcnio The men were all obliged 10 shut for themselves and walk or not UB they liked When thov Were gotten rid of mattresses were produced and everything neitwsary to make the girls comfortable was provided by the firm The girls thought it great lun to camp out In that fashion at first hut before morning doubtless many ot them wished they wore ut homo nU8lESS lNOCJUW OPT SLAT FIt Time the Weather Ever Flare the Stock exchange llr kera In I Carts It was startling see how effectually Wall street and the Exchanges the Clearing House tho banks tho BubTreasury tho Customhouse and the business that centres about them wore knocked out All the great Exchanges wero practically closed at noon The slim attendance on the Stock Exchange made Board mournful ViceChairman the great mourlul VlceCbulrmln Henrlcjues was around on time to bang the bin Ivory hammer that opens the sesolon in tho morning but beforo him wero but twentyono brokers There are usually 000 The Worm ser brothers Mr Bchlay Charley Joliues and Mr John Klrknor were In the little band and Secretary George Ely was up Rtnlr In his office thawing out He and others on the Exchange had ploughed through tho snow drifts from their homos up town Boino felt flush enough to pay from 15 to33 for cabu tobrlncthom down but most of them were carried a block or two by elevated trains and wore shot along by lie blizzard the rest oi the way Mr Ely said ho knew of two brokers who wee brought down half the way In a butcher cart but at the Morton House the butcher boy driver and his horse gave out and his passengers did the best they could Hflerthut Commodore Imtenmn started out from his homo at tbo Windsor Hotel in I butcher cart but that butcher boy dropped tho doughty Commodore after a block or two Iud his gras BeiiKer Btruculod hack to tire Windsor laS Biased there An elevated train which started froii Harlem with Brother Jones of Dow JouoSilOi and a contingent 01 brokers was practically abandoned at Tneutythlrd street alter taking nearly four hours to got there lIre brokers flocked to neighboring restaurants and hotels and the billiard rooms and barrooms were thronged from that time out Ylillii thor but brokers Whll wore twentyono brokerl on the floor at the opining ol tho Exclmnirn there was oven asmuller number of customers distributed through the olllces of the buO and odd act irruurrr tart 01 Ire I lixihnngi ih thousands nt private wires leading to Chicago Boston ihlludeplilaWuxhincton nnd other epucu lativo centres hud bocu unappod llko cotton twine und wlrllo titer London cables wore workIng Wall street and nil financial nnd commercial folk wora absolutely cut oil from theirout oftovncoiibtltuenl8 the streets worn strewn whir broken tolegriiph wires Stout cubloa hanging from swaying telegraph polos parted and many I HtruUKlIng pedestrian In addition to nil bib misery Will tripped by thorn bhortly before noon when the attendance on tho Block ichanco had Increased to 1 little over a bundled it was announced that ono wire wrus working to Chicago This was a small 1 ray to tho benighted hut the blizrurdBtruck brokers wero too indifferent to brighten much They swapped their oxporlenws with their neighbors on the floor und llnully decided to che it UD und hut JoOrllnd lll for the day Vice Ilvo UI Chairman Henrlijuos got out his loryhummer UKHin and culled them around him This resolution was than adopted Trust It I tbi tenie of lb member present hit all do lull 10 far as polbl 1 bl luipeaded anti atllrtrtti go over until tomorrow March la Furthermore all loans were extended until toduy This Is the first tlmo in Its history lrt 1111 that tho weuther hal knocked the Block hx chnnso nut It was closed for a few days during the Black FrIday panic and since tlul only nncii on business nay Hint was when Vice I IVeildent Hill died suddenly nu tire Hour of the Lxchrrnge After toe little throng had decided to quit It Aler til thlonl ltle I was figured up that the transactions fur the tension had been 10201 hureB There were two caIn In front of Delmonlcos when the brokers abandoned the Exchange One driver got 35 and the other 140 to gu to the Tilth Avenue Hotel The other brokers got home the best way they could Many of them went to the office of the elevated roads roals at 7 Broadway 10 Inquire about tire chancies of getting up town They were greeted with a Iellng big Ilocurd stating thattfin rand Wrrs blocked und tlmy wero informed that not flncle ox ocuthe official of tha elevated roads had turned un at the offices judge MuCtie tho row Assistant Treasurer inujjed to get to the SubTreasury but hull or iris olerl wre away and at the Cjearlnl house business was clogged unll pqariy dup by tha ableneo 01 the clerks Alt the bank managi edto make their clearances but In sev era of them certifications were refilled because efa the abmnea oi Presidents cashiers and tellers Collector Magone Hurveyor liaattle nuty Collectors Dunn Outhrie Nlcoll and McOee Pemocruts were at their pests II the Customhouse Of the form of lMX in tire Custom Hfiusn trout tho Burs Oftloo cnfi wciw kept iiwny my the bliusril Tha ilutlen of tlio I I on IlwlI however were I lull aa tuaioee Ionic the docks was praotlonlly abandoned A good mipy oct female inspectors were on lol The flflUCi Exchange was closed at 2 oclock wh en the doors WI5 op ned Iyf stanch men were on ad Atone urn there wr ninetyfive brokers on the great floor but efforts to do business wore abandoned song onl before oclock struck Borne ot the valiant betor I rekj tole ones were Alcx teaklm Samuel Flnlay James Christie Latin Scholar White and rste I 1be mO Michael Hennossy The flour men didnt show UP at nil The freight leD were without any oomiDMIon and sensibly stayed home and nt no time were there over a score piping around the tme wer ll where hundreds usually cluster and howl ThO average dally attendance on tills Exchange Is 1700 The Consolidated Stack and Petroleum Exchange nloldated Itnk change the Cotton the Maritime and the Coffee Exchanges assembled from 20 to 1JO persons whore riOt to 1200 are usually Been The door lon of the Beal Estate Exchange were not opened A peculiar and Inter feature of the brokers who braved the blzrar was their demand for fresh linen when they got down town The few haberdashery stores In the nflghbor hood of the 1xlhan were positively thronged with them calling for frejih collars ana shirts that had ben soaked and wlltd by the shoot ma nod penotratin snow Mufflers were of no account The Icy particles scorned them All tire hat stores down town sold cases ol Hootch caps with peaks In front and rear but of all the blizzard barons down town the cabmen were the mightest HARLEM XO CITY IUIZLTZ31K ill 1131 Th Urns Wa OBIB but the MM ThUki Weat Buck Until 3ly A gentleman who lives at 128th street and I Sixth avenue and who does business near the City Hall made the distance in two hours and eleven minutes yesterday morning probably the fastest time on record for the day This is the account us he gave it tn a SUN reporter I left my house on 128th street utOKA Hand at onco discovered that it was snowing I opened my umbrella and howling wind swept around the corner from Sixth avenue and took that umbrella out of my hand and lifted It over the root of a neighboring flat house Next my Derby hat flow off my head and wont sklmmlngovor the snowdrifts at tbe rate ot about sixty miles an hour I let It go returned to my house put on an old hunting cap tied up my oars In a woollen muffler and started out again to go to my business I met a friend who yelled to me that the Sixth avenue trains wore not running BO I steered for Third ave nuo Arriving there I found that the trains were not running there either On Second avenue there wore no trains either The cable road In 125th street had stopped and businessmen by scores were walking from ono it road to another in the effort to go south 1 had to got down town and I went to a livery stable to pet cone une There was one cutter one horse and ono driver left I hired nil three for 15 und started out That vas rut 1020 oclock The driver told mo thut the horse vas liable to run away If he got excited but he didnt get exUtud Well wo Blurted down Third avenue on fast trot und then the fun begun The air was BO full of little lIne needles of snow and the wind torn by us ut such a rate that that Ironic staggered about like drunken man But ho was game He put his bond down and trotted ahead In the teeth ot the blast His mane and tall were masses of Ice and his hide was thickly veneered with It You know I wear eyeglasses Well my eyeglasses were covered with Ice so thick that I bud to lick it off every live minutes I couldnt get them clear any other way Wa passed Third avenue surface cars all the way down They were all deserted anti most ot them were off the truck Tire homos had all been taken back to the stables Tire brewers wagons woro out though out in force and each one bud from four to ten great Normandy bnrfies Even the great strength of these huge draught animal WIIB not enough to pull the wagons through some of the snowdrifts and the drivers were lashing the por beasts with their whips and cursing them with great vigor The sidewalks wore almost de sorted as well as I could sea through my ice covered glasses As wo kept moving southward at the great speed of four miles an hour tire sleet striking my lace made me feel aa If It was raining carpet tacks My moustache froze solid my eyebrows did HLowUo and little Icicles formed on my eyelashes and got into my eyes They hurt like hot cinders At Eightyfourth street I got out went Into a dry gooda store and bought two toboggan caps for the driver und myself We pulled them down ovor our oars and tied mtrflera over our faces leaving only too es en exposed Then things were more pleasant Tbn driver was Cl years old but he didnt grumble a bit Im an old New York tough he Bald Ive lived hare man and boy all my life but Ill be I If over I Been the likes this ride an I doan wanter And still that good horse went staggering ahead Wo tilted nearly over several times and twice we run Into pillars of the elevated road for wo couldnt see where we were going half the time As we passed tteventyBlxth street 1 saw a great crowd of oooplo gazing up nt the scene of tire accident on tire elevated They were all standing with their backs to the wind Deserted wagons stood nt the curb all the way from Harlem to the City Hall and ve met any quantity of men who had unhitched their horses and were taking them to shelter At Ninth street the fury of the wind redoubled and when we got to Park row the horse was forced InBtngeor a little more slowly 1 arrived opposite Tnu BUN oflloe at 1231 oclock having mudo the trip in a little more than two hours and I dont believe anybody beat It ynsterday One of the drivers fIngers frozen and the horse was completely exhausted No I am not going Ironic tonight I have telegraphed to expect me In May TUB liKlttQK ItZU XOBLY Beaten 1 the Htarm at TlrtiHr Mares rust asd Just UlMCl IrlsSlsg With the exception of an hour from 0 to 10 A yesterday cars ran on the Brooklyn Brldgo nt Intervals The bridge was enduring a severe test but President Howell said that not the slightest vibration was discovered In the solid piers A northwest storm does not strike the bridge so fair us a southeast or southwest storm Delay was caused by snow and Ice Itogulnr trains ran yesterday mornIng to 510 when the cable wan started For two hours the cable did satisfactory work but beforo 8 oclock snow and ice accumulated oa the trucks and the momentum the cars was not sufficient to take them to the platforms Engines had to pull tho trains Into the stations Tin Intervals between tho trains grow longer anti the crowd which every morning rides overtire bridge to New York was jammed up at the entrance ot the bridge on Sands street The string of people became so dense and BO vociferous that tire police feared trouble and wooden bars were put up at the gate in front of the ticket choppers after crowd had assembled on the upper landing The barriers wore broken down und with a yell the crowd burnt through They did not Rain anything by it except to get under cover Tht sltuutlou was made more vexulious by an accident on the New York side A train of threo earn was pulled by a motor from the north track a nhort distance west when tIre last car Hllppml off from the Icy rails und It had to 1m raised with jockMJrews This caused delay of ronslilar ubly over half nn hour Meanwhile tbe Brook lyn i crowd ol passengers waited The bridge promunade wan closed Rt 0 oclock A by order of Sergeant Phillips of the bridge pollco When the crowd was biggest In front of the boxes a young man who said that he was Mr Barnes and was Hecratary of the American Exchange limllod nt 162 Broadway and that ho had walked from Oreenpolut tieggoni Sergeant Phillips to lei him walk across lire bridge because he feared ho would lose his place If he was Into Bnrgeant Phillips con Homed and the young roan walked nr rather staggered across the bridge until he becuma bmimbod by colt and Sort from being knocked against the iron rnlllngtt by the wind The policemen In their two snug lrorrtea under the towers bad bean warned by Sergeant Phillip by telephone to look out for Barnes When Barnes arrived over tbe land pan In New York he BtsKKered and fell Pnllcemeu followed him nnd ns he did not rice they yanked him to his feet und marched him to the bridge entrance Alone he would have porlshcd home pnsMingerH eourd cabs to ride across and others clnnbnd upon truck Biiperintondttnt Martin arrived In tire inlddlo of tire forenoon In cub and ordeied the while to bo stopped because tire grips fallout to hold Trains ol two curs and two engines were put on and afterward three cars and two engines with a headway of from five tn ten minutes In the afternoon the Brooklynltes returning caused a big and perpetual jam on the bridge approaches In New York Hen in their haste to get Into the oars smashed car windows and crushed each others hat Superintendent Martin hired a gang of Ita i ulaborers to keep the track clear but most ot them deserted before night The briugs on the Jf6le justified Its crea lion yesterday tlilluien try lor rilibc CBIOI A zanier rsUcm lee childrens Ies2t3i1rt4g1 It lessee Pertect CltHss a reanilna the lMthlaiIrt scap44u TRAVEL BY HAIL KILLED aionrs TITAN no 2RAZNR T4ZWXD UKirzjss nziritxILV 1TArIONS Telling Where Tkr Are What at ibe ZesseneerOaly Use TrntK Gets late drum Oentr lNiie OntErerr UalIrd Into New Tvrk BentfH anil Abeadesteg the Field tsr the Dny Tit Vnrth Avnne Tassel Ckk4 With SsewiorIus Dclity Not a train had moved out of the Grand Central Depot all day and only one bad com In President Chauncey Depew of the Now York Central was one ol a dozen men In the executive offices who reported for duty Fifty were missing Wall how did you get here was the abrupt question with which Ire greeted the BUM reporter late In the ultcrnoon I have just received a telegram from Buffalo ho added which elates that the sun Is shining brightly there and that what little ice remains in the city Is melting rapidly and run fling oft in water through the gutters That cheering news Isnt it Tire pleasant tram ot mind that characterIzed Mr Depow was not nhared by hU subor dlnates Every attempt to communicate with station agents after 8 A had Droved unsuccessful The waiting rooms wore crowded with travellers anxious to depart and persons waiting to hear from friends who were en routo to this city To neither could the officials give the slightest satisfaction IUULINO IN TUB BOSTON EXPBCSS Nor was the condition ol affairs on the Now Haven any better Tire ono traIn that succeeded in getting through was a train that had started long before the storm began The ox press that leaves Boston ut 1030 and which is duo in New York at 620 A got aa for as Hartford motor any part of the storm was encountered That was 241 AM The train had started under comparatively clear sky Clouds were encountered nt Hartford but the air was mild and there was no reason to expect anything more than a light rain storm At New Haven nt 353 A Marrow was coming Idown lightly but regularly The further the trains travelled from that city tire denser tire etorm became At Stamford the first signs of the blizgurd that was prevailing iu Now York showed themselves From thereon the storm was similar to the one that pre raIled in Now York The wind drove agaInst the train and around It no that tIre engineer didnt know which way it was coming The storm Increased in Intensity Know drifts had covered the tracks in nil places whero these run through depressed cuts Tire wind do creased the heat In the cars and tIre passengers began to don thoir wraps Those that had sleepers piled their overcoats on to their blnnK eta and swore at the porter Bleep was Impossible after leaving Stamford because of the fro quent stops and the jerks as the trains started Tho train reached tire Harlem bridge three hours Into From thero Its progress was much Impeded until It finally stopped altogether nt Fiftyninth street All attempts move It from there proved futile A bank of snow fully flvo feet deep hud formed across the track It was now after 11 A and nil the passengers were fully awake and aware of the situation They cot out and discussed tire difficulty among themselves Some were prepared to leave the train but the announcement that a messenger had been despatched to tho Grand Central Depot for assistance deterred them In a short time an engine came puffing along slowly and assisted after the drift had been cleared away In pulling the train through When the passengers arrived In the depot they were still further disgusted upon learning that no cars or elovatod trains were running Cabs were finally IU secured by such as could pay 15 a mile and I the others had to walk The train was five hours late THE STAIirOBD LOCAL STUCK AT hOng ITKKIT That was the last and only train tolraaoh the depot The only other that came anywhere near it was the SUmford local on the same road That left Stamford at A 51 It had reached 110th street at 10 i A This train was crowded with brokers and business menThe Boston express had passed tho same spot with difficulty a ball hour previous and the wind and snow had put In effective work since then The drifts were piled so high that It was Impossible to pass thorn After a number of vain attempts a brakeman was sent on foot to the depot He bud bard work Rotting there but blur errand was fruitless The officials hud been endeavoring for some time to get an engine through the Fourth avenue tunnel but bad found it now absolutely Impossible The passengers were furious when the mes monger returned with bis answer but thore was no help font One courageous passenger who was on Important business refused to ba comforted and started off on foot Ho succeeded in pushing his way through the drills and reached the Grand Central Depot by way of the tracks an hour and a half Inter He was completely exhaused anti paid 20 for a cab to take him down town Ho refused to toll his name Tire remaining passengers stayed In the cars and took such comfort as they could out ot the provisions supplied by A neighboring restaurant at the order of the railroad company I NO NEWS or TUB JJIBirSO TBilNB The lending officials of the railroad bad become convinced of the danger that lay In tire attempt to run trains early in the day None had been allowed to leave the depot and frau tie ettempta wie made to roach the agents alone tire route It was Impossible to commu Icnte with any of them after A II No word had been received from the agent ut New Haven after inldulghtonBunday und even Mount Vernon could not be reached after 8 oclock Tire last word received by wire from any crucial connected with the road stated that telegraph wires were down everywhere and tht the poles lay across tIre tracks in many places The lonedistance telephony owned by the New Ilnxit Company could not bo woiked either The tunnel from Fiftyninth street to Nlnetyilxth Street wa blocked niiiNu TO ITED TIlE msiiaED The train despatouer Bald that eight local trains nn the Harlem division ot the road were stalled between stations As far possible word had been conveyed to the conductors to supply the passengers with provisions and such other comforts as could be obtained These messages were rent by wIre and fast i menEnnKors but their efficacy was admittedly doubtful whore the trains were far from enterers and rotaurauts ond bud to uo pond on the propinquity of fatra bonnes Superintendent Turner said that he hud done all be could to relieve passengers but In the uncertainty prevailing could venture no opinion as to their condition None of these local trains of course are fitted with any sleeping accommodations und the result last night cannot have boon plcusunt Not tha slightest tidings hud been received 03 to the condition of the trains on the ninln linn but the superintendent thouuht that these hnd all been stopped In time Where trains wore tie luyed In towns over night lbs company will pay hotel bills In tine depot a group of conductors of the road wore gathered They said that three and four engines bad been put on single trains that were stalled aon the route but without any appreciable effect They raid that the tnnnol In lbs city was not only blocked at the entrances but that the air hnlortiilonR the street hart admitted the fnoiv In Inui auniiiltlot pnil that nuttier thesa holes tire Biow wm fien foot deep Whore tire tracks ran In cuts with banks on each side the snow had flllod un the depressions even to tbo tops of the banks They dclArd that four trainiwene stifled along tho main road bo 5.