The evening world. Newspaper, February 8, 1895, Page 1

More than 50,000 Over Halfa Million Per Day. NIGHT EDITION BLIZZARD RAGING NOW. Wind 60 Miles an Hour and Temperature Hovering | About Zero. TRAINS STALLED EVERYWHERE, The Worst Is Not Yet, Says Far- mer Dunn, for Colder Weather Is Coming. ALL OCEAN COMMUNICATION SHUT OFF. Mails Are Delayed, Milk Trains Stand Still, Suburbanites Walk, and Many Freeze to Death. OMcial Record of Temperature. both horse and cable lines, had snow- Sweepers at work all nigat, travel was greatly Welayed everywhere this morn- ing, and in some instances operation was suspended. Every horse car that went out of the stables was drawn by a dou- ble team, and this necessarily decreased the number of cars run. The cable roads had the best of it, but even they were operated irregularly. The slippery tracks made it difficult for gripmen, and FY it was necessary to move at a slower rate of speed than ordinarily. The great snow storm that rages to-| The Elevaed road trains were also fre- day Is far more sweeping in extent than|quently delayed, and long stoppages oc- the famous blizzard of March 12, 1888, | curred on each trip in early hours, Dur- It is colder to-day than then and the |!?S the rush hours trains were packed to suffocation, and crowds were kept wind is Mercer, The present storm | waiting a long time on the platforms of sweeps almost the entire country in-|uptown stations, for a chance to board stead of a mere 400-mile radius around| trains. Many of them went by with-| showed New York. A comparative table shows | Ut Stopping, the car platforms being | storm down the bay all night long. The|not interfere very greatly with the run-|above the bridge, but below It and so packed that the gates could not be|xavage northeast gale, which set in just | ning of the ferry-boatn, opened. after dark last evening, gradually had| Later on, however, the inc increased in fore ing It was blowing @ hu The blizzard was howling through the | York shore. and about noon It forme: Narrows at the rate of fifty-five miles | so! an hour, with no present Indications of | ing out from the ends of the piers sev- bay |eral hundred yards. Then the trouble and in the Narrows extends from shore | began, It ty-fittn | Shore and is solidly packed, , It was reported that incoming vessels |and New Jersey Central ferries, which experience great wit-|had been running on regular time, we in getting to Quarantine | delayed so much in getting into t these Aifferences: ‘To-day's Blizzard. Blizsard of 1868, 1 deg. beiow........8 dep. above! Ae the surface cars were just as a aiis 60 mila) CTOWded, not a few people who were Apshen obliged to reach business early, decided to tramp through the snow, rather than 3000 val wait at street corners and on the Ele- ‘ated station for a s'im chance to ride, foot +400 mile Not since the ever-to-be-remembered | reat March blizzard, have the people of | Gothisms' been compelled to ‘entartain so| The One Hundred and ‘TI fierce and blustering a visitor as that, Street trolley line was stalled | which came up from the South last @t 1 o'cli night, and is still making things howl hour before the tracks could be sufi- Ghout iowa, clently cleared for them to take the In fact, the weather record for the Schedule Since that time they have, past forty-eight jours nas been wome- however, been running regularly, thing phenomenal for New York, and) phe surface cars on First a up to the present time. has fully justl- ayenues are running irregu t night a Becond arly, and fled the dire predictions of the meteor- from 4 o'clock to 6 o'clock this morning, ‘fficulty ological experts, particularly those of 41) the trolley cars in the Annexed Dis- tne ona eae eee Ss Farmer Dunn, who foretold exactly what trict stopped until the snow drifts were, “esse! Would dare approac ‘oust. ieee snow drifts were) nia would apply particularly to a dls. abled steamer in tow of another. Crossing the Ferries. During the early hours of the morning jenuine Winter weather.” such as Hundred and Fifteenth street und! the floating ice In the North River did the public was the Fult has happened early yestetday morning. — cleyred, The remainder of his prophecy, that the coming of the second cold wave will! A sweeper on the Second avenue line bring with it three or four days more ran int a heavy snow drift at One ot this city has not seen in many a year, — | which is putting it rather mildly, Is yet to be fulfilled, * But judging from the present outlook his " tip” is one that any , citizen may look for. Indeed, the successor of Wednesday's cold e has already arrived with « vengeance, and if anything worse is in! store it must be fearful to contemplate. | Last night’s snowstorm was of the MIS WHISKERS FROZE UP, Second avenue this morning at 6 o'clock and had to be dug out by employees. Flerce Storm In ‘The early reports from Quarantine been a flerce arly this morn. /of the gue from the northwest drove the | navigable, p slippery tracks, ‘The men wore Noating field of ice In towards the New| Only one boat was run on the Thirty: of paper and bagging ted about a let-up, The and it was more than an] Ould probably culty from the lower bay Toward nightfall at Sandy Hook the wind was blowing at the extraordinary rate of seventy miles an hour, and with could see only Under such conditions no the observer How the Wind Heaped All the Snow Hefere Onc House im u Brooklyn Ilock. Books Open W YORK, FRIDAY, January Cirevlation (Week-Day Average) 551,139 More than 50,000 Over Halfa Million Per Day. <— i = ———__ KE CENT. = to All.” , time before It was able to get out of the way so the Middletown could land. Dann Congratulates Himaelt. Late this afternoon Weather Man Dunn stated that there was no change in the situation, and that all his predic. Hons were seemingly in a fair way to be fulfitied. The temperature was gradually fall- ing and there were signs that the clear Ing-up time hid « ‘The sun was shining dimly through a mist, which was formed of fine particles of drifting snow, | that the high wind was carrying aiona | at a terrife speed | ‘The velocity of the gale at that time | 8 thirty-six miles an hour at. the aitable Building, but It was blowing At over sixty miles an hour down the | bay and off Sandy Hook, | Tornado Centres Downtown, The high buildings In lower Broad- way seemed to gather In the winds from all quarters and concentrate a blast of | such force in the street below that pe- |destrians were almost carried from their |feet. Another tornado centre was tn Broad street, in front of the Mills Butld- ing and the Btock Exchange, Cafes and saloons where hot drinks | |could be procured were thronged with | | customers and doing a rushing business, [While hundreds of half-trozen pe alected in the warm corridors of quitable and other big offce build and swarmed around the steam ra tors, in the attempt to get thawe ‘before they proceeded on their way. 1 Witnenses Snow-Noand, Judge Gildersleeve, in Part 11. of the w FRANKLIN. 7 i Superior Court, adjourned court. this morning because the witns In the case of Barner against Hellman did ne ut In an Appearance, being snow- pound somewhere in the storm. Meconoen in the tee. corr i win "ALi . , ; ‘the toe it the Bunch of Racor aa iy tomatte. poukly he tug “Maca = ae ea Wis coi Cor mial WY | 4 could "not sald for Cut Thamy * Han stea Jomo, Capt Wisners (7V und f Tara, started pom When 2PM. buton reaching the ouere = =I found vere, OuieTeaus } dae nd at 225 returned to. s elter off | GincheRs I Be Quarantine. The Nacoochee, which Mr he started yesterday for Savannah and iy Meanine fae ys anchored in Gravesend Ba, 0 Way at about 1.390 this afternoon, but +3. 4 returned to Quarantine and anchored a few minutes after the Tjomo. Tugs Robert Haddon and Carrie A. Ramsay ventured seawards, but returned. and sported tremendous seas in the lower | Inclients of the Storm, Up to noon fourteen men had walked across the Brooklyn Bridge, One woman | Started, but turned back he walks In Central Park were not a Vorite resort for uptown pleasure-Keek- * and th nket 6f snow was broken only by the footsteps of a reporter sent gut to find out how the animale fared. | The polar bear was doing well. Wall street brokers were making bets on the lowest temperatafe that Would be reached before the end of the cold uekses ranged all the way from He Ww Kero, TH ewens «had a hard the of it ts, for the gale blew els before it Effect of the Blizzard Upon the Whiskers of Men ruly Great. Geers ix seemed i quarters of the com: down through the channel east of Gov- sing force |ernor's Island it was practically un ‘oadway and ‘Third lines, had great trouble ninth Street Ferry to South Brooklyn It Jeft ‘Thirty-ninth street at 630 o'clock this morning and did not get Into the slip at the Battery ull 9 o'clock. { : Fed was 12.30 P, M, before it finatly us, ang are warranted reached the Brooklyn side again. | B tote MEhe shot In: this weather, AS only a few passengers were carried | Victime of the Storm, each trip, it was decid to stop further Three planks, torn from a scaffold by ‘ations until the channe, should be | the mind on the new building at nu xiend= 1 and almost compact mass and cyclone ite beverages at a lower Broadway ventions of a celebrated The boats on the Pennsylvania, Erie slips that It was found ne down the number of trips. Boats on the Courtlandt street ferry street at 4@ AL M., cra: a ea throug! The Brooklyn troliey tine which runs) Damage $4 Bt past Twenty. in connection with this ferry had been | qeq"ht Chavet GH thin thom were then running on a headway of losed down by the snowst n, and was | ing in front. of 34 Bast) Twenty-tirst twenty minutes, double the usual time, | unning. Boats on the Atlantic ave-| strect, His hands and face were bady | while the delay was even greater on the | nue asad I e ferries were | ftosthitten, He was taken to Bellevue | Chambers street and Hoboken ferries. | punning all the morning, but very irreg- larney. McSweeney, of 135 West Fit. | The greatest difficulty was experienced ularly, and sometimes there was more enth str was found at in the East River, which was blocked than half an hour between the trips, all the morning with a slowly moving! syary one who wanted 6 got to New the roof of 76 Monroe street, Nobody was injured. jton aven! MAY BE THE TEUTONIC. Fears Were Felt for the Fall River. | | i jrivel in port, ani friends of passen-|sengera to some other vessel if there | kers on the missing ves. NIGHT EDITION Ocean Steamship Passing Fire Island Thought to — Be the Overdue Vessel.. — LA GASCOGNE NOT YET SIGHTED, | Boat Pilgrim, but She Was Seen Off Newport. TERRIFIC GALES REPORTED AT SEA. © 4 The French Liner May Have Been Abane doned and Her Passengers Trans- . ferred to Another Vessel. . is agreed that she would hail the @rat passing ship, and that if the latter wag unable to take a tow, the passengers of © BASaRG) here, the ocean greyhound would be trans — ‘The operator at that place thinks it is| ferred and the magnificent vessel would e Teutonic, although the weather is| be left to her fat ° me Te id Old seamen say, however, that plucky | Capt. Charles Baudelon would not de clearly ‘ sert his post as long as there was hope Word was received from Fire Island at 4.30 P.M. that a steamship had just so thick he could not make her out} Map of Routes of La Gascogne and the Teutonic Showing Thelr Possible | Meeting Pl 0+. 4 Two ocean steamships, La Gascogne, | He ts a lieutenant of the French navy of the French line, and the Teutonic, of |#"4 4 tried navigator in the merchams 7 marine, a the White Star line, have not yet ar-| "ie night, it te eald, traneter bis peal il are very anx-| Was « breakdown of the machinery, an@ then with his crew attempt to repair the ntysninth street at L40_ A | Rent to "ihe “New” York, Hosni os cake : und foot were badly. froz nies Boies Sates nied tes hed from | york quickly made for the Iridge cars, ift Ould RIVE Oven fal ey une whlch | and the reault was that they were terri. | Fee BUNT ee eee inaRNONE 101 by overcrowded all the morning, A larcet harles Clarkson n street ferr¥. | crowd at the Wall street ferry after | —————= | Waiting nearly an hour for a boat, left | in disgust and went up to the bridge. | casted. Ha Waa, ve Thete ferries have stopped running | moved to the New York itospital, | Is afternoon on account of the ice in|, oxen Alien, twenty-six years old, o He alie R taf the tee in tas Carroll street Kiyn, fell onthe tho: Haat Ri Hamilton, South, Wall |widewalk at Court and Union. streets, Street and Thirty-ninth Street Rrookiyn, and fractured his lett | Was removed to bis home Michael thirty-aix years old, jot Wy Auar « Rrook yn, fell on The f t Atlantic} Miantle avenue and st ost In ourth cod at Broadway at a! street and morn- pir. ty, of the West His face, hands and ery genuine blizzard stripe. It did not se tle softly and quietly down in nice, big flakes, us It does in the interesting stage | snowstorms, which are so excellent an imitation, On the contrary, It was driven along with blinding force by a furious northwest gale of bitter coldness, | in minute particles, that seemed to be covered with sharp points, like the end of a needle, and stung the faces of be- lated pedestrians as they tolled along through the drifts. 1 was so dry and light that it was piled up in great heaps and ridges in every sheltered point, for Wherever the gale had full play it swept | the streets and sidewalks clean. | This was the case in Fifty-ninth street, Where the biasts struck the row of big apartment - houses fronting on Central Park with terrific force, and curl about, carried every particle of snow from that side of the street, leaving the pavements bare, and piled it up in a just out of Lewis, twenty-four hoof the bridge of the rry, and the two hours t r passengers were to remain | aboa a hat time near Hospital | aboard wll that tn : Ul : None of the Bay Ridge ferry-boats rane running 1 ofehiek this | 1 homele Was diss © boats being | Covered. at “Third. ave 1 Thirty EDS ROLE Del rue ninth street this morning, suffering from | frozen up in the the. « They Were sent to Bellevue | The Pierrepont, of the Hamilton Ferry | Hospital line, took one hour and fifty minutes t venty-xeven years, of run from Hamilton Brooklyn, ecu oh to her slip at ne Bat Flower ery, She f across the in his po: a card | river only to get fast - of John t hefore ht | » and the passer y her Fishing Fleet Saved. hing smacks huge drift on the apposite side that com- pletely buried the stone wall of the Park from sight. In all the uptown streets. especially on the high ground along the west side, the drifting was most marked, and when residents of that part of the town left their tomes for business this morning they had to wade through mounds of snow two and three feet deep, in a short trip to the nearest Elevated station. The downtown etreets were in no bet- ter condition, and as very little attempt had been made at that early hour to celar the sidewalks, a tramp of even| a few blocks was a serious undertaking. Snow shoes would have been the proper but New Yorkers have so little jon to use such implements of Arctic travel they al not inciuded in the househo'd economy, except as arti- cles of ornament or curiosity, c im Trouble. Although surface railroad companies, Interior of a Third A: Josie Reeves and the p James Potter th rtreet at § o'elo + Hospital Market slip this "4 tes being wide ope: John Dillbn, which was stuck + seme of th al Pri Pin | atid passen with a canal-boat in tow | Ait, Dassen The procession of trucks and other ye- | ‘U6"! hicles over the Bridge was also aug- |!" sing ing he platfy mented. Alrectly across the entrance of the slip. | were narrow escape ay Gotan Ge ee sth Sere, re The aie tg puffed vig rausly under All the siatlonk on the way down} '9%) o.oo: wan ge isbined that v:| oi eee _ Page) The ice blockade was bad enough * full head of steam for @ const ble (Continued on Sixth Page) Pairs could aot be made on i! For seeing, mews see seventh pager, . s board, (saying that the Pilgrim passed there at | ulet sea to make such a venture moder> str ossibility tat the ship will never | | There was belief expressed that the ene Dose me ¥ Mane pie re “ “| ¥S8el was La Gasrogne, but as the w: ne to shore Is eviden| n the fact) to Sandy Hook and all along the Long that insurance rates » yesterday | Island coast are down, no definite infor afte .oon to 10 per cent. ‘The chances| Mation ca. be obtained. re that from 15 to 2) per cent, will be |), 48,%/lh be seen from the accompany. from his after asked for reinsuring if she is not heard! La Gascogne and Teutonic coming ee e hed the of passengers, for the theory of the un-| AS the day advanced juors. Al doned and her passengers be brought to land by another v conductor; porte fom vessels coming In, showing | 0, steerage passengers, Blex sald that he o— which is the shortest water route to image y a EN Brooklyn, and even here the boats were har Mek theta DISCOMFORT ON THE “L delayed at both sider of the rive ariel. es rf he Wall Street Ferry w Ae io emin ) Stations dammed twenty-tlve minutes hea t ai. Bib wae and Care Not He ten, which is the ordinary schedule, ad No Ninth ave S the boats from James and Roosevelt is morning the ferry docks were {One Hundred and Twen + ferries were only sent out at long anid ite caabws ed chunks |*t@tion from Gne Hund (irregular ‘ntervais, go at eregrr cnet sy tuth » this morning for twenty-five ‘The Bridge was no smail gainer by the ae Sd ating coat c munutes” Meanwhile a big rowd gach storm. Cars were run on three Stes Ts: £8 arene fered, on the platform, ‘sapped their headway until late In the faeeane Fiver front were glistening with | hands and kicked their heels uid abused jthe standers were many. A policeman | #8 WY covering. So far as could be/ tet” Online te into the) seri j stationed at this end of the Hr Pees “ne Bee ine raw acct: | eatin it Was crowed! to the ¢ \hots experience Gaker Lin cee?) | dents, inn eas mae ‘the Gare thority, sald that up to 11 o'clock fully | 72° 8 Island Serry<bous stilaie : pe SHES HAC Shey 47,000 more persons had crossed the [Own Was delayed for some time in|" jq Bridge than on ordinary week aren, entering her slip this morning by the | pulled the t 1 the train, Ni that there has been such a furious gale | j, m]|On the Atlantic that it would be dan. . but there! gerous for one ve! tous for thelr safety steamsh: te felt for the Fall River) ye should be remembered, however, wt Pilgrim, which had not] that in such a sea as has been raging arrived in Fall River up to 4 o'clock this| {tt would be with the greatest danger afternoon facing them that those on La Gascogne | would put off In boats to reach another | | vessel. They might have to walt for ved from Newport | days in such weather for a sufficiently | Some fears w Shortly after that hour, however, a Jespatch was re ately safe, Although the White Star liner Teutonle is noW over two da; overdue, the offl- is of the line are still confident that ', Muss. {She 19 delayed either by the bad weather wved to be | OF vevause she ts helping some vessel {in distress. It is thought that she may, |be bringing La Gascogns passengere of 4 fisning schooner just outside the|1ito port, and that her delay has beep hapuor | due to lying to until the weather was fit to transfer the passengers, The report ts on its face absurd, pale, theory that she may have ; SB French steamship in tow was destroys Of Tn Gascogne nothing has been | today by the announcement that, White heard since she left Havre a week ago Star vessels with mails on board ca only delay to save iife, not property, turday | also by. the positive” statement of old ae __ salts that it woul almost impossibte = in such @ sea as there has been for over a week for one ship to tow another. TEUTONIC AND LA GASCOGNE, | Such an undertaking, it is” claimed, *) would be as dangerous for the shi - - | Ahead as the one in tow. and the eap- tain of the Teutonic would not piace Yet from the Over- his passengers in such peril, i an Liners, | In ition to the Teutonic there are 4 her vessels overdue that may be help- amship La Gus- Lo Gascogne. Among them are the Star liner Rnyniand, thirteen days: rm among the frends of out trom Antwerp, and the Manitoba, i th every om Antwerp. ard i increasing with every e steamship was reported to be Even the most hopeful cannot de- off Fire Island last night, themselves into thinking there has histles were heard by 6 anything but a most serious acci- 0% Shore, but owing to the storm it waa i, and that experts believe there is| ance 4.19, apparently all right I jascogne is now five days overdue, The Teutonte is two days late, i A ch from Gloucest ys a large steamship bel the ‘Teutonic, was seen by the captain Nothing He: due 0. The French line impossible to send boats to her assist. ing cut the paths usually traversed by on. Way converge at about a third ar an way out. jascogne re: in this, however, to! point in safety and due time cause additional anxiety as to the lives|be three days ahead of the Tt Taere is noth derable ai el by friends of siderable alarm expressed by friends o rweriters is that if La Gascogne 's| those on the Teutonic, and the tele- y damaged she may be aban- phone of the White Star line office was bt busy anawering auerles, “Informa: tion was also sought by’ telegral It was stated that on the Tew! "4 This theory is strengthened by the re- | there afe 160 sa.con, 8 second cabin an The theory of her agents is that she lying outside the Hook, it being ormy that it would scarcely be safe 1 to take another in| ——— a