The evening world. Newspaper, February 14, 1914, Page 2

Repeat | "SHE BVENING WoRLD, ‘SatruRDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 1004, ORM TIES UP TRAFFIC AND SENDS TWO SHIPS ADRIFT } ‘ { fe ster, sen te ten ort mora Fifth Avenue’s Busiest Corner During the Storm, ar eishees ct erie cess! TW) SHIPS TORN were lectria raliroad oie ele rece eaten Sl g Library at.42d Stre ei Seat New lochelle and White ‘men thi : A woman |Plains. Intercity Itnes were aban- oats saat ’ rae D y o bilssard in years. Ratiroad ‘ Bullding was \doned. ‘The line from Yonkers to the! ® z @ jcar service te badly cri 4 s by the storm, then | subway terminal at Two Hundred and|@ "Se S¥veyy ‘i ; . , seas © | cacqnmnout the country sect 2 around and then her skirt | Forty-second street managed to keep D ; Py an a yo , : hae] & | Several trains on the Berie’and. On: \ her head, ripped from | one car an hour in motion. Hundreds Se ‘ ‘ ‘ 3% y ; : cs ‘ @ |tarlo and Western are fast in drifte, ; city by tha : - 8 Pn fo} —-— 18 INCHES OF SNOW pc IN PENNSYLVANIA. throughout Northern New; te Local Fore- | Jevsey were abando : ry . , 4@@| PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 14—The wd of the pres travellers pried chase woes ‘ . ‘ - mgt i: @ | fret big snow sf¥rm to sweep across Ashore at Staten Island United | walk or stay home. r.. 4 os : : ; . this section of the country this winter f : BB , ‘ ae. 7 © | eft fall of seven inches in Philadel- Await High Tide. hia and as much as eighteen inches in parts of Pennsylvania. Sleet and rain followed the snow, with usual discomfituse to pedestrians and disarrangement of train schedules. 2 | Colder weather and more snow is ex- during the day, the weather announced. ty | Hil : used. TWO.STEAMERS FLOATED AFTER PERIL IN STORM. G NORFOLK, Va., Feb. 142Two Rjocean going steamers escaped de- @ | struction and cheated the pounding feas of a winter Fi & 3 i it | 24 3 i iis after riding out a thirty-mile north. easter, ashore near Cape Henry, got jot and away during the night, ® ‘parently uninjured. Life-savers 2 | tempted to reach the tramp but were = | thwarted by high seas. The revenue cutter Onon ©] stood by the The Park, Capt. Cott, from New Orleans for Hamburg with co! floated unassisted when the wi: shifted to the northwest. The vessel ‘Railroad Traffic Tied Up; |?" 24Rorstost |, |manaat ae ie . : 3’ IN STORM ON SOUND. fred. mee Park castles a crew at —_ M Tr Abandoned eT (Special to The Brent | Poe ge ftmae nes a S| ERY ATONE ADANONCE weotishshe eT el crTY 70 BUT WoRn iny wi - ipod tol ened cara to be brought in and af! suburban traffic on all branches of |divisioa, both in the lectrified sone, | DOF early this afternoon, reported the BOS Tan UNEMTLOTED porated {regular service was renew i. The! tne Erie and the D., I. & W. was|Were pretty nearly on tine breaking away of four barges she was| The city’s temporary employment ‘Third avenue line was never stopped, completely tied up by the storm. The| THROUGH TRAINS FROM THE|towing off Bartlett's Reef, about |bureau and central exchange was thrown though it was slow. Nearly all the/mrie managed to get one train into WEST VERY LATE. twelve miles west of New London in|open at 9 o'clock this morning at No stalled cars on all lines were in mo-| the station in Jersey City four hours Long Island Bound. The United Btates | Z, seneea Bah whe fi ave. gece af ite i ata ih iv tk i j i r } Pi il g e ree! Hi 4B j tion by 2 o'clock. late, Other trains were stalled in | fered Government transport Gen. Brannan ugh it Harry Carrigan, superintendent of | drifts along the road, and late trains, | f siarge of Apresras which usually carry brokers and | reported drifts up Bta! : Gowntown business men, were not be 9 tiled with Backed snows see started from thel rban e Central's main lit at all. mee sermtber from an hour to two oe elate, “The Twentieth Century, due lcago At 9 o'clock notices were posted in| at 9.40, was ‘an hour and bait inte, the Erie station that regular trains | Tha Montreal express, due at 7.26, bad been abandoned until further no- | ! Preceded by ten minutes tie. To add to the diMculties of the pices arrived ‘at 40, two ‘The Salutation, after reaching the operation of the road occasioned by | hours and thirty-seven minutes late, lighthouse in the lower harbor, found unusually high tide/ Moroiing the worst dolay of any of | sonditions so severe that her master rT Sl Deteetty PP xsd deemed it wise to return oer ted tT oe i i i ei He Pi i “4 iH il H j weat The barges bh went adrift wars en sald, a od Mbopeher Anbstniea Fier 2 ‘oods, Rose Marie Feeney an ~ | year, now to-day more fortunate than the Erie in mov- | wou! ‘boat the tia expected of tiene abeth of the McCaffety line. There] ‘The essectation ts greatly in need| Price's garage in ine but the interlocking switch | The New Haven's Boston expreeses| Were five men and iour women on|of help, to provide rent, food end|More than twenty ai trains, he en. | Were from an hour to two hours tate | those barges. Capt, Gilligan expressed | clothing: Camnees te the GUGR FE and signal system guarding the en- | 1° noir crews reported no blocks,| bis belief that the vessels went to to the Hoboken yards went out |The great fear of the ralirond vcc's| pieces soon after they broke adrift S f 0 - ey iesion morning. ae and that all on board perished. He t E p of, comm! early in the ng.|& sudden drop in temperature which| And that | five the naanan at orms O er aus i E i : ; lilt bh Reals H eae! firet F i At ® o'clock eight suburban trains ‘ings up. If this comen it f 111 be almost people on th but sald they i ¥ were stalled in a string alonk the wilt be FEPORRDIS to) hone | Me ncawn al the opeaays Hee Para q zed New York CHAN tracks across the Hackensack | PENNSYLVANIA'S TRAING DE-| York office. pT] CR TO SHOVEL. Meadows outside the tunnel. Hardy @ did not know when the barges The busiest spots in New York this passengers were walking in tc Hobo- LAYED py THE 6TORM. broke away, The ‘nret i) kaew about ’ morning were Nos. 600 and 601 Fifth |,on, braving the dangers of the long |_ The Pennsylvania's main line trains | the trouble was when, two miles west | iis ie one of the dayn which brings | total snowfall tt of Bartlett's Reef, he saw a red lan- y! snowfall was 0} avenue and No. 619 East Sixteenth | tenn. Tavs ued te sae entree sees |ccen wanted tener ous ce tin ceesie’ lout that sare specimiea—the’ native than 10 inches, ‘the wind street. At No, 600 Figth avenue is TRAINS FROM THE WET ALL |Pittaburgh trai Atlantic, Metro- rges. The wind was terrific] New Yorker. Also, it develops the ¥ the headquarters ‘of the Snow Re-| araLteD IN MOUNTAINS. politan, Mercantile‘and Tron City all|and the sea very high. The harges| man in great. hordes who can tell all oval Bureau and at No. 601 are Passaic on the main lind O€} hing esnedaien, uid the Met tee feeders thousand tone of weal) out ‘the snows and storms of yes- Bel om Beyond ‘ ac} an letro} 5 « I eon with re paid: 7)9 the D, I, & W. the drifts'wdre ‘sol manhattan Limited aad Broadway ——— teryear, compared to which this on & email territory turned”éver to|bia® that only the most powerful Limited from Chicago were equally|NEW ENGLAND GETS fn a mere whisper, a soft sigh, | Ur!" me We but. locomotives could buck their way ‘The delay in local wervice caused SHARE OF BLIZZARD. tremulous southern zephyr. csp ‘s}storm until to-day. through. Traine from the West, due | inconvenience to the greatest number, Partly true. Compared to some of the in the early morning hours, were | however, for thousands of commuters things which happened in the good olf stalled out in the mountains of New |Gepend on the p foade entering this} BO§TON, Feb. 14.—The Western| days, to-day’s Iittle affair im’t much. Sixteenth street, which was|Jereey and Pennsylvania and the only {107 °° carry, them to and from work. | snow storm promised as a chasér to| Fer instance: The bllssard of third busiest spot. chance of getting them into Hoboken /trains running almost on time up to|the elghteen-year record for cold|—of the 12th and 18th of March, R. T. KEEPS LINES OPEN; |rested in the cessation of the storm. Jamaica, were discourgged when, at|struck Boston during the night and| 1! It had some character, that this point, switching ‘troubles e city awoke to find six inches of/atorm. On the afternoon of the 11th EXTRA “L” CARB. ‘An Erle train got snowed in at | {nls point switching | troubles | he . ‘The B. R. T. reported all its Lines [Little Falls. It was full of passengers |‘rhere tras nothing to de’ bat uiey [snow on the ground. The heaviest|most every one went overcoatloss, anzious to get to the city. They alljon the cars, however, as the trolley | fall of the winter continued during] The thermometers read from 46 to ft said tt|plled off and helped the train crew | service form Jamaica into the city|the day. Commuters’ trains were not| 50, the lower figure being official. would be able to handle, Its trains |shovel anow off the track, but the| "Si fomorallsed. 1 Idelayed materially, but through train| Then it began to snow. When the from the subdrban districts were from |train never reached the station in sande of belated commuters, many of shies ve by aaig sa Storm pe e See, westy ea rose on ie bece: whom customarily use the surface | warnings have been se ng the ermometer was standing - ee, eee mianiee ete bet the Terany City decnune of the switch 1 Tings to get to business, crowded ¢ w England coast. The full force| at 6 above. Most of those two days they expected to/and signal subway this morning to such an of the storm was not expected te|it had been blowing at the rate of ve on a large force of men to keep| DELAYS CA BY CLOGGING /tent that extra platform men and|reach here until late afternoon, The| fifty to fifty-five miles an hour, and Mines open. OF THE SWITCHES. guards were put on duty to keep pe: rm is general throughout the Kast-| the total snowfall was about 201-2 y put on extra elevated trains,| Although trains on every raliroad|#0ne from being pushed onto the ern States, with trains late and traf-| inches. wed fortunate, for thou. Wea ails arrival few | racks. fic_ blocked. ‘The chronicle in the aveather office, we entering er from « few! nioTs IN STATIONS WHEN 'y of the storm off shore| written at that time by a man who of persons living within walk-|minates to two hours late, railroad ted by the burricane at|was there and saw and recorded it, distance of the elevated preferred |men said they didn’t consider this a TRAINS FAL TO RUN. where the wind gauge|{!s somewhat naive. He recounts that chances on it to going by the|serious storm. The delays were|. The almost complete collapse of| registered a velocity of sixty oight in many places the anow lay in drifts as usual. The result was that gaid, by the clogging of the suburban service on the Erieand| Miles an hour. At Nantucket the| fifteen and twenty feet high, that at id 24 caused, they ing of/D. L. and W, caused regular riots| Velocity was forty-four miles, The|7 o'clock all the elevated and street crowds were handled pretty well, /ewitches and by the additional time|in bay stations 0s me many ovine S0t~ Spoweel beowent wee us a iecided pee ont Rig beet up and Shay by they would ha: ramped consumed extreme yusness, |#ey towns, mn an | rise perature, but the Weather| 8 o’c! jusiness Was suspended. but for the peta dy iali ie ‘All the ph of pop ries Divi. | practically cut off rom New York, | Bureau predicted a resumption of the The ferries stopped running, no street were centres of dist . severe cold with the passing of the|car dared to poke its nose out of sion of the New York Central used/ " 4}i through the morning there were | disturbance-to-night or to-morrow, doors, all the wires went down and, by commuters from Westohester| fro 000 to 6,000 persons in the ——<s eleotricelly at least, New York spent County and other up-river points ar-| Baiteon walling for traine that aia| STORM IS HEAVY Naae ee eee rived close to sebedule Over its! not come. Only two trains were HROUGHOU “Then, in December 1090, on the 26th whole electric sone the Central kept] started for New York after 8 o'clock, 7 GHOUT STATE. i and ¢! fourteen inches of snow sweepers operating all night and train if R9g8 iff full; Ue lite ae itis PFIZER i i fe. ! ait biy i g Bask fe i I Heit i alt fed Petit »eee d iM a ath, were packed like subway fell, the wind blew so hard it wrecked after train was sent over the tracks,|trains during the rush ee, ¥ The} ALBANY, Feb. 14.— Fourteen| the wind gauge and there was an en- not to carry passengers, but to keep| Piatforma, ware jammed, end men |inches of snow covered Albany and during temperature of about 14 de- ‘the [the Fight of wey clear of snow. lives, At Passaic men unable to en- |\ts environs to-day, according to the|” There was also the storm of Christ- ley cars and got | The New Haven's commuters did|ter Weather Bureau figures, and at noon | mas dey 190%, much like to-day's, The ted, and, although twenty snow- | out ‘took the subway to Rot fare quite so well, as most of Th it was atill snowing bevy.) ——_—_—__— and ubway did not get into th plows were kept busy, fow, if any, of/ York to insure getting to work on |them come from more distant points & ore weit 7 Mey Tis | residents fala that to-day’ Dilszard the suburban trolley lines wure in op-|time. The resvit was that the sub- and there was added opportunity for (ig ed uble. deca Neeley bal, ° pes gall S ie elt; sad an unprecedented crowd to |aeiay in ton satibions! miles. Sroina iiitam, Colitns, a ayer, of Be, ur almost at a standstill. ‘The storm is rom, en were from | Vii street, Paterson, wi LJ 2, All cars on the Coney Island and |{70s seh hi pli 0 Wty ire to the Market Btreet station nt Free fa peinte asaiting tars ane Yuban will give ‘There wes an unprecedented rush | Brooklyn road were delayed by the Toland h Gaylight tocday to set @ Jtrein for laway behind their achedules, snow, but the company reported ita| The Long ere who depend on|fiy’ pace of employment’ at ‘River. |*7ay, behind thelr schedules, tirel: the |0M the subway and elevated. In the |lines open. Trains on the Long Island |the railroad to get them to work fight h bound, with interurban ireiiny ome you an en y ‘again after | Subway it took an hour for trains to | Raliroad entering the Flatbush ave- ye . y traffic L - : <3 found, themselves tn eal nue station wore all delayed by the |poarcely de ¢ all, though trains tion he dropped dead, practically af s standatill and trains from Bronz Park to One Hunéres | Teicher, 708 OY te sever’ the asin line, the Moctaai ote | rie ental eboeed ee itew Jer- eee eee ee Leet erint saow new idea of how Forty-ninth street because of the|" The Btaten Leland electric car vision and the Oyster Bay section | sey and the Lehigh Valley maintained |", years a Swe id Plows encountered” tan fot | Sees is sortog* ana etl et (etnuion” ini® "Rae kn ah | batthbo eet ill he at |e sae at plows encountered ten foot | 0’c! la morning and, exce; F |main| . 'Y | Syracuse was snowbound, the drifts those ise within reece sf te team |trains and those of the Rockaway ' minutes late, being four feet high. Two-thirds of the sarly-bird population was forced ICEMEN HOPE THE he explained, 1s 2,500,000 tons, which | Hf if i ay if HH is in ‘Walk ban " ai the aimeatty found | . 5 A will suppiy all the companies in the city |!" Tunning street cars, Many trains aie rare er anandty ea cits | | See MCI LAST cn out wet ring eam: | "Fun eave Seow stra of ak am Leer eA Eee MOK eR | mas ta of this weather wits |{rtably. Last year fell far below that = mark," == a <= an und — — Madleon avenue line berms after 8 lied avooue, where. ‘bs had probe |st. Oler ai) the “Akulchervockar iee| M7 Oler wouldn't comma hlmanit te i on OR ARTERMAL, sfork, Ae bad bovn the experience labiy gous to keep owt of tha theca, |Chmmons, remarsed. "A Swen” et iad Mt ces toast pA LANAI a eee | a em