New York in the blizzard; being an authentic and comprenhensive recital of the circumstances and conditions which surrounded the metropolis in the great storm of March 12, 1888

by Books Group

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1888 ... of Hart street was eleven feet deep, twenty feet wide, and forty feet long. The American Bank Note Company's building ia New Church street, in this city, was walled out of correspondence with the world by a bank of snow that prevented the manager, Mr. Lee, the only man who, came there yesterday morning, from getting. in. While the elevated railroad shovelled the «now from its tracks into the street, that and the neighboring corporations banked it up on the curb lines. The snow had ceased to fall during the darkness preceding Tuesday's dawn, but Tuesday's daylight was accompanied by an intensely strong and cold wind. The horse car corporations made no effort to run cars. One stockholder said that his company would have to pay so much more than the daily receipts of $30,000 to open the road that he imagined his road would do nothing more than wait for a thaw. He said that all the companies would wait either for a thaw or the Street Cleaning Department to render their tracks fit to run on. He had not taken President Chaunoey M. Depew into acconnt. His Fourth avenue cars began to run on part of their route late last evening. On the elevated roads the trains did nearly all the business of taking the city's multitudes up and down. The cold was so intense that those who rubbed peep holes in the car windows found that a film froze over th"e smooth surfaces faster than they could be rubbed clean. Whatever of the general scene of Gotham in the grasp of a blizzard was seen from the up lifted tracks must have been viewed from the car platforms. It was all new to New Yorkers. Here were men tunnelling through drifts higher than their heads to clean the sidewalks; there were others shovelling their way to the wagon ways to get out of their houses; elsewhere wer...

46 pages, Paperback

First published August 11, 2015