Recalling Great Blizzards Past

The New York Times is comparing Winter Storm Juno with the blizzard that occurred on December 26 and 27 in 1947. 

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Gossips doesn't know what the effects of the 1947 blizzard were on Hudson, but we do know about the blizzard of 1888. Here's what was reported in the Evening Register on March 12, 1888, on the second day of the storm, which began on March 11 and ended on March 14. 

The Snow-Drift.

. . . The boy with his snow shovel became discouraged early this morning.

The snow storm raised the d--- with the telegraph wires to-day.

Business along the wharves, piers and slips was suspended to-day.

It is a cold day when it snows in bed.

If you don't get your REGISTER this evening, we shall say the carrier boy knows his "biz."

"Did you blow in?" is what the business man said to-day to his customers.

The boys postponed their games of marbles to-day, on account of the weather.

The "little German band" did not "spiel" on the streets to-day.

Milkmen who came to this city this morning with wagons, had a hard time getting home.

A colored woman passed down Warren street this morning during the blizzard, with a paper box of ice cream.

This was a good day to take inventory of stock.

The railroad officials in this city refused to take freight to-day.

The members of the police force were anxious to lose a day, rather than face the storm.

There is no more need of directing the policemen to strike their clubs on the curbstones, for "they can't do it, you know."

The firemen and policemen should do their duty now—or never.

A March Storm.

A terrible storm of wind and snow set in last evening and continued throughout most of the day. The snow was light and dry and flew through the air like smoke. The streets and highways are drifted, and the storm was the most severe of the season. Trains and mails were delayed and out-door business generally suspended. Why not let Dakota into the Union and stop all this bluster?

Accident on the Hudson River Railroad.

A dispatch to this office this morning says at 8 o'clock this morning in a blinding snowstorm the Atlantic express bound south on the Hudson River railroad, ran into the rear of another Atlantic express at Dobbs Ferry, demolishing the cars. Four persons are known to have been badly injured. Both tracks are badly obstructed. All south-bound trains are held at Tarrytown.

The snowstorm commenced yesterday afternoon is the heaviest in several years. It is still in progress with a heavy wind. The snow is between twelve and eighteen inches deep. All trains on both the West Shore and Hudson River railroad are much behind.