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Show LUy W. U- Tolej;rai.h.J SEW VOHU HiNUWIIOlM), New York, 27. The streets to-day are banked wi'h snow. No such snow storm has been witnessed iu this section sec-tion for upward of twenty years. List night tho streets were deserted from an early hour iu the evening, business beii;g mostly suspended. No persons ventured out csei-pt from - absolute nece.v-.ity. Thousands slept down (.own at hotels or in their ollices, owing to their inability to reach their homes in tho upper parts of tho city. Clasi-cs dependent upon their day's earnings for the tollowing nieht s shelter, suffered immensely. Thousands Thou-sands of them wandered about the streets not knowing where to go. Some of the principal lines of street cars are running to day, with doublo team?, aud aro heavily overloaded. A few stages oontinue running, but only at rare intervals are carts or other vehicles seen in the street; Tho cleaning clean-ing bureau yesterday ordered a loroo of laborers to work to-day cleaning cross walks and approaches to ferries and in general shovelling snow. S pecial attention will bo given to cleaning Broadway on which the snow lays a foot deep on tho level. The entire cost cleaning tbis street for a distance of seventy blocks will cost $20,000. The thermometer to day stands about on an average with yesterday, yes-terday, ten degrees above zero. The storm told heavily upon business, especially es-pecially by tho delayed mails, No mails were sent yesterday except those sent early, and no mail has arrived here since yesterday noon. In Brooklyn Brook-lyn and suburbs nearly all travol and business aro suspended. During tho height of tho storm yesterday afternoon after-noon a large meteor was seen at Hunter's Hun-ter's Poiut, L 1. All railroad traveling travel-ing on Lond Island has ceased. - Tho steamships Holsatia and City of Limerick Lime-rick for Europe, and tho Columbia for Havana, beside several coasting steamships, steam-ships, which were to leave yesterday, are detained by the storm. No arrivals arri-vals from sea yesterday. |