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Gotham Feels The Breeze

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Parent Issue
Day
30
Month
November
Year
1888
Copyright
Public Domain
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New York, IĆ­ov. 27.- The commeree of tbis port yesterday was pretty much limitad to the arrival of five schooners by the way of the sound. High winds and rain covered the entire Atlantic coast from Norfolk, Va., to Nova Seotia. On the coast north of New York the wind blew (ifty to sixty miles an hour, and Bloeit island, which reported eighty miles Sunday, reported eightyfour yesterday. Here the northeast wind rose to thirty-eight miles an hour. A telegram from Atlantic City Is as follows: The terrifflc wind and hail storm which began Sunday morning continuad all tbrough the night with increasing fury, spreading destruction from end to end of the oceari boulevard. Tbe buildings whicb succumbed to tbe terrific onslaught of the waves Sunday night were the United States photograph gallery, Mott's pavilion, Clement's shell store, anda number of s mail shanties, all between New Jersey r.nd Virginia avenues. "During the night the work of undermiuing went on without interruption, and yesterday morning the list of properties destroyed includes Jackson's bath houses and pavilions, whieh are now fast going to pieces; Adams', bath houses; Johnson's bath houses; the Uhe United States bath houses, and all the smaller booths and pavilions in the vieinity. The Half Way house has been lifted entirely from its foundations, and will probably go to pieces. At the inlet the destruction is general, and efforts were made to save all movable property. The new wharf of the Yachtsmen's asgociation and other wharves have been demolished.

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Ann Arbor Argus
Old News