The last one cost the City Corporation $25,000!! The last man who contracted to clean New York of snow was cleaned out by two days of it, to the tune of $200,000.
Still, in spite of our alleged superiority in all things, one inch of snow in Chelsea can do more to drive one to drink and suicide than a foot of it "on the farm." At the farm we threw a ton of coal against it, and lit log fires and oil lamps, and were warm.

Here, they try to fight it with two buckets of soft chocolate cake called Welch coal, and the result is you freeze.

Cecil's studio is like one vast summer hotel at Portland Maine in January.

You cannot go near it except in rubber boots, fur coats and woolen gloves.

My room still is the only one that is livable.