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and one-half or two inches deep. All foliage on grapevines and on 

 many shrubs and trees was greatly injured, and in some cases almost 

 ruined. Twigs a quarter of an inch in diameter were snapped, and 

 fruit of several kinds was knocked from the trees. Young peaches, 

 apples, and pears were split squarely in two, exposing the green and 

 half developed seeds within. Pieces of thick slate from the roof were 

 strewn about on the grass beneath. 



About six hundred panes of glass in the S. S. White Dental Com- 

 pany's building were broken, and the glaziers were kept busy for days 

 afterward. A train of the Staten Island Rapid Transit Railroad, which 

 passed through Princes Bay, had a good many of the north windows 

 broken. 



One of the stones that my mother and I measured showed a circum- 

 ference of eight and one-quarter inches. The weight was between 

 three and four ounces on our mail scales, and the stone was weighed 

 after it had melted considerably. 



Messrs. Frank Schultz and Sterling Wincapaw, who were in Totten- 

 ville at the time of the storm and who beat a hasty retreat to an old 

 shed on the beach for shelter, both testified that anyone not having 

 been near the water when the stones were falling had missed a memo- 

 rable sight. They said that several of the ice balls passed completely 

 through the somewhat rotted roof of the shed. They also stated that 

 each stone on hitting the surface of the water caused a great splash, 

 sending the water several feet into the air. 



Without much exertion two of us picked up about fifty pounds of 

 ice and deposited it in the ice chest. When the "ice man" came later 

 in the afternoon, we told him we did not care for any ice that day, for 

 we had gathered ours on the lawn. 



Photographs, shown on Plate III, were taken by Mr, Schultz, which 

 verify to a great degree the above statements as to size, etc. Figure i 

 shows six hailstones that completely filled one of Mr. Wincapaw's 

 hands; figure 2 is a flashlight picture, showing them heaped up in an 

 ice chest; and figure 3 shows Mr. Schultz's ice cream freezer full of hail- 

 stones. The family made ice cream later in the afternoon using the 

 hailstones in the place of ordinary ice. 



The stones resembled monstrous lozenges in shape, some being frilled 

 or corrugated on the outer edg-e. Almost every one started in the 

 center with a small ball of white snowT ice; then came a ring of trans- 

 parent ice with tiny bubbles distributed through it, and so on to the 

 cicrumference there were the alternating rings of clear and opaque ice. 



