The daily gazette., 1880-12-29
Gbt AaiIg Gasettf
O. r. JOHNSON. K4iiser q Proprietor
WEDNESDAY. DECEMBER 40. 1850
The Snow ON rHn srRnErs-How

THE Snow ON THE SrREETs-How
1T IMPRDBs TRAvEL.--Those who do
not experience or personally witness
the effect of the heavy snow upon
travel and the manner in which it i'm
pedes the progress Of the business and
laboring people, can hardly imagine
the full extent of the difficulties re-
salting thsrefrom. Thsse difficulties
are TO be encountered everywhere; but
they are felt most in the great cities
where locomotion is required to be
more expeditions and to be carried on
through the streets that are partly fill
ed with the snow. Our own streets
present some of the difficulties COM
planned Of. But they are light COM
pared with the condition in which the
snow holds Philadelphia and no doubt
other large cities further North where
the snow has not thawed and lays in
great masses on each side of the street
railway tracks. What is prayed for by
the drivers and others who feel the
effects Of the snow,is thaw to take it
away. But it looks as ifit had come to
stay, and may therefore have yet to be
oarted from many of the streets. For
tunatsly for us there is double track |
on Market street, and there fore, the |
drivers are enabled to pass from one
railroad track to the Other and thus |
get out of the way of the cars. This
prevents the delay that is occasioned |
on streets where there is but one track |
~ in most of those in Philadelphia
There the snow covers the sides ofthe |
streets to such an extent that the arts, |
wagons, carriages and all other vehi-
cles are not able to get off the tracks
except at certain places and the delay
consequent upon the frequent neces-
sity to pass the cars both ways is very
trying to the patience. In addition
the snow is 80 frequently carried back
on the track that it requires the use of
four horses instead of two. The conse.
qnence is that there are only about
one-third the usual number of cars
running on the streets, and many per-
sons have found that they could not |
get to the depots promptly and have
been left by the trains they hoped to
take for their homes.
Those, therefore, who hope 10 reach
the depols in time must start early
enough to expect to wait fifteen OF
twenty minutes for the street cars and
TO witness them make flequent DELAYS
on the route. Not unfrequently the
cars are 30 full that no more can get on
the platform, and this occasions lie
necessity for waiting ten or fifteen
minutes for the next car, that may be
full also, or adopting the surer mode of
walking to the depot, which many are
found doing. How the snow is to be
got away is troublesome que .tion, and
Is constantly asked without being an
sWered. In our own city thu same
difficulty arises and the common solu.
tior is that it will have to be left in
most part until there is thaw, and is
melted away as In all former occasions.
The cost to the street railways is very
heavy, and many of them will fsd .hal
it has absorbed every cent they had
hoped TO have declared as dividends
They have large bodies of men engaged
in clearing the tracks, anu ale com
PEELED to use double teams while the,
carry very diminished nuuber OF
passengers.