Morning journal and courier., 1888-03-16
AFTER THE GREAT STORM.

AFTER THE GREAT STORM. The ely Getting Into Shape Again
 Hundreds of Men and Carts Elm
 pIoyed Moving the snOw-Trains
 Running on the COnsolidaIed-Men
 OPenIng up The Road South and the
 Blockade Soon to be Ltfted-The |
 Spirit ofFun Abroad After the Bliz- l
 gard.
 The city resumed activity yesterday to | considerable extent. Horses and carts in 1 great numbers and many OK teams were in the center csrting away snow, and many of the grocers succeeded in reaching many ot
 their customers with their teams. Coal carts
 were out delivering coal to individuals and to
 factories, and an army of people were shoV-
 cling the snow off the sidewalks. Travel
 with Hartford, Springfield and Boston IS
 open, also trains on the Shore Line will
 run again to day. There was considerable bus
 mess done in the stores Chapel and
 Church streets. Thousands of people were
 out, including many young ladies. Lots of
 shop girls were out, the shops not all being open yet There were lively times in the center generally, and the brigt suns rays, the melting of the snow, the reopening of the
 passage on sidewalks, and the cheering pros pect that the wheels of business were to re- volve again soon ss usual, brought cheerful
 glow to all faces. At the Clock shop over ,000 hands were at work again yesterday. A big squad of the athletes were busy shov- cling away the snow banks in the yards. At ! Sargent's the 1 200 or 1,500 hands resumed l work yesterday. At the Rubber shop most 1 of the 1 500 hands were back at work. The | Artisan street shops are running again. But for lack of coal all the shops would re- open to-day, but all the shops have not a l supply of coal. Most of the shops were sup piled daily. Hence a considerable number I of the shops will not reopen until tomorrow, ! and some not until Monday. The big corset shop on Court street reopsns to-day. The
 shop has big supply of coal but it is in the 1 coal yard, but enough is obtainable to war ! rant the resumption of work to-day. The l revival of good spirits was manifest in the 1 impromptu signs stuck on the tops of snow | banks in front of stores On top of the big | bank in front of F. S. Platt's store were sev- eral pots of hyacinths with label under \ meath:
 'The flowers that bloom in the spring, ta ta' On the same snow pile was another read ing:
 ! Take me away I'll melt | In front of Thompson 6 Belden's on the | snow pile were these placards:
 "The snow that falls in the winter has nothing to ' do with the spring, tra la"
 "Now is the time to paint your roofs Tn oE +aa &ha ba sign:
 we sell tea ct thirty five cents erd give away ! snow.''
 On top of the huge pile in front o6Peck & Bishops was rocking chair. | In front of B. Booths auction store, on top | of the snow it read:
 Here to day and gone tomorrow In the alleyway near F. S. Platt's was the ! sign:
 keep off the grass. | Assistant Superintendent Wallace received | the following dispatch from Superintendent ! Davidson of the Hartford division yesterday ! forenoon:
 1 Our work train will reach New Haven about 12 ! to-day. Immedatelv on arrival of train send pas | senger train bacF.
 | When MT. Wallace read the dispatch to 8 party of gentlemen at the depot there was ! universal satisfaction manifested and few I minutes later when the bulletin announced 1 that passenger train would leave the depot ! at D. m. it was read probably by five hun 1 dred people who were waiting for train trans l portatien out of the city. The boat which | arrived in this city Wednesday evening I brought 8 large number of passengers bound | north. It was surprising that there was such \ large number of people at the depot. The | train which arrived from the north was greet
 ed with loud cheering.
 Wild Hurrah 1t Was | Aa the hio orord aau the train from COrinO- field arrive. It was at 12:30 noon. The
 train was drawn by two locomotives, 70 and 80. The train consisted of one mail car a
 baggage car and three passenger coaches which I rumbled along the platform. The steps and ! platforms of the cars were covered with | snow, an evidence of the immense drifts | through which the train had passed in it's | route from Spring6efP The passenger ! coaches were crowded with passengers, many | of whom had been stalled in the Springfield | depot since Monday and all seemed happy to have completed their journey to this city. Among the many who had assembled on | the platform to witness the arrival of the | train were acting President Reed, Chief Dispatcher N. E. Smith, Assistant Superin- ! tendent Wallace and Postmaster Benjamin E. English.
 Locomotive "A, which headed the train, was driven by Engineer O. B. Parrish, while
 
 feeding fuel to the devouring flames in the huge fire box. Locomotive 80 was manned 1 by Engineer Major Garfield and Fireman John Fenton. Conductor Judd Bray was in charge of the train. Each of these faithful employees bowed their acknowledgements of the warm greeting of the assembled passen- gers and seemed happy to think that the diff \ faculties they had surmounted on the trip were appreciated by their employers and the people.
 A train of five cars and two engines was \ loaded up in front of the depot and was ! quickly filled with passengers bound for ! Springfield, Boston, Hartford and every oth- \ CT point up the road. Conductor w. W. ! Pardee was in charge and he started her out \ promptly at one o'clock. So the first train ! to leave New Haven after the blizzard got ! away quarter of an hour after the first train ! arrived in New Haven. There were about ! 400 people aboard the train. Busy Times. Superintendent of Streets Doyle yesterday ' dred men and one hundred teams employed \ in clearing the streets of snow. In the Public Schools. | The public schools resumed regular ses- ' sions yesterday, but the attendance was not \ very good About half the usual number of | scholars got out in the morning and more ' were on hand in the afternoon. Except in the very remote parts of the city the walking ! is good. But the children were too excited \ about the snow and the chance for fun to go to school, and many of the boys stayed home \ to do some needed snow shoveling. The Country Towns Heard From. Cashier Trowbridge came here from Mil~ ' ford yesterday by means of a steam tug. He ! says there are places along the New York ! railroad track where the snow is twenty-five \ to thirty feet deep.
 Judge Fenn expects to get here to-day from Winsted to hear short calendar cases It is not known when the jury trials will be re- \ sumed as the jurymen are scattered all over \ the county and some may not be able to get ! here in 8 week.
 Nobody Dead 1n the Drifts. Chief of Police Bollman, Captain Hyde and other chief officers of the police say that there | is no foundation whatsoever to any of the ru- mors that people have perished in the snow-
 drifts in this city.
 Running Cars te Grand Avenue. ! The State street horse cars are running to Grand avenue. The road is now open from