Morning journal and courier., 1888-03-14
THE GREAT SNOW STORM
ParalyzatiOn of Business.
THE BIG CATF's ANOMALOUS
 QUIET.

ManufactOrIeR, Schools and Most of
 the Stores still CIosed-Precautions
 for Fighting Fire-FIremen at the
 Steamer Houses-Firemen Draw Fire
 Supplies-No Horses or Teams Out Narrow Escapes From Death on the
 Street Roof COIIapses - Lutz's Cigar Store Demolished-Many WO- men Spend the Night In the Factories Tunnels Through the snow - Scarcity Of Coal and Meats-scenes About the City.
 The biggest snow storm in these parts, in 1 the history of any man living in our city, | still continues at this hour, 7:30 p. m. All | day yesterday the flakes came down some~ ! times in a hesitating manner, as if the storm had half mind to ''let up," and then falling | with renewed vigor. But the furious driving | wind of the day and night before had greatly | abated, giving men chance to brave the storm and attempt tramp in the snow. This was great relief as compared with the | blizzard fury of the storm the day before. But even in the center of tine city few people | were out, no more in number than village of two thousand people ought to turn out. | Ours indeed was snow beleaguered city. | The huge snow banks in front of many stores \ and houses hid the first stories almost from view. The fury of the gale had packed the l snow, heavy as it was, in drifts from six to | fifteen feet high. Many tall fences in the suburbs were hid from view. People dig ging passageway in deep drifts in front of | their houses were in most cases hid from the view of passer. by in the street. Many l small one story houses looked about buried l in the snow. reminding a former European | traveller of Swiss chalets which he had seen \ buried in the snow up to the caves. Snow, snow, snow, everywhere, blocking up streets, burying fences, stopping travel by steam cars, horse cars, wagons, and putting veto on all trade except the very necessities of life. All the dry goods stores con- tinued closed yesterday. It was impossible \ for the clerks, especially the lady clerk, to | get out. All trade WAS at standstill; hard 1 ly factory or shop was running in the city, l no New York or Boston or Hartford news papers to be obtained; in short, none from
 outside the city, and no mails. New Haven | was and still is as isolated from the world as | she was 100 years ago. People can now I imagine how the old colonists used to get along in these respects. No afternoon papers were published in the city-the Register and Union not being issued. There was great demand for the JOURNAL AND COURIER, and the whole edition, blocked as the city was by snow, was either called for by subscrib- CTS or sold by the dauntless newsboys late in the day, after some of the walks had been cleared in the center of the city. It was, of course, an impossibility for the carrier beys
 to deliver their routes yesterday morning, No such time has ever occurred before in the
 memory of the very oldest inhabitant, and as one of our lawyers said in our office last eve ming, ''the oldest veteran will have to back down on the big snow storms of his youth and award this one the palm of victory" l "Dis snow storm takes de cake" said an old ! colored man as he shook the snow from his whiskers last night. ''I got out O my house this morning by diggin' tunnel froo the snow, an my ole woman said, go right out ole man to de store and get some fresh lib
 ber I crawled out, and after being most
 buried up got to de store an dare wasn't a speck of libber nohow, nor any kind of meat. | De butcher hadn't been roun', an even de
 bologna sausages were all eat up. Dey had
 no milk 'eept condensed milk, an so got a
 loaf of bread-de nex' to de Ias' in de store and went home with it, glad to get dat. I Nebber see such 8 snow afore, beats all hem- lock, and it ain't stopped yit."
 The old colored gentlemans experience was repeated all over town yesterday. For thir- l ty-six hours hardly horse has been out, hardly team seen, no cabs running, no hacks, 10 butcher wagons, no baker wagons, ! no horse cars, ''ne nothing that is drawn by l horses" Said one old citizen to reporter: ] t'You've the biggest snowfall to record in your paper ever known in New Haven, and hope the Historical society or old citizens will trot out the old records to zee how the old storms compare" It was stiller than Sunday about the city. It seemed like a buried city, judging from the outlook in the suburbs.
 8p. m.-The stars are out, not all, but a few which twinkle give promise that others will venture to show themselves in the firma- ment
 S:0O.-Ihe sky IS clear once more. At she Rubber Shop.
 At the rubber shop three hundred girls were accommodated Monday night The shop was shut down early and few started home, but the others waited thinking that the storm would subside. The longer they waited the worse the storm became until they gave up all hopes of getting home. Several girls went home each in care of two men. A number of these tainted by the wayside. At several intervals the women would faint and after the greatest difficulty, in the face of the binding storm, the men succeeded in getting them home. Yesterday when beaten paths were made the girls were sent home accom- panied by men to get them through safely. Clock shop.
 The women employees of the clock shop were provided with blankets and kept in the shop all Monday night.
 Winchester's.
 At Winchester's armory work was stopped at 3 o'clock Monday afternoon. A few of the girls went home, but most of them didn't. Many found shelter in houses near by the shops, while the greater majority stayed all night in the shop. There are some fifteen hundred hands employed in this shop, ,one-third of whom are girls. The load ing department, where about one hundred hands are employed, has been idle for the past week waiting for the work to ''catch up."
 Rockers Carriage Shop.
 At Rockers carriage shop the men did not come to work yesterday. About two hundred men are employed. The shop is all out of coal and there is no way of any being got so as to run the shop right away. It would have been of no use for the men to have gone to work yesterday owing to the scarcity of coal. The snow banks close in front of the shop on the State street side are from ten to fifteen feet high.
 o. B. North's.
 The snow had pretty well showed in the big foundry of O. B. North's shop So high was the snow on one side of the roof of one part of the building that props had to be put up to keep the roof from falling in.
 Mallory, Wheeler dc Go.
 Mallory, Wheeler & Co. shut down at 4