Morning journal and courier., 1888-03-15
ARoYETHE CAR TOPS.

The Rig Drifts on tke Consolidated
 Road-Scenes at the Grand Central
 Depot Yesterday-The Stalled Trains
 How Things Looked From the New
 Workers Standpoint.
 All day long Tuesday the big waiting room of the New York, New Haven and Hartford railroad on the Forty-second street side of the Grand Central depot, New York, was crowded with people waiting for some information about the movement of trains. A good many in the throng were residents of the suburbs who were anxious to get home. They fired off telsgrams with great reckless ness as to the number of words and inciden- l tai expense One of these correspondents l indulged in uncomplimentary remarks about | the telegraph operators in the depot. When he went upstairs to the superintendent's office he was informed that the telegraph wires were down all along the line. Glow do you know where your trains are, | then?" inquired the visitor.
 'We don't know, was the laconic response l of the assistant to the superintendent in charge of the office. l "What!''
 1 ssYou know just as much about our line as wa do," summed up the assistant. | "Well, don't know anything" 'tNeither do l." confessed the railroad 1 official
 | The young man was not rude, as the seek | CT after information supposed, and was | merely telling the truth.
 Yesterdays New York World says: "One of the first things the blizzard did for the graph service, and up to late hour last l night all communication with the offices along the line was cut eff. The last traiR sent out was the Il p. m. express over the \ Shore line for Boston Sunday night. How | far it got is not known At least ten trains I were started for this city that never reached ! here Their whereabouts is mystery. One | on the Harlem river branch through West chester county, along the shore of the Sound, ! was reported to be completely showed in near the Barrew station. General Superintendent ! Turner stayed at his office until Monday at midnight and then, after getting little rest, \ went up to the station of the branch line just across the Harlem river. Early yesterday
 morning he started out to hunt up the lost
 train. Two locomotives, preceded by
 snow-plow and drawing couple of flat cars
 loaded with men and tools, comprised the | outfit of the expedition which Superlntend-
 ent Turner headed.
 | A short time later Assistant Superlnten- dent Hunter with like complement follow I ed his chief The plan of operations WAS to dig out the snow bound train and then dlg ! out the track as far as New Rochelle. If this | | the traius around by the branch and land
 passengers at the Harlem River station. 80 ! that they can come into the city by elevated
 roads. It will take some time to dig out the | cuts on the main line.
 OVER THE CAR ToPs.
 It is reported that just this side of Mount ! Vernon the snow has drlfted so that 1t is up even with the tops of the cars of train ! that has been stalled there for thirty-six | 4Tain ai5 fO ha | held at Bridgeport, and several are supposed to be at Stamford, where the roadmaster lives. The owl train which left Boston Sunday
 night over the Shore Line got stuck in a
 snowdrift in the viaduct just above the tun-
 nel Monday morning. It was due at the | Grand Central at am, and it was several
 hours late when the locomotive buried it's
 nose in a big snow bank at about One Hun
 dred and Tenth street. The passengers ! crawled out of the CATS and elambered down
 into the street and foundered off to place
 where they could get something to eat. The
 conductor and railway mail clerks stuck to
 their posts and foraging expedition was or ganized. After lying there thirty six hours
 the train gradually ploughed it's way through
 drifts and came into the Grand Central at 4 o'clock yesterday afternoon. It brought
 the first mail from New England since Sun day.
 Contractor Lee, who has a force of 400
 men at work at Rye station, went to Superin
 tendent Turner's office yesterday afternoon te
 find out what chance there was of a train
 running out there. 'FIt is pay day for the
 men to-day. If we can't get out to them 1T
 season to pay off they'll make that towr
 how'll said MT. Lee. When he was in.
 formed how serious the blockade was he of
 fered the services of his men as shovellers ts
 help out the railroad company.
 ''But how will we get orders to them? ) asked the superintendent's representative | IL h. as-., Rl,a rrrS-o being down. Mir. Lee said the offer va good when his foreman could be communi cated with and if the snow continues t.
 drift the extra force will come in handy"