St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-03-01
Minneapolis Gets a Great Deal
More Snow Than Seems
to Be Needful.
Traffic on the Street Railway
Lines Pretty Completely
Knocked Out.
No Cars Above Washington on
Hennepin Until Late in
the Afternoon.
Two Sites for New Schools
Talk About the Bail OF
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Talk About the Bail Of
Burt.
Minneapolis has not in years been
completely knocked out by storm as it
was yesterday. The storm of Monday,
beginning as, snow storm and ter
minatiug in blizzard, paralyzed street
cars, business and people. Yesterday
morning the city was buried. Those
who were able to get home the night be-
fore had to walk down yeSter-
day. The stores were deserted
all day, and the clerks looked
happy. Street commissioners had gangs
! of men out early with snow plows open
ing roads. and these, aided by the
street railway employees, enabled most
men who had to come down town to get
| down by noon. Down town streets
along the car lines were practically i'm
pasSable all day. The shovelers threw
the snow between the tracks and the
curbstones, and there was so much of it
that it made windrows. Every body
suffered by it, the street railway COM
pauy most.
street Cars Stalled.
Never since harnessed lightning SUI
peTSeded mule teams as motive power
has the street railway company received
such a thorough trouncing as it has in
this storm. The electric cars have
been called upon to wreStle with heavy
storms before, but they have always
been given the decision by the referee,
while the spectators have applauded.
This time, however, every twist and
every lock proved SO Intellectual that the
electric cars gave up the fight.
All day Monday the street railway
company kept the snow plows in con-
tinuOus operation. Two motors, and
sometimes three, pushed the plOWs
along, brushing the maSsed flakes aside
as if they were pestiferous annOyances,
too small to be considered seriously.
Persistency, however, always brings
serious consequences. The street rail-
way company had prepared to run the
ploWs all night, and have the tracks
clear and open yesterday morning.
But that wind 1t was too
much, even for snow plOws. A snow
plOW pushed by electricity cannot do
much when the snow is so deep that
connection cannot be established be-
tween the rails and the wheels of the
motor. The street railway company
just gave up the fight along about a.
IN. yesterday and let the storm have its
way. The rising sun yesterday saw
street car tracks filled level with the
street and the filling well packed.
PlOws couldn't handle it. Nothing could
be done but Just shovel out the tracks.
dreds of men at work by daylight and
all day long new men were hired as fast
as they could be found. The company
did all it could do, but when it is con-
sidered that
Tens Of Thousands
of cubic feet of densely-packed snow
had to be eXcavated, the wonder is that
it accomplished so much.
The first car that put through went up
Washington avenue as far as Twentieth
avenue north at 9 o'clock yesterday
morning. No regular trips were made.
however, Oh any Of the lines up to noon
The interuTban cars were showed in at
various points along the line. The first
of them rolled around the loop at 10
O'Clock yesterday morning, coming
in Oh the wrong track. Trial
trips on other lines began about the
same time. In the afternoon cars were
running with a Semblance of regularity
part of the way on several lines. Cars
ran on Washington as far as Twentieth
avenue north, on Cedar avenue about
half way out, on Bloomington avenue
as far as Franklin. Washington avenue
Was clear from Cedar avenue to Tween
tieth avenue north.
Hennepin avenue did not see a car
above Washington avenue until nearly
O'clock in the afternoon. The Monroe,
Hennepin and Lyndale line was the
first to send as car out as far as Thirty
first street. With the exception of that
one line, all the lines supplying the
East side were dead until well Oh toward
evening. That was practically the con-
dition of all the lines, except a few
which were partially open. The street
railway company expended every effort
to get the main lines open for the heavy
evening traffic, but met with only par
tial success.
BY O'Clock, when the
Evening Traffic Began,
the company was making a showing.
The Lyndale, a. before stated, had
been opened out Monroe street. on the
East side, and on the West side to
| Thirty-frSt street. The interurban
| cars were running, but not on very
good time. The Riverside was doing
! business as far down as Twenty-sev-
enth avenue. The First avenue line
| had been opened. and was running
regularly to Thirty first street.
Cars were running up Washington TO
| Twentieth avenue north. The Bloom
| ingtOn and Cedar avenue lines were in
! complete operation. The Fourth ave-
nue. line was partially open, and the
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The East side suffered most. The
Second street northeast. the Central
avenue and the University avenue lines
were tied up until along in the night.
At a late hour cars were being run from
| HennepiH and Washington across the
| river on all three lines.
After the street railway company had
uncovered its tracks it was busily oc-
cupied keeping them clear. The snow
was piled in huge windows along the
sides of the tracks, and the team
traffic. following in the> wake of
the snow plOws. threw a good part
of it back again. At midnight the lines
were in about the same condition they
were al o'clock. The service was SO
irregular and incOnstant that it could
not be depended upon. The Fourth av-
enue line had been opened to Thirty
first street and was in regular operation
that far.
a Trial Trip
was made over the Hawthorne line a
little before II O'Clock. The Camden
place line was open about one-third of
the distance from Twentieth avenue
north to Camden place. The other
lines were in the same condition as
noted before. The Western avenue.
the Eighth avenue south and Sixth
street, the Lake Harriet and Plymouth
avenue lines were still securely tied up.
The street railway company had its
men at work all night. The main lines
will probably all be running this morn
| ing No attemnt was mahe last nirht