The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-11-28

Church Street Building Blown Down
 Few Trains Are Running-No School
 This Forenoon and Possibly None
 This Afternoon Incidents of the
 Blizzard Services Omitted in Nearly
 All the Churches.
 The heavy snow fall of Saturday night and Sunday the heaviest since the ''big blizzard" of 1888, aroused New Haveners who have been long enjoy ing beautiful out-of-saason fall wealth. CT to the realization of the fact that old King Winter is still vigorous and hearty and is now ready to dc busi- ness at the old stand. The performance began about o'clock Saturday after noon when a light snow was falling and continued with increasing vigor unt an early hour last evening. People awolle Sunday morning to find them selves barricaded in their houses by drifts of snow six feet in depth or more. The worship of the day was suspended in most of the churches and the pas tors added themselves to the number of those who passed the day of rest at home The advocator of strict Sunday closing smiled in ghoulish glee for the snow enforced a stricter prohibition than any officer of the court possibly could.
 A hN1 1,o1f nfe f1I on the level or would have fallen on the level had not wind blowing at 45- | mile-an-hour clip piled it into heaps | many feet in depth. Locomotion was pretty strictly confined to the primitive two-legged method, and the limits of this method of travel were much re- stricted. For the first time in several years tEe city's efficient street car line service was rendered almost impotent. but few cars being run out of the barn and those only for short distances on the principal streets of the city while the suburban portions were completely lso ated. The storm got the bits in the mouth of the iron hand as well and as a result railroad trains were ted up and all communication with the outside world by rail was cut off. At late hour yesterday the paper train from New York reached the city and paper boys With eyes for business sold the same at big advance on the regular prices. 1 Late in the afternoon the Fair Pa- ven and Westville read had cleared it's 1 it's tracks from the car barn on Grand avenue to Dwight street on Whalley i avenue and was running cars at IS a1c n,,I 1,
 track in the city over which cars were being run. The strong wind which con- tinued all day until evening rendered futile all attempts at opening the 1.streets paths being drifted level with surrounding drifts almost before they 1 had been dug.
 A luli in the storm about noon brought out the advance guard of the snow shovel brigade, but the snow con- tinuing to fall and drift made even that timely occupation comparitively unprofitable and the snow pushers had | to rest on their shovels Crhetaphorically
 to be sure) and await the fat jobs and
 big profits which to-day is sure to brinn I them.
 The storm was full of freaks and
 whims. On some streets 1t heaped the snow from one side of the street to the other for block or more eliminating | all inequalities of sidewalk and street
 streets running east and west the snow
 was heaped to depth of seven ol eight feet on the sidewalk on the nortt
 side, while on the south side the side walk was left almost bare Again il
 seemed to be a fad of the storm tc
 block up every door, darken every win.
 dow and choke up every alley and pas,
 sageway.
 The strong wind all Saturday night
 rattling the shutters, shrieking around corners and whistling down chimneyS robbed many an eye of sleep. Tree: were blown down in several parts o
 the city, electric, telegraph and tele. 1 phone wires were broken and consider
 able damage done in other ways. | large tree on the corner of Chapel ant Park streets was blown over and lodged
 on one of the corner houses, but withou
 doing much damage. Another large
 tree was blown over at 534 Chape
 street and two large trees on the lan(
 formerly belonging to the Wincheste1
 estate on Whitney avenue were also up rooted Fire alarm bells were set jng
 ling several times, considerably start ling people. The streets were so block
 ed that had a fire broken out the firt
 department would have labored undel
 the greatest disadvantage. Whatevel l precautions could be taken were taker
 by the department. The streets were cleared about the engine houses and tn,
 supernumerary force were kept at tht
 engine houses.
 At g o'clock last evening one could make his way about the business DOT tion of the city by following marrow and labyrinthian paths of the sidewalk. or the street railway tracks in the cen
 ter of the streets. Where these track had been cleared the snow had beer
 heaped by the snow blows on both side! of the street to an average depth of {
 mans waist.
 As far as known the First Baptis | church was the only one of the cit! churches to hold services yesterday The morning service was the last on, ! to be held in the old church buildinE on Wooster Place and the congregation , consisted of thirteen at the opening, bu was increased to fourteen by a late ar l rival. No services were held in tn,
 United, Center, Trinity Episcopal, Re deemer, Messiah, Trinity NJ E., St Johns Episcopal, Humphrey street, Da | lfe+, 4