The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-11-29
CLEARING OFF THE SNOW
NOTABLE SUCCESS IN ALL PARTS
 OF THE CITY.

@NCW 111Ncu dWOhe to the redIltleS
 of daily life yesterday morning, poked
 it's head above the snowdrifts and show eled, plowed and carted snow until the
 setting of the sun. All the surplus en-
 ergiea of the city were concentrated on or the several feet of accumulated snow. Hundreds of men with teams were employed in removing the snow from Chapel, Church and other streets about the center of the city and heaping it up into mountains on the old green. It is estimated that it will cost
 about $7000 for the city government to clear the streets of snow. Superinten- dent Baldwin had seventy men and fifty 1 carts working yesterday. The force of
 the sewer department was kept busy | clearing the snow off the bridges and re- moving trees blown over by the wind.
 The street railway companies had large forces of men opening up their lines. The Fair Haven and Westville road had over 300 men at work Their tracks age rCW open on the Shelton avenue { line to the end, on the Edgewood ave nue line as far as the park; on Dix | well avenue as far as Munson street. | By this morning it is expected that the l Chapel street line will be open as far
 as the river. It is already orel on West ! Chapel street the entire length. This 1 morning the Whitney avenue line will be open as far as Whitneyville. It was 1 in operation as far as Cottage street. l +o+ ;e.+ +ta ed of all the lines and it will take some 1 time to get it in running order again. | The lines on the east side are still ] blocked and will be the last to be clear ed. Public spirited citizens personally l or by proxy cleared their sidewalks l of snow. Other citizens not so public | spirited left their work till a more | convenient season. On many buildings i men were at work clearing off the bur | den of snow which falling on the side
 walks made travel somewhat hazard
 ous for passers below and interesting observers round about. The snow heap
 ed up from the car tracks and side i walks make great ridges on either side
 of the street, oftentimes higher than a
 mans head The storm gave the school
 children all a holiday yesterday for
 which of course, the youngsters are
 duly thankful. All the schools will be open again this morning.
 l The fire department has an extra | force of men and horses and will be
 able to respond promptly in case of an | alarm. The fire alarm service suffered but slightly.
 l Do; 1r,o1J m ioo tipnc 1pain
 made possible, though the trains ex
 perience some difficulty in getting 1 through, the tracks are so drifted. One | train from New York yesterday reached 2 here three hours late and other long i delays are reported.
 i On the Chapel street line yesterday | cars were run at from 15 to 21 minutes
 apart On the State street line q car 1 stalled opposite the dye factory still remains there and another car on the l Saltonstall line is also as yet unmoved 1 On the Winchester avenue system neither the Congress avenue or Sylvan
 avenue lines had yet been opened up to
 4 D. m., but last evening the former line
 was in operation to West street, and l the Sylvan avenue it's entire length.
 Cars on the West street line ran 1 through nearly to Savin Rock. Last | evening cars ran all the way out Win l chester avenue.
 | Travellers to and from the city have | been much delayed. The members of l the war Investigating commission were
 snowbound in New Haven Sunday for
 more than nine hours.
 The committee finished with it's off,
 cial business Saturday afternoon. at
 New York and started for Boston on
 the midnight train The train was due l here at 2 D. m. but encountered so
 many drifts and snowbanks that it was 1 5:3O a. m. before it reached New Haven. | Weather Observer Tarr says the fall l of snow was sixteen inches on the lev | el During the blizzard of 1888 twenty
 eight inches of snow fell in twenty-four l hours and the actual fall was fully | two and one-half feet.
 The snow came from the lake regions, | struck the Jersey coast and thence l proceeded up the New England shore. | The storm center was only a short
 ways off the Connecticut coast. Yes terday the storm had reached to Nova Scotia. The range of temperature Sun day was from 22 to 27 degrees. Early | yesterday morning the temperature was 2S degrees, but during the morning it 1 was somewhat warmer.
 Only five trees have been reported to | the board of public works as blown down. One is on Judson avenue, one on 1 Humphrey street and two on Chapel | street, one of them just above Park. | ON THE CONSOLIDATED'S SYS-