The Worcester spy., 1898-11-29
Traffic Slowly
Resunning..
SCENES AT STATION.
Suburban Lines Gradually
Opening Up Again.

Things passed off pretty quietly at
| Union depot yesterday and TO quite
an extent trains We're run over the diff
lferent lines i'm ship-shape order. Rail-
road men We're more than busy all day
and when they finally quit work this
morning it was a tired lot to look up
on. Everybody in the depot. from the
boy who shines shoes to the highest
man on the list, admits that the storm
totally eclipsed anything in the line
since the big blizzard of So
Every road was opened for traffic
yesterday morning, and those who de-
voted the entire day Sunday to clear
ing the tracks Jared much better in
sending out trains, The Providence
and the Norwich lines ran nearly ev-
cry train out of the city ON schedule
time, and they arrived almost on the
clang Of the announcement bell Trains
I on the Boston and Maine and Fitch
| burg gained ground so far as the draw
! back had applied To them, and the
Boston and Albany trains began TO
show little life by the time evening
trains were due.
! Hundreds of people have made the
waiting room, or in fact any place Of
convenience in the depot their abid-
| ing place, since Saturday night There
| was even q crowd of lOungerS in the
|sbatiOn during last evening. In many
| respects, the depot looked like an eX-
| hibttion ground at a cattle fair. All
classes and conditions of people were
| there, and they continued to adorn the
| walls hG lat
hours last night.
Many amusing incidents were no
tlceable during the day, none of them
| being more prominent than the cus-
ters of sleeping ticket holders waiting
for trains to somewhere near their
| homes. There We're many things to be
seen not easily described, such as the
antics of man evidently back from q
celebration, and the doings OF a bevy
Of pretty girls" theatrical stars. per-
maps, who were Willing the time away
IN the several corners of the rooms,
One weary traveller, who bought a tickS
et for Boston, consigned the contents
of a shoe box, filed with something
strong, to the floor, in front of the
ticket office, shortly before 6 o'clock
last night, and but for shame's S sake he
! would have cried over the loss of the
faYorite article
| The storms effects worked but little
| harm to the railroads so far as ac-
cldents were concerned, nothing but
the East Brookfeld affair being re-
| ported. During the greater. part of
| yesterday morning everything came in
IN good shape, and for such & big hand
leap as was offered by the condition of
Things on Sunday, remarkable success
! was attained by the men on the en-
glnes The New York express, due in
| worcester at 430 o'clock, reached I'm
ion depot at 6.23, one hour and fffty-five
| minutes late, and the Springfield local.
due at 6.lO o'clock, steamed in at seven
| CLOCK, these being the notable DELAYS
| Providence trains were sent out all
| right, and they went over the line all
| right. Norwich trains also made trims
without trouble and with the execution
| of the morning, things went along
smoothly on the Boston and Maine.
! The train leaving the station at 10
| yesterday morning over this road for
| Sterling Junction was discontinued
until after things get Strengthened out
on the branch and the Fitchburg road.
with but few necessary delays, was on
deck all day
There was lots Of interest shown in
! the boat train out of Worcester. due
to leave the station at o'clock last
night, as large majority of the pas
| sengerS We're New York drummers and
other people who had been held over
| in this city. No boat came up from
| New York Sunday evening, and moth
| ing went out last night for the me-
| tropolis. The announcement of this
| fact caused a big furore among the
waiting drummers, and, filed with dis
/ gust of the most pronounced type they
once again sought hotels here.
| One of the Well-known drummers
| who was laid over in Worcester during
the big storm, was Arthur Beirs of New
| York, a saleleman for a dry goods
| firm. Mr.. Beirs was in Worcester for
a week when the So blizzard was also
a feature of life here, and he has some
very pleasant "reminiscences of the big
storm of that time. The drummer is
a capital entertainer, and he likes Wor-
| ceSter very much. Snow storms he
says, may yet succeed in making a resi-
! dent of Worcester out of him, and While
| he likes New York, the heart Of the
commonwealth is not so bad.
AS things now look, there will not be
much more trouble, and the railroad
| people expect to have everything in
working order by today On several of
! the side lines connecting with the Bos-
| ton and Albany, everything is even
now blocked up. This is notable in the
case of the Grafton and Upton trains,
which have been completely useless
since Saturday night.
! The last run to Milford Saturday
night was made successfully and sun
| day morning the crew started out with
| the milk train from Milford. The big
engine used on the road, the ''William
! KnOWlton," was in commission, and
after heroically struggling, the outfit
came to grief in the Grafton freight
yard. Water from the Grafton water
works and coal from the shoe shop of
| Forbush & Brown were purchased,
when the railroad supply ran out; but,