The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1898-11-28

ly disturb the stockholders comfortably
ensconced by their own flresides.
Long before midnight, the profana
man and all his fellow -toilers were
having a struggle with the fast in
creasing strength of the snowy fet-
tiers that We're swiftly enclosing The
traffic of the city in their soft but IN
eXorable embrace In some cases the
cars on the long lines out Of the city
proper were unable to get back to the
barn after their last attempt to accom-
modate the belated ones who wished
to reach their homes in those sections
and were compelled to struggle back
through the drifts and the binding
gale. leaving their cars to the pleasure
Of the snow king.
All yesterday morning, until 10
o'clock, no attempt was made to open
up the lines anywhere in the city; for
the officials realized from past exper-
fence, that until the storm abated in
some degree work on the mountain
Gus drifts was labor lost. Few people
realize the immense amount Of work
that a blizzard like this entails on the
transportation lines of all sorts. espe-
cially on the street railroads. Miles Of
tracks to be cleared Of tons Of con-
gealed water. That is the situation in
a nut shell when a storm of this kind
shows up.
Although the task is a herculean one,
the officials of the street railway lines
meet the emergency with a calm read
mess. for years Of experience with the
vagaries of a New England climate
have made them ready for much worse
freaks of the elements than this I'M
expected blizzard can be considered to
amount to. There is no worry over
the matter, for those in charge of the
work of clearing the lines have come
to know just what is expected of them
in an emergency like this and they
are prepared to act accordingly. Every
thing works Systematically and all the
work that is done tells in the end
AS soon as the backbone Of the storm
appeared broken, superintendent AK
arman had his cohorts at work storm
ing the citadel of the SHOWS. The full
force of plows We're gotten at work be
fore noon yesterday, and the work has
continued ever since, and will keep OH
till all the stretches of track which the
company owns in Worcester will be
cleared. All the conductors and mo-
tormen We're set to work with shoVels
and scrapers, and in addition to the
force that these furnished, about Leo
shoVelers were hired to work with
them. This makes in all nearly 800 men
is one of the incidents in the manage
ment Of g street railroad.
This year the street railway COM
panies have one thing in particular to
be thankful for and that is that I'M
der the new state law they are not
compelled to remove the snow from the
streets, but only from their tracks
That is to say that this wear there will
be no big expense bill for teams and
atsf1 fn1r
and there will be no more big snow
heaps on the fair grounds and the
common at least none that will serve
as monuments to the labors of Con-
solidated workmen. Clearing tracks
this year will simply mean that the
street car people will clear their
tracks
The rest of the street will be given
up to the mercy of good luck and SUI
perintendent Prior. If the latter can
remove the snow, well and good if
not, people who have horses and want
to travel on streets where there are
car lines will have to sell their animals
and buy balloons or bicycle railroads,
for there will be no traversing public
thoroughfares along side of the car
tracks,
Yesterday there was no attempt made
to open up anything but the Main
SlIccl SOulH anu TOlI street lines. l p
to O'Clock last night the tracks mad
been opened only from Lincoln square
to Sycamore street on the outgoing line
and from the square to Chandler
street on the inbound. Front street had
not been touched at all at that time,
and there was no attempt made to
carry passengers, even if there had
been any considerable number to carry
for the cars did not run regular trips,