Worcester morning daily spy., 1898-02-03

later the missing car on the Southbridge
street line was towed in.
The two cars out at Greendale did not
get in until nearly O'Clock, after hav
ing been stalled in the snow for more
than As hours. And as they were being
towed along they showed plainly that
they had encountered a blizzard of the
very first Importance. They were two
of the biggest cars used by the compa-
ny, and they were covered with snow
and with ice without and within. The
little flakes found their way through
the invisible cracks and crevices about
the doors and windows, while the wind
had piled them in fanciful shapes upon
the tops of the cars.
The work of cleaning the tracks is
necessarily slow. In some places the
drifts are so high and the snow so deep
that the horses attached to the road
machines that are first sent ahead to
break a way for the snow plows and
sweepers, cannot take them. So gangs
Of laborers have to shovel away the
snow until not more than foot and
half or two feet is left upon the tracks.
This the horses can get through, and af-
ter the road machines have been
through the rest of the work is easy in
comparison.
Nearly every inch of the way from
Lincoln square to Adams square and
out New Worcester way had to be op-
ened up in this way. In some of the
other sections only a little shoVelling
was required, and here the progress was
most rapid. In all the Consolidated
Company has opened up over 30 miles of
track in the past "a hours, and at mid
night Wednesday the men were still at
work
Their efforts were being directed
principally in getting to the termini of
the lines which are now partially
opened. A little stretch OF track be-
tween Franklin square and Madison
square occupied the attention Of one
gang and pillow. Another plew sweep
er and road machine was out in the vi
cinity of Greendale pushing through
from the school house to the railroad
crossing. Still third gang was on the
west side of the city working the fair
grounds and Park avenue lines.
Today the Grafton and Providence
street lines, which are the most difficult
to get In condition after heavy fall
Of snow, will be worked upon, and the
company confidently expects that by
this evening the Lake line will be the
only one that is not in running order.
On the Leicester and Spencer division
of the Worcester and Suburban Street
Railway, all the energy of the COM
pany was applied to that portion of the
track between this city and Leicester.
Early in the morning the work was
taken up where it had been left at mid
night Tuesday, and at 9 o'clock the
snow plow had pushed its way through
to this city. Two cars followed the pillow
into Worcester, and made regular trips
to and from Leicester for the rest of the
day.
Spencer is still dead to the world.
Just as soon as the line to Worcester
had been opened the men went back to
Leicester and began working from the
power house towards Spencer. But Lei
cester and Spencer drifts are reported
as being even deeper than any that ac-
cllmulated in the city, and most of the
snow has to be removed by hand and
shoyels. There are two cars and one
ploW half way between Spencer and
Leicester, and it is expected that the
men viii be able to reach them and
get into the car house by tomorrow
night.
The Milbury division of the Subur-
pan mas a clear track from Bramanville
70 US Park street terminus ia this city,
dnc cars VIII begin running on sched-
ule time again this morning, The work
OF clearing the Millbury track has been
done entirely from the Millbury end of
the line. Early Tuesday morning. a
gang of men started in at BramanViIle,
and late Tuesday evening had about a
third OF the distance from Bramanville
TO this city in running condition. We'd
nesday morning the work was resumed
with largely increased force of men.
Along Ballard street the men encoun-
tered some pretty high drifts that had
to be shovelled away, the snow-plows
railing to have the slightest effect upon
them
AT midnight the men were at work on
the top of the Vernon street hill, and
II VIII require but few hours more
work to reach the desired goal at PARK
and Main streets.