The Newtown bee. (Newtown, Conn.) 1877-current, 1899-02-17
BOvember's Junior Blizzard Net In 1t BY Way
Of Comparison.

And 1t snowedi
1t blew
And it blew
And it kept on bIowingi
After 1t stopped snowingi
And the result was blizzard that sur
passed in quantity and quality the bliz-
zRrd that visited this section on November
rs last, and almost rivalled the famous
blizzard of 1888, the only difference being
that the drifts were not quite so high as
then, though many think that the aver
age depth of snow on the level is far
more than it was at that time.
1t is unusual to have two such furious
storms in one winter, and has it's serious
aspects too, for business is always Lara-
! lyzed for week or two after its occur
renee, to say nothing OF the suffering
among the poor, and the tying up of the
railroads, causing great expense to the
corporations as well as Inconvenience to
the public.
The serious disturbance just past seems
to have been the elimination of the in
tense cold weather of last week, when
the thermometer ranged from zero to 40
below for three or four days all over the
northern section Of this great country
of ours.
Farmer Dunn of the weather bureau
sent out word to look out for a big storm
all along the coast, last Saturday, and
when late Sunday morning risers had
scratched peephole in the coating of
Jack Frost that covered the window
panes, they observed that it had COM
menced sometime during the night and
was very busily engaged.
1t looked much easier to sit by the fire
and read Whittier's Snow Bound" than
it did to get out in the swiftly falling
snow and plod through it to church, and
CHS is what most people did, for there
was very small attendance at all the
churches. Shortly after the Sunday din
ner the sun peeped out for just a minute
and people were beginning to congratu-
late themselves that Farmer Dunn's
storm was not SO bad after all and
another blizzard had been escaped. In
Chis they were sadly mistaken, for it
soon clouded over as thickly as ever and
by night fall there was very noticeable
increase in the fall of snow, as we'll as in
the velocity of the wind, which blew
In fitful gusts from the northeast,
racing the snow through the air at 60
mile an hour pace. This was kept Up
all day Monday and we'll into Monday
night. Early risers on Tuesday morn.
ing saw an almost cloudless sky, and
when the sun came sailing over the cas-
tern horizon. shortly before z o'clock,
iC seemed as II it never looked so hand.
some and was never so welcome for it
meant soon quieting of the elements
chat had been 30 frightfully disturbing.
The sight that greeted the eye in every
direction was snow, snow, snow, snow
everywhere and piled in all kinds of fan
tastic and aggravating heaps. Just where
it was most necessary to have pathway
there was sure to be the biggest heap and
up and down the street on both sides the
frozen crystals lay in piles all the way
from two TO six feet deep. Householders
were out with shovels as soon as the
wind stopped bowling, which was about
8 O'Clock, and it was well along in the af-
ternoOn before navigation up and down
the Street was possible. unless one
wished to wade waist deep in the
snow. Down at the corner, where
r. Ell. Beers & Co.'s store is, was
drift deep enough to be tunneled nicely.
Navigation by team was out of the ques-
tion for the roads were full of snow all
the way from two to six feet deep as
we'll as the sidewalks, and few teams came
to town from outside all day Tuesday.
During the fore part + the afternoon
l.. G. Morris and team from the Grand
Central were at work breaking road TO
the Depot, and several teams came
up Street as far as the postofflce. There
must have been over two foot fall OF
snow on the level during the two storms
and navigation for some time to come
will be made with difficulty. The fair
fence proved great protection for the
depot road, but below Mrs Terrill's COR
ner the road was fearfully blocked. The
road from the depot TO Sandy Hook was
also chuck full, as we're all the highways
about town.
ON THE RAILROAD
The railroads have again been great
i sufferers By the storm and traffic was
practically at stand still from Monday