The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-02-15

The storm of Sunday and Monday
will go down into history as the worst
that Worcester has ever experienced
In recent years at least, with the pos
Bible exception of the big blizzard of
1888.
Even then the city was not cut out
from railroad communication so badly
as it has been during the past two
days, and it will be several days yet
before the trains are all running again
on schedule time. This morning the
roads are open again between Worces-
ter and Boston, but the roads to the
west are still Instructed by the i'm
mense drifts.
Everything that human ingenuity
and physical effort could do to remedy
the situation has been done by the rail-
road officials since Sunday; but it was
a hopeless task from the first. But the
warm sunlight and calm that cam
with the early morn of yesterday has
cleared the way.
1t is a remarkable statement indeed
of Superintendent Akarman of the
street railroad company, that the storm
so far as it's effects upon his system
were concerned, was worse than the
results of the blizzard of 1883 The
results of the work that he has done l.
clearing the lines are well told in the
columns of The Spy of this morning
and they tell a story of tndefat1gaoi
labor and remarkable enterprise dur
ing the past forty-eight hours. Nearly
$50 men and half hundred teams were
continually at work day and night. And
as each line of the system was cleared
traffic was resumed by the company,
although no attempt was made to run
the cars on schedule time. The com
ANY has indeed eXcelled all previous
records for excellent work in handling
the storm.
Il, is of course impossible at this time
to estimate the immense cost in dollars
and cents that has been entatled upon
the Consolidated by the condition of at
fairs. But it is reasonable to assume
when one takes into consideration the
loss in fares and the immense cost IN
the employment of labor that the add
ed expense entailed by the results of the
storm will run well up into the thous-
ands.
At the Union station, at late hour
last night, for the first time since the
storm began, a systematic condition or
things had been brought out of the
chaos and confusion of the past few
days.
Mail and passenger communications
have been re-established between
Boston and Worcester, and a
few trains have been sent out to
the west. In the. yard of the
Boston & Albany, that on the previous
night had been damned with storm
bound trains, only comparatively few
wera waiting orders to leave. 1t is
true that at a late hour in the even
ing, oluers had been posted announc-
ing that no trains would be sent east or
west until an early hour of today, but
this was done more as a measure of
safety to public travel than aught else
At 1890 in the evening the snow
bound Worcester capitalists, who had
been stalled at Gardner since l o'clock
Tuesday morning, on their way home
from Colorado came in. Travel on the
Boston & Maine, the Fitchburg, Nor
witch & Worcester, and the PROVIDENCE
road had been partially resumed.
AS in the case OF the Consolidated
Street railroad, it is of course impossi-
BILE to compute the cost. An old rail-
road man connected with the Boston &
Albany, who has had long experience
in affairs of the kind, stated to a spy
man last evening, that in his estima-
$4,000 would hardly cover the expenses
that have necessarily incurred at this
point by different roads entering the
city.
1t is one of the very fortunate fea-
cures of the storm that telephone and
telegraph communication has been
practically uninterrupted. And while
other sections of New England have
suffered to a very damaging extent,
the people of Worcester may be con-
graduated upon having emerged from
the blizzard as easily as they have.