The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-02-13
TRACTION cos FIGHT.
Drift Snow Causes Trouble
to Regular Car
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Service.

The storm played the mischief with the
Pennsylvania Railroad traffic, and the re-
suit was that the trains from the West
were ten, fifteen and twenty-five minutes
late. All the outbound trains were late
in going out in consequence. Even the
Chicago limited train, which leaves this
morning at a few minutes after ten
O'Clock did not start out until afternoon.
The North Jersey Street Railway Com
pany had all it's energies devoted to keep
ing the line clear and maintain at least
some system of schedule. But despite its
endeavors many people on the Hill had to
walk down town. The Bayonne and
Greenville cars were delaped for some
time at the southern ends of the lines, but
the company at once had out it's plow and
sweepers and soon communication was eff
fected with the city.
Superintendent Fuller has been on duty
at least thirty hours and since yesterday
has had ten plows on the system, two on
the Newark Turnpike Road and four on
the Plank Road tracks; the rest were dis
tributed on the belt lines and Bayonne
lines. The wind gave no end of trouble
to the company, for as fast as line was
moderately clear along would come a
binding blast which swept the snow on
the tracks again.
To keep the men in the employ of the
road from the saloons for creature COM
forts. the company ordered Taylor's Hotel
to supply unlimited quantities of coffee,
bread and butter. AS fast as a pIow, fol-
lowed by a sweeper, made one journey,
they were reversed and made the return
journey.
1--WE have all we can do to maintain a.
moderate service said Superintendent
H. W. Fuller, this morning, land we
have, as you see, great difficulty to
contend with in the strong wind. When
it abates we will redouble our efforts to
give the regular service"
L
rough time in crossing the meadows and
for few hours early this morning they
were stalled near the river; but the
snow plows forfced a way.
The worst spot experienced this morn
| ing was on West Side avenue, near the
junction of the Pennsylvania and Sus-
auehanna Railroads. There the wind
had piled up the snow in banks actually
] sixteen feet high and a milk wagon
noundering into one of them had diff
! Guilty extracting itself.
Thes drift banks, with the wind,
| changed their shape and height every
few minutes, some of them toppling over
the car tracks and defying plow and
sweeper alike. Men were hastily dis
patched to the scene and with shovels
succeeded in opening the way
Should the wind moderate by tonight
the North Jersey Company will have
every line clear in the city and the traf-
fc will continue as if there had been no
such unruly visitor as a blizzard. Up to
that time the company will run cars with
trailers.
Cars ran irregularly on the Grove street
| line and from the Hill to the Erie ferry.
| The snow plows made narrow, deep
I trench in which trucks and coaches at
tempted to pass each other to the ac-
! compartment of much swearing on the
part of the drivers One or the other
would have to delve into the deep snow
banks and with the fierce gale whirling
the dry snow into enormous clouds one
| could scarcely see what the other was do
! ing. Scenes of this kind were even worse
in lower Pavonia avenue.
1t required more than double the time
| to make the ordinary trip from the ferry
to Congress street Traffic on the Oak
land avenue line was entirely suspended
On the brow of the Hill where the cars
climb into the foot of Hoboken avenue the
wind piled the drifts over the tracks al
most before the snow plows were out ol
sight. Most of the passenger cars CARRIE
Etrailers.
six cars were stalled in one of the bank:
and while the motormen and conductors
were trying to clear the track with shov
els the power was taken off. Passengers
were then delayed over half an hour
Some abandoned the cars and climbed t
the top of the Hill and attempted to foo
| it, to their various places of destination.
/ On one of the down trips the motormar
in the front car saw objects half buriet
4 So much depepds upon the purity OF th
blood that by taking Hoods sarsaparilla man!