The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-02-16
And is Now Pretty
Near the Surface.
THE CONSOLIDATED
Is Slowly But Surely Ex-
huming Itself.

The CONSOLIDATED Street Railway
Company made a gallant fight against
the fearful odds which the storm
brought on, and held the upper hand
last evening. Nearly all lines were
open and doing business, although
none of them ran on regular time
Taking into consideration the immense
amount of snow which the road had
to handle, it did magnificent work in
such short space of time.
The Main street line was open from
Adams square to Gates lane, and the
cars would have run on schedule time
out for the number of teams at work
removing the snow. In the centre of
the city the cars were not blocked to
any extent, but after passing Piedmont
street, they had to halt frequently, for
the snow had been removed from the
tracks only, and all passing teams used
1he space occupied by the tracks.
Ieams which We're oeing loaded with
SNOW We're drawn up in the same space.
w men car came along, the teams re-
manned just where they were. The
street railway company accepted the
SITUATION gracefully, realizing that the
removal of snow is of the first i'm
portance now.
The Quinsigamond line was omen to
the village, one track being used the
entlre distance. Two tracks were util-
lzed portion of the way. On the other
end, the line was open to a point be-
yond Chadwick square. The Chandler
street line, which had been opened to
the boulevard the night previous, was
pushed through to Main street. No at
tempt was made to open the loop line
10 the lake, but the dummy was run
nlng on regular time all day long.
Fleasant street was open from New
ton square to the centre of the city.
The company pushed through South
br1dge street almost the entire length.
no attempt was made to open the
Normal hill and Grant square lines at
| elthef end, or the fair grounds or
Boynton street ends of their routes.
An additional force was put to work
yesterday morning. People read in
Inc SPY early yesterday that anybody
VINO applied at the barn of the street
railway company was not turned away.
ana large crowd was on deck yester-
DAY morning, seeking employment.
Ihey got it. About 25 extra men were
secured, and a few additional teams
making the largest gang of shovelers
the road ever engaged for the removal
OF snow. The men were sent out to
continue the work from where it had
been left off the evening previous. No
new streets were opened.
IN teams in the employ of the rail-
way company dumpd their loads on
the common into the sewer through an
opening on Union street. in open lots
on Lincoln street, in the swamp ground
on Southoridge street, on a vacant lot
owned BY President Francis H. Dewey.
on Mason street, and in various other
convenient places. Lincoln street was
opened by two gangs, and the Gates
lane end Of the main line opened by
another gang
On the lines which were cleared,
snow plOWs and sweepers We're kept
running all day long. The immense
Grafton carS, which are as good as a
ploW to cle;,r the way, were kept on
Main street during the day. But in
The evening one of them was sent to
Quinsigdmond, and ran along that line
as Ii d flake of snow never fell on the
rails.
The officials of the street railway ex-
pect to have the tracks entirely clear
by this evening, and cars running on
schedule time to every part of the city.
They will Start in to break out the
Grafton liz this morning. If no wind
springs up to drift the snow which is
yet light, the company expects TO get
through without exceptional trouble.
The lake line will also be opened today.
The dummy will be kept running while
the line is being opened. Grafton and
Providence streets will also be broken
out, and the railroad company will CO.
operate with the street department in
do 0~ h9- work
The Millbury division of the Worces-
ter and suburban got through early
reaching the city hall shortly after
midnight. The road encountered great
difliculty especially on top of Vernon
nil where there was drift many feet
deep. The cars We're running every 20
minutes yesterday and ran close to reg
ular time in spite of the storm,
On the other branch, cars from Lei
cester got through to Worcester, but no
attempt was made to run on regular
time. No car got through from Spencer
to Leicester during the day, but the
gangs worked last evening, and the
officials expect to have cars running the
full length of the road today Cars will
run through to Northbridge today also.
The line to Bramanville was opened
Yesterday, although no cars We're run
beyond Millbury Center, and portion
Of the road to NOrthbridge was broken
out.
The Worcester and Marlboro reached
the end of it's line at the lake yesterday
afternoon and is awaiting the Consoli-
dateds opening of the loop line to come
into the city. Passengers are transfer
red to the dummy.
GDEAT ETGHTD