The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-02-17
BLOCK ABE.
Is Fast Being Entire
ly Broken.
STREET RAILROADS
May Claim Damages From
the City For Work Done.

The work of raising the snow block
ade was pushed rapidly yesterday by
Commissioner Prior and officials of the
street railways. By this morning, it
is claimed, VAIL thorougnrares will be
cleared and Worcester will once again
be in touch with her suburbs.
The thaw made the work of removal
somewhat difficult in some re-
spccts. 1t was harder for the plows
and brushes to push aside the heavy,
tightly packed slush than the Lew fall
en- snow. But the men only worked the
harder in their anxiety to clear the
tracks before the wet snow should turn
to ice.
Two hundred men and fifty teams
worked steadily yesterday opening the
few remaining lines on the Consolida-
TED The fair grounds line on the west
side was put in operation early in the
morning. Then attention was turned to
the east side lines The gangs worked
all day on the Normal school, Provi-
dence street, Grafton street and Grant
square lines, and It is promised that
traffic will be resumed on all of these
Of men and teams are at work as the
first day after the storm. The cost to
the Consolidated alone is over $500
day.
The Worcester and Suburban ran
cars yesterday as far as Millbury and
Leicester. A large gang was kept busy
all day in the neighborhod of Spencer.
Trains will run on schedule time today.
The Worcester and Clinton, and Wor-
peGtPr and Marlhnrn liDne oil he
cleared today.
City officials and street railway Off
GERS are for once in perfect accord in
the matter of removing snow from the
streets. Although as far as can be
learned no definite understanding has
been arrived at, each party seems dis
posed to do its fair share OF the work
1t is of course a matter of dollars and
cents to the railroad people to get their
tracks cleared at the earliest possible
moment.
The task of removing the snow banks
from the down town streets will occu-
Ply the undivided enersy of Commits
sioner Prior and his men for a week
to come. Twelve gangs of city en-
ployes were hard at work yesterday
endeavoring to make the town look less
like Siberia. The principal streets are
now practically clear, but the side
snow.
The snowheap on the common has as
sumed increased dimensions. During
the course of the winter, frequent
dumpngs of snow from the neighbor-
ing streets have increased it's size from
small hummock to a good sized hill
Considerable curiosity exists as to
what the hill will look like when the
winter is over. If it continues growing,
the city hall itself may be overshad-
owed by a towering iceberg. Similar
snowhills are forming in all the city
parks, but none is yet proving to be
rival to that on the common
1t Is rumored in certain quarters that
the absence of all controversy so far
between the city and the street rail-
roads regarding the removal of snow,
is but the quiet which presages a
storm. 1t is limited that after the rail-
roads have cleared their tracks and are
once more in operation they will put
in a claim against the city for work
done outside the tracks. When asked
if that was the intention of his road
one of the officials of the Consolidated
yesterday refused either to deny or af-
firm that such was the case.