The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-02-15

With the rising of the sun yester-
day morning, the fury of Mondays
blizzard abated and by noon 1t was as
fine a day from the shoe tops up as
one could reasonably wish for in win
ter. The thermometer climbed well up
into the twenties during the early af-
ternoon and for a time there was
mild thaw where the suns rays beat
directly.
The carrying companies lost not a.
minute in taking advantage of the
abatement of the storm. Every avail
able man, it is no eXaggeration to say,
that the region afforded, was put to
work to assist in raising the blockade
to traffic. The result was that last
night things were running very nearly
per schedule.
The street car men had the main
lines within the city pretty well opened
by noon time. Providence cars were
running as far as the corners. Dun
more suburban cars managed, towards
evening, to get to the end of the line.
The Laurel Hill road was open as far
as Dunmore corners. The South Side
cars got as far as Brook street and
the Taylor cars made fairly regular
, trips as far as Eynon street. North
Main, Lafayette, Washburn, Luzerne
Stone avenue, Bellevue and Petersburg
were not opened, but the company had
big gangs of men at work clearing
these lines last night and hope to have
them in running order early this morn
ing. Work is also being done on the
South Side, Taylor, Throop and Peck
| vile lines and through trips are looked
! for before the afternoon is many hours
old.
/ ALMOST SCHEDULE TIME.
At o'clock last night the Delaware,
| LaCkawanna and Western company
was prepared to take a passenger to
and from New York on almost schedule
time. Train No. due at 5.35 o'clock
p. M. was only two hours late and it
left Hoboken an hour behind time.
on the previous day this train was
five hours late and was the last train
to get through from the south.
The train Immediately following it,
No. III, which was due to arrive at S.45
o'clock Monday night, did not reach
here until $50 o'clock Yesterday after
noon. 1t became stalled in a huge drift
this side of Cresco and laid there until
shovelled out at noon.
A number Of windows on the right
side of the train We're broken in 10y the
snow thrown against them from the
plough on the engine of train No. 10,
which passed them at runaway speed
on the mountain. Trains Nos. T. IL and
8, the fast night lines, that We're due
from New York at 1910, los and 2.35
o'clock a. m. followed No. III at close
intervals. They carried very few pas
sengers Train No. III had only two.
South-bound trains left on time and
had about the same experience as their
opposite runs when the Pocono region
was encountered. Today the road vii
begin the movement of freight. Every
regular train will be run and each will
have an extra" Possibly before the
day is over, coal will also be started.
d. & II. ROAD OPENED.
The Delaware and Hudson company
started a train from Carbondale anG
another from Wilkes Barre at s o'clock
They fought their way through will
the assistance Of extra engineers
ploughs and shovelers, and, once the
road was cleared, traffic was resumed
on almost schedule time. Last night.
trains We're going through on time.
The Jersey Central, Ontario ant
Western and Erie and Wyoming Val
/, ley had about the same experience a.
the Delaware and Hudson.
, Street Commissioner OBoyle had on(
hundred and fifty men at work shovel
ing the snow off the bridges, clearing
; crosswalks and leVeling drifts in tn,
central city streets. Today he will at
tack the huge mounds of snow tina
have been piled up in the business por
ton of the city and have them carte(
away. He expects all sidewalks am
: cutters on the business streets to b.
cleared OF snow before 8 o'clock thi
morning. Should the cutters be blocket
and a thaw come, no end Of damage
would result he says.
Labor was at a premium yesterday
Street Commissioner O'Boyle adver
, tised for 800 extra men, but was abl
, to secure less than half that number
The street car company had sign ou
, all day announcing "Laborers Wanted.
The railroad companies put to worl
every laborer that applied. The Della
ware, Lackawanna and Western com
pany alone had seven hundred shovel
ers at work.
Finest wines and cigars at Lanes
f 800 Spruce street.