Waterbury Democrat., 1902-02-24
BUSY SHOVELERS 1T WORK
Trying to Make Roadways for
 Teams and Uncover Tracks

The Two Recent Snow. Storms Com
 bined Gave Us Twelve Inches Less
 Than the Blizzard of 1888 Gangs of
 Workmen Shoveled All Day Yester-
 day Some of the Trolley Lines Still
 Blocked Railroad Trains Nearly on
 Schedule Time To-day.
 The snow storm which began last Friday and kept at it until o'clock Saturday afternoon amounted to 3.14 of water. The average depth of the snow as measured by N. J. Melton was sixteen inches. The snow storm that visited us shortly before the one that bid us bood-bye Saturday amount ed to fourteen inches of snow. The two storms made thirty inches of snow, twelve inches less than the blizzard of 1888.
 The street department and the trac- fion company worked all day yester- day clearing the streets and got most of them so that teams can drive through. provided the trolley cars are not in the way. The North Main street and Waterville lines are in operation, but so far only portions of the tracks on South Main street, East Main street and Bank streets are cleared. An im- mense gang of men and teams are at work clearing the snow off the sides of the streets and until this has been done very little can be accomplished toward maintaining q schedule on the trolley lines or doing much in the way of teaning for there is but one spot to drive through and no one seems to know who has the right of way there, though perhaps it ought to be said that the city and the trolley men are work ing more harmoniously this time than ever before. It will be some time be- fore all the side streets are cleared, but if this kind of weather continues the mountains of snow will steal away in q few days without assistance from anyone, so that people shouldn't get excited about the presence of little bit of snow. It will be gone in few days and dear knows, when we'll sec such a beautiful sight again. Who can tell but this is the last snow of the season, the last many of us who are railing about it will ever see Let Us all enjoy it while it is here, for it's 1s
 What a lot of Sabbath break there were about town yesterday! Where were the police all day? Why didn't they pull the street department, trac- ton company and all the others they found breaking the Sabbath? Any body who says a word against the po- Hcemen after this deserves to be whipped. Nearly everybody was shov- cling snow and nobody was interfered with, so that most of the sidewalks were i'll as good condition as one could expect to-day. Some fault. is being found on account of the piles of snow thrown on the sides of the streets by the trolley copany. but it is hard to see how they can avoid this They are as anxious to get it out of the way them selves as the public is to have them, and so long as they are doing their best it is not right to try to kick them. People should bear in mind that we had big fall of snow and that it takes some time to dispose of it. The com pany wants to get it off the ground so that they can operate their cars and make money and they won't leave it there any longer than they can help.
 Ieamsters are having hard time trying to get through the drifts and horses as well as men are suffering much hardship. Saturday afternoon Martin keefe, the Washington street grocer. and John Gaffney, a butcher in the employ of James Coughlin of Bald win street, came near being lost in Mo- hawk park while endeavoring to reach their customers. MT Keefe's horse is the color of snow and the grocer had hard time finding the ami nal in the drift. Both the butcher and grocer had to do some shoveling before they got out. The city snow blow was God-send to the residents of that dis trict and Superintendent Kelley has re- ceived many prayer for sending it into the streets of that part of the town. It was a great accommodation to large number of people who never before could be made believe that the city cared anything about them so long as they paid their taxes.
 The police officers have lots to do keeping track of fellows who persist i'll tossing snow off verandas and flat roofed buildings onto the heads of peo- pie on the streets and sharp words are heard in all quarters from officers on the streets and men on the top of build ings. This. noon Sergeant Pagan de livered an address on Bank street to q man on the top of a building and by the time the officer got through the fel- low on top was made to realize that he should not forget that there are peo- pie about the streets whose rights he was bound to respect. s.Where will throw it?" incurred the shoveler, as he peeked over the cornice of the build ing. 'Throw it where you like" re- piled the officer, ''so long as you don't land it on the heads of people down here"
 The railroad trains have nearly got back to the schedule and by to- morrow it is thought that all trains will be running on regular time. Like the trolley companies they mad to do some hustling to get the snow