The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-02-18
YESTERDAYS BIG STORM,
STEAM ROAD AND TROLLEY LINE
 1RATEIO AFFECTED.
The Storm Ragged All Day but Abateta Last Evening and Ceased About Mid nisht-Chapel Street Stores Closed Yes- Suspended-Ntne Inches of Snow Fell and Wind Blew Gale.


 suspended-Nine Inches of snow Eel
 and Wind Blew a Gale
 The worst snow storm that has vis-
 ited New Haven in two years ragged
 fiercely all day yesterday and last night
 approaching close to the dignity of a
 blizzard and made all kinds of trouble
 for the trolley and railroad people.
 Coupled with the snow storm was a
 high wind and the combination worked
 together in manner that played havoc
 all through the east.
 The storm originated in the Missis-
 sppi valley last Friday and has gradu-
 ally worked it's way to the Atlantic
 coast. It covered In it's course many
 of the southern states, touching Geor-
 ing in fury as it proceeded. It broke
 in New England early yesterday morn
 ing and in New Haven the first snow
 of the blizzard fell about o'clock.
 Since that time and up to Ii o'clock
 last night it had not abated for an in-
 stant. The streets in the center of the city are banked with snow three or four
 feet deep where it had been shoveled
 from the sidewalks and on the out skirts the drifts in certain places are as high as the tops of fences The
 wind had full sweep in the outlying
 towns and it was in them that the troll
 ley roads have had the most trouble. The snow made fast and up to midnight last night it had fallen to depth of ten inches on the level This is heavier fall than at any time during this or last winter.
 The wind last night dropped to velocity of thirty to thirty-two miles an hour and about 3 o'clock the mer- cury began to fall Tn the middle of the afternoon it registered 32 degrees and at o'clock it was at the twenty six mark, and on the tumble. The weather man said, at that time, that the barometer was going up and that every indication led him to believe that the storm would blow itself out in short time. He said it would get colder and that to-day would be clear and cold
 Early yesterday morning the wind was blowing forty miles an hour but later in the day the velocity was slight Iy reduced and it blew steadily at thir- ty-five or thirty-six miles an hour.
 At the general offices of the Fair Ha- ven and Westville road it was stated last night that the tracks had been kept fairly clear owing to the big force of extra men employed by the company Every plow and sweep was doing busi- ness and MT. Candee said last night that over 150 men, all extra men, were scattered about the different lines of the company working like beavers to get the cars through. After the men got headway and the cars were once pushed through they managed to keep the tracks clear so the cars on all the | lines were running in fairly good time 1 last night They were not running on | a Fourth of July schedule, however, | MT. Candee said, but they were getting through all right. Out West Haven the |
  and the cars were run down there al- | most on schedule time. The other side | of Woodmont, however. the snow gain ed on the road, and up to late hour last night it was still banked in places. Out Whitney avenue the road was clear as far as the Country club up to 8 o'clock and force of men was work ing out there. The cars on this line ran at frequent intervals all last night, so that theatergoers and any who wanted to come to the center of the city were not inconvenienced in the least.
 The Branford line gave he Fair Ha- ven road people the most trouble and the drifts in East Haven were ham, mered at all night long. MT. Candee said last night that he expected to get cars through so that they would be run ming on schedule time to-day.
 The road was clear all day on that branch as far as the East Haven green but beyond that the drifts gained on the men and they had hard work of 1t last night In the other direction, out Dixwell and Shelton avenues, the line was clear but cars were not run regularly. Many of the regular cars were sent over different branches of the line to keep the tracks clear and owing to this the running on some of the streets was very irregular. Out West Chapel street, for instance. while the tracks were clear as far as the Yale field. the cars : were run in punches. MT, Candee said ast night that it was one of the hard ast storms to handle that has come along this way in years. The service Q was all that could be expected and by I ,o-day everything will doubtless be | on schedule time. r The New York. New Haven and UU Hartford railroad tracks were kept 'ntrly clear during the storm but the rains were necessarily late. It was n stated last night that they were all the q way from thirty minutes to an hour n lnd half behind time. The S:10 train or New York last night left at o'clock e lnd the train due here at o'clock was a Tn hour and half late. In some ? ,laces along the line the trains were ss blocked by the snow, notwithstanding 1 he fact that every effort was made to al ,eep them running on schedule time. u The freight traffic suffered more than tt he passenger traffic on account of the " torm and some of the regular trains vera threa 0r fnu,' hOlllss late in pettiOo' LII