The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-12-14
OUR CITY OF THE SHOWS.
ELEMENTS FAIL TO BURY NEW
 HAVEN.

Trolley Company Does Excellent Work
 Against Adverse Conditions--Trnins
 Delayed but Not Ont of Business
 Mantle About Fifteen Inches Deep
 Street Department Busy-.No GFam-,
 mar School Sessions.
 Out of the ayaIanch of snow deposit- ed in New Haven within the last forty eight hours the Consolidated street rail- !Way system emerged triumphant with cars running on all its lines within the city, and moreover pretty well on gchedule time.
 Assistant Superintendent Judge was eration of the blows and was still at it lat noon. General Manager Punderford was out on the road and indefatigable lin the way of keeping the laborers at work and putting them on lines where they were the most needed.
 It took ten snow blows from 4 until 8 so'cloek yesterday morning to make d sSpathway on the several divisions of the local trolley system through which the cars could pass and allow the company Ito resume service, It was hard work, but the trolley people stuck to it Through the hours of the early morning and their labors resulted in a pretty good service being given the public in the morning
 The work was admirably done, there being about 125 miles of trolley lines in the city which had to be cleared
 At il o'clock yesterday morning all the various trolley tracks about the city were open, except Edgewood ave- nue and Wallingford, and service was begun on these at l o'clock in the af- ternoon. The 8 o'clock Woodmont car came in on time, the Derby car was on time, although the persistent blowing i In of drifts behind tie snow blows made the clearing of this track difficult. One of the big jumbo blows on this di- Vision struck rock about a. m. and was so disabled on one end that it's work was considerably crippled. s Of the other lines the State street, the Lighthouse, the East Haven. the Mt. Carmel, and the Westville lines were Ahrown open early. and fair service maintained on them.
 Ten snow blows, seventy-five teams, arld about 400 men were put on the job sbf clearing up the snow at 2:45 a. m. when New Haveners undertook to go to business at or 8 o'clock they had conn paratively little idea of what had been. done iil the way of helping out the traf- fc conditions of the streets.
 This snow storm broke weather rec brds as the government has kept track bf snow storms only since 1896. The heaviest fall recorded therefore by it's
 Records was ten inches OH December 23 & pf that year, while this storm recorded BYAbout fifteen inches.
 x The heaviest part, of the storm was. the sound and New Haven got 7as much as any district, just about as { It was treated during the great blizzard bf 1888.
 ! The storm seriously affected the op- ! erations of the Consolidated railroad. 'N While the snow was deep enough over x bowers of the locomotives, the main source of delay was in keeping the deli- bate interlocking switches at the ter < rfnal points of the system free from K snow.
 | Freights were intentionally side tracked as rapidly as possible, and { hence a snow embargo was placed on N Inc system against which railroads j have already placed enlbargoes. That s IS, so far as freight was concerned. a 4 All passenger trains were delayed from twenty minutes to two hours. } Sonne of the freights from Harlem river ' ksere six hours in getting here, the de- e lay being mainly between Bridgeport 7, aiid this city, while trains which were thriving here were being sidetracked.
 The early mail trains from New York were not greatly delayed, and trains X but of this city likewise The railroad 4 Eaborers battled valiently with the 4 now. There are hundreds of freight lars held LID, especially between New ss Haven and New York.
 , The eastbound Colonial express from Z, Washington had a hard time getting q kcross the Harlem river Monday night, E Ind was delayed at that point, on the ,Bfersey side, for nearly three hours. It due here at f2:4s. but did not get iere until after 3 o'clock. The east Hound Federal express, over the same { liver route, was also a couple of hours Y ate. It got in here about o'clock in
 he morning
 t, By far the busiest department under {. he city government was that of public < <, works The men in Director Goes corps 6 6 i'd not wait until morning to begin york. MT. Coe was in frequent confer
 
 endent F, P. Whitaker, during the
 light, and MT. Whitaker himself re-
 aained on duty at the city supply house