The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1904-01-30
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SNOWBOUND CITY
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clouds lowering over the deep snow drifts.
left by the night previous. Actual and
official measurements showed that about
seven inches had come down, but the
fall was light and fleecy, and It settled
down after awhile into a solid five
inches or SO.
The streets were covered from end to
end and difficult of passage. here
the wind had howled most furiously
v ere plling drifts that measured feet.
Everything was mantled In white. ana
the temperature at a. M: ~ ~as % ~,
srees. The public schools did not open
at all. The street cars did an indlf-
fcrent service that was yet, under the
circumstances, most excellent. BY per-
sistent and laborlous efforts the tracks
hac been kept clear. To accomplish inns,
cars were run all night long and the
Snow sweeper made frequent trips over
the line.
Wade Through Snow to Work.
Along the streets Of the city the work
aday public plunged to It's day OF toll
In most cases the sidewalks were desert
cd. and the middle OF the street was the
favorite highwaylof travel. Houses were
opened later and tho weather caused
many plan to so amiss. The suburban,
ito found himself without the needtull
energy for a tramp through the snow
! covered fields. Visits were eliminated
| from tho lists Of the days work, Very
| little marketing was done. The Richmond
! publIc turned the larder inside out anu
| lived off what 1t found there whatever
| that happened to be. From the iron
grating In front Of the Second Baptist
Church a card was suspended: "soclable
postponed" The church looked awning
! but sociable, anyhow. An unbroKen sheet
OF deep snow obscurcd the place where
the steps had been,
The Street Cleaners at Work.
Between daybreak and noon nothing
| eyentful happened In the way OF at
mospheric developments, Tho army Of
| snow cleaners armed with shovel and
broom, gathered in the streets and be-
gan its accustomed work. Police dlrec-
tions to get the sidewalks clear were ls'
sued to the citizens. The city's street
cleaning department turned out IN forcc,
i and a hundred men dug away ihto thS
snow heaps. Forty carts carried the stun
of as fast as 1t was gathered up The
efforts OF superintendent Coin were
confined chiefly to East Main and Cary,
thirteenth and Fourteenth Streets, and
shockoe slip, where tho press Of business
is the heaviest On the other streets the
cleaners were employed by the residents
s1.lphIng began early and continued
late, The school population, free OF It's
! hated books, soon .sWarmed the Streets
/ dragging (sleds, big and little, In the
wake, Hundreds Of boys and girls of all
sorts and sizes spent the better portion
OF the day siding down tho steep hills
in and around the city. The more stately
sleigh, with the horse and Its merry Jingle
/ of bells, sped along the streets, and the
riding was fine in the chill air.
| Another Driving Snow,
From time 10 time during the day a
drizzle of rain and fine sleet had
come down. The temperature rose and
then stopped below thirty degrees.
About 9 o'clock In the afternoon tho
blizzard broke forth again. AS on the
day before, there was for some moments
small and ragged fall that seemed
likely to stop at any minute Then 1t be-
gan III dead earnest BY $3.50 o'clock
another binding storm had set In, and
for the next two hours 1t continued thus.
Where the streets had been cleaned they
were coversd again, Where they had not
u fresh coating was given.
The storm slackened up about 80
o'clock, and thereafter confined Its en-
ergy to a fine sift that did no great harm.
, About an inch more OF snow had fallen.
Little splits every now and then kept
things lively until after nightfal When
, the first signs of a change for the better
began to appear, Then the transforma-
! ton occurred The clouds began slowly
80 break UP and drift away Az 8 F, n.