Daily Kennebec journal., 1906-03-10
the STORM,
March Scores the King Pin
Of the Whole Winter.
Knocks Out the Telegraph and
Cripp|es Telephone Service.
Gets After Light and Power Staticn-,-
Raises Ruciions Generally.

After Fridays storm it can hardly
be said that the winter Of 1906 has
passed without a blizzard, for While il
was not ono of those Western affairs
which are accompanied by Il degree of
cold which freezes the marrow III one :;
bones, it was still d blizzard in all of
the OF her essentials.
The storm commenced soon after the
noon hour. All the morning there was
a strong wind from the north and a
sort Of fog along the horizon and the
wcatherwiscS got their heads together
and decided that something unusual
was going to happen. And it did hap
pen. The change came at about !
o'clock when a few scattering flakes of
snow began to fall and these were
spedily supplemented by others, 50
that within half an hour after The
first flakes had fallen it had developed
ihjo quite Il Respectable storm.
it was not one of those dry snow
storms which one would expect of a
| Northeastern, but the flakes We're moist
and stuck to everything that they
struck, coating it with white. Jhe
| north side Of street signs were painted
| white by the lying flakes as were the
trees, buildings and everything else
that faced the direction from which the
storm came. and the wind piaStcrcd the
snow on in Il way that stuck II there
for keeps. Pedestrians. too. who were
ObHgod to face the storm soon found
thulr front Il broad cNpanse of white.
Owing to the dampness OF the snow
il did not !or the first few hours gain
much in depth. but melted as it fell. 1t
kept coming. however, as if with de-
| termination to bury everything iii
! sight, ana by o'clock in the afternoon
| had gained a repth of several inches.
Th. effect of the storm was noticed
by the running of the electric cars, for
" while they had maintained schedule
time. The o'clock car out of Angus
ia WAS about 10 minutes off time and
during the evening the cars on the
main lire were from i5 To 20 minutes
behind the schedule. although they
were kept moving. The cars on the
Winthrop and Togus line found the
wheeling harder aud some of them
! were about an hour late. But consid-
ering the difficulties which were en-
countered the service was very well
| maintained.
| ON the Maine Central ther, was some
trouble. but nothing of a serious ma
ture Trains from the East were de-
l3ycd hut few minutes, but those
gcing the other way were considerably
r,iayed. The augusta and South Gar
diner train was 10 minutes late OH its
4 O'Clock trip from Augusta, and train
No. -. which goes East from August /
at 7.2S L. NJ, was Il half hour late.
Other trains going East during the
night were also delayed by the storm.
Perhaps the most serious incon-
yenience on account of the storm was
visited upon the electric service of the
! civ. Tie snow stuck to and weighed
| down the wires, crossing them and
yLtting them out of commission in all
GirC ctiOns. Both the Western Union
and Postal telegraph lines were off be-
cause OF wires being down, and the
| telephone service also was INTERRUPTED.
! Some of the wires about the city got
! crossed with the fire alarm wires and
the fire whistle was blown at intervals
during the night. Tie people at the
electric light station had troubles of
their own, for the arc circuit on Water
street and some Of tie other streets
on the West side of the river went ont
of commission early in the evening
and there was also trouble on the line
that put the power circuit bors du
combat for portion Of the night
Wires were down On the Kennebec
bridge. but they were easily avoided
and no casualties resulted.