Waterbury evening Democrat., 1907-02-05
SNOW BOUND SURE ENOUGH Wild Storm of Snow and Wind Paralyzed the Trolley and
 Steam Traffic
SNOW FLOWS OUT
But Made Very Little Roadway Until Nearly Noon When the Snow Ceased 10 Fall and the Wind
 Storm Abated.

this morning turned out to be more severe than the weather prophets had supposed and now some are taking the other extreme and stating that it will continue all day and keep billing up the white flakes until such thing as walking will be almost out of the question. It was not very cold, so that while the ground hog proved that 1t knows thing or two when 1t shut the door and decided to sit by its own fireside for few weeks, yet 1t would not have perished if it had sallied forth and taken it's chances with the rest of us. Up to noon to-day four teen inches of snow had fallen, the heaviest storm i'll some time. There was high wind and this drifted the "beautifuP' in mountains which in some instances proved more than match for the stoutest of those who, ventured out in the early morning. In addition to going to the hips in the snow the drifting almost blinded peo- pie and many who left their homes enroute to their places of employment soon regretted their foolf ardiness and retraced their steps and spent the balance of the day sitting at the window watching others battling with the storm. Others pressed on- ward until they reached the shops where they work. and then found to their great dismay that enough hands hadn't shown up to warrant starting the power and that they had made the sacrifice for nothing. While it was nothing at all compared with the real old blizzard of 1888, yet 1t resembled it in some respects and prompted many who went through the other to refer to it, hence the reason of so much discussion as to the amount of snow that fell that time and how long folks had to remain in doors
 The trolley cars were put out of commission for time, but the man. agement didn't propose to yield to a little thing like snow squall and the big sweeper was kept nosing along the different lines and worked so we'll that towards noon cars were running some distances on all the lines. Cars got stalled in the north end and oth- CT places and the Cheshire route gave up temporarily, the last car heading in this direction being held up at Mt Carmel. There was very little use in shoveling the drifts because the wind threw them back just about as fast as they were taken away, so that notwithstanding the great effort made to keep the tracks clean the storm king was more than a match for hu- man ingenuity and although some headway was made and slight ad- vantages gained by keeping up the battle, nothing like regular sched- ule was reached during the day. all though everybody was busy pushing to one side or the other. The police put up no "holler" about cleaning and sanding the walks. but like oth- CT mortals pushed their way through and said nothing. Superintendent Kilduff of the street department had q force of men cleaning the crossings and the work they did was great help. The city should have about a dozen snow ploughs in readiness for such occasions, but the demand for such things is so uncertain It is not good policy to buy them in advance of storm and then in most cases you can't get to where they are sold.
 The "snOw. snow, beautiful snow which blows in your eyes. your ears and your nose" knocked the schedule of the trains to-day higher than the loftiest heights to which the ambi- tions of some of the amateur polo players at times fly. The 6:35 train was only forty-five minutes late, but the next one on the way to New York was an hour and half behind its regular time. The trains coming from New York were away behind time while the New Haven trains were several hours late. The Water town express, regularly makes three trips before II o'clock but today had not made one up to that time. The first for the village left this city at } o'clock and as 1t had not returned 1t II great excitement was caused. The trains coming into the Highland were as badly effected and came in