Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-02-11
Salt Lakers Treated to Zeal
Surprise by the Car
Company.
SNOW FALL CLEARED AWAY,
In Former Years II Tied Up Traffic
But This Time the Cars
We're Kept Moving.

Whenever a Salt Lakor mentioned
the name Of the Utah Light & Railway
company today he did II with a smile,
Whatever his grievances against the
conductor who got two fares for one
ride out OF him he forgot them today
in the joys OF knowing that actually
he rode to work on schedule time this
morning and could sit In II full speed
ed car remembering the bitter days OF
last winter and the winter before, when
he plodded a dozen weary blocks
through Knee deep snow while the
cars helplessly fused and sputtered on
down town curves, or We're off the
track In remote sections whore they had
found they could not buck the snow.
''Ill bet / have TO walk to town. said
Mr. Suburbanite this morning when he
came out into ankle deep snow and
saw all the slender shrubbery bearing
great weight OF that article.
"Il bet you won't" was the echo
from a car that hummed along on
schedule time at full speed. The morn
ing hours saw fight between a de-
cided snow storm and a collection Of
wOrkmen born and raised to the bust
ness of keeping traffic open" Just
how the wprkmen conquered is one of
those mysteries kept within the circle
of red tape. but just how happy the
people who had chance to ride We're
was shown on every face this morning
AT WORK ON TIME.
Every big business concern remem-
hers mornings when its force of
clerks has been very late In assemble
ing, and thea told each other when
they came of various experiences In
walking to work while the car sys-
tenn was snow bound. This morning,
with as heavy and sudden a DOWNFALL
as ever came there was not the slight
est Inconvenience TO the public ana
only a very little to the company, so
far as keeping its cars running was
concerned
Down town the curves that have
given so much trouble heretofore
We're clean canyons between great
heaps of snow at G o'clock this morn
ing. AT eight force of men with
brooms was guarding each curve aud
Keeping It swept clean, so that no car
need stop through slippery rails On
some of the hilly roads cars had diff
Guilty climbing the ascents, but this
was remedled by . o'clock
SWEPT THE TRACKS.
To make this condition possible,
meant all night work. At 2 O'clock
this morning the company's two big
snowplows ana six sweepers went to
work on the snow-coYered tracks
Many residenters heard the strange
noise at this unheard OF hour and
turned over in their sleep, not to fully
realize till morning what had hap
pened.
One mystery of snowstorms is the
height OF snow that VIII hold place
ON even such a slender thing as tele-
phone wire. THIS morning many OF
these wires were found to be broken
by the weight of snow upon them. ana
they were lying across the trolley lines.
To remove them caused about all the
delays that were reported.
CARS OUT OF BARNS.
At o'clock this morning the entire
trackagf ad been gone over, and cars
We're rsIJ. to come out as on the most
peacefui mornings. a few had a little
difficulty on their first trips owing to
the snow that had fallen after the
sweepers had passed, but none were
kept from making their runs
The work of cleaning the crossings
gave an opportunity to a large number
of unemployed men to earn days
wages.