The morning journal-courier., 1908-02-20
WET FEET AND
 TROLLEY DELAYS Such Was Sum Total of Results of Snow and Rain Storm
 of Yesterday. MANY FUSES BLOW OUT Precipitation of Two and One Quarter Inches--Prospects of Clearing Weather.
MANY FUSES BLOW OUT

Get home to dinner on time last evening? Some one said one or two of the cars were little off their schedule, but still little could be un- earthed to substantiate such story last evening, Not person could be found that had to wait longer than three hours for a car, that is unless they missed yesterdays car for West vile via Edgewood avenue, Slush Crossing, Mud Valley and Slippery vile, which left the green from 4:SO till o'clock
 The reports had it that some of the trolleys about the time the officers got out at o'clock were well filled with passengers. Indeed some crit ics, ever prone to saying the truth, went so far as to ask if the trolley company is going to convert it's capital into the canning industry and wonder if it was simply practlcing with the New Haven populace to see how best 1t could pack its sardne cans. The air in the cars was anything but the 1 best with all clothing soaked and every ventlator closed as usual. There was not much spare space for l'any pure air to get in anyway.
 The storm began in meek enough fashion, but by noontime yesterday it was a bowling, clustering wind-and- snow storm Around the corner of Church and Chapel streets those who ventured home for their luncheons were met with whirling mass of snow that made skirts blow and hats leave their owners heads.
 During the carly afternoon the moderated temperature turned the snow into rain and the sidewalks and street were mass of slush in short order. That is when the trolley com pany began to have its troubles. Tho water that fell or resulted from the melting snow settled in the car tracks in great pools. in spite of the gangs of men that were kept busy at many ! places trying to drain if away. The { water made poor circuits from the wheels to the tracks, and many fuses | were blown out and delays followed as a result. The trolley people acknowledged that there had been l plenty of cause for complaint on the part of citizens. hut they explained i it as above Fuses were burned out on the cars all over the city, One oi 1 the most exasperating of these occur red just at the most critical time i shortly after 5:S0 on Meadow street 1 because of which the clerks from tho yellow building and the arrivals by train could not get up from the sta ! ton for half hour or more A Ions car was taken off the EdgeWood ave nue line to rep ace the Bridgeport cal i that was disabled and small car wa, put in it's place on the Edgewood run which was packed to overflowing, be ing the only car to make the trip fol about forty-iive minutes.
 The regular Cliff street cars and tn, regular Fair Haven and Westvill' cars were discontinued yesterday be cause the power was too much needed ! elsewhere. On the Edgewood lin' largo cars took the place of the singlt trucks There were three of then and they were run on a twentyfou minute schedule
 The snow with all the water in i was just too heavy for the sweepers and not heavy enough for the blows The crossings were in bad shap' wherever passengers had to get of the cars.
 Farmer Tarr said last evening tha the precipitation for the day mad beer two and one-quarter inches. Tn wind had heen light The storn which t'c city experienced was a par of the blizzard which had been re ported in the papers as having strucl 4 Chicago It was sighted in Kansa two days ago. Since that time it ha travelled over the Mississippi valle, and the central section to New Haven Although there is a possibility that al aftermath cf the storm may come ye still the prospects are good that tn sky will clear up this morning an that the rest Of the day will be eleal
 Superintendent Cronin had the me busy last night with the snow leveler about the central part of the cit, Unless the mercury goes down tn glass there is every prospect that in snow will he well out of sight by thi