Norwich bulletin., 1912-12-25
'A WHITE CHRISTMAS FOR NORWICH
Foot of Snow Tuesday Made Extra Trouble for Shoppers Posmen and Travellers, but Provides the Necessary Fin ishng Touch to the Complete Enjoyment of the Day.

George W. Carroll. Mrs. M. P. Hunt ington will provide ice cream and Jail er Main will distribute a plug of to- bacco to each man. At the Sheltering Arms there will be turkey dinner for the II ladies there.
 Biggest Rush Ever at Postoffice.
 This morning will wind up the larg- est Christmas business ever carried on at the Norwich postoffice, according to Postmaster Caruthers, who with the cooperation of his entire force of reg ulars and substitutes has been able to give the public the best of deliveries in spite of the unusual rush of mail. The cash receipts are almost doublc those of any previous year.
 Tuesdays snow proved a great hin drance to the carriers, who had no easy job wading through it with heavy loads. Three teams were sent out in the morning delivering packages, and failed to reappear at the postoffice un- til in the neighborhood of o'clock. On Monday night the employees were kept at the postoffice until nearly mid night, sorting and strengthening out the mails, and were also on the job at a late hour Tuesday evening. Tues days heavy snow delayed the delivery of the mails so that there will un- doubtedly be a much greater rush to- day than would otherwise have been the case. On Tuesday, In addition to the regular mails, there were 16O sacks of incoming mail handled and 190 sacks of outgoing mail at the local office.
 There will be two deliveries today by the carriers, and the substitutes will again be busy with express wagons in delivering packages and bundles of Christmas gifts. The office will be open until noon.
 Postmaster Caruthers expects to have the Christmas business cleaned up this afternoon.
 During the Christmas season the following order of the department is suspended:
 "An domestic mail matter bearing on the address side adhesive stamps or limitations of stamps other than law ful postage stamps will be returned to the sender, if known; otherwise they will te forwarded to the division of dead letters"
 Following is the order regarding Santa Claus letters:
 "Postmacters are authorized to de- liver all letters on which postage has been fully prepaid arriving at their respective postoffices between Dec. IS. 1912, and Jan. 1. 1913, inclusive, which are addressed plainly and unmistaka- ply Santa Claus without any other terms or expressions identifying the person for whom such letters are in tended to responsible institutions or ln- dividuals in the town or city of address who may desire to use them exclusive ly for phllanthropic purposes. In the event that thees letters are requested | by more than one such institution or 1 individual the postmaster shall dis 1 tribute them in such proportion as he ! may deem. proper"
 Trolley Schedules lnterfered With. The foot of snow which fell on Tues i day raised havoc with the trolley and railroad schedules throughout the day | In the evening the cars of the Connec- | ticut company were kept about on | schedule, but during the day all the 1 cars were late. the New London line | being an hour behind regular time | The Yantic service was a half hour be- | hind schedule. Four snow blows were
 sent out over the lines in the after
 noon. There were reported no acci- l dents nor injury to equipment as z result of the storm.
 Boat Train 21-2 Hours Late. ! Trains were late all through the
 storm, and the boat train. due here al l 10 o'clock, did not arrive until 12.95
 The o'clock train from New London 1 did not wait for east or west bound | mail trains, and was in Norwich 2( minutes behind schedule. The 4.4( l train was an hour late.
 The fall of snow in this vicinity wal at least foot and the telephone com 1 pany and the city electrical department were fortunate in sustaining practical l ly no damage from the storm. The city street department had { 1 busy day getting the snow out of tht 1 gutters and leveled In the streets.