The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-11-12
GREAT DRIFTS CRIPPLE CITY
 OF CLEVELAND
Food Famine Follows Down fall of SnOW-BabeS Left
 Without MILK Supply.
THOUSANDS IDLE FROM
 SHORTAGE OF FUEL
Army of Men at Work Clear ing Tracks Of Badly. Dis organized Trolley
 System.

Cleveland Nov. 12-With the city under from to 6 feet of snow, the problem Of distributing the available food and coal supplies in the city caused the greatest anxiety today. Eff teen hundred babies have been without milk for 36 hours and prospects of get ting any milk into the city are not very good, but of other food except green stuff a fairly large supply is on hand. The big milk companies yester- day made sales only to those who wanted milk for babies and the greater part of the demand was thus supplied.
 AS today progressed, prospects for 9 speedy resumption of normal street car traffic were bright. The rail- roads. already rising above the eff operating on whaE amounted to schedule time except in one or two instances, and on these roade the delay was only very slight Bright, sunshiny wea ther prevailed and the slightly rising tenn that would assist the work of restora- tion-
 Tn the city this morning the Detroit avenue line one of the great traffic ar teriee of the city, ana a few cross town lines were still out of commits work clearing the tracks, however, and their reopening was only a matter of hours
 Vessels were able 70 clear Cleveland port Lfesavers and tug owners were on the lookout for traces of wrecks on Lake Erie
 While the railroads, street car lines and fnter-urban systems are approach dng ordinary conditions, the telegraph and teasphone companies will not be able to restore their lines completely for weeks and perhaps even months.
 
 r4erday because of the shortage of coal and they may not be able to open for a week. Retail dealers say a famine of coal for dwelling houses and apart 1nen< houses depends on deliveries which just now are impossible
 Neat eggs. flour and butter in sufH- scient quantities to last several days are in the downtown groceries, but in the suburbs where it has been tmpos- sible to carry supplies, grocers have almost empty shelves.
 FafIure to replen5sh the years sup IDIy. inability of employees to get 10 work and the difficulty of deliveries sbave brought the bread situation al- most to a famine point. Most Of the dealers were caught unprepared by the sudden tie up of supplies, and the city may suffer severely as a result
 Ten plants Of the American Steel & svzre Company, employing about 5000 men. were shut down yesterday even Hng because of the lack of coal and Keo men employed at the Glidden Var rxafgh Company were sent home for the .same reason. Several smaller plants, mot equipped with gas, also were forced to close down Several hundred .cars Of coal for shipment up the lakes are tr, outlying railroad yards, but will be available only in ease of extreme necessity. The company which fur uis5es heat for most of the downtown once buildings reports a fairly large supply of coal on hand end the munic- ipal heating plant, which warns a large part of the east end, has teams hauling coal all the time to prepare for emergencies
 Residents of the west side, which comprises nearly half Of Cleveland, are in a more precarious condition, as deliveries of coal and food over there are even more difficult than in other sections of the city. One of the larg- est baking companies there will give away 5000 pies and 5000 loaves of Dread today, since otherwise the bread would only spoil in their plant
 Twelve hundred men working in sxangs are rapidly clearing away the rstreet car tracks which are available for use. Many of the lines are still crippled because of broken trolley poles and wires Even then, only a com parativeIy narrow furrow in the cen ter of the street is cleared, leaving a blanket of snow to 6 feet deep over the rest of the street Pedestrians travel through the narrow paths be- tween banks of snow to feet high.