The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1915-04-06
RALEIGH FOUNDERS IN GRASP
OF ITS GREATEST BLIZZARD
Communication By Telephone, TELEGRAPH
Train Is Cut Off With Little
OF Relief For TODAY
and Almost Bv
Chance

taken by the fire department yester-
day that they might be warned of
outbreak Of a blaze. All day men
were stationed on the tower of Sta
ton No. 1 on Morgan street. looking |
out over Raleigh. liz addition such !
notice SIS possible was given in the |
business section that tae fire alarms
were out OF commission and all al
arms should be given through the |
telephone.
Local Deliveries Made.
All the city deliveries were made
IN the postoffice department yester-
DAY. Through Sdush and snow the
delivery men waded to dispose Of the
mail matter On hand The few trains
during the day made the mails very
light, however.
No attempt was made to reach any
of h rural routes. Fallen telephone
poles would have made this impos-
sible.
IaEars and Candies.
| Had there been no candles in Raj
! eigh, II a the lamps been com
pletely forgotten Raleigh would have
been in a bad way last hight. During
the day n enterprising
dealer had liehted lamps placed in
his show windows as an advertising
medium. 1t is said that there was
itO ltCN VI ttdOS II tu!S pdIlC1uIdI.
The most popular form of lighting,
last night, however, was the modest
pickering candle Even the hotels
were plentifully supplied and numer-
mercantile establishments were
lightede solely by this means.
Electricity Here.
More than one curious paSSer by
dropped into the News and Observer
office with exclamation of intense
49, xI-4 49, -
ming on electricity and that all lights
should have been on. The auxiliary
plant pulled and labored under the
strain, but the power was there and
sure, enabling the paper to make its
editions even without the s
power.
Irony and Vanity.
The vanity of the Easter Season
the irony Of weather all were
stamped on the faces of pedestrian.
yesterday when they turned from tn
) binding snow fall, the sluslhy street
and looked to the nodding Eastel
, lilies. the flmy drapery, and thu
) fresh colors Of springtime in thu
windows Of the department store:
/ and millinery establishments.
g In one window, particularly en-
: chanting, was the view Of a gaily be
: decked Miss displaying a beautiful.
decorated ankle above the season
lowest pump, while another Miss, jus
: as daintily clad, did the light fan
tastic" with unseeing eyes for tn
miserable bleakness without.
O. Purely Property Loss.
y in p Gr + S Tinanan,s f fni1 w sfy'lf 4h
{ weight OF snow upon it, damaging
4 goods in the store slightly.
8 That the loss should have bee.
one purely Of property is adjudge
one Of the singular features Of tn
blizzard. So far as can be learned
neither was there injury to perso
in Raleigh nor in surrounding terri
e tory.
hi Several telephone poles crashe
against the negro First Baptist churc
On the corner OF Wilmington an
| Morgan streets. but no damage wa
done. Another falling pole crushe
the top OF a Pullman Of the Florid
e Limited at the Union Station. Be
II yond broken windows, little damas
> was sustained here.
is Hargett street seems to have bee
l. particularly prolific in fallen pole
n Eighteen are stretched across til
street from Bloodworth to Fayettt
Vile and only four were left stan
ing on the north side Of the stree
" In all, about three hundred poles al
down in Raleigh.
LoA0 VA ANdiO1Shs L
Re word coming into the city few pole
In are left standing on the railroa
r. track from Raleigh to Apex. Fro
- Sanford to Hamlet, it was estimate
ne that one hundred and seventy-fye
more had been torn down. Betwee
Raleigh and Sanford there are abe
~ four hundred down. In the 9th,
,r direction, there are no wires betWee
e. Raleigh and Henderson, and a
e. parently the same condition extern
70 toward Richmond, with strong pro
e ability that Richmond is in the san
vi fix with Raleigh. Between Selma al
r. Goldsboro, it seems that wires ha'
ed been snapped to such an extent Il
n. line is Of little further use at al
Id point.
&c Upon the receipt of news in Rs
n overturned in the neighborhOod
Syivaola a special train from Raleis
over the Norfolk Southern attempt
re the trip, Telephone poles across Il