Norwich bulletin., 1915-02-03
FEBRUARY CAME IN
 WITH WORST STORM
sIeet and Snow Troubled Transporta-
 ton Lines in This Section

The worst storm of the winter de deVOped Monday evening and cOntinIed with unabated fury until well along into Tuesday morning. About 9 o'clock Monday night a sleet storm started in and the fall was thick and fast covering streets and sidewalks with slippery coating that made walking and driving hazardous. The snow packed solidly, causing much trouble on the local trolley lines. IT was onlz- by con tinuous work on the part of the em- plOyes Of the Shore Line electric line that it's cars were kept running and for the most part they were running only from 10 tos l5 minutes late. However
 there were no cars into Willimantic as the storm seemed tO have centered itself over that city and late Tuesda-- night snow was still falling rapidly The tracks were covered with a solid covering of ice several inches thick
 that dcded all efforts of the heavy snowploWs and a force of men was kept at work all day clearing the Yails with pick and shovel. Cars were run ming as far north as Baltic but could
 get no further. The West Side trolley car that left the barn at 430 o'clock
 Tuesday morning. took until nearly 5 o'clock to reach the top of the West
 Main street hill The iCt was Sn
 thic%ly caked on the tracks that at points the trolleymen had to practically
 chop it off. This line was finally open ed for traffic about the middle Of the
 morning and was kept on schedule
 time the remainder of the day 4 car that left the tracks near
 Avery's greenhouses at Bean Hill early
 Tuesday morning put the Yantic line
 out of commission.
 The cars were however. run fairly
 well on schedule. In the early trips
 it was at first impossible to get cars up to Bean Hill and for this reason the men going to work took to walk
 ing
 The Central Village and Westerly
 lines were run on schedule fairly well.
 the storm seeming to effect more the
 lines going to Willimantic, No trouble
 of any consequence was experienced
 on the Boswell avenue line the usual
 trips to that point and Laurel Hill
 being made on almost the right time. This was one of the few lines really open at the time of the early trips Delays were experienced on the rail roads and their schedule time was aI- fected to some extent
 On the Central Vermont the trains were sefIJ on nearly schedule time un- til the 11.3S train from BrsttIeboro, which was nearly one-half hour be- hind regular time. They reported some eight inches of snow up north, besides hail and sleet. The company had their snowplows working from Brattleboru nearly to Palmer
 About all trains on the New Haven line going both north and south, were delayed somewhat as a result of the storm.
 Sidewalk cleaning was extremely diff ! ficult Tuesday morning and many gave 1t up temporarily. Underneath the snow was a thick crust of ice and sleet which made a fine foundation for sleighing. For the first time this win ter many of the miIlimen delivered their milk in sleighs and all stated that they found the going excellent No complaints from trouble as the result of the storm were received at the local telephone office It is eX- pected that nothing of any consequence will result as the storm consisted prin- cfpally of snow and sleet and this will not bother the telephone lines. At Willimantic no cars were run up to well into the afternoon. Tuesday morning an attempt was made to run a car to South Coventry from the barn
 on West Main street at 5.45. It was