Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-01-29
CITY STRUGGLING
TO RESTORE TRAFFIC
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city and suburban trolley system OF
the company probably would De
working on schedule again. with the
exception of the Capital street line.
A large force of men under the
direct supervision of Mr.. Davis,
worked all night to keep the lines
open and to resume operations on
the tied up lines this morning. On
some of the lines. traffic was con-
tinued all night, as the only means
of keeping the lines open.
This morning the lines to Oberlln,
Middletown, Riverside and Steelton,
were open, and running on fairly
good schedule. Cars are running on
the Linglestown line as far as Prog
ress, and are running to Hummels-
town borough line. Cars go as far as
Division street on the Rockville line.
The company has a plough at Hum
melstown trying to open up the line
through the town. Sweepers are
working in the city to keep the lines
in operation. Early this morning the
sweepers gave out after the terrific
battle in the drifts during the night,
and had to be replaced.
Mr.. Davis said that all lines Will
be operating tonight. Capital street
patrons are taken care of by the
Fourth and Sixth street cars, so that
the attention of the clearing crews
will not be turned to Capital street
until tomorrow.
Worst in Years
Mr.. Davis said this morning that
the tieup was the worst he has
experienced in his twenty-nine
years experience in the city.
The Valley Railways Company
announced this morning that its
lines will be opened by this evening.
Cars were running on every line
on the West Shore this morning
with the exception of those from
Overview to Marysville, and Boil
ing Springs to Mechanicsburg. Car
Isle to Boiling Springs was open this
morning it was announced. The
company had men at work on these
lines this morning, in an effort to
open them during the day.
In Harrisburg cars were still run
ming in pairs, or even in threes. this
morning. Owing to the accumula-
ton of ice and snow between the
tracks, the cars could not make
any speed, and consequently sched-
ules were slow. Teams getting on
the tracks made it impossible to
keep to the schedules, and result
ed in pairing. This was especially
noticeable on the Third street and
Market street lines. Nehicular traf-
fic on the tracks also carried snow
on to the tracks, making it difficult
for street cars to operate.
Streets Blocked
Streets in Harrisburg are to-day
almost impossible. The snow is
heaped along the sides in piles eight,
ten and twelve feet high. and it is
travel anywhere but on the street
car tracks. Street car company
ploughs have thrown such great
piles of snow along the sides of
the tracks that another storm would
find all traffic paralyZed indefinite
ly, while the snow could be hauled
away from the sides of the streets.
Downtown sidewalks were being
cleared of snow this morning by
businessmen who made no effort to
clear their walks yesterday. The
snow tossed off the wide sidewalks
in the business sections of the city,
also added to the great piles in the
streets. In uptown sections. the
accumulations of snow piled up
from the sidewalks and from the
roofs of dwellings,, have become so
great that many side streets have
been abandoned by vehicles for days
end have remained impossible since
the storm.
hdllWuyh open u
After a hard 24-hour battle with
snow drifts and snow piles. railroad
trains were again in motion to-day.
Armies of track forces on the Pennsy.
Philadelphia and Reading Railway
and the Cumberland Valley Railroad
had some hard digging to clear the
lines. This afternoon it was an
nounced that all trains We're again
moving, but not on schedule time.
The only branches of the Pennsy
not open to-day were the Belwood
and Cresson divisions. On the main
line trains annulled yesterday were
again running, but from one to six
hours late. Freight also started with
a rush to-day and was a big factor
ir preventing the running of pas
senger trains on regular schedules.
The working forces are still on duty
to-day and the snow piles are disap-
pearing very rapidly. Freight en-
bargoes which were ordered last
week proved a big help in prevent
ing a more serious tieup.
AS far as has been learned, no seri-
Gus results have occurred to food
shipments held up because of the
storm. 1t was said that a carload
of cattle reached Harrisburg about
the time the storm was on full blast
and it required considerable work to
get it out of the snow drifts The
cattle were cared for at the local
stockyards.
Railroad officials said this after
noon that barring any further fall
of snow. trains would be moving
much better by tomorrow. Due to
the annullment of trains yesterday.
a number of engines were given re-
pair attention, and motive power was
in better shape to-day.
All of the lines of the Harrisburg
Railways Company will be open by
tonight, according to the belief of
officials of the company at noon to-
day. At that time both tracks on the
Steelton and Middletown lines were
cleared, a sweeper was just inside
Hummelstown and promise was given
that through service could be given
within a short time; the Linglestown
line was open to Progress; Reser-
voir, Oberlin, Third and Fourth
street lines, the latter as far as Divi-
sion street, were open entirely. Early
this afternoon the Race and Vine
street line was opened. Immediately
after opening the Hummelstown and
Race and Vine street lines. sweepers
We're sent to Rockville to open that
line. After that the Linglestown
line. from Progress to Linglestown,
was scheduled to be opened. River
side cars were running on good time.
the line having been opened there
yesterday.
VoIunteer Street C,Ieou..