Republican farmer., 1920-02-06
All Traffic p ar aIyzed By Storm
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Snowplows Make But Little Headway Against
 SIeet in Streets.
,yTTNEYS GIVE
 YEOMAN SERVICE

Completely snow-b our nd, trolley service disrupted, trains anywhere from 15 minutes to two hours late, streets and side- walks covered inches deep in snow, Bridgeport today is in the throes of the worst storm in the last 15 years with no re- lief in sight at noon today. Schools were closed today and many 1 of the factories might just as well have remained closed so few of the | employees being able to get to their work. Jitneys did yeoman service during the early morning hours and but for them Bridgeporters would have been isolated altogether from i their jobs.
 l Despite Superintendent Kibling's statement at Il o'clock today that all of the trolley lines were in operation with the exception of the Oak street branch. it was stated by those in touch with the situation that Fair. | field avenue and Boston avenue cars were not running. Trolley service on the other lines was carried or in a hit-orniss fashion and with the ex- ception of the S3ratfofd avenue line i the trolleys did not get running until very late in the morning.
 The Connecticut Company snow 1 blows and sweepers were out in force last night and this morning, 14 of 1 them being used in the city and out lying districts. Even with this bat tery of snow removers, however, Superintendent Kibling stated that 4iL~,, at
 II o'clock.
 The forces of the Connecticut Com
 pany have been hard hit by sickness
 and 60 men ordinarily available for
 emergencies are not working today.
 Even the snow blows made but little headway against the sleet in the
 streets and it was only by constant
 effort that the rails were kept suff- 'ciently free to permit haphazard traffic.
 "In the IS years that have been
 in Bridgeport" said MT. kibling.- this
 storm is the worst have experienced. | I would rather have one foot of snow 1 than one inch of this sleet. Even four
 years ago when all the trolley wires
 were down conditions were not as bad
 as they are today.
 we have held all the men on ! their jobs and will continue to use every available man until normal traffic is restored. Snow blows have
 been working since 7:3O last night and from the looks of things today
 they are good for another 24 hours | to say the least"
 , No one-man cars have been used 7 in the city at all today it being s thought that although having suffici- ent power they lack the weight to ) blow through the accumulated sleet } A snow blow broke down on the Bar l mum avenue line this morning com l pIetely tieing up traffic on that line The New Haven railroad was also
 demoralized by the storm and noth l ing at all had been heard of Bosto1 s trains up to a late hour. this morning The Naugatuck Valley branch ant s the other branches are also reported e either tied up or completely disrupted while main line trains are anywher' = from 10 to more than two hours be l hind schedule.
 | Reports from Devon state tha : switches there are blocked, stoppin;
 traffic completely. A freight trail
 was also reported to be stalled ol
 the Naugatuck branch with two pass
 enger trains tied up behind it.
 Harbor traffic is at a standsti] 7I completely and not a boat was mov 4 ing this morning. The New Yor1
 boat did not start on it's Bridgepor Q run last night.
 = Traffic policemen had their hand ~ full about the center of the city thi :" morning keeping traffic 2 well regu = lated as possible and lending a helr s ing hand to f1oundering and stalle ,d machines
 :" The jitney buses bore up wonder
 fully under the abnormal condition e- and even the Norwalk-Bridgepo D buses ran almost schedule tim le this morning. Instead of holding tn es machines to their regular runs thi
 morning the drivers were pernitte ,g to get a load at any place where to crowd had congregated and take 1t in it's destination, returning then to tn n lcenter of the city to pick up anothe
 iIoad. Tn this manner hundreds (
 people were enabled to reach thei
 destinations on time or nearly so.
 That the people appreciated tn le work~of the jitney men is shown b W the fact that although the driver 10 asked hut their usual five cents, man ,h of the people handed out dimes, qual gs ters. and even in some eases dolla Iv hi1ls for the service rendered Id Sidewalks in the city were almo G. in1passable in many cases, althous r. many people made attempts to cles
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