Norwich bulletin., 1920-02-06

Norwich spent Thursday in the grip of the worst snow storm of the win
 ter and the worst known flor many years. Tn the way it brought on an almost complete paralyzation of traf- fic facilities, it was lilkened to the fa- nous blizzard of 1888 but those who struggled through that record break CT in weather conditions know that the. present storm was nothing to equal the memorable one of g years ago.
 What started about o'clock We'd nesday evening as an ordinary looking snow storm kept on developing through, the night and by early morn ing had the city covered with from places was piled into deep drifts by the high winds that accompanied the snowfall
 Later Thursday afternoon a new blizzardly drizzle of lsleet began to drive in on a north wind and contin- ued till after o'clock at night. add ing another inch or two to what was already on the ground.
 What is worse. the official weather bureau at Washington said Thursday
 night that the prospects are good for | another twentyfour hours of snow or rain.
 sBert' ". Lucas of the Central Building. Broadway, who last fall pre- dieted that we were going to have
 some good, old-fashioned snow storms. was seen Thursday night while the wind was bowling down Broadway T suppose you're to blame for this, Bert?" was Ge question that natural | ly opened the conversation. i sYes. I'm the feller," came the
 ready response, "and we're going to
 have another just like this before we're 1 through with it."
 l Trolley transportation except with
 in the city limits was at a practical | standstill all day although the com
 pany started it's snow ploughs out
 early in the morning in an attempt to l keep the rails clear. Whatever cars
 were run in the cities of Norwich and 1 New London were operated without any attempt at a schedule and the
 suburban traffic early succumbed tc | the weather conditions.
 It was expected to keep the ploughs | running over the lines all night Thursday with the hope of at leas1 partially resuming service today. but it was stated at the Greeneville cal barn Thursday night that there seem
 ed little prospect of operating any farther north than Taftville this (F'ri-
 day) morning. It was thought a cal
 might get to Willimantic by noon, bu no hope was held out that the line tC Montville and New London would b. | opened up today. One snow plougl was off the track on Thames stree
 near the Richond Radiator Go. found
 ry this (FFriday) morning about O.
 clock.
 Il One of the difficulties that the trol ley company struggled with was tn
 way automobiles piled snow onto tn
 tracks aS< soon as they had beei
 cleared off by the ploughs. Tn
 cleared tracks. made the best plac
 for the automobiles to travel in ant
 every time machine pulled in O
 out of the track it brought with it
 new avalanche of snow to undo tn 7 work of the ploughs.
 , The Greeneville and Yantic linei and the Main street line as far a Thames square operated at in , terva1s through the day, but ther were no cars to the West Side. Lau , rel Hill or Boswell avenue. Not , trolley was able to make it's wa. } north of Central Village, Danielsol and Putnam.
 } The Westerly division of the sys tenn, although a few cars have bee
 sent over the line from Norwich |
 Westerly, was operated without an
 schedule whatever. The Groton an Stonington division was crippled. , A car was started for Norwicl from New London in the morning bu f on Main street it was carried off tn l tracks by the heavy drifts. Anothe car started from Norwich for Ney London became stalled in the sam } manner at De Wolfs switch. An au } tomobile was sent out to bring tn crew back.
 , On the Willimantic-N Norwich line car was started from Willimantic fo
 Norwich. When in the city limit
 of Willimantic the car became de railed and it is still there. A snoy blow was started to the relief of thi