Norwich bulletin., 1920-02-07

New York. Feb. 6.-NeW York still was ssormbound late tonight ana there was small prospect of relief. The city's great army of commuters started home through snow squalls blown up from the northwest by thirty mile gale and the weather bu- reau said the fall would continue for another twelve hours.
 Denoral.za ton of transit lines of all kinds was almost unprecedented. OnIv the subwavs were maintaining regular schedules and every train in them was literally mobbed at the rush hour Station platforms were packed and the crowds bulsed out into the streets.
 So serious was the situation that Mayor Hylan issued a proclamation late today calling upon all persons engaged in the transportation busi- ness. except in the delivery of food stuffs. coal and milk. to cease work from tonight until Tuesday morning, turning their trucks and laBoring forces over to the city to meet the storm emergency.
 The street cleaning department admitted that it was virtually help less because of its inability to hire men. From 75 cents to s1 an hour was offered for snow shovellers but only 5000 Of the 14,000 men needed could be recruited.
 Lacking trucks and men to remove the snow all the department could do was to keep blows moving to clear paths in the middle of the streets which were filled up almost as soon as they are opened.
 The department of health was frankly alarmed because of the con- dirions in the streets. Walking with dry feet was almost impossible and the removal of garbage could not be carried on systematically. Earnest appeals to help were issued to house holders. \ call for volunteers result cd today in scores of girl students in Barnard College offering their ser wees. They cleaned up several side streets from Amsterdam avenue to Riverside Drive.
 The problem of distributing the City's food supply also had become serious Milk trains arrived very ir- regularly today and deliveries here were hours late because of snow-fill- ed streets.
 Some relief was promised for the fuel shortage by an order directing the diversion of coal for the public utilities of the city but reports from the coal docks at Perth Amboy, the great tidewater depot. showed that the storm has caused almost a com pleie suspension of operations.
 Another menace of life and limb lay in falling eOpings. awnings, cor nices and marquises carried down by the weight Of snow upon them. Dog ens of persons were injured today, many of them seriously. Lieutenant Colonel Frederick Davison. stationed at Governors Island. died late today from a fracture Of the skull he suf- 
 canopy.
 Conditions on the harbor and in nearby waters were little improved although it was hoped shift of the wind might release some of the boats held fast Tn fields of ice. The sea was calming down and less damage was done today along the New Jer- sey and Long Island coasts although there was another unusually high tide
 Eight steamers were fast in Long Island sound and tugs sent to their relief were bucking vainly against tine ice Transatlantic ships were held in port.
 Railroads running into New Jersey and Long Island were struggling gamely but against heavy odds to keep trains moving. Thousands wait cd as patiently as they could at sta- tiOns for trains to take them home tonight The Long Island railroad was facing one of the worst tieups in Its history. Sleet had made opera ton almost impossible on the electri- lied sections of the line and huge drifts had blocked traffic on the branches
 Passengers on through trains from the west came in haggard and weary 90 many hours late they had almost lost count The first train of the day rom the west on the New York Cen tral arrived about two o'clock after having taken nearly fourteen hours for the run from Albany. Trains on the New Haven road were extremely uncertain as to arrival and the same was true on the Pennsylvania and other roads.