New-York tribune., 1921-02-21
Brooklyn Trolleys Delayed


Trolley service on the b. r. 7. lines
N Brooklyn was maintained, though
badly delayed. The company had loo
piows in operation by $50 a'cl OK
a. m. which. cooperating with the city
sweepers, were able TO clear the tracks
Efficiently for the moving of cars.
The Brighton and Sea Beach lines
we're stalled by snow drifting in the
cuts. At Fort Hamilton Parkway,
Twenty second Avenue and New
topped altogether in the afternoon.
Drifts closed down the Eighty-siXth
Street, West End, Gravesend Avenue,
Sixteenth Avenue and Metropolitan
Avenue lines The Eighth Avenue
line was forced to suspend because ice
covered the rails.
Trolley cars of the Graham Avenue
line in Brooklyn, operating between
Long Island City aud Park Row, were
aeld up for more than two hours at
Washington Avenue, where they could
not plow through the deep drifts. The
cars were forced to halt at about 4:30
o'clock p. M and it was not until $3.50
that the first trolley was able TO pro-
ceed to Park Row.
Long. Island, New Jersey upstate
New York and much of the Western
and Southern railroad traffic was seri
ously handicapped by the storm. All
Pennsylvania passenger trains, as we'll
As those of the Lehigh Valley and
Baltimore & Ohio using the Pennsyl-
vania terminal were running from
thirty minutes to an hour behind
schedule at late hour last night.
Train Crews Shovel Snow
Passengers arriving on late trains
over the Pennsylvania Railroad. telling
of the hardshiDs of travel between
here ana philadelphia due to the
storm. said that members OF the train
crew had frequently been forced to
leave their trains to remove drifts of
wet, heavy snow from the tracks with
pick and shovel.
Officials Of the Pennsylvania Line an
nounced last night that snowplows
were Being used to clear the tracks on
Its steam division west OF Manhattan
Transfer, but that the snow was fall
ing SO steadily that the normal effec-
tiveness OF the plows was crippled.
Chloride tanks were being used, they
said, pu tho electrified division be-
tween Manhattan Transfer and New
York.
Snow WAS reported to be falling even
more heaWlX in eastern and northern
New Jersey than i'm New York, and
snow-ightiug apparatus was being used
to the limit 10 keep lines of passenger
aud freight traffic open.
Incoming New York Central and
New York. New Haven & Hartford
trains were delayed last night from
fifteen minutes to two hours. The
Springfield Express, due at $3.50, did
tjoJ arrive until $40. 1t was said at
inc Grand Central Terminal last night
That milk trains viii be far behind
schedule this morning, chiefly because
of the difficulty which the farmers up
state are having in taking their sup
plies to the railroad depots.
Fast Trains Arrive Late
The Broadway Limited, the Pennsyl-
vania's twenty-hour train between New
y ork and Chicago, was thirty-sjx min
ptes late in reaching this city yester-
day afternoon. The New Yorker, the
ST. Louis express arrived over the
Pennsylvania two Nrs late, and the
keystone Expires nm Chicago was
1eported one hou. laJe. All trains from
Pittsburgh we've running far behind
schedule and ,or time traffic over this
division was reported to be completely
interrupted.
Service on the Long island Railroad
out Of the Pennsylvania Terminal was
but 30 per cent normal throughout the
day. Many OF the New York bound
trains were stalled. it was reported.
The Long Island Railroad Company
announced last night that it expects tC
have all trains operating under almost