New Britain herald., 1921-02-21
STATE AND COUNTRY
 V WEATHER REPORTS
IMnny Men Receive Employ ment From Board of Pub lie Works Today-A Few Sleighs Seen.

After a day of almost complete |ruffic demoralization resulting from mo of tho most serious snow storms Ast has visited the city in n score lm-eSrs. New Britain is today busily hovaillnE itself free from the throes It's miniature blizzard. Little dam Igs..but great inconvenience accom- the weck-end fall of snow tarted early Sunday morning 'pd Continued throughout the entire " until about midnight. Brisk |ihdh drlftcd the whlto masses in ,roat piles and blinded the compar- fvoIy flow pedestrians that braved DO outer world to battle with the cmonts: made difficult the progress trolleys early in tho day and later bmpietely isolated n number of cars, hd in general played havoc with foot nd vehicular traffic alike.
 Pole Knocked Down.
 Arch streets one man trolley car rtlrcd in perhaps the most serious cidont of the day, although 1t was slight consequence. when the troll left the tracks near the New Brit N Savings bank and colHded with pnetal electric light standard. The . was snapped or near the bare fell to the sidewalk with a crash, rectiy beside a small girl who hap ned to be passing. The child was Injured. Although the awning di- etiy ovor tho large plate glass win ws Of tho Lazarus store, was torn
 ds. tho falling polo did no n to the windows. falling in the ibuio of tho store.
 Jitncys Operating.
 Long after the trolley system with nfbly ono or two exceptions had pd to operate over it's lines. Jit- pusaea covered their usual routes ngh in many cases on on lrregu- hedule. Arch street. West Main and East Main street busses pd throughout the day as did
 two busses going in the di.
 of Hartford. Practically tho
 e that kept up unbro<en serv-
 O trolley system. was tho
 route. Tho .trolleys were.
 y. late on all runs but
 able effort was made to keep
 open. The railroad service
 ord and Bristol wrs main
 roughout the day with diff-
 now Flow Taken Out
 in tho day whom tho serious
 tho storm wns realized, City
 Hr Joseph D. Williams and Su-
 hdent Joseph Scheidel had a If men out with the recently sed snow blow attachment on
 Rutherford & McCarthy's
 Tho blow kept Main street
 Jew of the centrally located
 ys fairly well opened but could
 be with the situation to any xtenf.
 Trolley wreclscr Busy.
 rolley wreckcr was busy from
 ornJng until late at night, cars
 tho tracks on practically
 me. one of the first lines to lof commission was tho Ser Mute. About s:30 the southbound b1aft tho tracks near tho corner of th Main and Whiting streets and n not be towcd back until after 1t securely snowbound. on tho lh Stanley and Arch street. Farm un avenue and Chestnut street '. trolleys wore marooned for tho re day!f The company's snow wero pressed into service in Yearly morning and worked uRhout the day and night to have lines open this morning. In most Ances they met with success. The V Haven" road blows wero sint- busiod with the work of keep o the lines which were ahso- yep,ecoasary for travel.
 Car Completely Buried.
 most without exception. sleigha replacing wagons this morning commercial purposes. A few au- bilea arc operating but with difii- ~ .. nt1fomobIle n which had baen