Norwich bulletin., 1921-02-22
NORWICH DIGGING OUT
 FROM SNOW BLOCKADE


 Not few persons in Norwich arc nursing blistered hands and aching backs as a result of yielding a snow shovel against the volume of snow that Old Man Weather showered down upon the town during Sunday. From early morn until late at night the "scrape, scrape, scrape" of the shovel in contact with the snow-covered sidewalks could be heard throughout the city on Monday as .neo- pie dug themselves out from drifts three to four feet deep in places. Some, how ever, have not yet dug themselves out or even thought that their neighbors might like to pass over their sidewalks without getting their boots full of snow. The police were busy Monday afternoon and evening. notifying all those who had not yet cleared their walks to get at 1t as ordered by the street commissioner and city ordinance. The police have a long list of names of people who have neglected to clean their walks and a lookout will be kept to see that the walks are cleared
 The trolleys which suffered most from the storm fought a winning fight against the snow on Monday and by night had service pretty well resumed with the eI- ception of the interurban lines. The Norwich Willimantic line was opened as far as Baltic; the snow blow on the Nor wich-New London line got as far as Bull lard's corner in New London but cars on Monday were run only as far as the state .anatorium ;the Yantic line was cleared to the end of the line; the West Side line was opened as far as the corner of West Main nd Asylum streets the Bos- well avenue and Laurel Hill lines were not cleared on Monday An effort wah made to open the West Side line to East Great Plain but the snowplow went off the irons and the task was temporarily given up. An effort will be made to get cars through to willimantic today and also to New London. The Hallville line has not yet been opened.
 The street department was kept busy with their shovels and scrapers all day Monday, clearing the gutters and cross. walks and ridding the main thorough. fares of their huge volume of snow Franklin square resembles a battlefield with its trenches and barricades of snow Huge piles of snow are to be seen ir front of the West Side chemical com pany's house where the fremen have duI out in order to get quick start should
 an alarm of fire come in. On Mondal
 there were two calls for the West Sid'
 company, one at the corner of High an,
 Spring streets in the house occupied b!
 Mandell and Silverman. Six gallons O chemical were used to extinguish tn , blaze which was in the chimney. Tn . other fire was at 100 West Thames stree , in the house owned by M. A. Winchester . The chief and deputy chief with the Yves Side company responded and like the oth CT fire six gallons of chemical were use ' to extinguish the chimney blaze
 2 The railroad schedules were maintain l. ed on both the New Haven and Centrs
 Vermont roads with some degree of aS . curacy. The snow blows on the Centrs Vermont road went through early Monda = morning clearing the track so that tt . regular trains could get through withol
 much delay.
 Regarding the fire hazard at this tin when the streets are blocked with sno :. and it is practically impossible to get tt -. heavy fire fighting apparatus thrcug :. Chief Howard L. Stanton wishes to in
 press upon the people the urgent nee . of fire precautions. Another thing tn;
 Chief Stanton desires is that all prope :. ty owners, in front of whose propert are located hydrants, clear the sho e away from the hydrants. thus giving u 'f firemen instant and free access to Il ts hydrant in case of fire in that vicinity a As has been from time immemori IS when there has been a heavy snow stor1 n the salutation on Monday was Had qui
 some snow, didn't we?" Those who Ill re to dig back into the realms of the pa lE were busy on Monday telling the b ,e snows they had seen when I was II youngster" or "the big blizzard of - In or when I was out in >-" To he al these birds talk you would think that t
 storm we had on Sunday was a me O. furry compared to what they had ne shovel in the years gone by. But belle 1T. us, who had to shovel away the renal or of the furry, it sure was enough for US and-then some.