New Britain herald., 1928-03-12
THE RLIZZARD, 10 YEARS AGO

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 in c5 years today's storm IS th7 worst. The oldest inhabitant "ho ls e,lvavs on deck with his yarns aHodl the big snow storms away bacN III he .orties. has not been heard rom vet. 1T he gets thawed out py 'o- morrow night we may learn lhal tod,y's storm was nothing but 5ephyr compared to the 'eTrloie Blizzard which came down upon our cities and town. when he was ho!. However, we are not gong 10 wait Tor the old man this time. He has told enough lies about the weather 10 depart h peace without teiiing ny more
 Thus read the first paragraph Of me New Britain Heralds 'storm a-ory" on March l2, l5Ss-just forty xa.-s aao, Then came some details: That railroad travel was suspended ehildren lost in the streets. stores without customers, drifts nine feet deep. None but the hrarest ana strongest have had courage enough .o venture out noted the scribe ot | bvsone day. One wonders how the .aper was delivered tha. day; per haps it warn''. The first day Of the great blizzard saw nearly TWO columns about it on the front page CT the newspaper.
 The second day of the blizzard March ia-yielded more onllnous note in the Herald O. that day. Gone were references to the oldsters who could always remember a worse storm. It was admitted hy that timo that the blizzard was the worst in fifty years." And that vas putting 1t mildly
 "Snowed In" read the headline. Alongside Of i, was an adyeruse- ment of the Thatcher, Primrose and Vests Minstrels, 10 be given at the opera house the following day. It vas a grea, day to advertise m!n- strel show. Conquered by the S,orn King" continued the head ines. Business paraiyzed; buried in the drifts; no mall or passenger trains for two days; many narrow ,scapes; how New Britain looks un- der d snow bank"
 And then the story. IL began with es lines Of poetry. But after the re- porter had waved poetic, along came this:
 "'rh4 aeyerest snow storm which las swept Connecticut within tho has al last spent its fury. For two days the storm king has held un- disputed sway. not only over that part Of tL" stafe which we have tn" honor To inbaDi' but over tn" th- tire couu'ry east Of the Mississippi river and extending as far south as Virginia There have been Sno" storms ba' ore. which, consid"f"a from every possible standpoint. wer' &pry |. ~p"ctahia in tze, but thi' blizzard. for it certainly deserve that name, z beyond aI! lispufe th' storm ot storms. !. Who sT"l heard of u storm in March or, 1T tact, in my other month. ]urinl which the sno7y "as hrap.G up '' fnc very eayos of th. houses. Wh' .y,r before -,r | snow storm whIcl Q completely paralgzoi 'he hH"ines "t q city o' -".o .o"t luhuhthniR. 'ha not sirgle nanufac'nry could Oh ain enough men 'n start i's ma 'iinery, that not II eirEl. horse "At cen on tbe streets for :, hours that To' T train was ahlo 10 arrive c part iron o|r depot for t"' lava"
 This time the story got thre -5lumns. Nearby vas another ad
 cr'ifsment telling about perform
 nee ot rncla Toms Cabin a th ,pera house on March r. 4 'Lot ,iltoriM demanded that t.Ie cIty ge 70 work al onro |D a.aninF th snow from the =tree-s.
 From the m.mprl.t nf e.! inhabitants reporter urouef glimpses Of former severe storms. { $. Judd. Ralph Kent, Charles 1.anders, Adna Hart. c. c. Roger and W. W. Glddings v.r. folk rh were quoted. None had oN,c SO such a storm in these part; hgt n last t@o told bit of one Iu l,i when Mir. Rogers could not traE' rom llz house to the barn for tw days
 When the suowstorm ENor'ed la y.e.l. som. r.i5rntrrs Arreahon feared another 'Ns blizzard But waa only g faint r'fuiuder Howeve between lsi7 and 1891 was T year lrou4 rsss fn te-s ie ie. "A, rao' .r-' to go
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