The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-01-07
NEW ENGLAND HAS FOLLOWED USUAL
 STYLE IN STORMS
All Kinds of Weather Came to the States Yesterday In New York a Biz. gard Ragged in Some Places


 Boston. January 7- UP) - Famous for the variety of its weather. New England experienced all the adverse clements at once yesterday.
 Snow, rain. sleet, wind, and fog affected various sections of the six states. Heavy surf battered the rocky northeast coast all day. caus- ing heavy property damage.
 Heavy snow fell in northern Maine. New Hampshire. and Ver- mont, hampering transportation and haiting operations of logging camps. AroOstook County. Me. reported IS inches of snow. with IS inches re- ported at St Albans, Vt.
 Hampton Beach, Winthrop, Bos- ton. Bingham Cohasset. Hull, Nan tasket. and Provincetown were among the shore communities lashed most fiercely by the seas.
 At Hampton Beach, two cottages were washed out to sea and found- ti0ns of 50 others were weakened,
 BOston's waterfront was flooded by the highest tide in many years. T Wharf and other docks were cov- cred with foot-deep sheet of water and made inaccessible. Goods stored in many cellars on Atlantic avenue were spoiled.
 Along the south shore at Hing ham. Cohasset. and Hull, a lumber wharf and three tourist camps floated away, stores and cottages were flooded, and small boats were unmoored. At Nantasket a small store was swiried to sea, while at WOllastOn Beach sidewalk was ripped up.
 The summer home of Eugene O'Neill, playwright, at Peaked Hills Bars in Proyincetown. fell into the swell when its foundations were washed out. The building was a former coast guard station.
 At Lexington heavy rain flooded q manhole. ruining telephone wires and putting 500 phones out of order.
 The heavy snow to the north and the damage along the coast provided work for many jobless.
 Up in Montreal
 Montreal. January 2 = CUP) - On the wings of a blizzard that roared in fro mthe northeast, win- ter came to Montreal with a 39- mile wind, 1o2 inches of whirling snow, and fivefoot drifts.
 To almost 1000 unemployed. the flakes brought joy, jobs. and dollars. 900 will have to be taken from the $1,270,000 snow removal fund wait ing for snow to come.
 All day long hosts of men armed with shovels invaded the city streets working desperately to keep the main arteries open. and enable the business of the city to proceed.
 Thousands were employed on the streets yesterday and all night.
 Death came to one woman who was blinded in the snow. and was struck by a truck. That was the lone fatality due to the storm in this city.
 New York Blizzard
 lslattsburgh, N. Y., January - UP) One of the severest bliz- yards of recent years swept northern sAsew York today.
 ssfow. has fallen almost incessant- W 0ver &egreat part of the section UT more fls89gg24 hours. and there svyern few indi 4tions that the severe fYeather we9ia abate soon.
 Huge drtfia blocked roads to the 3iiortIl,A para yzing motor traffic NInsost Ac aHa r stely. Tourists who IseiTad fE0n southern points said many roGds in that region also were impassabie.
 Almost two feet of snow blanketed the Lake Placid region and other parts of the Adirondack Mountains.
 A strong gale swept tHlS ViCiHity throughout the night. making con- ditions more difficult.
 Western New York
 Buffalo, N. Y., January 2 - UP) Heavy snowstorms and high winds kept traffic in western New York almost at a snail's pace today. Both motor and air traffic were af- fected.
 There were IS inches of snow cov- ering highways along the northern border of the state, reports from Watertown said
 Airmail service in and out of Buff falo has been temporarily discon- tinued, but little delay was reported in the mails carried by rails.