The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-09-15
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the third shifts ae the chase Metat Works, Waterbury Manufacturing Company and Chase Rolling Mills would Do cancelled. Workers In the Grand Street office Of the Chase Brass and Copper Company were released at 4:S0 p, m.
 Advised Co Close
 At . p. n. the Chamber of Com. merce suggested to all store own. CTS in the downtown section that they close as soon as possible, only Q few shoppers were on the streets at that time.
 All city departments worked to- gether In listing and repairing storm damage, Frederick Hickey, assistant superintendent of police took reports from police through out the city and forwarded them to park and street departments,
 Police Superintendent Daniel Carson directed the policemen, ana Park Superintendent James J. Cur- tin was in charge of park depart- ment crews. Mayor John s. Mona gan was on hand throughout the worst part of the storm.
 Other city officials assisting were James McMahon, assistant superin" tendent of streets; William Class, as- sistant superintendent Of parks; Walter Ford, tree foreman; and Michael Hayes, deputy chief air raid warden, who operated the city rec port center,
 civilian defense forces and the Red Cross were on the alert during the danger period, extra police and fire units were mobiliHed, and street and highway crews were on call.
 off the Air
 Radio Station MATR went of the air when an electric circuit serving the stations transmitter n the Hopeville section was cut off by the storm. VERY went off the cir at l0;b0 when the Tansmitter faile dto function. Both stations resumed operations this morning.
 Bus service was eurtailed shortly after 2 p. n., while some Of the city's main traffic thoroughfares were blocked by the storm. A large tree fell on the property of Louis Dorf. man, near Buckingham street, blocking Cooke street, while Bald win street was blocked by large elm tree which fell near Pleasant street, carrying electric and tele- phone wires to the ground. Other felled trees, partially blocked Rose- land avenue, Meriden road. and Wolcott road. WInd smashed dog ems of store windows, including c large section of the Hadley Furni- ture display windows.
 Frank J. Green, head of the dis- triot warning center, announced at Q p, m. that the district warning center was fully staffed and had notified the i6 communities in the area to alert their civilian defense forces for action, The center was closed ct i0:6S p. m,
 Mayor John s. Monagan, after c tour of the city in Q police car thiS morning commented, We were very fortunate,
 Highland Avenue
 The Highland avenue section was one of the more hard-hlt by the heavy wind, which uprooted or broke scores of trees. Two huge poplar trees on property at the corner of Highland avenue and Chipman street extension were ups rooted and strewn across Chipman street completely blocking off traf- fic. Huge Graters remained where the immense trees had stood, Nu- merous other trees in the vicinity were felled or broken by the pound ing wind.
 Residents of the section reported extensive damage to fruit trees and to fruit produce. Virtually al apple trees were shaken from the trees by the sharp wind and to- day lay badly battered on the ground,
 Telephone men throughout Con- necticut are on dawn to. dark schedule today, restoring service tc more than 36,500 telephones, which were reported silent by last nights hurricane. Officials of the Southern Telephone company said that this figure would undoubtedly increase as more complete reports come in later today.
 Telephone Troubles
 Most of the telephone troubles were caused by falling trees and power lines, with the latter burn- Ing telephone cables. Towns and cities along the shore were hard. est hit, although every section oi the state suffered severely. In the Hartford New London division, l9,- 800 telephones were out of order and in the Bridgeport-New Haven division. almost l7,000.
 Very heavy calling is being ex- perienced in all exchanges but extra operators are on duty at many switchboards, and no serious delays are reported on calls. Tn Lyme, a fallen tree next to the central of- flee building severed the cables serving almost all telephones in that town. In Collinsville, a tree carried away the chief cable serving that exchange and crashed through 6 telephone Iepa;rman's car.
 Late last night, state police brought l2 refugees evacuatel from the waterfront, to the Saybrook telephone building-the only build ing in that town with electric ser- vice, which was provided by auxili- ary power. Almost every telephone office in the state was without regular power for varying periods last night, and 28 were still oper- ating on emergency power this morning.