. The street railway review . ld be another thing, but in nineout of ten storms the few minutes can be taken, and to agood advantage to both men and company. Rochester, N. Y. wire, although the rails have iced badly three or fourtimes; in one storm in particular the ice was so hard that At Rochester, N. Y., the storms of January 31 and Feb-ruary 16, were the cause of extraordinary trouble to thestreet railway company. In the first of these there was afall of from 8 to 10 in. of dry snow, and a heavy wind whichdrifted the snow until in many places it was 6 to 7 ft. second storm was wet
. The street railway review . ld be another thing, but in nineout of ten storms the few minutes can be taken, and to agood advantage to both men and company. Rochester, N. Y. wire, although the rails have iced badly three or fourtimes; in one storm in particular the ice was so hard that At Rochester, N. Y., the storms of January 31 and Feb-ruary 16, were the cause of extraordinary trouble to thestreet railway company. In the first of these there was afall of from 8 to 10 in. of dry snow, and a heavy wind whichdrifted the snow until in many places it was 6 to 7 ft. second storm was wet snow and it also was badly drift-ed and very difficult to handle. In each of these storms thesuperintendent, J. W. Hicks, began working the companysplows when the snow commenced falling, and continueduntil the storm was entirely abated. The cars were keptrunning on as nearly as possible schedule time, and thanksto the untiring energy of Mr. Hicks in keeping his plows atwork there was scarcely a moments delay on any of the 22. TRACK AND SNOW PLOW AT WORK, ROCHESTER, N. V. the plow diggers would not break it—the plow would sim-ply run up on to it and ground. We coupled five cars to-gether, the forward car using no power—simply beingpushed by the other four—its weight crushed the iceenough to allow the scrapers of the other cars to clear therail. By the time the third, forth and fifth car got alongthe rail was in pretty good shape. The hardest storm of thewinter was the last one—that of February 23, 3 in. of lightsnow and 6 in. of hail on top of it falling in 10 hours. Weused plows, cars, six-horse road machines and a great manyteams and men, and managed to hold about one-half regu-lar schedule time. It was necessary for us to run eitherplows or cars continuously from February 22 at 5:30 a. m. lines of the Rochester Railway Company. The first of thesestorms was the one which caused so much trouble in theeastern cities and T. J. Nicholl, general manager of thecompany, feel
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