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Show TRACKS lOFTlIESp; Effects of Last Night's Blizzard on - the Churches the Trains and the Pedestrian- ' ALL THE CARHIERs HOW IH- The Liveryman Sniilea a Mercenary Smile While the Beau Sees Bankruptcy. I The wind blew a tempest last night, 1 the snow fell in almost impenetrable sheets, and at 0 o'clock everything was clad in Siberian whiteness. The fur collar went up, the seal wrap was buttoned tighter, anil overshoes were in universal demand.: The church pews were at most, of the places of worship showed a lack of christian enthusiasm somewhere. I Probably the parlor stove possessed I more warmth than the words of the I presiding shepherd. The shorn lambs I who were out in the cold certainly be-! be-! trayed a preference for the stove in the rotunda or the lodging house, and for tu hour the thoroughfares were abandoned. The motorman whose ears and nose were stinging sent his car at more powerful force its the snow bagan to ir.lt and till its ironed course and then they were finally compelled com-pelled to retire before schedule time. The pedestrian shuddered the liveryman livery-man rejoiced. It meant 5 an hour for an indefinite period. With the beaux, it betokened bankruptcy or something some-thing akin to it, ami he shook a clnlly shake as the follies of his best girl rose and faded. Along the railroads rail-roads boreas raged with intense fury and snows heaped themselves in put and canyon that were soon Tilled It settled mid packed rapidly, and obstruction ob-struction soon prevailed among the lines. All of the trains on their tardy arrival betrayed the effects of the terrible struggle they had undergone. under-gone. The boilers were sweating, the car rools carried several inches of snow, the windows were caked and everything told of . the terrors ter-rors of a frontier blizzard. The Utah Central was the only one that arrived on schedule time. The Union Pacific passenger wa held in a snow elide at Devil's Gate and the 1! i n Grande Western delayed set oral hours. The Manges were resorteil to promptly, however, and the traveler assurred Himself that ihe trouble is over. |