Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1888-03-16

pressing cases among his village patents
Dr. Miller was called 10 West Bratteboro
Monday afternoon on an errand which is
explained in a notice under the head OF
births. Although his professional services
were not required after a seasonabe hour
in the evening, he did not get back to this
village until late Tuesday afternoon, when
he returned on horseback his sleigh and
harness having been left in big drift in
West Brattleboro
It was impossible for the grocers or butch
ers TO serve their customers except as a few
packages were sent here and there ON foot.
About $3.50 in the morning half dozen men
from Richardson's we're seen trudging and
wallowing M Main street with bags swung
over their backs, which contained the days
supply Of sausages for the asylum. For 20
hours no team could get from the business
part of Main street to the asylum Mr.. Thur
Der, who is max ing the bread for a few days
during the illness Of the asylum baker, at
tempted TO send up a load Monday afternoon
mt o'clock. but the team could only get as
far as the top Of the hill 10y the common, and
it was not until Tuesday noon that the sup
ply was got up there.
There was a milk famine which lasted un-
ill the mikmen got into town--some of them
"Wednesday and some Of them not until
Thursday morning. Henry Clark succeeded
in getting a supply to the Brooks House
Tuesday afternoon in season for supper.
An illustration Of the difficulty Of locomo-
ton is furnished 10y the fact that Mr. boo
little Of Hartford, brother-in law Of Mrs.
f. f. French, whose husband then lay dead
in the house. came down Monday afternoon
TO send telegram 10 his wife, and was un-
able TO get back until Wednesday morning.
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bring their teams away from the slaughter
house Monday night and they staid there
until Thursday
The favors Of the snow were pretty even
ly distributed over town, but Grove street
undoubtedly takes the cake for being
'chock full A drift against J. Henry
Pratts garden was full 10 feet high ON Tues
dav morning, and all the way down the
street the snow was piled in six and eight
feet deep by the lusty north wind Oak
street was about as bad On the Avenue
from S. 7. r. Cheney's up ~ J. +. Halls at
Spruce street corner, the snow was piled in
10 feet deep on the sidewalk, aud this vas
about a fair sample Of the Avenue all the
way up. One of the sights in Esteyvillc
was the space between two two-stury houses
piled in as high as the caves Canal street,
not TO be out done. brags of the ell Of Brad
! lev Prentiss's house being completely buried.
Something similar happened to a house on
| Prospect hill. In the latter locality Wash
ngton, Pearl and Thomas streets we're the
worst drifted On Tuesday a shovel brigade
Of 20 residents united their forces, and
made a passage way through Washington
and So Main streets, and on Wednesday
seventeen shovolers did like service for
| Pearl and Thomas streets
Ina f,f tl,t l.ts oh
street, less than a stones throw from Main
street, drifted eight feet high between Mar
/ ket block and the buildings opposite, 80 that
a man on one side of the street could not see
his neighbor ON the pavement opposite. On
! Main street, after the roofs and pavements
were cleared, the snow was piled higher
( than mems heads and higher sometimes
than they could reach. In the morning
| teams had to take as much care in passing
as though on "A driftcd road in the open
country.
The common looked like ,mall section
of the arctic circle.
Anxiety was felt about fire Monday night.
and firemen staid all night in the engine
house ready for an emergency 1t would
have been impossible ~ get the steamers
through the streets, but the boys say they
could have carried lines Of hose on then
backs, and run them out from the heal
| quarters.
During Monday afternoon, while Pullen
Bros. grocery team was driving along Asy-
lum street, Il gust Of wind swept acros,
the common and lifted the body of tn,
/ sleigh and the storm cover or extension top
off the forward traverse, dumped it in the
snow, and horse, traverse aud driver came
TO town thus dsmantled The storm cover
" al t.l r.,
over alongside DR.. Diapers house.
j. c. Howe spent Tuesday making view,
about town, and in due time he will exhibit
some picturesque bits Of winter scenery
which it will be Of interest for the great
grandchildren Of this generation to com
pare with the big blizzard Of SAY 1860
while they search the public library for
copy of The Phoenix Of March III. lsss
The RRiIronds.
The most of the day Tuesday was spen
in clearing away the snow in the railroat
yard 50 TO make locomotiou pOssibl,
there. The New London Northern snow
pillow was started down the track and a
$3.50 the stalled mail train of the day he
fore was sent following on, but it only go
as far as Vernon station, the pillow beul
stuck in an immense drift at Withheld 5
and the passengers once more settled them
selves in the Brooks House and esew here
About | O'Clock Wednesday morning tn,
Valley snow pillow came down from Below
Falls with two big engines behind it, all,
the snow flying all about il IN an immens,
cloud Half an hour later a passenge
train followed, adding 70 the already larg,
number of blockaded passengers who wait
ed anXiuusly for the opening Of the roa,
below. The New London pillow labored fo
more than - hours with the big drift Oh
and beyond the curve at Whitheds, bu
finally pushed down through and went Of
to Miller's Falls Wednesday night Tn
Connecticut River road meantime had beef
opened from Springfield 10 Greenfield, hu
the snow pillow and shoyeers were still
working at a long, deep drift at Bernard
ston. This was got through during Wednes
day night, though the big plow was One
broken by driving against the wall of snow
At 1870 Thursday morning a train was des
patched for Miler's Falls and at $ o'cloci
one for Springfield, and the long -delaye,
passengers and railroad men went on the
way rejoicing. At II o'clock Thursda,
morning the regular morning mail trail
came up from Springfield, and communica
ton was once more established with tn
outside world after being shut off Just :
hours. The first mail from Boston came from
the north mt 10 O'Clock that morning. |
is needless to say that no living rairoa,
man remembers anything like such an ex
perience as that of this week
On the train which came down Wednes
day morning was a carload of Canadian
Frenchmen, men, women and children
bound for Three Rivers, Mass. They ha,
already spent three nights in the ear el
route and the one at Bratteboro made tn
fourth, but they seemed TO he happy an,
comfortable after their fashion
On the same train was Rev. Horace Fow
Ter Of Halifax, who had been ON a visit t
Canada, He brought with him pair o
snow shoes, the. gift Of nephew. and o.
these he skipped away across lots towar,
home in the afternoon, as if the snow wa
his native element We imagine his per
Torrance, an old-time accomplishment
would have put our local snow shoers TO tn
blush could they have seen it.
1--WE don't count eight feet of snow any
thing here" despairingly added Superin
tendent Mulligan TO a telegram of mforma
ton sent to Conductor Sampson of Brattle
boro on Wednesday morning.
Among the detained passengers was Mr.
Hiram Hitchcock, one Of the proprietors q
the Fifth Avenue hotel in New York. IL
arrived Monday afternoon from the north
Tuesday afternoon he had despatch frou
the hotel saying that three feet Of snow Ina,
fallen in the city and announcing the block
AIDE Of the Pennsylvania road.
The Oldest Inhabitant.
We confess that we have, on sundry for
mer occasions, made sneering and offensiv
remarks about "the oldest inhabtant, an
his phenomenal memory but in this instaur