Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1900-03-08
BIGGEST OF THE WINTER.
March Opens With a Heavy Fall
of Snow.
Street Railway Service Utterly De-
moralized and Railroad Trains All
Behind Time Fall of Ia Inches
in "a Hours.

many parts Of the country during the win
ter Of 1S?9-1900 reached burlington Thurs
day ana left a card about is inches In
thickness There was IN mixing of what
vas TO come on Wednesday daring the
day but 1t was not until evening that the
magnitude of the storm became evident.
There was no doubt about it's extent
when the people Of burlington looked cut
of their windows Thursday morning. Tn y
SaW from eight 10 t"l inches of fresh
snow on the ground with the air fun Of
II. The storm continued undl late in tie
afternoon and in the evening, when a Free
Press man measured the snow in place
where there was none when the storm be-
san ana where II had not been disturbed
ne round exactly Is inches. There was lit
tie wind during the day ard the tcmpera-
turc was not low enough to cause any
discomfort 10 those who were obliged to
I've out of doors.
The day was an exceedingly busy one
for the street department. The puws
were kept at work all the time from q.
m and force of % teams and 30 men
were hired TO take the snow from Church
street and leave it at the rear of the post
Office. 1t was the largest lot they have
mad to handle this winter and was neCos-
sarily slow work. At night only two and
"A half of the four business blocks on the
street had been cleared. The CLERKS had
little to do during the day but shovel snow
from the walks and there was quite a
competition among them a. to who could
build the highest pile. Many of them
were from t. to Is feet high. ON tor Of
several We're placed United states flags
and some were used for advertising pt.-
poses. The street looked like a range If
mountains. A picture of the scene was
taken before the street department car
ried the snow away.
The electric cars were blocked nearly al
i l.
in the afternoon was to keep the sweeper
at work. In the morning the Essex cars
started but at about 10 o'clock one of
them was taken off and at noon the traf-
iic was discontinued entirely. The North
Avenue and Howard Park line was the
same. The Winoosk and Park avenue
cars ran very irregular,y until noon and
they were then discontinued The sweep
er was In operation through the night
and in this way the Traction cornpany
was enabled to run the early morning
cars and accommodate the workmen. In
the afternoon one of the plows burned out
Il motor on the Essex line and the Wort;
of opening that branch was necessarily
abandoned for the time hciug
The trains were only slightly delayed in
the morning but by noon the fall of snow
had been so great that all were more or
less late. The Rutland train due here at
ll;N5 wa a. minutes late The flyer from
the north, was three hours late, arriving
here at O'Clock, The train from Mont
pelier did not make connections on ac-
count of trouble at Northfied and no SER
vice was gotten through from that section
during the day. Tho mixed train on the
Rutland road, which is made up at this
station and is due TO leave at 80. did not
get away until $3.50, The 400 train from
Rutland was 45 minutes late. The go
train from Essex junction arrived $50.
making connections at Essex only with
the train from St. Adams. the train from
White River Junction being stalled at Wa
t"Ibury. The flyer from Rutland. due at
6:io was an hour and n half late.
The telephone company was not troubled
snow. Nothing serious was reported from
local trouble which was soon renedcd The
country roads were filed with snow, al
though the Hineshurgh stage was on,y
half an hour late and 1t will take some
time for the heavy rollers to put them n
good condition for travel. One business
mar in the city, VINO has been in the lun-
herring districts for sovcra, days past said
THURSDAY that the snow storm would
greatly hinder that work There were
about three feet of snow before The storm
and with this heavy fall 1t would be a.
most impossible to do work until the roads
could be broken out, which would take
several days.
The public schools held a solid session
and the parochial schools followed their
example Many of the children had to be
carried to their homes in teams.