Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1902-01-24
The Condition of the Brattleboro and
Whitehall Railroad.
IFrom III ST. Aibans Messenger

| warn "Trip EtH''I"'H were Obliged To ride
In Int combination man ana baggage car
"9 'H'I' WIZ ~" "l"'r car aNallablo on
IN" norm ohu oI lh' road. ON the pre-
nl"uS upward 'rlp a long pioc" of the
'auS' On one "l ne ear wheels was
"t"h'u on W"Nihs 'nc car uhii Tor SER
water i'm the locomotive boiler became ex-
~, na'S''d at 9'ulh Lond2ndcrry' and as
men shovcIcd into the boiler duantit,.
of snow, which was converted into water
s,,f,i.n, g., ,.,,r,. th. t~in g.,
tank at Jamaica Accidents of a moro or
JOSS S'i'""S n''"tr are "i almost ahh\
dosnatch
,r,, T., sorI, a 5.'"M, 7tl'.ti' ,iii
city this morning by Messenger repre-
sontaulr. me equipment OF the road rs
Mr., Sonle. "I have no ronort as to onv
accident to car. but had it happened at
n'o,, n' WIN c,r ,born =, ,,,, on tho
same thing might happen on the Richford
or Burlington ana I-amoille branches.
snow is nntrue as suHicicnt water was
baied into the boiler to enable the train
V,l T ,, @ ,,,nt "i,,'
the narrow gauge road is in drst-class
condition every car having been entirely
The nast three Years to NV personaI
knowledge"
The first paragraph above is a des
patch under a Brattleboro date line
which appeared in the St. Albans
Messenger Friday. The second para.
graph is the statement of Superin.
tendent Soule; to say explanation
would be a misnomer. Mr. Soule evi.
IDENTIFY talked for home consumption,
that is in ST AIbans Everybodv
along the line of the Brattleboro G
Whitehall railroad and everybody
who has had business with that road
the past year will declare that Mr..
Soule simply talked for effect or is a
victim of unpardonable Ignorance.
The fact is the condition of the
Brattleboro & Whitehall railroad is
disgrace and an outrage-a disgrace
to the railroad men in power RESPONSE
bic for its MANAGEMENT. an outrage
upon the public who are compelled to
use the road for passenger or freight
traffic.
When Mr.. Soule said with the ex-
ception of one car the equipment on
the narrow gauge road is in first class
condition" he undoubtedly referred to
the passenger cars. The little road
has only two regular passenger cars,
but it has two combination passenger
and baggage cars. and one straight
baggage car. One passenger car was
wrecked near West Dummerston
Sept "a and was sent to the repair
shop at St Adams, where it was kept
until last week. At the time the pas.
senger car was put out Of service last
week by the breaking of flange on
one wheel the other car. the one
which was wrecked. had been sent
hack m ST Alhans but had moi been
unloaded from the broad pauqe car
rhoro raroirod tbo baggoga COR and
a. .,.a a,,,,ino,ior oars o,o Of +bo
-. -,
= ''''''' anu '''N
0oiii iiii''SS'oi anu u"u9'U 'oii'' ''i''0'
81 there was ON! '"e o"es"se Oa'
aVailaDle LOT passenger traIlc oh inc
regular passenger traih' IL might De
added for Mr.. Soules Deneht that the
next day, when the car fresh from
st. Albans was put into use, its heat
ing apparatus failed to work, and the
men, women and children who had
bought tickets were compelled to ride
from Brattleboro to South London
derry in cold storage. The next
morning, on the trip to Brattleboro,
the train was stopped with difficulty
at Jamaica, running several rods past
the railroad station, because its
brakes failed to work. Last Monday
morning a woman who had come down
from Claremont, n. H., with the BODY
of friend which she was taxing 10
Stratton Tor burial lelt brattieporo oy
TINS same coIu storage tram ne pas
sehser car was "i'"'uI nIe VI
"iiii'n' anu ''eii 'HT lG"In.u "lu9
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