The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1906-01-11
STORIES OF
STAGE DAYS
When No Railroad Train Ran
10 Town.
wADSwoRTH BROTHERS
Both Drove Stage on the Lines
Between Bennington
and Troy.

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he oldest llvIhs lshsbi,sI, If hsnh'
ifgt0n.
"Yss" saii Elisha wadssoFih 81
Benhiasloh .ho died is~ yesTs ego
spsafd ~ ~ years old. "a rsassabsf
dc old slas ins days bslisr ihaa ~.
a,embsr . good aahy shinss At only
. iss pears ago. ~as driver my'
srli In thoss days fiiy years ago and
noru. psed b. drive from Piusios q
10 Aibaay and t-.sesn Saniy iiill and
wsisshali. bsisesa Cambridge ADD
saraiosa AnJ on oihes iines. FsBsia.
Dor . good macy ~ The drivers on ihs
old North Tsrnpise llnr. ~ sell a. os
other linss. Ira Nallhsss add George
Lucas nsed a. drive heiscsn Sasdy
nill and whilehall shsn I drove oS
that line.
Ia drlvins from Cambridge or rath.
o. from North White Greek 10 Sara.
ioga, &C used 10 20 over ule bill Ihfo'
Crccnuicb or Cnion village a. u uss
called later; Il wAs called whipplc CT
~ ib.n; and through Calssvillc Or SO.
kansas. nou called middle Falls. I
hear. ~ Schuylcrville &c fordoi he
Hudson river. There was 40 bridge or
ferry In the summer aud had no dili.
Guilty In getting across. That vas Ia
ls5j. Lv&J B Reed Of Reeds riol.
lo-. Bow called Tonhannock. owned
and run the Northern Turnpike line 10
those days. I never knew 81 Anybody
else iha, oEncd IL. think they run IL
iill the railroad was pa, through
The Troy y Boston railroad ruined
the business on tina; route. The Reeds
osncd the tavern 90 the main street 10
Reeds Hollow In those days. believe
David 5 Ki,ile kept Il afterwards. In
Gle Billy Larmon KEEP, the tavern at
the east end Of the village where the
turnpike turned northward 10 Miller
town. which Is three miles north 81
Tomhannock. oh YES, remember
some OF the drivers on that line. There
was Charley Moody. good fellow he
is still living, an old man OF course
as am lie. lives at Cambridge, In
York state. And there was Simeon /
Moody. his brother. he was a driver,
too. lie was a tender boned fellow. |
lie was always breaking his legs. |
I've known OF his breaking one of
his legs in jumping from the hub OF
the coach wheel TO the ground. don't
know what made his legs break so easy |
but he had 'em broken lots OF times.
knew Otis Dimmick. He was a dri |
yer too, a small. inoffensive fellow.
There was a Fred Haskins too. don't |
know whether TIE was driver on the I
Northern turnpike or not, but he was
a driver. They all met In Albany. The
Reeds had an Office in Albany, and so
did Baker and Walker who ran the |
Whitehall line. ] know Fred Haskins |
used to drive on this route, from Der.
nington to Troy down the stone road.
He was terrible drinking fellow. He
would get drunk and they would tie
him on the box, then he could manage
the horses as we'll as anybody. He was
a good driver. He used to drive to No
Adams. too.
Melvin WsdswOrth's Statement.
''Oh, yes" said Melvin Wadsworth
of Bennington when called on him to
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