The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1914-02-16
LONG-CLOGGED TRAF-
FIC BEING RESUMED
Railroads and Business Getting Better
Of Heaviest Snowfall in Years
Barre Streets Being Dug Out.

Fifteen inches of snow fell in Barre
from Saturday morning till late
night. Not until afternoon Saturd N
the effects OF the storm begin \ 80 &C
seriously. Train service on TIM lines
entering the city was practically sus-
pended and ira file over the interurban
street car line was interrupted by long
delays occasioned by the heavy accumu@
lations OF snow all along the line. Over
the Central Vermont road two after
noon connections with main line trains
We're annulled and passengers who
planned to leave at / 80 and $40 were
compelled to wait until $40 The NJ.
q WIS suburban service was almost a
minus quantity during the afternoon
and at night the road officials in Mont
pelier announced that the Green Noun
tain express would be cancelled until
to-day The Barre railroad withdrew
its freight trains from the quarry line
in early Afternoon and the passenger ac-
commodations provided every Saturday
night for Barre Town patrons were can
celled for the time being.
Here in the city traffic was checked.
Street department employees could make
but feeble progress against the snow
Saturday and it was not until Sunday
morning that the work OF removing
snow from the main thoroughfare was
under way Yesterday the street super
intendent had As horses and 3S men at
work Many were assigned to snow
plows and by church time the walks the
city over We're fairly passable. Not so
with the streets. All day long the street
department pitted its strength against
the elements. A driving wind in the
early forenoon created great drifts on
all sides. To-day the street force was
augmented and the superintendent de-
termined to rush the work as rapidly
as possible. The storm was the heaviest
in the present superintendent regime,
according TO his statement to-day.
Trains began to move with more pre-
cision by Sunday afternoon. Progress
was necessarily slow, as the high wind
served to ill the roadway almost as
soon as the snow plows had passed
Section men worked all day on both the
c. V. and the NJ & w. lines. Nester-
days S:45 train was combined with the
1850 a. m. train, which left Montpelier
Junction at noon The branch train
colHeclcu at Tue JuflclioH Win EbitUi-
nation passenger and paper train and
returned to Barre at 2:40 p. IN. Through
out the day gangs of section men were
at work clearing the NJ g. w. line and
the quarry road. Operations on both
were resumed to-day.
While all lines of communication and
transportation and the public in gem
eral we're trying to recover from the eff
tects of the storm, the wind abated and
the temperature began to make appre-
ciahle drops toward the depths. Last
night at 9 o'clock the head of the mer-
curry pencil was keeping even with zero.
Five hours later it had shot down to
minus 25.
Suspension Of operations in the gran
ite manufacturing belt was general.
country roads were deserted because of
drifts piled high at every turn and bust
ness in town seemed stagnated by the
extreme cold And the oldest inhabit
ant huddled nearer the fire and
dreamed OF his youth and the good old
fashioned winters