The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1916-03-09
FIFTY INCHES OF
SNOW IS TOTAL
TO THIS DATE
Sn. inches in Present Storm
Followed by oig Blow
BUSINESS IS RADLY CRIPPLED
It Was Not the Biggest Snowfall of
the Winter But Is Causing More
Trouble to Travel.
BUSINESS IS RADLY CRIPPLED

Bennington started at one o'clock
Wednesday afternoon sending up S. o.
S. signals. From one end OF the
county to the other the atmosphere
was choked with S. o. S. signals.
Finally a Washington street gentle
man started out determined to find
out what species OF distress IS. o. s.
signified so far from the sea. When
he learned it was Same Old Snow
he met the ground with great sudden
ess and was carried home on door
1t is estimated that IA inches Of
snow has fallen in the last "a hours,
bringing the total amount this winter
up to so inches. 1t is Bennington's
second big storm of the winter which
record brings the amount fallen this
season to a figure surprising the snow
fall of any winter since 1888. A queer
feature OF todays blizzard is that it
falls so near the anniversary of the
famous storm of 2S years ago.
The prohibitionists are convinced
this morning that the Lord is disgust
ed with the way the election went
Tuesday and the big fall of snow at
this time is an attempt on His part to
cover us with purity. But the prohi-
bitionists had to shovel their way out
this morning the same as the rest of
the census. through drifts that in
some places-especially on the hill at
Old Bennington and to the south Of
the village-were piled five to six feet
in depth.
The snow would not have been so OBJ
noxious had the fall not been followed
by high wind that blew almost con-
tinuously through the hours of
the night and well into the
forenoon, burying milk-men snow
plows and arguments over the
Perry bill result. On the el-
waited sections of the village 1t was no
uncommon sightt to see the snow bank
ed to the sills of the first.story windows
and residents, throwing up the material
from their walks on plies that hid them
from view. t4s, yt94
AS usual, all trains were delayed and
the trolley cars had a hard time. get
ting through Snow-plows on both
steam and trolley roads were doing
heroic duty all night, in spite ofwhich
the sleeper did not arrive in the villige
until O'clock this morning and the
Troy train at nine o'clock had not put
out from the Troy station,
although at that time it was
nearly due in Bennington. The
New York and Boston papers were
therefore delayed and Bennington has
had but incomplete reports of
the effect of the storm in other sections
of the country.
On the street lines the North Adams
cars went out of commission early yes
terday afternoon and did not get
through until 10 o'clock last night.
This delay was partly due to a brok-
en- car in Pownal which had nothing to
do with the storm. This car delayed
traffic until it was pulled into North
Adams, but it gave the storm q chance
to pile snow on unused tracks and the
big plow had to get. ahead of the regul-
ar cars. The 10.45 car started out of
the village crammed to capacity and
although its progress was almost a
"hobble," it went through without
much serious delay EEs
The Hoosick Falls line ran nearly
on schedule last night and this morn
lHS, although lnc HoloIS Oh tne ploW
were at melting point. The line was
kept open and North Bennington folks
who work in the village reached their
labor but few minutes late.
The kids knew when they looked
from the windows this morning that
there would be no ''readin', ritin' and
'rithmetic" today, but it was necessary
to use the telephone to verify Princi-
pal Varney was on his job, as we'll as
the phone operations. The phone girls
were kept busy plugging information
through the switchboards, but the joy
of the kids was shortlived when they
learned that the school authorities had
announced the lost day would be made
up in the near future on Saturday