The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-02-12
Nineteen to "a in This Viii
lage and 80 in West
Brattleboro
RAILROAD TRAINS
DELAYED BY COLD

Temperature Lowest This Morning Since
Dec 27, 1o14 = Brookl,ne Reports SO
Below otte- County Towns Re
port Low Marks
Even with furnaces and boilers work
ing to full capacity last night and this
morning it was well along towards
noon before some homes and places of
business got thawed out enough to per-
nit anything Ike actual comfort. An
Arctic explorer or an Eskimo would
have felt at home most anywhere in
Brattlebcro this morning.
The mercury kept slipping all yester-
day afternoon and last night until
West Brattleboro stuck its official nose
out Of the door this morning and read
80 below on that official thermome-
| ter up there. A man from Brookline
said one thermomat T in thai burg reg
| istered SO.
| This Is decidedly record for this
winter and what was true of West
BrattieEoro was in y degree true else
where hcreabouts. A man who owned
. thermometer that did not 20 below
Is was ashamed to ten about it for
Ferris r. Vaughn s standard instru-
ment on High street went down to 10
LcloW, and il has been some time since
that instrum nt descendad to that
level
"a - 10
4 Burnett s store the mercur,- was sew
cral d,gre S lower than that early this
morning and from all over town came
reports OF from Is to u below The
My thing lacking TO make real win
Ter day Of il was q wind blowing at
about 80 miles an hour.
1h.rc hava been other DAYS in wears
gone by when the mercury dropped
even lever in Brattleboro than this
morning, but not manv Back in the
carlv part Of January. 1904. as low as
40 below was reported. while on Jan.
, %, 1907. from 25 to 40 was reported.
, January II and Februar; u. 1914. tied
with reports each day Of from IS to
% below and December o6 of the same
: year gave a score OF from 90 10 33.
; A wear ago next THURSDAY it was II
: below on Main street and "a below in
: West Bratt,eboro, al of which tends
TO prove that this is nothing SO very
unusual in winter
On December p, 1914, Mr.. Vaughan s
'~andard instrument registered % be
: low. which was the most recent date
on which the Thermometer recorded a
lower temperature than this morning.
While as q rule the cold air currents
r are more intense in West Brattleboro
than in this part of the town, yes
! terdav morning was al exception
when a mark of II below in this vil-
:, lage beat the West Brattlehoro mark.
In BroGkline this morning tenn
a peraturc of So below was reported. In
T, Williamsviic reports were of % to p
below. On Putne+ hill north Of the
+. Stowell factories the mark was % be.
q low. The mercury at j.. II. Miller s
y in Dummerston stood at 10 below. Al
John f. Gale i in Guilford it was &c
IS below and at B. H. Newton.'s III Yer
d non 20 below.
e Train schedules were shot to piece:
4 this morning. caused III a great meas
: ure by the extreme cold, which makes
A. it hard to keep up steam on the en-
gines The engine hauling the pape
Y train due here at clock. broke dowI
4 cast of Greenfield. Mass, which mad
e that train over two hours late here
lc When it APPEARED it had two engines
Sc The train due here at LOG was 8
minutes late. 1t was nearly / o 'eloel
when one section Of the owl train du
here southbound at 5 clock. pulle'
into the station At > clock this aft
=. crnoon railroad officials believed tha
= the worst of the delays were over 70
the day but none of them prcdiete'
:, that trains would be on time.