The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1920-02-06
TRAFFIC Of ALL
KINDS DELAYED
BY BIC STORY
Trains from All Points Hours
Behind Schedules
CONCERT WAS CANCELLED
Columbia College GIee Club Reached
Albany at Noon and Stalled
There for the Day

Delayed train service was by far
the greatest convenience expert
enced by Benn ngton people because
OF the heavy snow storm Of Thursday
af ernoon and night. Early in the
evening there was change in tenn
perature and the snow became sc
hard as to almost resemble hail 1t
was after midnight when the snow
ceased IA ling. .,.,>
Passengers travelling ncrthward
experienced the greatest inconven
ience Some of them who arrived in
Albany a. noon did not reach Ben
nington until after IL o'clock in the
evening. To the delay caused by the
storm was that occasioned by an ac-
cident in the city of Albany where q
loco motive jumped the track and put
a number Of swi ches out Of commits
SO was af.er 6 o'clock when
communication by rail was restored
as far as Troy and there were numer-
Gus delays between that city and
North Bennington.
Because of the suspension Of traffic
at Albany the Columbia University
Glee club, which was 70 have given a
concert at H gh school ha in tho
evening, failed to reach Bennington.
The boys, about thirty Of them,
were disappointed in the fai ure OF
the company to fill is engagem snt
but hey made the best of the situa
ticn. They gave an extended concer
In the train for the benaf of the
snowbound passengers. The music
was both instrumental and voca and
couple of Bennington men who
were In the car declare that he
storm cheated the local people out
of an excellent entertainment If the
impromptu pregram given in the car
was fair sample of what the boys
could do when on he platform. The
boys not only played and sang but
they whistled. 1t was evident that
they had made special preparations
for their appearance here for one of
the airs was march written by the
late Rudolph Goldsmith OF Benning
ton. There had been good advance
sale of tickets for the concerts and
an unusually large aud ence, consid-
ering the condition Of the weather
BdbnCl GU dI VIC Olliy " D6 lnlk
ed that there would be no entertain
ment.
Al ltrains into Troy were ate and
trolley traffic in that ci y and in AL
bany was tied up to considerable
extent
The train from the north into Ben
nington which is scheduled to arrive
here at 2;40 n the morning did no
reach the LEGAL station until after T.
1t carried most of the mail from that
d.rec ion, however. The delayed
mail Is largely that from southern
and western points.
Here in Bennington the snow fell 80
rapid y that even on Main street
where the property owners used the
shcvels vigorously the walking was
about as bad as 1t could be. On the
side stree 1t could hardly have been
worse.
The snow plow on the trolley road
was put into, commission early in the
afternoon and between and 6 o'colck
a car crawied In frcm the north vii
lage. AT that time there were many
of the employees in he different in
dustries here who i've at North Ben.
nington were speculating on the pros
poets of long de ay If not they were
not to be compelled to remain in the
village all night. A number of them
live on he read between the two vii
lagos and the steam line would not
teke them any nearer home
School children in Bennington do
not usually pay much attention ta
weather conditions but the storm was
too much fer many of them. The
absentees reported in the afternoon
reached tota' of 20 per cent, an ex
ceptional'y high figure.
Travel on the highways will be
heavy for day or two. The snow
is heavy and dry and will not pack
readily. During the afternoon the
Bennington garage kept .hree auto
mobiles at work In an effort to keeI