The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1920-03-08
SLOW RECOVERY
FROM EFFECTS
or BLIZZARD
sFs
Much Inconvenience Yet Exists
After Saturdays Storm
MAILS CONTINUE LATE
Highways Blocked and Normal condi-
tions VIII Not Be Restored for
Some Days
MAILS CONTINUE LATE

Bennington and vicinity are begin
ming to recover from the effects OF
Saturdays blizzard but nothing like
normal conditions prevail as yet.
Some of the trains are running hours
behind schedules and mails from all
directions are late. Sunday some of
the New York papers came through
and the Boston editions were receiy-
ed late in the afternoon.
Conditions similar to those prevail
ing at the postoffice on Saturday
have not existed in many years. The
night mail from the north arrived
about 8 o'clock in the forenoon but
that was the last mail received dur
ing the day. About twenty years ago,
while A. ]. Dewey was postmaster, a
serious washout on the railroad de-
layed mail to such an extent that the
postoffice was delayed for a longer
period than last week but that was
the only occasion in two decades.
Country roads in al, directions are
blocked Some of the inhabitants Hv
ing on the lines of the rural delivery
houtes have received no mail for
number of days and deliveries will
be irregular and limited for days to
come. Hardly any milk was deliver
led in Bennington on Saturday, Philip
B. Jacobs, who lives in the western
section of the town and who has OPP
Grated milk route for Is years, says
that Saturday was the first day on
which he failed to supply his custom
ers. The road leading from Old Ben
,,f, - atx 80, ~, ~ -, ~
ly bad shape.
Sunday the street department be-
gan work plowing the paths on some
of the side .streets..l,It wasa possible
to scrape some of the snow from the
surface but the pIows failed to work
at any depth. The snow OF Saturday
falling upon slush absorbed the water
and then froze solid. The use of
shovels will be required to remove it.
Not much trouble was experienced
on the lines in the local telephone
district A trouble hunter on snow
shoes left this morning for Pownal
where a. number of phones were re-
ported out of commission. Parties
on the Salisbury line have lost
their connections. The trouble,
however, is comparatively limited,
considering the unusual weather con-
lditions.
No mail arrived from New York
this forenoon and the Chatham ediyts.
ion is hopelessly blocked for the
present. Saturday morning a snow
plow started over the line going
through this village about 5 O'clock.
1t reached point W thin Is miles OF
Chatham and there stuck in a snow
drift. A relief train with shoyelers
followed and likewise became stalled.
This morning a second plow left
Rutland and reached the Dewey
crossing in this village. Here it, went
off the track. The locomotive re-
NAMED on the iron but the car with
the ploy attached spread itself over
the right of way and traffic was. again
held up. The plow and car was puI
led back on to the rails and another
start was made. At the Dewey street
crossing the outfit left the rails for
the second time. When 1t was once
more righted it proceeded on its way
over the hill. The crew stated before
making the second start that here
after drifts would be shoveled and
not bicked with the plow.