Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1920-03-11

densburg division were transferred to the
New York Montreal train. The Sunday
Boston to Ogdensburg sleeper did not
| arrive all day Sunday for It was stuck in
| n snow drift on tho Bellows Falls di-
vision
As II was evident that the situation
was going to be bad ono, all trains
| that had not started by six o'clock Sat
| urday morning on the Rutland road we're
| annuled, 80 there was no Boston ma IL
| train or New York to Montreal flyer.
| The Las train too, did not run. All milk
| trains from Op itnsburg to New York
| were annullcd, both Saturday and Sun
| day, and the ncrthbound milk train fol-
lowed the general schedule of Saturday
| the 9:33 for Saturday morning arriving
at ITO o'clock Sunday. The 9:33 Sun
day was annulled and train made M
| at Troy to run on the schedule of the
| 1f5. This arrived at 4:oS and left on the
| return trip on time This train usually
| makes connection with mail train from
| Boston via Bellows Falls but because of
| the tie-up on the line it simply brought
| up passengers from Troy.
| In the evening the Gas, the New York
| to Montreal flyer arrived at II o'clock
and because of conditions north of here
was cancelled at this station. train
! "dS 'lldue up AZ AlnurE TO take the place
of the Ogdensburg to Boston seeper hut
| that too. was cancelled. as was the 1851
from Montreal to New York. The only
sleeper out Sunday night was the 1O:45
lover the Central Vermont
All passengers on the through trains
that were badly delayed we're supplied
with food and sleeping accommodations
and made as comfortable as possible
wherever they happened to be. The pas
sengers who were the longest time en-
route were those on Saturdays New York
to Montreal and acknowledgements
sleepers. and the passengers on these
trains were fed at the union station res
taurant and sleeping accommodations
were arranged for them in the sleeping
cars Of the New York train Two engines
| were kept on this train to provide heat.
The passengers AL seemed satisfied with
the care given them and all seemed to
realize that the condition was one that
could not he helped. Because the New
York sleeper had been standing in the
station so long it became frozen to the
tracks and it took four engines to move
it, During the process one sleeper was
derailed but in an hour this was back
on the irons and the train proceeded
On the Contra Vermont road conditions
were similar 10 those on the Rutland.
The Saturday morning sleeper arrived the
same day though coming in about seven
hours late. This, however. was the last
passenger train 10 arrive that road
Saturday, al. the others having been can
celled. A special train was made up to
leave Burlington at six O'Clock Saturday
night for St Adams This was particular
~ for the accommoda ton of those peo-
pie who came to the city 10 hear Madame
Galh-Curci. After several attempts to
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street crossing and finally departed at
LEO Sunday morning after the snow
plows had cleared tho track
A good-sized party of people from sta
lions along the Burlington and Lamolle
and the st. JohnshurY and Lake Cham
plain railroads, extending from Burling-
ton to Cambridge Junction and on TO St
Johnsbury. left Burlington Saturday
morning and. after spending the entire
day on the train found themselves at
$50 in the afternoon back In Burlington
after travelling about 20 miles Leaving
Burlington about $50 O'clock more than
an hour and a half late. this train reach
ed Essex Junction about II O'Clock stayed
around there an hour or So then contin-
ued on its way. only to run into n big
snow bank about two miles beyond Essex
junction, there to remain until they were
hauled out by two extra engines dispatch
ed from the junction. The train came
back TO burlington. arriving about $50
o'clock. A large number of those on the
train were people who had come to Bur
lington to attend the Galli-Curc concert
Friday evening and their stay in the
Queen City was extended TO include Sun
day. The 40 p. m. train had 10 better
luck and it returned to Burlington at
4:6 Sunday morning after fruhless
attempt to reach Cambridge
Sunday conditions seemed slightly
better on the Central Vermont The
train due to leave here at 1885 a. m.
left at 11:20 with two engines This
connects at Essex for Montpelier and
Boston and II returned with the pas
|. sengers from Montreal at so y m
Another special was sent out of hero
at four o'clock Sunday afternoon to
connect with the paper train from
| Boston. which was seven hours late
This train carried passengers locally
, from Burlington to ST. Alhans with the
prospect of getting through tn Mont
l real about $50 The regular 10 n. m.
sunday train for Montpe lier and Bos-
. ton was scheduled to leave on time
D Some of the passengers who were
: held up by the storm were rather put
q out about 1t Among them were two
r Middlebury college students vnc were
] planning to get to college il tine for
I Saturday mornings classes and could
a not leave BurlinGt ton until late I'm the
! afternoon. Then there was a priest who
, had been called to the bed of n dying
man up near St Adams, He left on the
= special at four o'clock, on Saturday.
Boston sleeper on the Rutland road
: which arrived here Sunday there was
a funeral party accompanying a body
:, to Bangor, Maine. They loft on the
: milk train that went out Sunday
afternoon.