The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1920-03-08
CENTRAL VERMONT
GETS TO OPERATING
One Line of the Boston 4
Maine in New Hampshire
Is Blocked by 40 Feet of
Snow, Which Slid from
a Mountain Peak.

Boston, March S.-Railroads, indus
tries and community volunteers com
bined efforts again to-day to restore
the passenger and freight transporta
ton facilities that were cut oil IN
northern New England by the storm on
Saturday A digging out" holiday
was proclaimed in several cities and
scores Of industries diverted the en-
ergies of the employees to the swing.
ing Of picks and shovcls over railroad
ties. Great snow banks and the ice
formed by the sudden drop in temper
ature caused the most serious tie-up OF
the winter in many places.
All employees of labor werei called
upon by the associated industries and
the Boston Chamber of Commerce to
assist the transportation companies a
similar drive two weeks ago restored
transportation Service to nearly nor
NAL but Saturdays storm undid the
work of the last ten days in many To-
calities.
The situation in Maine, New Hamp
shire and Vermont was the most Sc
rious in many years. Hundreds Of
railroad passengers were marooned in
small cities and towns where trains
had been stalled since Saturday night
and in some places the housing and
feeding of these refugees became a Sc
rious problem. Some of these were re-
lieved last night and the railroads cen
tered their efforts on rescuing the 9th
theirs to-day.
In Brunswick. Me-, 500 passengers
from stalled trains have been cared for
in the town since Sunday morning, and
ri Richmond, also on the main line
of the Maine Central railroad. the pres
ence of 200 others, including Com
mander Evangeline Booth of the Saliva
tion Army, made the food problem diff
ficult to solve. Railroad officials said
that both towns would be relieved be-
fore noon.
Fifty passengers on the Greenville
branch and Aroostook, who left Green
Vile Saturday afternoon were brought
to Bangor last night. They had be-
come stalled all night and day in an
immense snow drift near Dover. Pas
sengers on the Washington County and
Bar Harbor train also spent the night
in the cars about II miles east of
Bangor.
Service between Portsmouth and
Boston was resumed after suspeu-
sion Of nearly 80 hours Trains from
Boston ran over the eastern division
tracks yesterday only as far as Bev-
erly and on the Gloucester branch. OPP
erations on Che Lexington branch OF
the southern division of the Boston and
Maine were resumed last night.
Tie-ups on the Vermont Central
lines, whore several passenger trains
were held up Saturday and Yesterday,
were loosened last night. The noun
tain division OF the Boston and Maine
remained blocked by a mass of snow
which slid down from one of the peaks
Of the White mountains and buried
the tracks forty feet deep. Transpor
tation between Concord, y. H.. and
the northern part Of the state, Yer
mont and Quebec Canada. was also at
standstll.
Officials of several street railway
lines said that normal service could not
he resumed until after the spring thaw
CITY lines of the Eastern Massachusetts,
Street Railway company were partly
open yesterday. but no attempt was
made 10 resume traffic on some of the
interurbsn or rural lines. Lynn, Haver.
hill and Salem were most seriously af-
fected
Volunteers recruited from the
churches dug out several miles of the
MiddleseN and Boston street railway
tracks Yesterday near Hopkinton and
ii wa expected that one line between
that town aud Framingham could be
operated TODAY.
Two thousand volunteers were asked
10 dig the Berkshire Street Rail
way company out Of its difficulties at
Pit field to-day. Service was ahau-
doned by the company las; night and
the road employees Were laid of for an
indefinite period. Mayor Louis A. Mer-
chant issued proclamation asking the
citizens 20 assist The road