Norwich bulletin., 1920-03-27
DANIELSON AND PUTNAM NEWS
PUTNAM

AR1A4NlW 1,
 Nearly a complete bleesage of the II Putnam K illingly state highway, near Il the Tfllinshast farm north of Alta waugant practically tied up traffic be-
 tween this city and points south Fri Il drivers whose motor cars and trucks 1
 were mired at points where the state I
 highway has completely broken down.
 No such complete collapse of a l
 section of state highway has ever
 been seen in this section. The high l
 way at the point mentioned began to |
 give way under the strain of heavy l
 traffic during Thursday afternoon and 1 the whole surfaoing and main part of I the maeadam rOadbed eventually was chswed up by the pcnderous motor trucks that ply over the route. Four of these and a touring car finally got into the mess that had been ehurned up and stalled there. blocking traffic north and south. At one time during the evening SO cars were stalled north and south of the blociSsded point. the headlights of the machines gleaming as far as one could see up and down the highway. Drivers of these cars finally had to turn the machines around and return in the direction from which they came. A hole was plugged through the blocksge later in the evening, but 1 this did not long remain open, and Putnam and North Grosyenordale cars that were at Dauielson, where lsthe basketball championship of the Gs,inbenag Valley league was being decided, carried passengers, who in some cases, did not reach their homes luntsl o'clock Friday morning. Some North Grosvenordaie people who had at x,a kn flaa Il nearly ten miles from the blocIsage to their homes in the town up the river l Friday morning a force of state rcadlnen working under the direction of Barrak K. Smith did their best to I make the broken down piece of high ], way passabie, but the job they tackled 1 was much the same as trying to fill up swamp and make 1t usa1te for automobile traffic.
 l The usual heavy traffic kept moving : to the blockade point, and car after car that essayed the passage of the
 soupy section went down to the axles } anl had to be pulled out by horses that the state force had there to do , fother work. A big Pierce-Arrew ? truck, heavily loaded with mill sup } plies, was stalled in the muck at one side of tine congeSted section of road
 and made more difficult the work oi ? getting machines past the bad .piaee l Truck loads of gravel were dumped into the broken down section by tbe , istate roadmen, but late in the after t Highway had not been materially iSn- ' proved.
 Out by the old cemetery, whert rest heroes Of the Revelation, ther, 2 iis another terrible stretch Of higa {. way. and other places, more or les ' broken down. making the going t ? AttaWaugan worse even than during the blizzard periods of the winter. ei There are detour routes past th z bad places--oHe via the Whites cross ing route, the other oyer the old rout = of the highway. to the east, but these Y too, offer nothing better than
 chance to get stalled on a differen r road than the state highway, as man n found out who tried them, thouga # some cars snanaged to nesotiat e them.
 70 Occasionally during Friday Dan n ieIson line bus managed to ge Y through to Putnam, but only afte
 mighty effort q Il The giant motor trucks. carryin nn tremendously heavy roads, are charg = ed with being responsibIe for the col 2 lapse of the state highway, whic ' was never designed to withstand sue ,e wear and weight as these vehicle \ l subject them 10.
 T Record high costs for repairing thi i. highway are h sight. to be piled up a on the snow refnoyai costs of tn v last two months. l. Twenty nooter trucks were repcri of cd as having broken through tn n state highway and as being staile at along the route between this city an to Hartford during Friday. Up at Me ar ehanicsyille, near the West Thompso ly school, a section of the state roa
 has settled nearly 2 foot below i normal level. Cars are getting | ,e , this point by using the trolley track .e as a roadbed. aa++ Farther north on the route to Wol .s eester the highways 2. are broke sse through in a number of places an a1 the same Is true of the Putnam -Chs
 paehet route to Providence. . lE Seven great motor trucks went oi !, of here chained one behind the othi :" bound for Providence. The drive ', ', had 1t figured out that the first true v in the line might, with its own pow, ., and that of the six trucks behind i ~ ~ be forced through about any broke ~ down section of highW~v. Once { ra solid highway again, the forwal <, truck could be used to haul out Il v .n next one and then these two wou =, gradually manage to get the who sb String across. If seemed like q gre ssIi Idea and was expected to work O
 all right no matter what happen,
 to the highways. by A fine tip to those who would UT touring today on state roads her a. abouts Is Don't do il"
 ,E The March term of the Wind,a ,sa county superior court adjourned hei .ts sine die, Friday. Judge Hlnma .S said that he would be. unable to cor ~ to Puntam next week and 1t also N be impossible for Judge Gardin 1T Greene of Norwich to be In Putnam. ssd Two uncontested divorees we