New Britain herald., 1927-11-07
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you care 10 wait, it might come over
 sometime during the night if some
 body in Athens Iusist,d, the watch
 man at the Day line docks will tell you. Hence, if one Is l5ts, onr takes the east side routo 10 Albany. riding
 through 70 pond up 70 inc hubs or higher in Rensselaer, and at length merging in Alhau5 which itself has suffered considerably from th. ris- .rS Hudson Sundays regular 'rip ..l throu=U 'he pond that was Rens- s laar L. Pltledell, Mass where -now first s,cu while lost in tilo ranges west of Sheffield began 4gaid. From pitS'i,!i one may fourney over th, southern route to Springfield without any grave wor- ry; thence. again tho voyage in qusstion led northvarI oyer part of lhe Piusfeld- Nor hampton highway, likewise open except lu few places, and then into Adams and North Ad- ans where the viUI had increased nearly 10 the proportions or a gale and the air Was whit. with snow. old Greylock lifted snowy head over he landscape, and the peak 10 the east of North Adams was white, but on somo peaks the sun shone brightly while the snow whjrlcd below.
 North Adams, more than any place along the route. showed the effects of the storms of the past few days. The river, converted into q torrent, had recedod slightly. leav- ing the bridge leading mp to the Mo hawk Trail shattered and closed to traffic. Two streets on either bank Of the stream, undermined had crumhlad, into the flood. Houses, splintered and toppled into the river he'd, lay in the Churning waters. One stood almost on end nearly in mid 1 stream.
 Logs. small trees. parts Of houses | pounded into match wood, Were just being cleared away from the main | streets of the city, while hundreds 1 of visiting motorists looked on. Red |. Cross and other relief workers lent an atmosphere Of grave disaster 10 | the scene.
 Try Mohawk Trail
 At the bridge state police were turning motorists back to Pittsfiold | The trail. they said was as good as [ impossible on the North Adams side and completely ripped away on the the other side of the mountain. Not chance.' they said. but other North Adams residents gave advice as to how one might get around the ruined bridge and onto the trail, at the same time earnestly advising against it.
 Deep gulles. sometimes four feet deep. ran along the inner side of the trail np tn" mountain and the outer edge Of tin" stat" road was crum- bling. sections of guard rail having already dropped away into the val ley and there being no room for two cprs to pass withou, extreme danger at many points.
 At many points. however there was little other traffic, the other machines being North Adams cars in which the residents had climbed the mountain part way to survey the damage. Road construction for six miles over the peak had suffer- "d severely, and the top covered with snow and with gale blowing. was decidedly wintry. (
 Climb High Tower.
 The travellers asceuded inc Whit comb peak observation tower GOV cred with ice and strainng on its cables. and obtained q wn,ry glimpse into four or five states. inc peak being the highest point in th" Borkshires.
 One may travel down the eastern side Of the mountain over the Hoo sac tunnel 10 q point just below , Drury, where the road is closed to traffic. Here long section of state highway has been torn from the i leaving not enough ' room for q bicycle 10 pass.
 The scenery, however, could not i be matched, even though the blue 1