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Left at 8:50 via Rutland.  Country shows little snow and rather old and dirty.  Towards american boundary, started snowing then more and more till landscape was very white in Vermont.  Then developed to a [[red underline]] blizzard. [[/red underline]]  When we came in Troy missed our correspondence with train to New York and I heard [[red underline]] blizzard had been [[/red underline]]
[[vertical note in red pencil in left margin]] Blizzard [[/vertical note in left margin]]
raging all afternoon.  Telegraph and telephone poles down.  No telegraphic connection with New York.  Our train finally left Albany about 2 to 3 hours late, stopped frequently and storm got worse and worse. Train creeping along at the rate of a few miles an hour.  Wind very violent attaining 75 miles an hour. Instead of  
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arriving in New York at 8:45 we got [[red underline]] there next morning a 7 AM. [[/red underline]] and had to sleep in day
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car.  Everybody took it good naturedly and night passed in snoring, joking etc. New York was snowbound. Trains delayed everywhere.  Streets blocked. cars stalled everywhere.  Elevated trains stopped too.  Got breakfast at station and ordered carriage.  Celine tells [[insertion]] phones [[/insertion]] me they are [[red underline]] snowbound. [[/red underline]] Our train to Yonkers crawled on and got there in about 2 hours.  No trolley cars running.  After some hesitation my driver took me up along Palisade Avenue so as to select easiest grades.  [[red underline]] Snow two and four feet deep. [[/red underline]] Horse hardly able to advance.  Matters became worse when we came on Broadway near street.  Then on Rock Lane streets virgin snow and horses sank in [[red underline]] to the knees [[/red underline]] and could not advance further