In Vermont

Through the narrow, shaggy valleys of Vermont, where flood waters boiled three months ago, a train of seven Pullman cars climbed, last week, from St. Albans near Lake Champlain to Waterbury in the Green Mountains. Thence it descended, with a 45-minute stop at Montpelier, the State capital, to White River Junction on the New Hampshire borderline. Cheered at way-stations, drowned in noise at cities, it was a symbol of Vermont's recovery from her catastrophe of last autumn, the first through train over the State's main artery of transportation, the Central Vermont R. R. Among the officials who made speeches and took bows was Sir Henry W. Thornton, president of the Canadian National Railways, which put its assets at the Central Vermont's disposal to rebuild washed-out trestles, culverts, hill-shoulders.