Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1886-01-11
THE COLD SNAP.
A Sunday Sleighing Carnival on Penn.
sylvania Avenue-NOtes About the
Weather.

Gloves, mittens ear-muffs and tippets have
been conspicuous features of both male and
female attire since Saturday. Occasionally q
sharp north wind has whistled through the
city, filing the air with fine snow and cutting
the faces OF wayfarers. The sleighing yesterday
and to-day has been splendid, and every one
who could command the use Of any sort of
conveyance on runners has been out to enjoy it.
Pennsylvania avenue was thronged yesterday
afternoon, Notwithstanding the fact that it was
Sunday. The physician found it convenient to
make his calls in a sleigh, and nearly every one
who owned a sleigh found some excuse to re-
qu1re them to go out Sunday afternoon. The
horses in nearly every case appeared to be UNI
manageable, and insisted on stepping out at
full speed, despite the desperate efforts Of their
drivers to restrain them. 1t was altogether q
pretty spectacle, and the sleighing parties had
it ali their own way, as there were few other
vehicles on the road. A corps of mounted po-
licemen, however, interfered with their sport
give lively chase to some especially reckless
driver and escort him to the station-house
where the culprit was required to leave security
for his appearance.
RAID ON THE sLE1GHERs.
The police in the fifth precinct were preparing
to-day for a raid on the sleighers on the avenue
this afternoon. ''The law says observed lieut.
Arnold to STAR reporter, "that horses shall
not be driven faster than six miles an hour
Now, the horse cars travel at the rate of about
five miles an hour, and one can tell by that
about how fast to drive. Nearly every one
drives faster than that. The police will arrest
gaging in racing"
THE ICE BLOCKADE.
There were no boats running on the river to-
day except the regular ferry-boats plying be-
tween Washington and Alexandria. These
boats made their regular trips, but the time oc.
minutes longer than usual. The Wakefield did
not go down on Its regular trip to-day, and will
wait here until Friday. All the other river
of some of them the crews have been dis
charged. The ice was three or four inches thick
in the river to-day, and covered the whole river
from shore to shore. In some places, where it
had been broken and drfted by the wind,
gorges of ice two or three feet thick had been
between their slips in this city and Alexandria.
The river men expect the river to be clear with
in few days though, as one of the men said to
like saying what the weather is going to be
next week. Ii we have fog, or the wind in the
right direction, the river might clear up in a
day."
Ice was still running down both the Potomac
and Shenandoah rivers at Harper's Ferry this
The railroad trains arriving in Washington
are to-day running but little behind schedule
time.
SNOW DRIFTS IN THE SUBURBS
In the country outside of Washington the
snow is piled in drifts and the roads almost i'm
passable. The drifts are SO hard and closely
packed that they can be walked over. Yester-
day the wind was blowing all day long at
high rate and did not abate until this morning
There was but little travel on the county roads
yesterday.
THE TEMPERATURE TO RISE VERY SLOWLY.
It was stated at the signal Office this morning
that the minimum temperature recorded here
has been sc degrees above zero, and that point
was reached early this morning. It is pre-
dicted that the cold weather will last for some
time. Tomorrow morning the thermometer
will vary but little, IT ?, from its record this
morning 1t will grow little warmer during
the day, and the temperature will begin to rise
gradually.
COLD WEATHER ALL OVER THE COUNTRY.
The cold wave still fingers over nearly the
whole country. In the gulf states the extraor-
binary temperature remains about the same.
Up in the extreme northwest 1t is not so cold as
it was, but there is still plenty Of room for Inn
prOvement. Out in Ohio, in the vicinity of Gin
cinnatiI the thermometer is several degrees be-
low zero-over 80 degrees below the normal.
Warmer weather here will approach gradually,
SO that there is every prospect that the snow
will remain IN the ground for some time.