New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1888-03-14
1. to be deplored. not only out Of pity for its
victims. but because It brutalizes tnose yao
arc guilty Of II.
VICTIMS OF THE STORM

VICTIMS OF THE STORM
Tom strayed or stoieni The Oldest lnhabitanh
vyber last observed, he had but Just emerged from
an elevated train which had been lingering be-
tween stations on Monday for matter OF an hour
and a half In bitterness Of spirit and with Doth
cars frozen he suffered reporter to wiring the al
mission from him that he never remembered 10
have seen the like Of that day. Having made TINS
mertifying concession to the weather OF the
nrcsent. The Oldest Inhabitant appeared to DO
orcatlv cast down. He muttercd to himself
- This 1 9Th Of March obviously ends my use1u-
ness: what chance does The Oldest Inhabitant
have Of retaining his standing with his leno"
men. II from the ample storehouse Of bis rctentive
memory he cannot produce March day that was
more richly endowed with inclemency than any
March day Of the PRESENT. Great Scott, how that
blizzard docs blow must say that this beats
anv March storm ever was out in. II say IL
who shouldn't, being The Oldest Inhabtant All
yea I linger super1uoua l have outlived my
function. Old Probabilities has exhausted his
possibilities on this day 1t takes the blue ribbon
I'd better got out"
His friends, accom- panied by band Of deteo-
tivcs and pack of st. Bernard dogs which had
done good service rescung frozen travellers IN tno
Anime country, are now searching for The Oldest
Inhabitant II Is suspected that he has With
drawn from the public gaze TO one Of tho many
drifts that roar their white SUBMITS In the cross
streets or that perchance he Is curled up in that
stranded pie wagon In Avenue A. 1t is possible,
however that neither q snow-drift nor pie wagon
conceals him. lie may have left the oity-gonc
to meet his able and experienced contemporaries
The Weather Prophets For 1t was as cold day
for those gentlemen as II WAS for him. For did
not THE rrIByNFs prophet foretel the weather
OF Monday as follows: In and near this city
TODAY there will probably DO clearing temphass
on 'cearing) colder weather, preceded by light
lemphas,s on Tightly snow" ? And did not Tho
Herads" prophet. after inspecting the entrails OF
his observations rise and remark that the weather
of Monday - In New York and its vicinity, within
thirty miles Of this city. promises TO be generally
fair and colder preceded by partial coudiness near
the coast" ? And did not the prophet Of The
Worldn induce that Journal to go to press on
Monday morning with the unqualified assertion,
Spring gentle spring. is here Let US draw a
veil over the emotions OF the Weather Prophets
as they address themselves 70 the task OF bringing
their foresight into harmonious relation with their
hindsigbt.
Bat. whether The Oldest Inhabitant sought the
CONCEALED and congcnial company OF the weather
Prophets In his misery OF impotent recollection or
whether he has Hooked by himself one thing Is
certan-hc has jumped the town The selfconcelt
that has known him so long viii know him no
more for ever Or, At all events 1t won't know
him again until the dog days. Then he may brace
up courage to emerge from his hiding place ana
browbest a younger generation with references 10
the unparalleled heated spell Of 81. But it will
only need a chance nllusion to March 2, 1885, to
make him as silent as the " t" in depot. Let us
drop sympathetic we reflect upon the
spectacle he was called upon to endure lie be-
held the present call the hand Of the past, and the
present won "Time will run back and fetch the
age OF gold" says Milton. Time will do nothing
of the kind-and The Oldest Inhahitant knows
that he won't-when IT, comes to genuine, 24-carat
blizzard metropolitan weather.