Morning journal and courier., 1889-02-27
sLEICHING IN ATLANTA,

A New Haveners Visit in the South Fun and Snowballing i'm Atlanta-A Fusilade Of SnowbalIs For the Gov ernor-Ei&ht Inches of Snow i'm the Sunny South.
 MT. George L. Streeter and wife of this city, who went South about two weeks ago, have been sojourning for week or more in Atlanta, Ga. The weather was execrable and trade was reported everywhere very dull in all that region. It rained for three or four days during their stay and then a heavy snow storm set in, one of the heaviest known as far South as Atlanta in many years. Eight inches of snow fell, and the horse cars had to have four horses to car and sleighs were out on many of the thoroughfares. Here in New Haven there has been no snow worth speaking of, and only once this winter was there snow enough here for sleighing and that vanished in a day. They had great sport in Atlanta over the snow. especially the boys, as the following from an Atlanta paper of Feb. 22d attests:
 A snowy day in Atlanta.
 The snow storm which visited the city yes- terday morning was distinct and genuine success.
 Shortly after o'clock few feeble flakes
 
 the time they struck the earth. A little later great big white fellows began tumbling pell- nell from the leaden sky. turning the atmos- phere to dazzling whiteness by their beauti- full gyrations Every moment the flakes seemed to fall thicker and faster, and it was not long before every housetop and every street and almost everything else above ground was yelled in white.
 It was thought that it would just snow an hour or so and then rain, as the temperature at half past 10 was only about forty, but still it showed and still the wonder grew. Itsnowed heavily for several hours, and at o'clock a fair estimate fixed the average depth at about eight inches.
 Then it got tired and began sleeting, and after the sleet matinee had lasted couple of hours it rained. The signal service man said that 8 cold wave was coming from the north eter registered twenty degrees below zero. He said, also, that rain storm was coming this way from Texas which would probably reach here to-day. The rain will probably wash the snow away, and very cold weather is expected by Sunday. At any rate, Allan ta is in for forty eight hours of bad weather. But to return to the snow.
 The street cars had hard time yesterday to say nothing of the drivers and horses. The tracks were rapidly banked with snow. The number of cars were reduced to two or three on the Peachtree, Marietta, Decatur and West End lines and these were drawn by four horses
 It showed so thick and fast that it was i'm possible for several hours to keep it shovel ed of the tracks. Better progress was m ade by the cars in the afternoon, when the beau tiful snow began to turn to horrible slush. A number of sleighs went skimming about the streets. Most of them were of the im- promptu kind, but there were several light and hobby cutters that looked real stylish, you know.
 The sleigh-riding was highly enjoyed, no doubt, but it was not half so general and as exciting as the snowballing.
 One of the most amusing encounters was that between MT. Jerry Lynch and MT. Harry Silverman on Whitehall street. They began firing at long range, but gradually closed in, hurling bigger balls all the time. When nearly together they raked it up by the arm- ful and clinched, :and when the washing" was over both men looked as if they had just come out of @ swimming match with their store clothes on. But it was mighty funny, all the same-to the crowd.
 Bob Jones hitch two fine mules to his lit- tie sleigh and started fol. the Boulevard. He was cleaving the bracing atmosphere of AL abama street at 8 spanking speed when wandering snowfall struck him in the left eye and closed it. He kept his other eye on his fine mules as he drove right back to the stable, and retired from the scene. As Bob was telling this last night at Folsom's he cold hardly see to eat his supper. But he couldn't be induced to take an eyeopener.
 Governor Gordon is extremely fond of the beautiful snow, and after dinner yesterday he was vending his way down to the Capi- tol, viewing with admiring eyes the white splendor on every side. At Ellis street crowd of boys made hostile demonstrations, but the governor pleaded eloquently and they let him off. Happy over his narrow escape he marched on-but alas! as he turned into Forsyth street he found full score drawn up in line of battle. It was too late to retreat and he made another pathetic appeal-but the boys saw it was too thin to wash, and although he tried hard to beg off just this one time, some of the little soldiers were obdurste and hur- ried him off by exploding several large white shells uncomfortably near his collar.
 ''This is the last," thought the governor as he moved on, but he was sadly mistaken, for at Luckie street, only three blocks from the capitol he was confronted by small but determined army. He at once began 8 most persuasive speech, but it had no effect on their hinty hearts. The boys hurriedly held their decision with much more than ordinary interest.
 It was quickly over. The leader, large, stern, vigorous boy, holding in his right hand a compact snowball as large as ten cent watermelon, approached the governor, who was enClrely unarmeO, saying:
 ''We can't let you of, governor. As you haven't done any running since '64 you will have to hustle."
 It would be undigniGed to say that Gov. Gordon ran, but it is entirely proper to state that the swiftness of his. locomotion would have attracted admiration from any crowd and tended greatly to diminish the number of wounds which were inflicted by his howl ing pursuers.
 He got to the capitol and was still breath- ing at o'clock.