Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1891-03-03
NOT MUCH OF A LAMB.
March Wind and snow-A Slippery Time in
Washington.

| Washington.
March's menagerie has evidently struck town
right end first The growiings and the roar
ings of the elements that have been heard for a
! few hours past leave no doubt of the typicallv
leonine style of entertainment that is being
furnished by the month Of blusterous uncer-
tainty. The temperature has been steadily drop
ping ever since Saturday and the finishing touch
came last night when the clouds opened and
let down quantity of light snow, to cover the
earth and to give the trees q crop of frost bios
SONS. To 4 certain extent it surprised the
town, and to a further degree it Disguised the
community, largely composed, as it is, of young
men who have rashly promised their best girls
a sleigh ride on the next snow of the winter"
in the fond but futile hope that there would be
no next snow. Then. again, the snow delighted
lot of those folks who have graduated
into the belief that they are weather prophets,
and who have been gravely shaking their heads
of late and saying that there would be trouble
if the snow did not hurry up and get
here, as it had to come, and had better
come before the sap was well started,
and these folks are wading through the
snow today and smiling and murmuring some
thing about Il told You So" while the glad
some voice of the joyous snowshoveler, who
didn't hope for another storm, is heard in the
land.
A SLIPPERY TINE.
As usual the snow caught hundreds Of horses
smooth shod and a result there was a slow
ness and a slippery-slidiness of transportation
this morning that soon became painful. But
around all. and with all and over all, was
certain feeling of dampness that bespoke the
inevitable thaw, and sent shudder Of fear
along the spine of the dreader of pneumonia,
the Inar of rubber overshoes and fur muffier,
and cabs and car tickets, and thrill of
delight to the hearts of the young men Of
ample leisure whose tastes run to corner loafing
on a sloppy day for purposes of observation.
And the violet vendor disappeared from view
for a brief season, giving the effect of partial
eclipse to the streets for the time being States
men whose days as Washingtonians are closely
numbered swore inwardly and outwardly that
they were glad Of it, with certain blank spaces
in their printed remarks that served to show
that they were in earnest.
HOW IT WAS ELSEWHERE.
1t would seem from reports that come in
from elsewhere that the local cold snap is
nothing as compared with those that have
struck some other places on the American
horizon. That seems to be such a pity.
Washingtonians never are distinguished by
having the very coolest or the very warmest
weather of the country and here We are right
at the seat of war, as lit we're. The town
always gets that very disagreeable medium of
semi-comfort when there is any bad weather of
any sort being passed around that offers no
sort of chance for pride. But as to the
present difficulty. In New York. for instance
the thermometer that gives Sergt. Dunn his
tips on the weather plunked down to nine
degrees goOd-that is. above zero-and the
small town Of Honesdale. Pa, was honored by
All instrument that allowed itself to be cornered
TO the extent of ten degrees below. But rs
against the record of that machine in st. Johns
bury, Vt. that made record of from twenty
five to forty-fve degrees below zero" the
modest piping of the Washington thermometer
TO the time of about twenty above is not to be
thought of.