Asheville daily citizen. [volume] (Asheville, N.C.) 1890-1900, 1891-01-16
THECITY'SWHITETOPCOAT
HOW THE SNOW FELL IN
AsHEy.LI f. TODAY.
The Mayor Was in Raleigh and
the weather Clerk TC DIX a Sneak
The Open Car Pressed IrtO ser.


the weather Clerk TC DIX a Sneak
The open Car Pressed IrtO SER
vice.
When those who attended the theatre
last night went home about II o'clock,
not one had suspicion that when he or
she awoke this morning there would be a
thick mantle of white over the ground.
But there was. According to the wake
iuI weather clerk in THE CITIZEN Office,
the "beautiful snow" began falling about
O'Clock and up to ~ o'clock to-day the
same beautiful fell.
Th. relentless flakes spared nothing,
not even the new paving which Mr..
Deaver is trying to prevent the city
paying for Steady and tireless came
the feathery stuff, filling up the cutters
and covering the unslghtly breaks in the
sidewalks in the various parts OF the
city.
UMBRELLAS NO GOOD.
Pedestrians wrapped up and vcnturcd
out with umbrellas hoisted, but were
soon glad to shut them up i'll order to
rid themselves of the heavy load. AT A
O'Clock this morning the snow was two
inches deep, at 6 O'Clock it was four
inches deep and when the snow had
ceased falling the soundings were made
and revealed seven inches
The Oldest inhabitant arose early this
morning and rushing brcakfastless to
THE CITIZEN hastened to tell waiting
congregation that this was "the deepest
snow in so short time that he had ever
saw" The flakes were enormous in size,
and some wag on the streets remarked
that the superintendent of the snow ma
chine had set the teeth OF the concern too
far apart.
TELEPHONE WIRES DOWN.
But the snow kept falling. Everything
it touched it stuck to, and trees, wires,
and fences had to stand their share. Tel
ephonc wires were broken by the weight
of the snow, and the guy wires to the
big tower on court place seemed tired OF
the load they had to carry. The wires OF
the Western Union were heavily taxed
but none were broken and the business
of the Office was not intertered with.
THE OPEN CAR OUT.
1t was not cold. however. Early in the
morning the Ashevie street railway com
pany. which always meets the emergency
had its pretty open car out of the YARD
and it was speeding over the rails a:
though it understood what was going
on around it.
The electric and other wires stretched
around court place had the appearance
of great cables, and occasionally som,
sudden shock would send sheet Of snow
to the ground, and woe to him who stoot
in it's way.
, The police even were not spared, ant
p, the guardians of the peace paced thei
beats covered with snow-the beats.
STREET TRAFFIC mPEDED.
There were very few vehicles on til
. streets, scarcely and sort of turnout ven
: turing excepting carriages and slcighs
Drawing of course could not be though
l., of And the mail man, poor fellow, ha
/, to walk and drive his gig from the depo
:, to the postoffice. The mail arrived a
: the Office at Sis.
/, George Wo, the Chinese laundrymar
/, said in his usual terse way to THE CTT
|, ZEN: Me no likee snow, Me go bac
Chinee. No SNOW in Chinee like Melica
:, snow. Me sellee washec blizncss t
:, Model Steam laundry and skippee, See?
r The trains have not been delayed, Il
S, bulletin at the railroad office havin
}, Nos. and II marked on time.
/ Prosecutions For Cruelty to An
I mails.
EDITOR THE CITIZEN Some poop
censure our society because there ha'
been so few prosecutions for cruelt
n They arc perhaps unaware that the IA
is partly due to the present lack of pro
s. ecution by justices of the peace, In /;
ce probability through the efforts of til
=. society and one in Wilmington and t
~ ~ friends of our cause law will be pass
IN at the present session of the legislatu
le. giving justices power to try and det'
of mine such cases.
in WALTER S. CUSHMAN,
lc- Acting Secretary
a OF the North Carolina Society for t
prevention of cruelty to animals.
i'll Ian. 16, 1891.