The morning call., 1893-11-27
MELANCHOLY DAY.
Worldly Pleasures Took a
Back Seat.
WORK OF THE RAINMAKER.
All Kinds of Outdoor Sports
Interrupted.
WORK OF THE RAINMAKER.
EVERYBODY REMAINS WITHIN.
Female Football Players Disap-
pointed-No Travel Across the
Bay-The Park Deserted.

times certain day was usually set apart
for meditation and prayer" The breth-
rem and sisters were expected to take
retrospective view of life as they had
found it, and while under the consequent
mentally depressing influences to seek
consolation in prayer.
Yesterday was model for such task.
The drilling, at times sharply pelting,
rain drove every human being indoors, ex-
cept those whose vocations in life are such
that the peculiar variations of the weather
must be encoun tered and uncomplainingly
endured.
Goldsmith's Deserted Village" was
happy hunting ground as compared with
the streets of San Francisco. The steady
rainfall, muddy sidewalks and depressing
atm osphere made the few pedestrians out
hug up against the buildings as they rap
idly strobe along. Streetcars with one,
two or three passengers aboard were more
numerous than those with greater num-
Der. There was comparatively no travel
across the bay. Several boats, which had
advertised for passengers to view the i'll
fated New York before the last vestlge of
her sank beneath the waves. lay tied,up at
their wharyes all day. with deserted
decks, and no evidences of life board
Weather Chemist Pague pulled the cork
out of the rain vial on Friday night and
has mislaid the stopper. Until he finds it,
the spoDgy condition of the atmosphere
may be expected to continue.
The rain-gauge on the roof of the Mills
building recorded 8. OF inches as result of
the present storm up to 2 p. 81. yesterday.
OF that quantity. LOS inches had fallen
during the preceding twenty-four hours.
1t is one of the heaviest rains on record,
the maximum standing opposite January
%, 1881, when the precipitation at one
al inches
have frequently occurred about this time
of year. On November %, 1874. the rain
amounted TO 398 inches, and on November
"a, 1885, it measured 2.58 inches.
1.-THE storm made It's first appearance on
Wednesday evening, at the mouth of the
Columbia River" said Prophet Pague
yesterday. 'It tried 10 get east but was
retarded, first by the Rocky Mountains TO
a slight extent. and then more appre-
Gladly by bank of high barometric pres
Montana. This held the storm over the
Washington coast. 1t gradually moved
from the ocean to the land, and banked up
along the coast.
1.-The present rain is practically a part
Of the same storm, augmented by another
low barometer, which came III from the
ocean on Saturday afternoon, striking the
Oregon coast, moving northward and
central this morning on the northwest
coast of Washington. Storms always like
TIE places o. GREATEST moisture anu go
there. So the second storm followed the
first as became a reinforcement.
"rhe storm gradually extended while
the pressure increased, but decreased to-
day, showing that something out In the
ocean is still forcing the low pressure
| southeasterly, while its center remains in
! the north. The rear end of the storm
pressing against the land now on the
coast forces il against the mountains. 1t
scts like a sponge. The more you squeeze
thu more water you get. hence the steady
doW'npOuT of the past tweuty-four hours.
1.-THE first part of the Wednesday storm
has now passed eastward. 1t is followed
by q cold wave, with a high barometric
pressure from Manitoba. 1t usually takes
sixty hours for that high to travel east,
and in the meantime the low pressure is
main tanned here. So the present storm
will probably be held off Washington until
Tuesday morning, if it moves at its usual
rate.
at will probably reach Southern Cali
fornia tonight"
The chief of the Weather Bureau fur
nishes the following data, compiled from
the record of observations for the month
of December, taken at this station for
period of twenty-five years. The facts
thus set forth will prove of interest to the
public. as we'll as the special student,
showing as they do the average and extreme
conditions of the more important meteoro-
logical elements and the range within
which such such variations may be ex-
pected to keep during any corresponding
month.
Mean or normal temperature, 50 deg.
The warmest December was that of 1885,
with an average Of 81 deg. The coolest
Decent Der was that OF 1881, with an aver
age of 30 deg. The highest temperature
during any December was SO deg, on the
Doth. 1887. The lowest temperature during
any December was 81 deg, On the oath,
1879.
Average precipitation for the month,
BIB inches; average number of days with
OF Of an inch or more, II. The greatest
monthly precipitation was 1886 inches in
1871; the least monthly precipitation was
90 inches in 1876. The greatest amount of
precipitation recorded in any twenty four
consecutive hours was 3.14 inches on the
18th and 18th. 1871 The greatest amount
of snowfall recorded in twenty-four con-
secutive hours (recOrd extending to winter
of 1SS4-85 only was 3.07 inches On Febru-
ary 5. 1887.
Average number of cloudess days, IL :;
average number of partly cloudy days. 10;
average umber of cloudy days, 9.
The prevailing winds have been from
the north. The highest velocity Of the
wind during any Deem Der was sixty miles
On the 23d, 1892
Yesterday was a bad day for outdoor
sports Those who had thought in the
morning that it would clear up in the
afternoon were forced at last to accept
their disappointment with what grace they
could summon.
In the vicinity of Central Park the gen.
eral gloom was perhaps deeper than in
other parts of the city, because It had
been given out that twenty-four young
women would engage in friendly game
of association football during the after
noon hours. Next Sunday is the date set
for this interesting contest, but through
some mistake it had been announced that
1t would occur yesterday. Fearful of dis
appointing the public the two dozen kick
ing women waded downtown through the
rain and mud and appeared in front of
Manager McNeilps Office ready TO begin