The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-11-20
GET READY FOR A FROST.
Weather Bureau Predicts That Mercury
Win Take O Zig Drop To-day.

Weather Bureau Predicts That Mercury
viii Take q Zig Drop To-day.
A cold wave is coming. Before night
fall the temperature will drop away be-
low the so mark. and during the night
the mercury will fall to freezing. So
reports the weather manufacturing de-
partment Of the government in WASH
ing,on and cold waves signals have been
ordered hoisted all along the seaboard
states from Maryland to Maine and
farther west than Ohio.
If the weather fiends in Washington
are not dreaming Scranton will be Wis
tied by light rains and possibly snow
during today and before the night is
ended the butcher, the baker, the cam
dlest;ck-maker and h rest of man
kind will long for furs and hot drinks.
The weather department sometimes
tells white lies, but 1t is seldom amiss
on the cold wave. and The Tribune
readers while slipping their cONen this
morning should be governed by the fol-
lowing two dispatches sent out from
Washington at 2 and 3 o'clock re-
spectively yesterday afternoOn:
"wednesday. light rain or snow; much
colder Wednesday afternoon.
Moore"
Moderate cold wave; temperature
will fall to freezing Wednesday night.
| Hoist signal. Moore"
Messages were from the Chief.
Moore" is the chief, of the weather
bureau and is supposed to know h
| he Is telegraphing about. He probably
had an idea when the first telegram
| was sent at 2 o'clock, but the idea evil
IDENTIFY established itself as a fact in the
| weather mixers mind when an hour
| later he shocked everybody by using
the words freezing" n hoist sig
nal"
Scrantonians who basked in yester-
days sunshine. threw open their coats
| and preached about the delightful wea-
| the" that wps tn last for = week., VIII
| tonight be found shoveling snow, cut.
ting holes in the new carpet to give
passage for heat from the fur
mace. chopping kindling wood and
doing other things Of the sort.
The long-haired foot ball youths
Of this city and Elmira will,
however, be in their glory for Mr.. Moore
has haG his say.
The representation is for the first
time made this season that snow may
be expected. but this prediction Is o II
pied with light rain Or" and so the
small boy may be disappointed. Then,
too, whether the second cold wave tele-
gram. which says nothing about snow,
nullitles the warning of an hour earlier,
Is q matter for the lear public to de-
termine.
What the Signals DO.
The ordinary individual who is con-
tent to scintillate in the circles of his
own self will wonder why such a fuss Is
made over cold wave signals and cold
waves anyhow. If he should ask the
weather department about 1t he would
be told that $1,000, 900 worth OF
fruits, vegetables n produce were
saved from ruin by cold wave signals
alone during 1895, and II he should in
Uuire further he would be told that al
inestimable number of lives and a vast
amount of shipping interests are an
nually saved by the seacoast storm
warnings sent to every United States
port. Mariners did not heed them once
on a time--but they do nowadays.
1t Is pertinent to ask how Scranton
will he benefited by the cold wave flae
that noated over the court house after
8 o'clock yesterday afternoon. Scran.
ton will be benefited in many
ways. The doubling produce and
market man will make p repara.
tons to hustle his truck indoors IL cold
weather really comes; the business mar
who annot return home for lunch will
growlingly consent to his wife's request
thot he take his heavy overcOat to the
office: delicate persons will change theil
underwear; builders will look to theil
newly-cOnstructed masonry and mixed
mortar; the foot ball spectator will re.
vel in the anticipation of freezing tC
death, and q thousand other individuals
will profit mere or less by the sight OF
the insignificant looking white flae
With a black square In the center.