Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1895-03-13
SNOW IN SAVANNkri.
A Novelty Which Almost Made the reo-
 plo Wild One Day Last Month.

AAhH1fRSN gIo Wild One Day Last Month.
 When tho mantle of snow was spread over tho city that Friday morning in February, the people did not know just how to take it at first Then they turned in to have fun. All day tho city was practically in the hands of merrymak- CTS The people went wild over the snow. It was worse than three years l ago. Then, on the occasion of very slight fall of snow, some merchants got outside their stores and began snow balling each other, and policeman in torf.red with the sport. They turned on him and made 1t so hot for him that ho was glad to retreat, at first slowly but afterward at double quick, and he finally broke into 8 run and was chased to the barracks, distance of about 1a niles, by q bowling mob of thousand men, women and children.
 The school children were dismissed for the day after roll call in the morn ing so they joined the throng on the streets Staid and sober business men, bankers, lawyers and clergymen went along the streets with tightly packed balls of snow i'll their hands ready to pelt aoquaintances, or, in fact, anybody that made good target. Bang and the silk hat worn by banker or lawyer would leayo the head of wearer and land far out in the street. As the owner attempted to capture ita yolley of snow balls would come from another direc- tion The electric cars wore mark for large portion of the merrymakers, and conductors and motormen were treated as targets put up expressly for the snowball sharpshooters. The con duotors hid themselves inside the cars most of the time. Along in the after noon, when the fun had become more furious and the snow was so soft that snowballs could be packed like solid ice, the motormen, after leaving one street crossing, would go inside the car and stay there until tho next crossing was reached, thus escaping the bombardment directed at the cars.
 The women, both young and old, were not far behind tho mon in the sport The height of the excitement was reached late in the afternoon, when an improvised sleigh turned from one of the side streets into Bull street It was followed by about 50 men and boys, but once on this principal thoroughfare the crowd increased tenfold and tho noise oorrespondingly. The sleigh went up the street and down again. Every man, woman and child wanted a sleigh ride. The fraiI convey rance was swarmed with passengers alt t1s time and tho horse Ezas wall nigh exhausted by drawing the lead 49 1e11g p1mmeled with snow balls The aEaalsfHg of windows became 3 faF9rl5s. Eea.sszE1lE.= On many street cars not 6 whole pane of glass would be found when they returned to the car house, SO the order was given to haul off the closed ears, and after that only open cars wero run, and the conductors and motormen alone were left as tar gets. No passengers ventured to ride in the open cars At the Screvan House several large plate glass windows were broken, and in other parts of the city damage of similar nature was report l ed. Requests were sent to police head l quarters that the snowballing be stop ped, but no attention was paid to them, the police remembering the experience of three years ago
 There were few serious accidents. 1 One man was struck in the eye with a snowball in which was a small stone. The eyeball was injured, and loss of sight of one eye may follow. Savannah Letter.