St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-11-26
FIRST REAL SNOW OF THE
SEASON ARRIVES IN ST.
PAUL.
EXTENDS TO THE EAST.
TELEGRAPH WIRES SUFFER
AND COMMUNICATION GEN.
ERALLY Is CUT OFF.
CHICAGO WAS ISOLATED.
Quantities to Bring Out the
Cutters.

The first real snow storm Of the
season began Sunday night and con-
tinued until after daylight yester-
day morning. BY that time the
streets We're covered with very pal
pable layer of white an inch or more
in depth. There was even enough
snow to enable enthusiastic young
people to traverse the avenues in the
first Sleighs of the winter after jing-
ling bells and waving plumes. The
children were not sorry to see it.
AS usual, they ate the newly arrived
flakes until their tongues and throats
were sore. They joyously cast snow
balls at all their good-natured rela-
tives, at any of the neighbors who
weren't looking, and at other chill
dren who were not too large or re-
vengeful. Sleds were brought forth,
bobs rigged up, and the time-honored
alarm of track! tr-a-c-k!' fright
ened the adult pedestrians on every
hillside
Say, kid" yelled one boy near
Pleasant avenue last evening to a
strange boy who was not ten feet
away nor apparently deaf, ''how is
she?''
The other boy dug his toes into
the pavement, brought his sled to
a halt, and, slowly assuming hori-
zontal position, replied confidential
ly, in voice that echoed across the
river, Gee, she's out of sight''
Did yer git stuck comm DOWN."
Nav, only twict, where de groun'
cum troo. But, say, amt it gay,
thought"
The ground came through rather
too often in the business districts.
and no sleighs were to be seen down
town. The snowfall delighted the
carnival committee and their friends
almost as much as it did the little
boys. 1t was such tangible evidence
that the Minnesota winter was be-
ginning properly, and that eccentric
tiles of temperature were not to be
looked for. The storm also delighted
the city railway company, because
it was not more extensive. No trou-
BILE was experienced by the company
in running it's cars as usual.
WIRES GO DOWN.
Between here and Chicago the
storm was not productive of such
uniformly agreeable results. The
temperature last night continued
comparatively high, and, as the
storm shifted to the eastward, the
wet snow clung heavily to the tele-
graph wires. Trouble began to be
noticed during the afternoon. One
by one the many wires to the east
ceased to work, and by lis this
morning the last wire to Chicago re-
tired temporarily from service. The
sleet was so general about the Windy
City that the latter was soon cut off
from the outside world on all Sides
1t became impossible to communicate
with that great news center even by
way of st. Louis or New York, al
though it is by no means uncommon
for press dispatches to be sent by
routes much more roundabout.
The local telephone or telegraph
wires were not perceptibly interfered
with.
THE WEATHER REPORTS
were delayed, as We're all other news.
Meteorological probabilities for the i'm
mediate future are therefore wrapt in
mystery. Every citizen has this morn
ing the rare chance of being his own
weather prophet. Without fear of Of
fetal contradiction he can prognosti-
cate a blizzard, (which always come.
you know, when nobody expects Them -
If the sun is very bright, this predic-
ton will seem all the more shrewd,
and cannot fail to excite the admira-
ton of the women. Less ambitious
prophets may suggest that the snow
was a mere furry, a sort of "squaw
winter" and that everything is ripe
for the long-deferred Indian summer
He can add that a foot of snow at this
date, seventeen years ago was fol-
lowed by three weeks of delightful
haZy sunshine. No one but an old
man will attempt to remember so far
back, and the Indian summer hypothe-
sis is as safe as the blizzard theory.
Whoever desires to appear original
may state impressively that he knows
nothing about the weather. This pre-
sumptious attitude, however, is dan
gerous, and will excite unfavorable re-
mark.
One Of the novelties of yesterdays
storm was the opportunities which it
gave the better class of horses to ex-
hibit their new rubber shoes. Rubber
shoes are quite a fad just now with the
stylish horse. He wears them less to
keep his feet from getting wet than
from slipping on the asphalt pave
ments. A light fall of snow on the
new pavement is almost as bad for
horses as is sleet or ice. The rubber
shoe gives a horse a self-confidence
which is almost ridiculous, especially
if he sees any other horse attempting,
with trembling knees, to hurry along
his impatient driver at an attractive
gait between a desperate gallop and a
stiff-legged walk. The horse with rub
Der shoes also has a stealthy gait like
a cat. This conveys to the inexperi-
enced onlooker the idea that he him
self has been suddenly stricken dumb
If self-respecting horses would con-
slider this innovation, they woul realize
that it is, in effect, am undfgnffied, un-
horselike, Difference paid to their worst
enemy and most relentless competitor.
and that, like the vile mechanical BIZ
cycle, the horse is simply allowing him
self to be rubber tired.
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