The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1896-03-02
CAME In LIKE A LION
March Arrives From the North Pole
and Is Very Sarcastic.
THE WORST OF BILLIARDS.
Remarkable Fall of Temperature
Singing. Piercing. Biting and
Blasting Winds From the
Polar Region.
THE WORST OF BILLIARDS.

Butte experienced the first genuine
Montana blizzard yesterday that the
city has seen in several years. Mon
tana billiards. are heard of and talked
about a good deal In the East, but
they are exceedingly rare in this Sec
ton of the country. Yesterday was an
unusual day in more ways than one.
The warmest winter that residents of
Butte have ever enjoyed was immedi-
ately followed by the coolest day in
March of which there is any authentic
record. The cold snap was very sud
den one, the thermometer dropping
nearly 80 degrees between 6 O'Clock
Saturday evening and 6 o'clock yester-
day morning. At noon Saturday Hight
& Fairfield's automatic thermometer,
which is fastened to a telegraph pole
in front of their store, at the corner of
Main and Broadway, showed the tenn
perature to be % degrees above zero.
After that the mercury commenced to
fall, and after 6 o'clock it dropped so
rapidly that the red mark which rec
ords the temperature on circular
sheet looked like a toboggan slide. The
lowest mark reached by the red mark
was seven degrees blow zero at 9
O'Clock yesterday morning. At noon it
was a little more than five degrees be-
low.
The greatest frigidity recorded by
Gallogly's thermometer, which is re-
garded as being absolutely authentic
and infallible, during Saturday night.
was seven degrees below zero. At 8
o'clock last evening it was five below.
General Manager Wharton has very
fine instrument hanging outside of the
street railway office at the corner of
Park and Main, from which the tenn
cerature is recorded three times every
day all through the year. 1t showed
eight degrees below at 6 o'clock yes
terday morning, zero at noon and 10
below at s o'clock last evening. This
thermometer is in a more exposed po-
sition than either of the others. In
this case, however, the thermometers
gave a poor idea of the actual degree
of GOODNESS. There was a fierce, biting
wind blowing all day, which cut
through the heaviest clothing and made
a difference of fully 10 degrees in the
temperature. The wind was so pierre
ing that even fur caps and overcoats
were but little protection against Ii
and the particles of snow that cut like
glass whirling about. In sheltered
places away from the wind the cold
was not nearly so intense. The north
pole weather was indirectly the cause
of the blockading of the entire electric
system.
On Saturday evening a hydrant
broke In South Butte, above the street
railway power and car house, and the
water poured down over the tracks
The leak was repaired, but the water
was not shut off until noon. The water
froze almost as fast as IL poured from
the hydrant and when the men went
down to take out the early cars PES
terday morning they found the track
running out of the car house covered
with solid ice. There was no way to
get the cars out until the ice was
chopped away and the track was not
cleared until a late hour last evening
The cars will be run to-day as usual