The evening times., 1897-03-03
FAIR SKY AND BRAc|NG AIR
Prediction Of the Weather Fore
casters for Tomorrow.
MERCURY'S DROP ToTHIRTY
Warm Wraps and Overcoats VIII
Be i'm Order for Those who Use
the Observations Stands-Rain May
Continue This Afternoon, But VIII
Probably Cease by Tonight.

The weathermakers held an executive
session in the forecasting-room OF the
Weather Bureau shortly before 10 O'Clock
this morning, and decided to make the
weather for Tomorrow fair and colder.
1t VIII be much colder. Also much fairer
than the drizzly, dragging, oozing, sloppy
stuff thatis making life miserable and play
ing havoc with the decorations today.
Citizens, spectators, and paraders may lay
aside tonight their umbrellas, goloshes,
and macintoshes, and tomorrow they might
wen come prepared with listers and seal
skins. Handwarmers ana footstoves may
not be alIss.
March is proyerbially an erratlc month.
BY the time it gets around TO Washington
it becomes really an enigma. Therefore IL
also might not come aIniss ssiftheladiesshould
provide themselves with fans and smelling
bottles while the men bring their cool
beer sign-observation glasses. II March
sun gets out from behind the clouds there
is no telling what degree OF enthusiasm he
may work up over the occasion.
There was hurry and hustle at the
Weather Bureau this morning. There were
a million pair of eyes. more or less, di-
rected exactly that way, and when Prof.
Willis L. Moore, chief of the bureau, came
down, he decided that the emergency
existed when his force should go into
extraordinary session and all hands re-
paired to the forecast room.
I'VE are sure of a fine day tomorrow" :"
said Prof. Moore to a Times reporter, as
he came from the room. There was Just
enough emphasis on the sure" to make it
deli Ightful Then he handed the reporter
the following special bulletin:
Prof. Willis L. Moore, chief OF the
Weather Bureau, has issued to Chairman
Charles j. Bell the following favorable pre-
diction:
1T gives me much pleasure to be able to
state that the storm is now central over
western New York, moving rapidly east
ward, giving heavy rain Throughout New
England and the Middle Atlantic States;
bet the weather has cleared in the west
behind the Storm and, with the rapid move
ment eastward Of the STORM center, / am
able to make the following prediction:
Thursday, fair and colder Threatening
weather and rain will contin ue today. but it
will surely clear by or before Thursday
morning. with colder, fresh northwest
winds The temperature will be between
80 and 35 during the day. with a clear,
pleasant, bracing atmosphere"
The next act OF the bureau chief was
to dispatch a Messenger with copies OF
the bulletin to Secretary Morton OF the
Agricultural Department and to Postmas-
ter General Wilson. The operators in the
telegraph room were then kept busy on
the special bulletins and within an hour
afterward there was not a city OF any
consequence in the whole country that did
not know positively that Washington is to
have irreproachable weather for inaugu-
ration day.
TIE weather manufacturers worked with
a will. Could they have made the arrange
ments they wanted they would doubtless
have had it trifle warmer, for by the
time the mercury drops down TO freezing
il becomes rather cold on open-air stands,
and even a warm sun has as much diff
Guilty in restoring confidence as an incoming
administration. But they did their best,
and If their plans do not niscarry the
nation, or an important percentage of it,
win he thanking them for the next four
years and the doctors may have to make
assignments
Dispatches rom the MlSSlSSlppl al
ley indicate that weather OF pTincely
kind is doing a land-office business there
today At noon the Storm-centers had ar
rived in Central New York, and was moving
atsuclt a rate that the people in the Country's S
metropolis will be searching their yocabu-
Iaries for words equal to the occasion by
the time The Times goes to press. BY
midnight the storm viii have dumped
itself far out into the Atlantic, where no
one will object If it stays until after an
other Inauguration.
1t is believed that the activity OF the
raindrops will have ceased here by dusk,
and the possibilities are that the gala
scenes OF last nj ght on the Avenue and other
thoroughfares will be repeated. This
time however, twill doubtless be cloaked
and overcoated crowd.
During the day the weather had an ap-
preciable effect upon the crowds. They re-
mained indoors so far as possible. and the
newcomers did not spend much time in
searching for accommodations. Small
bands and troops Of them lodged oct and
in between drops, though, and visited all
the places of interest. Stand-bUilders con-
tinued their labors, and workmen who had
not heard the Favorable prediction"
busted themselves in putting covers over
fine omen stands.