The sun., 1897-01-29
ryDER A MANTLE OF SNOW
,yx cIIY CoTERsD nj THE HE<TI-
EST FaBL ~ YELRS.

-.
80 Men Get -SieiKhinG VIII ne
aaos-Fiorida Gets A.other Kiiiinr Frost
Work and Floriia shook hands yesterday
.otber question. Jacksonville had the
,.mpersture that we had. and at some
-. ,urth.r south IL was even colder. But
yo,k knocked this whole country out in
..u.r Of tnow. Ten inches fell in fourteen
-, ubich 10 the record for the year and for
....,sl Years. II didn't start in showing in
.,.,uutil Q O'Clock Wednesday night, and
% that time every body except tn. farmers
-, Z, tho New York branch OF the Depart
-, n, Agriculture. offlclally known as the
weather Bureau. thought II was going 70 clear.
"a. farmer, had sighted the storm away OF Ia
~. .outh For day and a half the barometer
I'm in Tampa. Fla. and At other points in that
..,xhberhood had been falling at . great rate.
Th,rs wasn't any storm In sight but there
-..n't any doutt about the presence Of one of
,ho.. area. OF depression that are talked about
t..rnediy by all farmers In the weather bust
49,. A tallins barometer. like scarlet fever
.na smallpox, is catching. and the bArometers
farther north began 10 catch the area Of de-
,,,,,,on. They caught It fast, too. II moved
,..,.r than q railroad train. There wasn't any
.,,esrauce Of storm. however. until the de-
r,,..ion reached the coast Of South Carolina.
Th.n natare was so very much depressed that
,hs heaven. began to weep. First they wept real
,..r, OF water. and then. as the area Of de-
nr,ss;ou kept coming on north, the tears of
v.tsr turned to dakes Of snow. and tho trouble
h.x.n, TIE area OF depression and the white
,.sr, came ou Apace. They moved . thousand
miles 10 q single day. and by s o'clock yester-
day morning they were centred over lower
S,v Euglsnd, and were still moving on toward
the northeast crossing the line that the big
ocssn steamships take to get to this country
and away from It.
A,stated before, the real snow began here at
0 o'clock Wednesday evening. aud from that
time untll IL o'clock Yesterday morning it
never let up minute. Tho New Workers who
we're out late reached their homes as white as
Santa Claus is ever paiuted. II wasn't . sticky
sr, Of snow. and it didn't fall straight down.
Su, IL came Aslsnt with enough force to drive
into coats aud hats, and q ten n-minute walk
v. all that was necessary to get = complete
sui Of II from head 10 foot. IL was col d enough
soc ielele. TO form on mustsches and for noses
prt red IS roses. Tho nighthawks who kept
lA.lr seats no on their boxes looked like marble
satues even though they did swear like pirates
and berats the pedestrians for their frucslity.
Long before midnight the peaceful people " ho
hAd rome TO bed early knew that big stor m
- on- for the street railroad CO mpanies had
ssat out their sweepers In { ull cry, and the
slsspy lovers OF peace rolled over In bed and
aid that naughty little word that rhymes with
lamb
BIZ the time that daylight came aud the town
ssran to wake up It was buried seven in,hss
otsaov had fallen. and nothing was in sigh. but
snov. Il was seven inches deep on the widow
ulA IL Vas seven Inches deep on the roofs.
The buildings had a white coat. The tres in
The parks were towerinz white monunsnts
n. s.s'.ed t.il,oads looked IKE freshly
iurned white They were full OF foatiag ice.
sad the snow had whitened that. The street
i.rySoX. were ali great white msns,srs
The snow deadened the sound OF their moving
aad was only when the bella wsrs
vas sound. Nowhere WAS there The noisy
CHATTER that usually betokens the beginning Of
J snow plough or ssRt ra. !. .ss
II. Wind had treshened a little. There still
fallen. eut the slant to that which was falling
ur Crater A good part Of the tine it seemed
,sd a.,,, 10 faIi snywhsrs though Of esurse it
sd isiL tor The snow on the E'ound kept get
RE tsrm.rs in he Weather Bureau never
sleep, ASK them any time. day or night any
question, AID they win tell yos what you want
!, .S.y, however. When they TAX. All Of tS he
paone INTO their confidence, and the nrst OF
tnese enN o'clock In the m1rning. They sum
,S.t j. loiaf . SapDen. Farmer Dunn anu took Ok
as nmsesn neasareuenn al O'Clock yesterday.
sn "a IL. :: .aS '.. Sons: Of .so. h.s
during the night had been trotting along at an
.xht or Ten mite gait had whoopsd Il mp 20
ihe north vest The tempsraturs was a2s. That
80 ssa degrees below fre-zing. which 10 not very
so.d a,Ht Tor Ssw York. but with the snow and the
'lno " seemed good deal colder.
After the farmer had made his own calcu
ons ,., ne sent around 20 get What the other
tween south Carolina and newfoundland, but
n hSos o. 'hen had quite as muen q. New York.
t,.r. yors 10 JI2iter Es,!da which is about the
.rner than anywhere else. The thermometer
seorse 70. Thai Is - above freezing. But
i,eesing. .nd ths people wsrs almost 6.side
,,asmseNe- Two years ago the frost killed the
,.sn. sn ans u has nken all the me since then to
., DO, c9mplet'. Thi, cold wave has undons
.smpe'el Tie work Of tho two years and
a.fd ra'Ans x., n -sa. for ,h' frI, grover:
temperature was 80. At Montgomery,
a. y ..'S colder than 1t Was In New York.
He,e zero That is nearly as cold as New
,.. ,..,s eoitet day this year. At Knoxville it
". 3. Aeove Atst. Louis It was zero. II
MACK. 2:' below ia Niles City. and Havre.
is,,msshe was ne coldest place in the country. The
| amomesf there stood At 3O' below zero
soss tae !ihs in Canada at Medicine Hat it
| 49, psos: Ast cold weather was com ing
"a iHN from the northwest and the SOUTH
N. ~ stwl We wlhd was getting higher all the time,
,.h prediction was that the storm would
"a eisti nisht. and there would he clear
-. seod1 weather with high winds to-mor-
". uA o. to-day.
| NJ. ,Dnnn notified tho railroad companies
| 80 Va Wednesday night that the storm was
| hs.," Say and that the fall OF snow would bo
I.n ne railroad companies have got 40
had ,ss, .ne srners warning now and they
"a ,hs 500" pIows out early in the morn ng
,,..aS N " the time the trafrc Of the dAy started
| tn,,i NAH GEAR and thero was no delay to
yuso,. swas OF. On tho local trains there
| We, Whatever. The trains from the far
| kL u. ~ ,Ah 40 hoar or 20 behind hand. but they
oith. ,asne une before they got into the divisions
G rns thai are controlled in New York.
! ef,.num.n the contractor who has the lob
darI nr,mhg TIE enow, hOundered around in the
N, ns' ~ o'clock. He didn't know when
R,,m.. nAs going 10 stop. He called up ths
tAaar..a aoout 10 o'clock and asked what the
4 h,n'. rere OF speedy stopping The
| so,I I'hed him To get his men and go 10
nstt 1au ne set tho wheels of his depart
10 motion right away. He tack ed
"a, a, "k notice on the railing out
nCi,y II. Ihs old brown-stone building
/ aOOo.s,aH rark To the effect that he wanted
them Gu lie wanted 5000 II he could gst
tnu .tn "a nouhed his thirty one superintsnd-
The tLsl told the foremen under them.
thar .neh spfead tho news around the city
/ Welcomyy nAh VINO could handle shovel was
eash, IL a JOB at dollar nfty day, spot
ploysd VA the opportunity OF the unem-