The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1899-06-01
VIOLENT STORM COMING.
LET SAILORS AND LANDsNEN NE
WARE OF IT'S FURY.
ooserVer Pasue Sends Out = Warn
fng Message-Fierce Gales Aiong
the Coast-WLl sweep Over states

TX the prognos;ica'ioas OF the weather
bureau prove true. people on Puget sound
mad better be careful about going out sail.
ing or picnieking today. According 10
weather headquarters storm has been
let loose from the cave of the winds some
where on the broad bosom Of the mis-
named Pacific, and in lis eastward sweep
is destined 10 reach Washington and Ore
goa today. The storm warning message
characterizss II as "a storm OF more than
ordinary energy" That Ia the technical
language which an cid salt would trans
late by saying il is going 20 blow great
guns"
Mr.. Pague. of Portland. has disagree
able habit of predicting bad things II
premature frost is coming II is always
Pague iha, makes the gardeners and ranch
ers ;rernble in their boots and causes the
mower loving mafren 10 put her cherished
fuschias under shelter 1t js ALWAYS par,,e
that notifies dealers In meteorological in
struments when 20 have the base OF their
thermometers heightened in order 10 ac-
commodase the whsuss of the extremely
cod spell that Is coming on An excessive
rainfall Is always ACCOMPANIED or preceded
by Pague Personally Mr. Pague Is pleas
ant: officially he Is abominahle When he
Is harhnger Of good weather nobody
remembers him.
Now. just as Seattle people are hoping
the long. wet winter has expended Itself
and lies in the deep bosom OF the ocean
buried" M springs Mr. Pague. puts his
hand, rnetaphorically speaking. on the tel
esraph wire. and dastes the fondes. hopes
with the following message:
Portland Or. 10 a. m. May 81
Hoist Information signal Ii a. III. Storm
OF more than ordinary energy central of
Oregon coast expected 10 move eastward
over Washington on Thursday. Southeast
gales along coast, vesring TO southwest on
Thursday High winds over Sound and
Straits. 'PACiC e."
The average citizen feels tina; this is too
much and that pague IS tresp9ssing be
yoni the bounds Of common courtesy. The
resources OF the Seat;Ieite have already
been strained 10 offer excuses 10 his East
err friends and visitors who have come
OF; 20 bask in the halrny sunshine OF the
early spring fer which Puget sound has
become famous The spring Is unusually
times as the hasrtsabie host greeted his
guest at drenched railway platform or
sheltered him with umbrella and overcoat
on an "open air car whose hack OF win
duws looked as fnriorn ana out OF place as
a linen buster a. miiwinter in Dawson.
THE spring Is very late, a thousand
farmers have echoed they watched their
crops wistfully day by day and saw their
early peach blossoms shrivel and fall Now
comes PssI4e and saws another storm is
coming today. and that il is storm of
mere than ordinary energy.
There is but ore redeeminS feature bout
the predicted storm. X a evidently he
''clesring-up' STERN Of Ehe season The
skipper who Suffets the waves IN his .i.e'a
Sound steamer and the bsiate3 pedestrian
who has his umbrella turned wrong side
out on Queen Anne ar Beacon hill must
conso.c himself with the thought of the
calm after the Storm and 20 home 10
dream. Of fne hes atiful summer that - COM
ing, ard rise in the morning with a prayer
,ions of a long suffering bat righteous
pGoitC.