The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-02-10
clock Wednesday evening:

The least possible encouragement is Of
fered by the weather Observers prediction
of clear and cold" After taking his final
observation last evening, Mr.. Wappenhans
declared that the temperature to-day would
vary but little at any time from that at the
same hour yesterday. He believed that the
minimum temperature of yesterday would
be reached and perhaps passed by Fridays
minimum. 1t would take two or three days
to effect any perceptible warming up, al
though In the extreme West the cold wave,
he found, was letting go its grip. He was
surprised to note the extent of the frost
kings sway. Down In Florida he found
the temperature was not what the big ho-
tells had advertised in their prospectus.
Nashville, Tenn, he found, was enduring D
degrees-below weather; Kansas City, Mo-.
had zero; Memphis, Tenn, IA above, and
Little Rock, Ark, IA above-very cold
weather for those cities, he said. In far-oE
Qu'Appelle he found that moderation OF
the weather conditions had taken place
within the last twenty-four hours, and that
it was only "a degrees below there. In st.
Paul, Mimi, it was 20 degrees below-a little
warmer than the day before. which affords
him the basis for his presumption that the
storm center is moving eastward slowly,
and that the stock of cold weather which
has seemed stored in such inexhaustible
quantities in the Northwest is gradually
being shifted southeast.
To the shivering citizens of Indianapolis
1t appeared yesterday that the entire supply
was being moved through this city, and
that atmospheric inclemency was marching
and countermarching in Marion county for
his especial torment. In Chicago, while the
thermometer did not sink to such depths OF
depravity, 1t tumbled TO 10 degrees below.
and in Cincinnati to 8 degrees below. Either
place would have seemed a winter resort to
the man who walked downtown yesterday
morning about breakfast time. To his in
finite disgust he found when he arose that
the gas in the kitchen range had quit with
out giving notice and refused to cook except
under protest. He managed to have his
breakfast coffee prepared by assisting the
filckering flame from the mixer with kind
ling obtained from demolished old furniture.
clothes pins or back fences. For few. In
comparison with the number who wanted it.
were those who could get coal or wood In
sufficient quantities. Many dealers in these
heat producers declared early yesterday
morning that they could take no more or
ders for delivery that day, for their wagons
ready sold. Others loaded up only the ve-
hicles brought by the purchaser and let him
take his turn in a line that seemed as long
and as slowly moving. to its shivering COM
ponents, as that which waited for Mans
field tickets a few weeks ago.
The wide discrepancy between the ordl-
nary thermometer and the existing temper
ature brought in 50 many questions over
the telephone that the weather Observers
assistant kept a record of the number or
times he answered the question How cold
is it now2" When he locked up last even
ing the record showed that he had an
swered SOS inquisltive ones during the day.
and as he turned the key outside the door
the telephone bell madly iingled with the
impetus of another who wanted cold facts
The closing of the Weather Bureau at
O'clock last night made 1t impossible to se-
cure the official temperatures later than
that time, but comparison made between