The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-01-31
THE COLD WEATHER
OBSERVER wAPPENHANs OFFERS NO
ENCOURAGEMENT.
Says the Cold Snap VIII Continue for
Several Days-The Pre-
dictiOns.

There are others" the chief at the
weather bureau admitted last night when
asked if he really meant it yesterday when
he said that Sundays cold wave was prob
ably the only one that would hold Indian
apois in it's icy grasp for some time That
was only an appetizer Sunday" he con-
| tinued. THE genuine article-the real
things now on. Fer several days yet
people need not get their crash suits out
Zero will be the popular loafing point of
the mercury so long that the man with the
WORKOUT coat with the big ulster collar can
get back at the fellow who bought his new
spring overcoat last week when it appeared
that zero weather was thing of the past"
Five degrees below zero was the coolest
it has been this winter in Indianapolis the
official record shows. This mark was at
tanned Sunday morning. Only once before
this winter has the mercury fallen anything
like the same depths and that was on Dec.
IA. Leaving the zero point, yesterday moTn-
ing early, the thermometer showed thirteen
degrees above at o'clock, and ventured up
to sixteen degrees above before the cold
wave resumed the attack. At noon it was
ten degrees above. The temperature was
nine degrees at ? o'clock in the afternoon
and had fallen to seven degrees by O'Clock
and the thermometer was working toward
the CIPHER again at 9 o'clock when
Observer Wappenhans shut up the observa-
tory and left the weather to run things to
suit itself.
The man who poured Jumps of ice from his
washstand pitcher yesterday morning.
peeped at the weather through hole
scratched in the frosttng on the window
pane, dressed in a room a little warmer than
icebox and then sat down to a break
fast half cooked over a listless gas range,
took little consolation in the fact that at
White river, on the northern shore of Lake
Superior, the bottom had fallen out of all
the mercurial thermometers while the others
showed forty-eight degrees below. He
doubtless had thermometer his back
porch that had reputation tor NeraCity and
which registered anywhere from zero to
thirty,,eight below Although ne had not
moved faster thar walk tor ten years, he
scampered past croSs-streets down which
the breath OF the cold wave came, like boy
after the dismissal of school He
startled shortly after noon to see the cold
wave flag again flying from the ObserVa-
tory meaning that there would be fall of
at least eighteen degrees within twenty-four
hours and with sixteen degrees above the
highest the thermometer had attained after
it's Sunday setback He commented saw
agey on the remissness the weatherman
in permitting the thermometer to have a re-
lapse and invested in quinine and stlmulants
as reWarned-iS-forearmed protection
| against the recurrence of the grip. To the
coal he sent message demanding that
a wagonoad of coke or coal be sent up to
| the house to supplement the gas pressure
and that two more be sent to his office
! double-qufck to augment his CRATE fire there.
! During the day he wore his overcoat indoors
as well as outdoors and when he retired last
| night perhaps piled it on top of all the he'd
! clothes he could find.
| During the day there were more than the
| usual number of demands at police head
! quarters and at the various missions for
| shelter. There is no prospect for immediate
! elief in the matter of weather moderation.
! The predictions are for continued cold fol-
! lowing this second cold wave end, accord
! ing to the Observers best information, it
! will be several days before the thermom-
| eter may be expected to manifest persistent
ambition to rise in the world.