The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-03-06
A FREEZE OUT FOR NEW ORLEANS

! \X| cred an area extending from the Rocky Noun
tains to the Azores and from the St. Lawrence
River to Tampa Bay carrying disaster to all sections
Of that wide expanse its most grlevous effects ap
pear to have been produced in Louisiana In fact, it
was one of the features of the storm that it was
colder in the South than in the North, and when at
the extreme OF its severity the temperature lower
i'll Atlanta than in New York
New Orleans ready for her annual Mardi Gras
festival when the cold set in. The temperature
did not sink so low there as in Atlanta but it sank
low enough give that city the coolest day in its
history. The New Orleans Picayune says that for
four days in succession the residents of the city be-
held the unwonted sight of vast foes of heavy ice
floating down the Mississippi River. The foes
passed on unmelted to the Gulf of Mexico and pre-
sented an extraordinary spectacle in the of that
sea- which is largely within the tropics.
OF the effect upon the crops of the State the Plea
yune says: There is little room to hope that the
Grange have escaped practically total destruc
ton Except where uncommonly well protected the
trees have probably been killed and the result will be
that for several years the orange crop of this
State will be virtually nil. By far the most serious
consequence of the freeze has been the damage to
sugar interests 1t is reported that the ground has
been frozen all the way from three to four inches be-
low the surface and that a result much of the
stubble in the cane fields has suffered"
Concerning the effects of the blizzard upon
Mardi Gras the Picayune says little, but correspon-
dent of the Chicago Times Herald who attended the
festivities reports that when the cold it
had New Orleans completely at its mercy, and that
the Northern visitors suffered than the natives
for as they South expecting find sunshine and
tropic warmth they were equipped with thin suits
! light summer underwear and spring overcoats.
Against these adverse conditions, says the Times
Herald New Orleans hospitality, which is proverbial
for its warmth, struggled in vain The city was
crowded for the Mardi Gras of that city is the great
est Of American festvals-indeed OF the greatest
in the world, and draws visitors from all parts of the
! continent Clubs and private residences were
thrown open to the public and everything in the
range of possibility done to care for the visiting
multitudes. The grand professions held
concession to the strangers who had far to
see them but owing to the cold, the sleet and the
wind there little pleasure to the spectators and
all the enthusiasm OF the frolc was expended at the
| grand ball
! With such record in the gayest of Eastern winter
resorts ought to revive our midwinter festivals
and give pleasureseel1ers in search of February
shine place where they can. be safe from billiards.
A Mardi Gras in San Francisco would never be IN
terlupted by storms of seet, marked by the sight
of heavy ice foes drifting the bay to the
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! Wnen PRESIDENT JORDAN or STANFORD University
stated that Mr.. Mckinley had put fool in the Cab
met he ought to have been more explicit.
Admiral Dewey had the advantage of not mixing
in any squabbes except of the dgnihed sort to be
settled by a few broadsides
| 1t is to be regretted that so many Of the mpas-
stoned legislative remarks have to be represented
| thus:
1t is we'll that Burns made speech and thereby
surprised his following. He is likely to have so few
opportunities.
Murders in San Francisco would be less frequent il
the trap to fall with greater frequency at San
| Quentin.
If Sampson felt at liberty to express himself he
would probably refer to the other fellow as "deyilis
Schey
The Post uses the headline Foul Play Sus-
piconed" This is a worse fate than foul play de-
serves