The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-11-27
He Brings the Rain, Turns IL Into
Snow, and then Turns the Snow
Into Rain Again.
NOT A WHITE THANKSGIVING
UNLESS THE MAGICIAN MAKES WON
DERFUL USE OF HIS WAND.
Young Men of the College and High
SchOOI Most
weather Elsewhere.

Public opinion is practically unanimous
that Weather Observer Blythe has thrown
the public down again. If he were a trust
the public might get even by adopting res
o~lutions and having them published in the
newspapers. But there is no way TO get
even with Mr.. Blythe for his predetermined
success in preventing the oldest inhabitant
from enjoying once more an old-fashioned
Thanksgiving. Mr.. Blythe showed his hand
yesterday when he turned rain into snow
and then, to add heart break to the situa-
ton, turned the snow back into rain again.
When he took his hands off the weather
machinery and sank to rest in his bed OF
barbed wire fencing things begun freezing
i'm a way that makes the old-fashioned
white Thanksgiving a mere "reminiscences
Yesterday begun with rain-cold, sticky,
p~erature fell to freezing. This prevented
the general inundation of everything.
White flakes began falling and they were
pronounced snow by Mr.. Blythe. But that
was no discovery for which he is entitled
to credit. He was in communication with
others of his kind and they told him it was
snow. 1t fell in great eddying clouds dur
ing the afternoon and the streets were COW
cred with white. Long after dark the snow
Tell III abundance ana the DTdHCHcS VI
trees, fences and other things took on a
thorough wintry aspect. The street car
signs became covered with snow and were
not readable. At supper time II looked
like an incessant fall would make Thanks
giving day a spectacle of white.
But before Mr.. Blythe went home he
pushed another button and the rain set In
again. melted all the snow and left the
streets full of slush-slippery and capable
of penetrating everything usually i'm
pervious.
NOT THE SHOE TRUST.
Those who intimated that the shoe trust
was back of Mr.. Blythe were probably
wrong, but as it was many found the
emergency for better footwear pressing.
| AS the rain was accompanied by a little
wind Mr.. Blythe may make the ridiculous
| claim that it is an i'll wind that blows no
one good.
About midnight the sky began TO clear
and the temperature to fall. Mr.. Blythe
was in bed by this time, but he had planned
for everything before he retired. He meant
to get even with the reporters who think
they are writing funny things about him.
His unconcealed purpose at midnight was
to freeze the slush and water in the streets
so that the unshod would be tumbled
about like mannikins and suffer all kinds
of injuries. OF course, while Mr.. Blythe
knows the manager of the arnica and
court-plaster trust he did not do this Tor
his benefit.
To be plain this Will not De a White
Thanksgiving unless the snow comes after
daylight and finds dry, frozen bottom. The
chances are not many that there Will De
any snow. 1t is more likely to be fair and
cold. Repudiating Mr.. Blythe utterly and
! looking about the horizon for
the fact is CLEANED that il ii does not snow
or rain it will be dry underfoot, If the
the observers at Que Appellee, Modena'
Utah, New York and Greensboro, KY. This
indicates about the snowstorm area. In
Illinois, Ohio and Indiana there was vari'
able rain and snow. In Kentucky there
was a light snowfall. In New York, Mich
igan and Wisconsin the fall was heavy.
INTERESTED IN WEATHER.
Perhaps the persons most interested in
weather conditions to-day are the young
men who will battle for colleges and schools
on many gridirons. There is little fun in
rolling and tumbling in snow and mud, and
the glory is hardly sufficient to compensate
for the wearing OF water-soaked clothes fol
an hour or two-at least the losers Otter
think so. True, there is less danger to life
and limb when the gridiron is covered witt
snow or is a quagmire or clay and loan
but danger is a word that does not ap
pear in the football players dictionary
Bad weather also means fewer spectators
and half the glory of football comes with
the plaudits of those who witness the game
Perhaps Manual Training School and
Shortridge would play as desperately tC
bare seats as they would before thousands
because their rivalry is of that fierce kline
that nothing satisfies, but ii is doubtful
if Michigan and Minnesota would care Il
battle before empty grandstands, and ever
Purdue and Notre Dame, in fighting for the
state championship, would prefer to hav'
fine weather and a big crowd.