The daily Republican., 1902-12-15
MORE SNOW
COMING THIS WAY
Prospects Are For a Genuine
White Christmas in This
Section This Year.
ICICLESIN GLISTEN In sun
Yesterday A Winter Day
Which Presented Many
Beauties in Sire cts
and Parks.
Yesterday wasa real winters day.

All day long the mercury remained
below the freezing point. About
noon it ventured up little way, but
lodged down again soon afterward
and, as If in despair, settled lower
and lower as the daygrew older un-
til at nightfall it stood at 2o degrees
All day the streets were partly
covered with a thin skim of ice
which made walking somewhat dan
gerous in many sections Of the city.
On the telegraph and telephone
wires a silvery.coating of ice detied
the efforts of the sun to thaw it and
similar covert ng made church
spires shine like mountain peaks.
Persons who were fortunate
enough to visit the country during
the morning had rare treat. Tree
branches, grass. whelt and the
ground were covered with ice. The
fields appe like gll,terins silver.
The twigs Of the deCiduous trees
sparkled in the sunshine, showing all
the brilliant and var,egated colors of
diamonds The evergreen trees were
bending with their weight of aGcum-
u'ated ice and were near TO the break
ing point. Had the ranslorm not
&c tsed when 1t did, there might have
been repetition of last winters de-
struction by the ice.
Especially beautiful was the
scenery in Brandywine Park. The
lower limbs of the spruce and cellar
trees we're borne to the ground by
$he ice. In the CLEAN OF the electric
skhss last ris hit the park present ed
She appearance OF silver forest.
Ehe park attendants said that 20
damage had been done 80 far. but
Chat the trees were under heavy
strain.
To-day promises to be even more
wintery tnan yesterday, for the
weather man mas predicted snow.
1t seems that another storm is due.
The predictions are: Delaware,
rain or snow Monday and Tuesday;
brisk to high north to northeast
winds.
Iinemen of the telephone and tele-
graph companies werc busy again
to-day repairing the damage done
b. the storm The service will be
c.ippled and it will DO the middle
Of the weak before the last of the
PROSTATE poles raised.
The city's wire service suffered
severely. A covering Of ice four
times thicker than the wires them |
selves formed upon them hea ring
them down, until it required only
slight blast Of wind to break them,
rattlingand squirting blue fire, down
into the streets.
In all parts Of the city broken
Hines dangled rerilously from cross
trees or from rooftops. their ends
touching the ground while others
swung overhead, ready to fall
at the slightest extra pressure.
The Postal and Western Union
Companies lost many wires, but
their lines were nearly all new ones,
put up after last February S storm
and those which were fcllel were
only small percentage Of the total,
hol enough 10 cut on romnllulra-
ton IL any direction.
Along the suburban railway lines
poles were ielled by the score. The
weight Of the wires and Of their ice
castings weakened them, and tho
wind blew them down
In the city limits many phones
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