Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-12-19
PRETTY SNOW SCENES
Storm King Gives Touch of
Beauty to City.
ON BUSH AND TREE
PARKS, THoRoUGHFAREs AND
BUILDINGS PRETTILY COVERED.
Touch of Real Old-Fashioned Winter
for Ante Christmas Days
Sleighing a-Plenty.

The deft fingers of the storm king painted
pretty snow pictures In park and on thor
e. oughfare. on building, bush and tree, while
the stilled atmosphere was filled with glis-
tening snowhakes Saturday afternoon and
night during the prevalence of the real old
fashioned snowfall. and the grandfathers
and grandmothers of Washington were car
ried in memory back TO their happy child
hood days in the long ago.
This ''noiseless work of the skies soon
resulted in decorating all things below with
a mantle of pearly white. The soft, cling
Ing snow1akes trimmed with icy lace the
tree branches and carpeted the earth with
a white mantle. Everywhere were piano.
ramas of nature. Jack Frost was busy,
too, and added TO the picturesque effect by
decorating window pane and door with his
delicate ice designs.
1t was a genuine old-time sonwstorm,
said venerable citizens, and the flakes fell
so thick and fast that darkness like that
of a North fog overspread the city
early in the afternoon and brought about
"candlelight' much earlier than usual
After nightfall the picture of the snow
was none the less beautiful The sparkling
electric lights and other Examinations of
the city shone upon the sheen of silver.
Myriads of diamonds glnted from tree and
BUSH while overhead the noiseless work
continued undated. giving pedestrians
bl-bSNIS COSTUMES VI NiIlt
Merry Jingle of Sleigh Bells.
The merry jingle of sleigh bells as the
:'ying vehicles rushed past leaving a furry
and confusion of white in their wake, min
g-ed with the shouts and laughter of boys
and girls with their sleds or those engaged
in the equally strenuous pastlme of snow
balling each other
The Washington parks yesterday fore
noon. before the north wind blew from the
tree boughs their snowy draperies were
veritable panoramas of natuTe-pictures in
white, they might have been designated
and those who were lucky enough TO pos
sess cameras or kodaks Were soon busy
swapping photos of the many enchanting
scenes which were presented on every hand.
t- Cdik parties became fad yesterday, and
> persons had their pictures taken with
ow-mantled bush or bunch of shrubbery
re background of purest white, against
'ca they were prettily silhouetted.
UPS of gay girls invaded the White
I! rIse grounds, which were even whittier
t4dI the whited building, and had their
-. DtoS taken In punches. Other amateur
0 nctographers, with an eye to the artistic
-.-1de pictures of the silent, wintry scenery
fae statues of distinguished Americans
'9eared cold and forbidding, and the snow
80 some instances produced funny effects
I'D played eccentric pranks with them.
Sparrows, which for the nonce became the
snow birds of song and story, futtered
about in focks In their almost vain search
Tor food, producing hurrying and at times
startling effects.
The snow scenes in the vicinity of the
Chain bridge and Cabin John were said to
be beautiful beyond description.
Feature of Snowfall.
A feature OF the snowfall, which began
about 10 o'clock Saturday forenoon was the,
absence of wind. Consequently there was
no drifting OF the fakes. They fell steadily
downward, and were soft and elnging.
Nearly five inches fell in the thirteen
hours before midnight Saturday making
the total for the week eleven inches a
record breaker for this section of the coun-
try. This snow, after covering Washing
ton, passed off to sea, the weather officials