The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1907-01-03
CLUSTERING SNOW
AND ANGRY Winds
New Year Ushered in Amid
Whirling zephyrs and
Falling Flakes.
SLUSH AND MUD;
MUD AND SLUSH
Cold Wave Scheduled to Sweep
Over Zion and Tighten
Coal Market.

With whirl Of snow and wind, blow
ing, bowling and clustering. the little
boy. New Year, came to life, Tuesday,
blowing on his rosy Gnger-tips and
laughing merrily at the city through the
mlsts of snow that came To cover Salt
Lake with royal mantle OF ermine in
honor Of The birthday of the baby year.
But it was anything but mantle of
ermine by noon
Early morning pedestrians saw an un-
spotted city, but the traffic Of the morn
ing hours soon turned the drifting snow
into slush and slop, until those who were
obliged to wade through the downtown
streets were IN anything but holiday
frame of mind
Nowhere was any attempt made TO
render the crossings more passable. At
some of the crossings on Main street
there were mounds of snow and slush
which pedestrians were obliged TO skip
over to ford the streets. The need of
sidewalk cleaning enforcement was APP
preciated, for the slush and snow-al-
though the weather man said the prccIp-
itation was lignt-were ankle deep IN
front of most of the houses and places
of business.
1t was really the wind. though that
played havoc with the New Year maid
Main street. in holiday attire, strug-
Cling to keep an umbrella right side out,
her skirts out of the slush and vet from
the fckle, capricious whims of the
wind. and adjusting a coiffure that had
been perfect before starting out. Wind
and slush made the early hours of the
afternoon most unpleasant, so far as
the outside world was concerned. Com
ing after the balmy weather OF the past
few weeks. the change was felt more
keenly, and the furs and heavy coats
that had been hidden away In moth
balls were once more on duty.
At the corner of Main street and
Brigham, Tuesday afternoon, fat man
attempting TO cross the street stopped
in an unwary moment 10 greet an ac-
duaintance. and then for moment
went through some of the most remark
able of convulsions. He had unseeingly
trodden on piece OF ICY paving stone,
the ladies who had stopped to scof,
hurried off to pray-for the man who
would let such a little thing as being
completely encased in an armor OF mud
and snow betray him into such shocking
language.
Toward evening the, snow. settled
down into calm and old fashioned
fall. and cutters. for the first time this
winter, were in evidence.
Happy Young Kids.
And maybe the small boy didn't en-
ioy the day. Maybe he didn t pile out
of bed early Tuesday morning and be
fore breakfast give the new red bob
sled a trial All over the residence
part of the city the many little
cbaps could he seen and heard shout
ing and laughing. dragging mates
about. and ever and anon stopping 10
SNOWFALL boy enemy or some lnoffen-
sive pedestrian.
While il seemed considerable down
fall of the feathery and faky to most
of us. the weather man says the
precipitation was light. and as
snowstorm was a baby affair, probably
some playmate Of the New Year. While
disagreeeable. owing TO the drifting,
sharp winds and slush, the storm in
convenienced the street car, com
panies and telephone companies but lit
tie The Independent phone people
had a matter Of some twenty-five or
| thirty telephones to see to. while the
Bell trouble force say there was moth
| ing stirring IN their department. The
street cars were some few minutes late,
but happily, owing TO this being their
usual condition, very few people were
at all put out.
The railroads nj first feared bad
storm. All about storms and billiards
are raging. and for a time it looked as
if the trains would be later than ever
| But up until late Tuesday evening,
when the storm had settled into a
! placid fall, there was but one train
| blocked and that at Bingham Junction.
But nothing like little snowstorm
bothered the thousands who, on amuse-
ment bent. locked to the different
theaters. From the Salt Lake theater,
where the elite. in wet furs and over
shoes iammed the play house. TO the
Grand. where Z" AS Told in the Hills
made n mob forget their trouble ana
the stowstorm during the matinees and
evening hours, with. umbrellas held
low. the crowds hurried TO and fro
Even the Merrymakers, who gave a New
Year S dance at the Salt Palace, had
no kick coming on the weather propo-
stion.
But the storm has by no means
finished with Salt Lake, It's up TO the
coal man now, for a cold wave is
scheduled to strike the city, and strike
it good and hard, The welcome TO the
small baby year was a wild one, but
the next few days Of his life lie will
be mighty chilly little chap, for if
there is anything in predictions, its a
hot coal fire and some warm furs for