Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-05-13
WINTER HATES TO QUIT

NEW YORK, May 13.-For seventy years
the weather bureau has been keeping care
full records Of hot days and cold days, so
that whenever there is complaint the
forecaster can smile and turn back to his
records and show that there have been
colder or warmer days, as the case may be-.
Yesterday morning at o'clock the Their
mometer shriveled itself up in a cold lump
at the SO mark. The weather bureau man
admitted that was going some, but conf
IDENTIFY turned back to the musty records to
find a colder May r.
Year by year the leaves were turned, up
til the musty records of the first year Of
the weather bureau were reached. Then
the weather man looked up and spoke in a
sad whisper.
It's a record he said.
But the whole performance is a record, !"
said the visitor. What thousands and
thousands of persons want to know from
you is what aIls the weather. Why, man,
thousands are freezing daily in apartment
houses and hotels where the heat has been
turned off for Il month. Here 1t is the 18th
of May and the thermometer flirting within
four degrees of freeze. Is there to be Ice
in July? When is warm weather due?'
Called Up Washington.
The weather man got Washington on the
long -distance telephone and said that the
people of New York wanted to know what
was tie matter with the weather.
I'VE have no explanation to OFFER" came
the answer. We just recognize the con-
>dition. We can't tell why it is. The physi-
cal fact is that the distribution of baromet-
ric pressure has been such that we have had
a succession of cold northwest winds all
through the spring"
This non-explanatory explanation will
prove eminently satisfactory to the puzzled
students OF the weather. The fact is that
the New York men, women and children.
tired of waiting for spring, have decided to
do without 1t.
But that their pleasures may not be in
terfered with and their new clothes I'M
worn, they came out of doors yesterday as
though the thermometer was up about the
nineties, rushed in great crowds to Coney
Island, the parks and places of amusement.
Half frozen they returned in shivery groups
still without terror of the cold.
Frost Did Some Damage.
HAGERsTOWN, Md, May 13.-A heavy
frost formed throughout Washington coun-
ty Saturday, and reports received from
truck farms were to the effect that early
vegetables, such as tomatoes and cab
bages, have been seriously damaged.
Although the thermometer lowered
around the freezing point. it is thought the
peaches and cherries suffered no injury.
The peach crop in this county will not be
over a half crop, however, owing to the I'M
seaSonable spring.
Allegany Crops Not Injured.
CUMBERLAND, Md, May 13.-No great
damage in Allegany county was reported
from the frost yesterday morning. At Ell
lerslie and Wellersburg some vegetation
was ruined, but the loss is not general. In
Cumberland plants that were left exposed
were nipped by the frost
Some Strawberries Damaged.
RIDGELY, Md, May 13.-Great anxiety
over the strawberry crop, which will be-
gin to move next week is felt here, but the
heavy frost of Saturday night is not be-
lieved to have killed more than one-tenth
of the crop. 1t was feared that, owing to
the lateness of the frost, the entire crop
would be lost
Virginia Felt Frost Too.
WINCHESTER, Va, May 13.-During
Saturday night heavy frost fell over this
section of the Shenandoah valley. and re-
ports received yesterday from many prom
inent fruit growers and hucksters state that
serious damage resulted to tender fruit
buds and growing vegetation, while the
strawberry crop is almost completely ruined.
Gardeners engaged in business near Win
chester lost thousands of young tomato
and cabbage plants by the frost.
Lynchburg More Optimistic.
LcNCHBURG, Va, May ia heavy
frost formed here yesterday morning, but it
is not thought that any damage will result
from it, as the temperature, as recorded at
the weather station, did not drop below 3S
degrees.