The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-02-01
BIG HARVEST
 FOR PLUMBERS -s A Lead Pipe Cinch For
 Thenl< WATER PIPES GALORE BROKEN M Wind Blew a Lot Of Good For
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WATER PIPES GALORE BROKEN

Deep in the gloom of their rose- scented homes. where liveried foot smen. as silent as ghosts. speed to at Bend to the slightest command, the plumbers are sitting with punch-bowi and pipe. enjoying harvest. the first Of the year.
 When 1t seemed that the winter would speedily pass, and Indian sum- { Frost came a~Bwooping and painted things white. with the mercury scur- @ying downward, headlong.
 The coldest of cold that Monteomerians have known since back in the start ing of leo5, came over the city Sunday At dawn. with tendency xeroward- stopped ct sixteen. All thr01 sfa tsis water uncovered was cast into ice, and down heath the surface where wa tsrmains rzin. the small branching wa. ker pipes cracked in their joints. And up by the bath tub and out by the sinks wherever the, metal pipes felt the cold wind. the water that In them was -froses In . cake. and swelling She water pipes, cracked from the cold.
 To-day the fat plumbers in gladstone nrray. will march te the banquet of Smoney on trees. ,fteysll take tt And keep it ana spsand 1t n 1an1 is1 spi piurse. and compared Co the pfcixfng of .dols' lars SO loose the taking of.candy from kids is less hard.
 It was cold in the last thirty -six hr fortyteight hours Dogs waltzed about the streets with their collars turned ID. nasty cold dust was blown about, and the water pipes that John nie' forgot to turn off before he went 4o he'd. were wound .husted" beyond use when they were most sincerely needed in the morning
 Of cour1e 1t was or day with the cooks, decsndants of the 6weilers along She Zambesis are not supposed to be- stir Themselves when the thermometer sinks. and so in many houses, "de naissus's had to get up and make the 2 ire. not wishing, of course, to wake 'shubby." and cook the breakfast out uf that can of salmon from last nights . ntnners some biscuits that had beenSin the tin box three dayss and Tried poe eat0es. not quite fried enough. The, conee. too, was full of grounds and was enemic locking and tepid. and the poor. pitiful attempt at buckwheak cakes only resulted in little circles of what looked like gray flannel, sand were Gbout as palatable.
 Mr-pChamees the weather man, who ss responsible for the whole thing, was busy last night posting his record when . scribe ceme h and asked the Train makes" to explain how 1t hap f Nenod and gt*e ~ xsw e6mparisons on; &ther hard ttmegsc. Mir. fEhafFes- Said:
 Sunday morning the Ahermomster Epgistered sixteen degrees above zero, the coldest weather this winter. During khe day the highest of1ciaI reading was thirty-four degrees. tive degrees Rbove freezing. The coldeBt weather for this city on record was that of Feb. I3, 1899, when 1t went i've de- grees below zero. The longest cold spell the records for the city show, was that of Jannary, 1896, when 1t regigtered eighteen degrees above zero on the 27th, fourteen on the 2sth and eighteen on the s0th. On Fob. Is, 1903, nineteen degrees above zero was re- corded; Feb. IA. 1905, 1t was ten de- 9reeS above zero. The last cold snap before this was Jan. 2A, 1888, when twenty-two degres above zero was rec corded.
 ..'The forecast from Washington pre-. diets a slight rise In temperature, but the difference will not be very great. if after that 1t turns warm rapidly, rain may be expected soon, but if 1t is @ gradual moderation, there may not be rain for three or four days. The wind which accompanied the cold wave averaged velocity of twen- ty-five miles an hour for thirty-six hours. attaining the greatest velocity, thirty-five miles an hour, Saturday morning.