The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-01-05

blast did not stop | nTacoma, 1t s
A Blue NOsed Crowd.
1t was a blue nosed lot that
showed up on Tacoma streets to-
day. Everybody had something
to say about the weather. Some
did not like 1t and some did. Some
knew it broke the record and
some knew it did not and then
there was an argument and the
old-timer insisted 1t was seven de-
grees colder on a certain day back
in the eighties and that once 1t
blew a hurricane that beat this
all hollow.
Coolest in Two Years.
AS a matter of fact this is the
coolest day in two years.
January Is, 1907, beat 1t and
broke all records with tempera-
ture of degrees. That was
when all the plumbers got rich
and even the water mains froze In
the streets. But this morning
with it's 21.4 degrees beat every
thing outside of that sizzling time
back to March IL. 1906, when 1t
was 70 degrees.
"Ain't 1t a corker,'' whistled a
citizen as he pulled up the street
facing the wind. Ill.
Eyes, but this amt anything
You ought to see 1t over the
noun"
A gust of 36-mlle wind hit him
fair in the mouth and he never
got teh sentence finished.
Sedate pedestrians went on the
jump this morning with coat tails
lflapping.
Old crouch was as blue as in
digo and his nose looked like a
turnip. The fellow with his
mouth turned up at the corners
was tickled at the change and de-
clared it great.
Plumber and Coal Man Happy.
The serious part of the weather
was the wind. 1t blew that 21.4
degrees right into the houses. 1t
hunted up the water pipes in the
secluded corners and froze them
solid. 1t made the plumber and
the coal man happy but was
tough on the householder.
The Record Wind.
The wind was not so hight as 1t
has been, however. December A.,
1907, 1t was turned up to 4S miles
an hour. This Is record for Ta-
coma. This 36-mile zephyr to-
day, however, was plenty. 1t rat
tied down signs, pulled out trees,
blew over fiimsy woodsheds and
moved most things that were
loose.
What 1t Did.
Up on G street 1t blew over a
| tig maple tree. The big Tacoma
theater sign on Ninth street was
brought down. Some sailing
schooners down in the bay were
torn loose from their anchorage
and drifted about the bay aimless-
ly looking for something to bump.
A lot of the f1imsy boat houses
along the waterway were damaged
and some small boats battered
badly. Logs got away from some
of the booms of the waterfront
mills and made things lively up
around Old Town. They began
humping the houseboats in the
water and the occupants were
driven to police headquarters for
isafety.
The Chippewa wanted to get oil
last night but the bridge could not
be opened on account of the high
wind and she could not go up the
waterway. Eoats tried to get the
bridge opened this morning also
but the brid ge-tender would not
bulge 1t. He knew 1t was not
safe.
SO Below AT Calgary.
| Assistant Weatherman Lomas-
lney got back last night from trip
over teh mountains. He said there
was snow and sleighing over there
with cold weather that is cold.
This is just a frings of the cold
Tacoma has. Up at Calgary, Can
ada. 1t was sc below zero this
morning.
At Portland this morning a hur-
ricane was blowing snow through
1.-THE streets.
1t May Snow.
/ Tacoma got some light shifts or
snowflake last evening but not
Ienough for snowballs. The wealth
lerman says there may be more OF
the same kind today. This morn
ling the Tow" pressure started
lslowly up the coast again. The
high" kept right after II and so