Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-01-05
VEHICLES ARE ABANDONED
ON EVERY THOROUGHFARE
Twenty-Four Hours Ahead of Sleet.
Snow or Rain.
HARBOR Is ALMOST TIED UP
Crest of Cold Wave Over Philadel-
phia-Misery In New York Due
to Freezing Temperature.
Southwest Finds Relief.

continue ut least tWenty.f four hours. 1t
will result in most disagreeable condf-
tiOns.
At 2 o'clock today the temperatur,
| was IS above zero. Should the precipf-
| tatfOn turn into snow the fall will be
heavy. f. B. GARRIOT'r.
| Forecaster, Weather Bureau.
| fall of frozen mist advance guard
of the predicted heavy snowstorm, came
in from the west about IL O'Clock this
forenoon
Since midnight threatening conditions
! had prevailed. Dark storm clouds passed
rapidly across the skies, propelled by a
brisk and biting northeast wind. Smoke
from stack and chimney hung heavily
over the city.
| The frozen particles falling this after
noon were like those which preceded the
disastrous bareback of March f. They
accumulated upon the pavements and
roadways. giving them an icy covering,
and making pedestnanism difficult and
causing many horses to fall
| Horses Led to Stables.
| humane drivers unh1tched, leaving
their vehicles on the street, while the
horses were led to their stables. At noon
| today there We're many Abandoned and
| horseless carriages, carts and wagons
stretched along Pennsylvania avenue
from the Capitol to the War, State and
Navy Department building.
E,vap I,orcez uboSo rbooe n,ara ab.r,
were unable to negotiate the slippery con-
| crete. To get back to their stables it was
necessary in numerous instances to wrap
hoofs in jute or canvas sacks At one
time this afternoon there were seven
horses down on the concrete along Penn
sylvania avenue between 9th and 18th
streets.
| common picture was men and boys
showing or pulling deserted vehicles, some
OF them heavily laden, to the establish
ments of their owners. Market wagons
loaded with meats. fish and vegetables
were left in the middle of the roadway
while the drivers struggled to get the un-
harnessed horses under cover
Abandoned Vehicles Everywhere.
| An ash wagon. loaded to the brtm,
came near being struck by an electric car
that was sliding along the rails. The
horse. after falling had been taken from
4 the vehicle. About ten men were drag
ging the wagon across the Avenue to 10th
street. where the road is cobblestoned.
Delivery wagons We're stalled all about
town. Carts loaded with coal were for
saken at different points Traffic on
many thoroughfares was confined prac-
| ticaIly to the street cars and automobiles
Gum shoes were in active demand and
raised umbrellas soon became glass in
| crusted. Street scenes reminded Wash
! ingtonians of the blizzard of March 4 in
| its earlier stages.
| Needing the warning of the weather
bureau many families laid in supplies Of
| fuel and food yesterday, anticipating a
recurrence of the tie-up features of the
inauguration day blizzard. Suburhanites
upon awaking and finding that the snow
! storm had not arrived. carried their gum
shoes TO town in packages under the arm
| or In an Overcoat pocket so as 10 he
| prepared for the worst upon their re-
| turn to their homes
| Sixteen Degrees Record.
| The minimum temperature in the Dis
trict for the past twenty-four hours was
reached at O'Clock this morning. when
the weather bureau thermometers reg
istered 16 degrees above zero This was
I degrees lower than at the same hour
yesterday morning, when the minimum
was recorded as 20 degrees
Forecaster Garriott said today that the
Temperature fluctuations ACCOMMODATING
the general disturbance have been mark
ed and rapid, and that precipitation in
the form of rain, snow or sieet has been
general.
Snowfalls were reported generally to-
day as prevailing in the middle and
northern sections of the country, while
1t has rained generally throughout the
south
| I'rof. Garriott predicts that the mini
mum temperature i'm the District Of Co
iumbia tonight early tomorrow morn
Ing will be about % degrees
Ice Htnders River Traffic.
The low temperature solicited rho
drifting ice in the river and today it is
as hard if not harder than at any time
during the freeze.
| The steamer Anne Arundel from Ra,,i-
more was able to come up the river !. s+
night without much trouble. but Off Fort
| washington she ran into gorged ice and
hung up. The tug William Fl. Yeraes tr
armed with an ice plow, coming I'm the
river early this morning broke her loose
and she reached this city about g -,
| today.
! The steamer City of Milford. which
was to have left for the river lsndin,s
was held in port on account of the ice
| The Norfolk line boat arrived here nrac