Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-12-16
ICE FORMS ON THE RIVER
Last Nights Blow the Hardest of
the Season.
Fair Weather With Rising Tempera-
ture for Several Days
Is Expected.


night; Saturday fair. with rising tenn
with rising temperature, for two or three
days. beginning tomorrow. is the wealth =
forecast Of the weather bureau today.
Tonight the mercury will run down in the
thermometer to about sixteen degrees.
just one degree colder than it was at 6
o'clock this morning. The storm winds
that prevailed here last night. it is be-
lieved, are past. The storm that preceded
the cold weather is now In the Canadian
maritime provinces. and yesterday and
last night 1t was felt in west and north
westerly gales on the Atlantic asst. New
York city experienced velocity OF sixty
miles an hour, which was equaled at
Block Island, r. l., the highest record of
wind velocity in that region for some
time. The winds in the District of CO.
lumbia will be moderate and variable.
The cold wave is general from northern
Virginia, nOrthward and westward, over
the Ohio valley and the great lakes re-
gion.
Hardest Wind Of the Season.
Last nights windstorm here was the
hardest of the season. Following an ale
most balmy temperature earlier in the
day, the wind began to blow about
o'clock in the afternoon and kept it up
until an hour after midnight. 1t reached
it's maximum velocity Of thirty-four miles
between 8 and Z o'clock in the evening,
but 1t really seemed greater to folks after
they had retired for the night. The slush
and water formed by the melting snow
and the slight rain that fell in the early
evening were driven into sheets of ice by
the strong cold wind until they resembled
nj o. v1o1,A
This morning they presented peculiar
formations that were readily utilized by
the small boy for slides. No serious DAM
age locally has yet been reported as the
result Of the high wind.
Snow is flying in some parts of the
north Atlantic states. in the upper Ohio
valley and the great lake region, and rain
is falling in the gulf states and on the
Pacific coast.
River Covered With Thin Ice.
The cold snap last night again covered
the river with ice from shore to shore
1t hardened and trickened that which
has been forming on the creeks tributary
to the river, for a week past While the
ice in the channel was only from a hat
inch to an inch thick. and Was sUon
broken up by passing steamers, that in
the creeks varies from three to nve inches,
and Is hard enough to interfere seriously
with tOwboats ana has enectually put an
end to navigation by sailing craft with
out the assistance of power boats.
Yesterday when the thaw began the
that the freeze was over and that warm
err weather was coming for q day or two.
The indications upon which they depend
all said so. and they looked for the dis
Ireezng weather came aEain. When the
black clouds began to gather in the west.
showing that a Northwestern and cold
weather were at hand, they were greatly
disappointed.
Officers Of the steamers arriving here
from river and bay points report the
northwest gale Of last night to have been
very heavy for several hours. but no
damage was done.
The heavy northwest winds caused
low water in the river and delayed the
steamer Queen Anne. due here from riv-
err points. She is expected to arrive late
this afternoon.
New York and New England Suffer.
NEW YORK, December 1S-With the
record Of one death and several cases
of i'll effects from exposure, New York
experienced its share OF the suffering and
Inconvenience caused by the sweep Of the
sudden cold wave from the northwest
which today holds the entire north
eastern section of the country in its grip.
Nine degrees above zero. officially reg
istered in the early morning hours. was
the minimum temperature in this city.
but up the state. where effects of the
cold snap were more severely felt, the
mercury went as low as eight degrees
below. which was the record at Canton.
N. Y. This was drop of twenty-six de-
grees from the same hour yesterday.
In Albany there was An even greater
drop. thirty-four degrees, to minimum
of zero. at 8 o'clock this morning. The
mercury took fall Of from twenty to
thirty-two degrees in New England, the
prevailing temperature in Massachusetts,
and neighboring states to southern New
England this morning running from zero
to ten above.