Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-12-09
BREAK IN COLD WAVE
Warmer Weather West of the
Mississippi.
MAY BE HERE TOMORROW
Delays Reported on the Electric Car
Lines.
COMMUTERS BEHIND TINE
Balky Mule Team Holds Up a Road.
| Blowout Fuse Blocks
Ten Cars.

| " armer weather is coming. 1t may
| get here tomorrow afternoon or tomor-
row night. according to the weather
bureau, but it is coming. Just now 1t is
| being felt west Of the mississippi river,
and the forecaster says it is going to
work eastward.
The weather tonight and tomorrow is
| going to be fair. with continued cold to-
night. This morning at 8 O'Clock the
thermometer registered Is degrees above
| zero. The temperature tonight will be
somewhere between Is and 20 degrees,
say the weather prophets. East Of the
| Mississippi river cold weather is having
| its sway, with frost as far south as
northern Florida. Specimens Of low
temperature have been reported from
Duluth, Mimi. where the thermometer
| registered 8 degrees below zero, making
| 1t the coolest place in the country, and
from Canton. n. Y, where milder tenn
perature Of degrees below zero is indi-
! Gated. But cold as it is in those places,
| the interior OF Alaska Is colder. In fact,
| the coolest weather of the season is re-
ported from there, the thermometer at
Tanana registering 40 degrees below zero.
There are snow fiurries over the great
Jake region and the northern Rocky
mountain region, with rains on the Pa
cifc coast, but elsewhere in the United
States fair weather prevails.
On the other side of the Atlantic stormy
weather prevails over the British Isles
and western Europe.
Electric Cars Delayed.
| At the headquarters of the local street
| railway systems the lines were reported
this afternoon as operating on a normal
basis, without let or hindrance, but Capt.
toll Hill passengers and others from
Georgetown on the Capital Traction line
complained of serious delays between s
and 8 O'Clock this morning. Supt. CARL
the only mishaps on the lines were due
! to the plows being pulled off from two
cars. which tied up the line about half
hour. Ice collecting in the slots Of the
middle rail did the work. Traffic over
| the Georgetown-Navy Yard line was
greatly delayed between s and S:45 O'clock
this morning.
! Gen. Harries. vice president, said the
| lines of the Washington Railway and
| Electric Company were all in good work
| ing order. Some delays had been caus/e
by fires on Capitol Hill and at 7th street
and Massachusetts avenue. Beyond these,
| however, everything was apparently run
| ming smoothly. it was declared.
commuters on the Virginia side Of the
river had hard time getting to their
places Of business this morning. The
deep snow outside Washington. they say.
| makes the running Of the electric. oars
| more or less. problematical under any
| conditions, but this morning a series Of
accidents added to the delays.
Cars Held Up by Mule Team.
Just at Clark station, neat Arlington.
| a colored driver with a load Of cement
drawn by two mules tried to cross the
railroad track. The mules, which up to
that time had been rather reluctantly re-
| spending to demands for energy on their
part. decided to end the struggle then and
| there. AS a consequence four cars which
should have reached 12th street and
| Pennsylvania avenue northwest shortly
| after $50 O'Clock were tied up. The
| driver seemed prepared to sit and wait
1t out until supper time, but was finally
| persuaded by the motormen and conduc-
| tors to unload a part Of his cargo ana
the mules did the rest. Language was
| used during the operation which might be
open to criticism ii published.
! Just after the cars from Falls Church
| and Alexandria had crossed the highway
bridge and the conductors had collected
/ the city fares. another mishap occurred.
An Alexandria car, near the bureau of
| engraving and printing. blew out a fuse
or did something else equally effective.
| LOT ten CATS SlIctCHlIIS 1IO1ll LILO UUISdQ
| to the bridge were blocked, and 37s COM
muters were compelled to walk from
| them to their places Of business in WASH
| ington.
Ice on Chevy Chase Lake.
| Chevy Chase lake gathered an ice coat
| ing Of about a quarter Of an inch last
| night, but from the power station 1t was
| said skating there is not yet In order.
| The same is true OF the waters in the
| tidal basin On the swallow ponds in the
outlying suburbs the small boy is trying