The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-12-06
CHEER UP! THE
 WORST OF STORM
 IS YET TO COME
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If you stole quietly away yesterday afternoon to join the regulars at the Monday matinee. you were not a little surprised to find that natures soft warm blanket ofwhite had been spread over the little fiowrets while you were laughing at the funny actor folks. You hurried home. poked up the furnace fire and threw open all the drafts in the kitchen stove. For something told you that 1t was going to be Cold. Note the capital C.
 At 6 o'clock last night F. Lyman's famous self registering thermometer began to shiver. The red line crawl ed down to the "A degree mark. and the barometer did an awful dive. If you don't understand the barometer Morris. He'll tell you all about bar ometers and will read them for you. Today's reading indicates long con tinuance of the snow storm.
 If you joined the stay -all-nights last night and waited for the last car, you were good and cod when you got home. The thermometer had crawled slowly down to 22. and 20 on the out skirts where a cold, biting wind drove the snow into the cracks of your bed room windows.
 Before dusk last evening all the up securely. They battened down the hatches-this is always done when storm is coming-and reefed in the sails. another customary precautfon, and made their mooring secure.
 Except the big New York passenger and freight boats. no shipping ven- tured out of the harbor today. And there was little likelihood that the conditions for shipping would be re- lieved. A fresh northeast wind swept the Sound. made it perilous for any but the larger craft. and continued to hn a a About four inches of snow had fallen up to 3 o'clock this afternoon. The trolleymen were fighting against big odds to make showing. The ther- mometer kept crawling up with snail like pace. At 6 o'clock this morning climbed to 20. At it was at P. and then it began to get colder.
 From abroad, the storm reports are even worse than at home. It's way down below zero in northern New England. Just at present we'll swell up a little. because we happen to be the storm center. which is gradually working up the Atlantic coast.
 While you're hollering about bad trolley service. look th.s over, an echo from Bristol. It may help little in the cheering up process: .I
 According to the wise ones this IS to be a season of snow storms. There are a number of ways of figuring out how long the winter is to be but the most novel of them all is telling how many snow storms there are to be during the season. There is an old sayino and according to some quite true. that there will be as many storms as there are days between the days of the first fall and Christmas. Mother earth received its first white mantel ths year on Election day; Nov Sth. Between that date and Christina there are 45 days, denoting that with the two storms already gone through 43 more are to come this way. Those who have followed this fgur- ing for years say that it invariably comes true, with as a general rule, few more storms added. The farm CTS this year have predicted cons d. erable of a snow fall. They have watched the chip hunks and squir- rels more so busy than ever this year laying in the r stock of supplies for the long months. The buster the lit tie animals are the longer and more sign of heavy winter is that the corn on the cobs this year was much larger than usual.
 Bristol. Dec. 6-The heavy snow storm which has ragged here for 24 hours, caused a head-on coll sion, to- day. between an east bound freight train and a work train. None of the workers or trainmen was injured, but the western division of the New Ha- ven road was blocked all afternoon. Passengers are being transferred around the wreck. Two cars in the work train were completely wrecked and the engines of both trains were badly damaged. The work train was driven back about 100 yards by the impact of the collision.
 PANIC IN PICKLE FACTORY
 New Haven, Dec. 6-In panic, which followed the explosion of steam pipe, in a State street pickle factory. today, Mrs. Gertrude Devine