Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-03-16
Expected Cold Wave, But

those freak things which come from no
where and spread everywhere and in
variably "blow. out to sea- Last night
the Atlantic belt was cuddling around
stoves while the mercury renewed 7ac-
quaintance with all the marks between
zero and freezing. Right here the off,
cial low mark was fourteen. The wind
was cold at that mark, too.
Ask any early morning worker who had
to turn out before the sun today. Nearly
all Washington heard the booming of the
gale as it ratified windows until even the
LATEST and sleepiest had TO get up and do
something to the sash to stop the ever
lasting racket. In the night there was
the clearest and coolest of winter skies,
and the streets would be full of strange
noises as the wind played fiercely with
loose boards and tin things. There would
be the tinkle of a broken window. and
once in while a splitting wind would
blow a milk bottle into the area, while
the sleepy householder would grunt and
wonder what the earth was coming to-
and where were the old-fashioned spring
mornings. anyhow.
Little Warmth in Sun.
Even the sun brought little warmth this
morning. The men who work on build
ings ran to their jobs with their hands
unwilling to come from out pockets. Po-
licemen sought the sheltered side Of build
ings and watched the crowds, hoping
perhaps that nothing would happen to
call them into the middle Of the wind
swept streets.
While Washington was bending under
the storm yesterday the whole coast was
experiencing much the same thing. From
the black rocks along the Maine coast
all the way down to the dangerous sands
of Hatteras shippers of sailing craft had
night TO be remembered. They had no
silk umbrellas to reef, but they had tons
of canvas to take in, and the crews who
tumbled up to the foretops felt the ice
in the wind like cruel fails which beat
without mercy. Sixty miles an hour was
measured off Hatteras, while Washington
had nearly fifty.
ing. The terrific wind has blown north
easterly. so that the tip Of New England
Is freezing to the tune OF northwest
gale. This will probably pass out to
precarious following along the banks OF
Newfoundland. 1t will probably blow out
to sea faster than an express train.
Sixty or more miles az hour Will be the
average. and even that will not come up
to the hurricane which struck Mount
Weather Va.-Aptly named-where the
instruments whizzed round and round and
round at seventy Eight miles an hour.
Cold in the South.
As far south as the gulf stream the
shift in the wind spread frosty belt
of discomfort and in some places de-
struction. At Atlanta. where the Ma
tionals are cavorting around ball
yard, the temperature reached twenty
four. 1t was freezing this morning at
Macon and will be freezing tonight
throughout the south Atlantic states
and it would not be running contrary
to weather bureau expectations If the
middle of Florida was nipped by frost
tonight.
When the kilograms and messages
ceased piling into the weather bureau
this morning 1t was seen that ElkinS.
w. Va, had a winters morning of four
degrees. and that in the extreme south
Of Virginia people were wondering
what had become Of the touch OF
spring, for the thermometers were
around the ten mark. They were not
much warmer than the people in
northern New York. who saw zero
along with the down casters. who saw
solid ice on the mill ponds and zero
nd lower in the Thermometer tuhes