Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-02-20
Beyond the Snow Banks.

Then 1t Is cold beyond the snow line.
It's cold enough to freeze things way
down in northern Alabama and northern
Mississippi, and in Arkansas and the
middle of Texas. In northern Texas it
is about ten degrees above zero-and
that's going to spoil growing things that
thought spring had come and were put
ting on their coats of many colors. Yes,
it will be quite a damage to fruit and
other trees ambitious to be forward.
No one knows what tonight will hold
for the poor shelterless buds. It will be
prophet only knows that 1t will be unset
tied weather-and that may mean any
thing hateful to a sproutng creation that
had made up its mind to sprout
Mercury to Drop Tonight.
It's to be colder in Westinghouse de-
grees tonight-and it may be colder to-
morrow. But by that time a clear sky is
promised by the man who sometimes
keeps his word.
There was just seventy-two-one-hun-
dredth of an inch Of snow, sleet and rain
that fell during the past twenty-fOur
sufficient to make the streets mo
thoroughfare.'
Somehow the train service and the tele-
phone and telegraph lines did not suffer
The Postal Telegraph Company had a
little trouble in getting word into Florida
this morning, but that was all fixed by
1915 o'clock. Trains are all getting in on
time, to the very second-better than
usual, maybe.
Snow Blankets New York.
NEW YORK, February 2O.-The storm
from the southwest, which ragged over the
south central portion of the country yes
terday and last night. struck New York
and vicinity in force this morning, and
before 8 o'clock a snow blanket more than
two inches in thickness had been de-
posted here, with prospects that the fall
would continue through the day. There
was little wind, but the temperature was
n degrees at 8 a. m. and falling, this
increasing the probability of considerable
accumulations of the fieecy covering.
The storm is widespread, snow or rain
having fallen over the greater part of the
southern and eastern sections and as far
north as New England. The chief GEN.
ters of the disturbance appeared this
morning to be in North Carolina and CEN
trail Pennsylvania.
On Way to New England.
The northeastward course Of the storm
promised to take it farther into New
England. The weather has cleared to the
westward, the most westerly points al
fected, according to the local weather
bureau reports. now being IN Michigan
and Ohio.
Traffic in this city and neighborhood
suffered little delay in the early hours
but as the force of the storm increased
trouble began to be experienced on sur
face rail lines and by the shipping in the
rivers and down the bay.
Conditions Out West.
KANSAS CITY, Mo-. February 20.-More
than ten inches of snow covered the great
er part Of western Missouri. Kansas and
Oklahoma last night. Almost five inches
fell yesterday. and according to the
weather bureau there was no cessation
during the night. The snow began to fall
Saturday mornig, about six inches being
on the ground at daylight yesterday.
DENVER, Col. February 2.-The snow
storm which visited Colorado, Wyoming
and northern New Mexico Saturday and
last night continued in intermittent pre-
cipitation in widely scattered localities
of the Rocky mountain region. Reports
showed that the fall varied from about six
inches in portions of the plains country
to two and three feet in mountain dis
tricts.