Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-01-07
COLD WAVE IS LOST
Predicted Wintry Snap Seems
to Have Gone Astray.
DUE TONIGHT, 1T is SAID
Dense Fog Covers City Like
Blanket for Hours.
CAR SERVICE IS HAMPERED
Impossible for Pedestrians, in Early
Morning, to See More Than
Half Block Ahead.
DUE TONIGHT, 1T is SAID
CAR SERVICE IS HAMPERED

Lost. strayed. or stolen. one cold wave.
Flnder may keep same for his own eX-
elusive use-nobody else. unless it might
be the forecaster at the weather bureau,
wants it,
The cold wave that has been the fea-
ture of the daily forecast for the last
Few days is still delayed in transmission.
although the forecaster said today that
1t is on the road. Just where it is, and
When II may be expected to reach Wash
hSton are mysteries not yet solved.
But today's fog. the forecaster said. is
pretty certain forerunner of cold
weather. and if this is true as the
"eatherwise outside of the weather
bureau declare it is-maybe the cold snap
is hoverinS around pretty near
Navigating dry land by COMPASS
was the experience of Washington auto
mobilsts and pedestrians this morning
me log blanket was so dense. during the
early hours of the morning, that it was
impossible to see a distance of half a
bIock, and the auto driver who ventured
out without an accurate compass and
pinnacle light. and with his port and
SStarboard STA lamps unlighted, took his very
life in his hands.
The fog blanketed Connecticut ave-
nue. eXtenoed in cottony masses of
Vapor, laid clammy. drippy, binding
sheet over the downtown streets. OBJ
scured the lights of street cars that
were kept burning until well along i'm
the morning. and gave all Washing
ton taste of one of the familiar
phenomena of dear old London
Cars Have Hard Work.
Cars on all the suburban lines were
more or less hampered, being COM
PEELED to proceed at the pace of snails.
while the city cars crept along to a
continuous performance on the gongs
that bore a close resemblance to the
tattoo that is played by the driver of
an ambulance during quick run No
accidents of any Importance were re-
ported during the mOrDinG Several
times during the forenoon the dense
layer of fog shifted and lightened for
time. only to descend again, thicker
than ever
The colder weather that has been
promised for several days. according
to the forecaster. will positively and
without fail strike this part of the.
L. S. A. tonight. and with it's advent
the last lingering traces of fog. as well
as Of the copditions that caused it, will
disappear. The cold. it is stated. is not
likely to be as severe as 1t threatened to
be day or so ago, as the boreal blasts
have lost much of their vim and vigor
during the time of their mysterious
ever, will be cold enough for pretty
fair freeze, the fOrecaster says, and
the cold will continue for several days
when it finally does strike here.
Thirty Below in Montana.
The coldest place in the United States
this morning was Miles City, Mont, where
the mercury showed 90 degrees below
zero. The severe cold. the weather bureau
said, is general throughout the west and
extends to the Mexican border in the
southwest.
Southern California, according to reports
received at the bureau today, is expert
encing the coldest weather it has suffered
in forty years At San Diego this morn
ing the temperature was % degrees above
zero. which establishes a new low record
for that pOinf