The Alaska citizen., 1913-02-24

snow scene such as Il has not view ed for many years
 As dawn broke the early dayligh; reflected strange, soft color to the skies. The sun came up and pierce the gray ot the morning and the sur, | rounding hills clothed themselves in mantle of pure white, glistenine like living crystals and making ! ashamed all the imitation snow that fingered as the aftermath of Christ mas in the places where festivit, still ran high
 Up. out of the blue of the ba", stood Tamalpais, as proud and as beautiful in her unmatched glory IS Mont Blanc. She caught the first rays of the sun and sent across the waters shafts of purple pink. Abou. her shoulders rested necklace of sparkling diamonds. And at her feet the giants of Muir Woods bowed their tall heads and gently shook 'ShiSNi''o Niiu iHt NtlSill Ol SilON that had fallen silently upon them between nightfall and dawn. For miles around the country was carpeted as it has not been for many years. The Marin hills crown. cd by Old Talalpais. The Contra Costa range and the Berkeley hills all lost their ruggedness under the shawl Of winters gift. It was a great moment for those hills and the sun got jealous. At : o'clock ha burst through the solemn gray ana fought with the cold whiteness that intruded upon his own domain. For an hour he shone hard on the snow; but the clouds conquered and by 9 o'clock the white country was again hidden in fall of big flakes that caressed the valleys, the mounta,,f tops and even hill streets of the city as they have not done for thirty years
 On the outlying hillsides of Lin coin park and Twin Peaks it was the schoolboys' delight. With the instinct of youth. boys who had neve, seen snow except in books ahd prc lures culled chunks Of it in thei- blue hands and flung them at who ever passed by.
 As fast as the snow fell in the city itself 1t paled away into slush and vanished in the dryness of the San Francisco air. But on tbe out skirts il remained for several hours while on the Marin county side of the bay the snow fell thickly and continuously throughout the day. Hundreds journeyed to Mill Valley and took part in the snow battles that were conducted until nightfan
 The Tamalpais railway puffed it's .at little locomotive through eIght inches of something that it had not seen for at least two years, and when it did see snow before, it was tnly for few feeting mluutes, and the snow never fell 10 a greater depth than two or three inches
 Yesterday there was six inches of snow at early morn,ag on the slopes of the mountain and by the afternoon it was eight inches deep.
 ELEVEN TIMES IN 10 YEARS.
 This was the eleventh time ill forty years that snow has been re ):t cd in San Franciec The heav. is. record in that pariol was in ''nIu;ry ry 1887, when four inches ta'. ii San Francisco but disappear e:' as quickly as it fe'l The oldest inhabitants were in sreiI remi'us cen. form es'erday and toll now Sa', Francisco had not had such fall ia all their lifetimes.
 Ti.- last time it showed in San lrareIsco was in Fe5r lary, 1911 Be'tre that it had snoG..i ne 'uch worth in February, 1903, which was ,eIv" years after thespravicus fall, when an effort half an ihcn in size was made as late as the month of M.,dr. And as far as cl!iilzcG rec nr!= can aid, that was 'ha first tim. sr@r had beer seen ol the ground f san Francisco within tie memory J est inhabitants.
 This time the storm has been eaa.- eral throughout the country vest of the Rocky mountains. in the Serras they had twenty-six inches by noon v+sterday, while at Hinshorough. where they couldn't ser snaw orli haIily if they paid for it, they were given the same treat as the rest os ;pa people,
 Redwood City was also counted in the visitation, and for many miles down South, along the Southern Pa cific railroad. the country was GOV cree with the unusual gift from the af 'es that have a worldwide repu,a- 'ih for the eternal dispensing of sunshine,
 3d DEGREES IN SAN FRANCISCO.
 The lowest temperature in San Francisco was 3S degrees. In Berke
 ley the mercury never went below to. This was at midday.
 An automobile returning from the
 hills in Berkeley brought into the