Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-03-03
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Blizzar weather of the last few days
has brought to the minds of many
persons the suffering endured by the
city in the great blizzard of 1888, This
storm, which was accompanied by zero
weather and terrific snowstorm with
cyclonic Winds also occurred in
March, being the latest date on which
big storm was ever known. 1t be-
gan on the night Of March IL, 1888,
ana was at It's work the next day,
although on the 18th people just be-
gan to venture out. The city almost
starved. as people could not get in
from the country with supplies and the
trains were all tied up. The other
Diizzards that have swept this city
have occurred In other months, only
the awful visitor of 1888 and that OF
the last few days being recorded in
March. A blizzard hit the city on
January IS, 1895. and tied up things
generally and one that was worse
came along on February 10, 1899.
The 1896 storm brought temperature
or degrees below zero and b0-mile
winds, but that of four years later was
marked by temperature 10 degrees be.
low zero, or just one degree less than
the lowest recorded here. or ID de-
grees below OH February IA, 1912,
We have had big snowstorms, but gem
orally the mercury has not gone much
below degrees. However. in 1895
there were three or four zeros re-
corded aside from the blizzard and
this winter has been doing some
record making of Its own. March
also recalls the fact that the
flood of March 2. 1902, twelve years
ago yesterday, caused the destruction
OF two spans of the Market street
bridge. This flood came from heavy
rains. which caused Ice to give way,
q t1A ,aIr L.. Al. i
tnIrd pier OF the walking bridge" to
pieces, dropping first one span and
then another about / o'clock in the
morning. Half the town remained up
to see the bridge break and there are
many who can recall the suspense be-
tween the time the spans gave way
until they hit the Cumberland Valley
Rairoad bridge. The spans were SO
we'll put together that they were
found down about Middletown some
days later. This section of the bridge
was not the "camelback," but the por-
tion built after the destruction of the
eastern section of the bridge in 1866,
The western half, or the real cam
elback, went through fire and flood
and was tough job to tear down,
While prisoner was being taken
to jail yesterday afternoon. carefully
chained to a constable, his hat blew off
and went on down the street. The
officer did not see the use of going
after 1T and the man could not So
neM3poy chased 1t and brought it to
the shivering man. Then the hat blew
off again. This time it went across
the street and had to be chased
block. Meanwhile the prisoner stood
linked to the officer and saying things
about fate.
Some of the new cops have run
up against the hardest kind of duty
In their first forty-eight hours of SER
vice, One man who was employed in
rolling mill and up against hot metal
during his work got an outlying dis
trict to patrol with the coldest winds
of winter blowing.
Apparently hydrophobia is no more a
summer disease anymore than is small
poX a purely winter ailment Recent
experience in Harrisburg has demon
strated that they come at all seasons
and the officers of the State Livestock
Sanitary Board are now busy quaran-
timing districts of the State because
of the biting of dogs by animals
which have been pronounced infected
with hydrophoba. Half a dozen quar-
antines have been established lately.
John NJ. Phillips. member of the
State Game Commission, has organ
lied, with the aid of Mrs. Phillips, a
junior civic club in his home borough
of Garrick which will bear study. Mr..
Phillips believes that the place to
make good citizens is with the young
and an organization has been effected
which includes most of the youngsters,
who will be given plain talks on their
duty to the community.
Prominent among visitors to the city
last evening was Edgar G. Gerwig,
who was secretary to William A. Stone
when Governor. Mr.. Gerwig is now
practicing law in Pittsburgh and TAX
ing very little interest in politics.
The slopes of the city's bridges got
attention bright and early from the
Highway Departments men. Some of
the slopes were carefully gone over
with shoves and ridges cut on the icy
surfaces. This gave horses a chance
to get up without struggling on lslip-
perry paYements.