Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-11-13
COLD WAVE FROM
NORTHWEST WILL
HIT HARRISBURG
Temperatures at Many Places
Lower Than Ever Recorded
in November
26 BELOW IN WYOMING
To Diminish in Intensity, but
City Will Get Taste of
Real Winter

Real winter weather including snow
and ice is due this week in Harrisburg.
According to a dispatch from Wash
ington, a cold wave, which is breaking
all records west of the Mississippi
river for this time of the year, is NOV
ing toward the Atlantic coast.
Local observer, e. r. Domain, cor
roborated the dispatch from Washing
ton and added: THE city will get
something like real winter about to-
morrow" The cold spell is expected
to last until Saturday or Sunday.
Whether it will bring skating at Wild
wood can be told more positively to-
morrow. One thing is certain, the
temperature will go below freezing
point
Cold Winter Ahead?
According to an old legend regard
ing st. Martins Day, which dawned
bright and early Saturday, 4 severe
winter may be expected
On the other hand, had the day
been raw and dismal, many persons
would have accepted this as proof
positive that the winter is to be mild.
For so runs the legend.
During the fourth century when st.
Martin was a soldier under Constan-
tinus at Amiens France, he cut his
cloak in two parts with his sword and
gave half of it to a beggar. Accord
ing to the story, that night he had a
dream in which he saw Christ wear
ing the garment he had given the beg
gar. He Immediately realized that his
charity had been extended to Christ
himself.
In later years French peasants, who
had learned the pirrnlnf ted the
legend that if the day was cold on the
anniversary of st. Martins death, the
winter months would be mild. After
the young soldiers generous gift they
believed that Christ had tempered the
weather in order that he might not
suffer from the cold.
26 Below in Wyoming
The Washington dispatch says:
"A cold wave with temperature at
various places lower than ever before
recorded in November, overspreads the
region west of the Mississippi to-day
and will move eastward to the Atlantic
coast. Sheridan, Wyo., reported the
lowest temperature with 26 degrees
below zero; Lander, Wyo., "a degrees
below zero and Cheyenne, Wyo., yell
lowstone National Park and Havre,
Mont, 20 degrees below zero. The
intense cold reached southwark into
the interior of Texas.
weather OlIlClGlS SalQ
the cold wave perhaps would diminish
in intensity as it moved eastward. Its
movement and intensity was some
what dependent, they pointed out.
u on the West Indian disturbance
which was reported this morning in
the Caribbean sea in the vicinity of
Swan Island. That storm was ap-
parently increasing in intensity and
will move northward. probably at
tended by strong winds reaching gale
force during the next SO hours over
the east portion of the Gulf of Mexico
and South Florida.
Rain and snow probably will pre-
cede the cold wave in the north Allan
tic States, Great Lakes region, Ohio
Valley and Tennessee. The cold will
strike the Ohio Valley, Tennessee and
the Gulf States tonight and the At
lantic States, except south Florida, on
Tuesday. Cold wave warnings have
been issued for Mississippi, Alabama,
Tennessee, Kentucky, Indiana and
Southwest Ohio.