Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1917-12-08
WAL, GENTLEMEN,
TWAS BIT COLD!
First Snow of Season Falls
Lack of Gas Causes City
to Shiver.

Wal, gentlemen, twas a leetle cold
yesterday and along with the first ap-
pearance OF snow of the present win
ter and the high bleak winds that
hummed and howled from out of, the
north the gas pressure in and around
Tulsa amounted to almost less than
nothing. In fact. about the best thing
that the gas mains did during the day
was refuse TO spout gas.
This. of course, was quite to be ex-
pected. In the years that have tum-
bled down the pathway Of time during
which Tulsa has been considered the
oil and gas capital OF the world things
have been pretty much the same from
lack -of-gas standpoint as they were
yesterday and perhaps will be today.
Fair and Warmer.
In the language of the weather de-
rartment today will be fair and
warmer, but we do not cotton much
to those representations that are sent
broadcast from Washington The
forecast as released early Thursday
night allowed Tulsa would be favored
with fair skies and rising temperature
yesterday. The skies We're not fair
and the temperature did not rise. or
II 1t did il rose so high that II will
take several weeks for il to get back
down in this neighborhood.
Tulsans yesterday morning wit
messed the first snowfall of the season
OF 1917 and some of them witnessed
1t I'm very pronounced manner. IN
the wake of a snowfall follows slick
sidewalks and more than one quiet
urassuming citizen abruptly sat down
In full view of the public when az a
matter Of fact there was nothing more
foreign to their thots than assuming
o sitting posture.
However, in time the citizens. may
eccustom themselves to the icy side
walks, may grow to like the waiting
snowflakes and may even become so
the cold blasts of wintry wind will
cause them no discontinue. But
never in any number of YEARS will
they become consoled to n shortage of
gas. This is the worlds gas capital
and we should have gas. Z So, there!
The Temperature.
In passing 1t might be well to state
that in Tulsa yesterdays maximum
temperature was some 32 degrees, the
minimum 10 degrees above zero, and
we asked the observer twice to be
sure she didn't mean 10 degrees be-
low zero; the skies were cloudy and
the wind, rs almost everyone can tes-
tify, was from the north. There were
two inches of snow.
Having managed to slip that para
graph into the effusion. it now be-
comes necessary to announce that the
folk who are so fortunate as to be
able to eat at home Were not quite 50
fortunate when the evening repast
was spread before them yesterday.
One reason being that meal that In
the past has been arranged for con-
sumption along about G o'clock were
not brought along until about or Q
o'clock.
Thruout the city housewives fumed
md fretted-yea, ,sfussed-with a puny
blue flicker that was alleged to be n
gas flame. AS the dav wore on the
fuming, fretting and fussing became
more pronounced and at length grew
irto a wall. A wall of disgust and
despair
As an example of the delay that
was experienced ~ those who sought
10 cook food it might not be amiss to
recite the experience OF one young
lady who announced over the tele
phone that she placed pie in the
oven at 5:45 o'clock yesterday after
noon and remoyed~it at S:45 o'clock
the same evening.
Customers Suffer.
Restaurants also found 1t Difficult.
10 SUPPLY tne wants OF Inelr custom
ers. While some of these institutions
were fortunate in having good gas
pressure, many Of them found it I'M
possible to cook steaks. In some bar
Der shops customers were supplied
with cold water shaves. Other shops,
however had plenty Of gas and there
fore plenty of hot water.
Street cars found it quite difficult
to navigate for any great distance
without stopping and brushing the ice
and snow from the track that the
wheels might grip the rails Tele-
graph wires in some directions were
badly hampered and in some instances
put out of commission.
At S o'clock yesterday afternoon all
of the clocks supplied by the Self
Winding Clock company stopped. Of
ficials Of this company explained that
this had been done purposely and was
not caused by the cold or snow. so
far as could be learned the telephone
company had no great amount of wire
trouble from the snow.
Information received from the west
ern side of the state was to the effect
that the day had been featured by
warm weather and q slow drizzling
rain that turned into snow shortly
after sunset In many western towns
1t was still showing at midnight.