Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-01-01
One DEGREE ABOVE !
ZERO THIS morning
SnoWstorm and Moderation in,
Temperature Fails to !
Arrive as Forecast.
MIDDLE WEST WARMER

with delay in transmission of the
snowstorm and moderation of tempera-
ture promised by tho weather bureau,
Washington this morning was colder
than II was yesterday.
At 8 O'Clock this morning the Official
thermometers At the weather bureau
registered exactly six -tenths OF a de-
gress lower than yesterdays minimum.
and three whole degrees colder than at
tho Same hour yesterday.
At $3.50 o'clock yesterday morning the
official temperature as reported by the
weather bureau was Ls degrees above
zero. At that hour thi. morning the on
cial thermometer showed 4 degrees above
Two hours later the temperature isd
dropped 1 degree, to above. and at
o'clock this morning the low mark OF
the cold wave that has gripped the
capital since Saturday. 1 degree above
zero, was registered
This was a drop of degrees from
midnight, when the temperature was s.
degrees above zero.
Promise of more moderate tempera.
today. though the snowstorm indicated
yesterday appears to have become lost
somewhere in the mountains. Rising
temperature and fair weather arc the
hopes held out in the weather bureaus
forecast for the next twenty-four hours.
though no material modification of the
cold is to be expected before tomorrow.
From the hills overlooking the Po-
tomac near Mount Vernon as far can
be seen the river is covered with sheet
of smooth ice, except in the channel.
There it had been broken by the Nor-
folk line steamer, but had frozen solid
had passed.
Nothing is moving on the river ex.
cept the big Norfolk boats and the gcvS
eminent tugs to Fort Washington and
Indian Head. Even they are finding
the ice Troublesome 4
Most Severe Freeze. s
Rivermen say the present freeze is the
most severe that has occurred IN tne
past fifteen years. They are still exs
pecting a change in short time, as they
are all firm believers in the old ripery
mans theory that a freeze before Christ.
mas means open water son after New
Year day.
1t has been many years since tueboate
have had as much use for ice plows -
they have had in the cold spell OF tht
past two weeks. The fce-bound river
There was a time that every tugboae
on the river had pillow that was pue
on at the first coming of Ice and kept II
place until spring.
In the last few years there has been
but little need for them. 40 but little
| ice has formed heavy enough TO Keep
tugs from moving.
The plows were allowed to get OUT
of order. This winter found only three
tugs with them. the District poles
boat vigilant, tho tug Minerva and the
tug James o. Carter.
A pillow IL now being built for the tug
Can't. Toby Others OF the tugboaS
feet will be fitted with fcebre1kerA :,
.qw In South and East. !.
Increased cold prevailed through
much Of the south ana east according
to reports this morning to the weather
bureau. At Columbia, s. c., the of
fcial was s above: at Augusta. Ga, IL
was IL above. Montgomery. Ala. re-
ported Is above; Jacksonville. Fia-s
| 20 above. and Tampa, Fla. So above !.
In the middle west temperatures
were slowly rising. and q snowstorm
over the entire middle west wa9
bringing some relief from. the bites
cold. Slight moderations OF tempera
| ture were also reported from New York;
| with below; Boston with below
New Haven with below and Portland,
Me-, with 4 below.