Evening star., 1935-12-24
HOLIDAY WEATHER
BRIGHT AND COLD,
SNOW REMAINING
Forecast for Tomorrow Is
an Ideal White Christ
mas Day.
SKATING CONTINUES
ON REFLECTING POOL
Many Enjoy Coasting on Slopes
of Rock Creek Park and
Hills of City.

An ideal Christmas day, bright,
white and cold. promised try-out to-
morrow for new sleds, skates and
sport togs which Santa Claus was re-
ported packing into his sleigh for his
annual southwark dash.
The weather man co-operated with
the spirit of the occasion by issuing a
Christmas eve prophecy for fair and
colder tonight and tomorrow. 3"
Moderate northwesterly winds are
expected.
Occasional Flurries Expected.
Only an occasional furry is expected
to add to the two-and-a-half inches
of snow which fell Sunday night. A
fraction of an inch fell last night, but
not enough to further discommode
traffic.
Continued cold prevailed over most
of the United States, with snow from
the Canadian Rockies South and East
to the Atlantic Coast. Light iurries
continued in the upper Mississippi and
Ohio Valleys.
Skating Continues.
Skating continued today on the re-
f1ecting pool at Lincoln Memorial,
while scores of youngsters coaSted on
the snowy slopes of Rock Creek Park
and surrounding residential districts.
Park police expect to rope off the
usual hills for coasters in Rock Creek
Park. and the Police Department to-
night will bar motorists from Subur-
ban hills adapted to coasting.
District officials last night contin-
ued sanding operations on heavily
Travelled steep streets, although the
snow did not reach sufficient depth to
warrant use of plowS.
There were many damaged tenders
and broken bumpers from minor auto
mobile collisions last night and this
morning, but no serious casualties.
Hose Wagon in Accident.
A collision occurred in the 400 block
Of Massachusetts, avenue between a
street car and a hose wagon which
was leaving No. Truck Company's
house to answer an alarm at Florida
avenue and Third street. E. NJ. West
brook, a fireman, was slightly in
jured.
Mrs R. o. Ridgeway, 80, was treated
by a private physician for injuries to
her head and hip, after she was struck
by an automobile at Thirteenth and
@ streets.
Plows and sanding crews continued
to work the highways of nearby Mary
land and Virginia. Snow in parts of
Southern Maryland, and on the East
ern Shore, reached a depth of 10
inches, and Chesapeake Bay was
fringed with ice heavy enough to block
small boats.
Schooner Ice-L0cked.
The Coast Guard Cutter Apache
was dispatched to the aid of the ice
locked schooner Kate Darlington,
which stuck in the upper bay, while
bound from Philadelphia to Baltimore.
From Hagerstown it was reported
the Potomac had frozen over. Bret
ton Bay, in st. Marys County, also
was frozen, as were fringes of the
Severn River at Annapolis.
At Crisfield it was reported nothing
had been heard from the small boat
which carries supplies between the
mainland and the fishing settlement
of 1900 on Smiths Island, II miles
off shore. Watermen said small boats
could not break the ice near the
island.
Residents of Smiths and Tangier
Islands were marooned for a week last
Winter by heavy ice, but were said
to be better provisioned against such
possibility this season.