. Book of the Royal blue . downfall of clinging, heavy snow than wasprecipitated in that belt of eastern coastlying between Philadelphia and Washingtoneast of the Blue Ridge Mountains. Tele-graph and telephone wires became encasedin solid coverings of snow and ice two andthree inches in diameter. The tremendousweight on the wires snapped or uprooted. results of disastrous snowstorm of night of MARCH 3, 1909 The weather bureau meant well enough when it prognosticated March 4th to be clear, with invigorating atmosphere. But the mercury slipped a cog or else a small boy with a horseshoe magnet in
. Book of the Royal blue . downfall of clinging, heavy snow than wasprecipitated in that belt of eastern coastlying between Philadelphia and Washingtoneast of the Blue Ridge Mountains. Tele-graph and telephone wires became encasedin solid coverings of snow and ice two andthree inches in diameter. The tremendousweight on the wires snapped or uprooted. results of disastrous snowstorm of night of MARCH 3, 1909 The weather bureau meant well enough when it prognosticated March 4th to be clear, with invigorating atmosphere. But the mercury slipped a cog or else a small boy with a horseshoe magnet in his pocket may have wanted to see the wheels go round in the barometers, thermometers and other meters in the weather shop, for the next day it snowed. Never perhaps was there a more disastrous the poles and mowed them down by thethousand in a stretch of 150 miles. Great trees fell under the fearful weight,and the railways between Philadelphia andWashington presented a sight never equaledin history. Miles upon miles of their trackswere blocked with poles and trees. Thewires were all down and electric communi-cation between Washington and Baltimoreand the rest of the world was absolutely AN INAUGURATION UNDER DIFFICULTIES cut off on March 4th and not re-establishedin any manner for at least thirty-six hours,except by the wireless, which was w
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