New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-01-01
THE COLD NOT SO SEVERE.
GENERAL REPORTS OF MILpER WEATHER.

GENERAL REPORTS OF MILDER WEATHER.
PREDICTIONS OF A STILL HIGHER TEMPERATURE
To-DAY-EFFECrs OF THE COLD UPON TRAVEL,
TIE HEALTH OF NEw-YoRK, AND THE ANIMALS
IN CENTRAL PARK-RAILRoAD TRAVEL GENER-
ALLY REsUMED-ICE on THE ocEAN-INTENsE
COLD AT ONE OR TWO POINTS.
The weather in New-York and its vicinity
was somewhat milder yesterday than on
Thursday, but its effects were nevertheless
severely felt Travel on the elevated roads
was very heavy, although some delay was
caused on the Third Avenue line by
the freezing of water-pipes. DR.. Janeway
said that the cold weather would have
beneficial effect upon the health of the city.
Some of the animals in Central Park have
suffered much from the cold. Reports from
various parts of the country indicate more
moderate weather. In several places how
ever, the cold is almost unprecedentedy
severe.
THE MERCURY SEVERAL DEGREES HIGHER.
THE ELEVATED ROADS LARGELY PATRONIzED-
DELAY ON THE THIRD AVENUE LINE-THE COLD
AND THE HEALTH OF THE CITY-A HIGHER TEM-
PERATURE LOOKED FOR.
The weather has displaced all other subjects as q
topic of conversation. II two acquaintance met
yesterday they discussed the weather first After
that had been disposed of they spoke of stocks,
business OF whatever else interested them. Wher-
ever there was thermometer displayed in the open
air crowd of pedestrians might have been seen
gathered around it at any hour of the day.
In the early morning hours, during the rush Of
business men downtown, the stages and street cars
were crowded to repleton. Owing % the slippery
tracks and the crowded condition of the cars there
were frequent delays and much impaterce and pro-
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wait for some time on delayed vehicles and then
start off rs if they had made up their
minds that they could i'll afford to stand still.
There was no lettering or stopping to examine the
displays in shop windows. Old men and women who
were compelled to be ont made all haste consistent
with stIifened and rheumatic joints; young women
whose cheeks did not lack for color skipped lightly
the snow; children fastened along ut as rapid
a gait as the ground would allow.
Broadway in its lack of pedestrians was in strik-
ing contrast to its appearance on the few days pre-
ceding Christmas, when it was thronged. At the
side of the street there were huge mounds of snow,
while in the middle the packed to dense
ness that afforded good sleighng. The stages were
drawn by double teams, and made inharmOniOus
music as the heavily burdened wheels ground over
tho hard surface of the snow. Many trucks and
other vehicles were drawn by four horses. whose
up to draw their heavy loads. not nfrequent
sight was horse down and several men engaged in
getting him on his legs again-a difficult task in
many instances.
Stage and car drivers and teamsters had their
shoulders and heads wrapped up in shawls and other
garments. To a mufled up that only
the tip of bis was visible was n thing to laugh
at until ones sense OF the udicrous dulled by
the frequency of tho spectacle. But multitude of
wraps did not suffice to keep out the insnuating
chill of the air, and these animated bundles of rags
ran at tunes aong3de of their horses to keep warm.
Another expedent res0rted to by this class WAS to
strike their gloycd hands together or to throw their
arms around their bodies with quick motion. La
borers employed on tho sidewalks. in addition To
these methods Of increasing the circulation of the
blood, INDUCED in hornppes and jugs. The mere
fashionable put on ear-mufs and scarfs. or capped
their hands over their tnRllng ears. The only re-
lief to the general discomfort the sunshine that
made the crystals If snow that were blown hitner
and thither by the wind sparkle like diamonds.
The Thrd-aye. Surface Railroad Company kept
its sand-cars at work all day. The smoking cars on
surface roads, most of which were taken off Thurs
day. were running again yesterday They wero
we'll filed with passengers. but the other the
roads running North and South did comparatively
little business. The elevated roads, however did
an enormous business. On the Third-ave line. the
trains were well filled at all times, while during the
afternoon commission hours there perfect jam 1t
all the downtown stations. The water-pipeS, which
supply the engines at the City Hall Station Of the
Third-ave. road, were frozen Thursday night and
the through trains were only down 10
Chatham, square, Two trains, of two cars
each. were run between Chatham-square
and the CITY Hall station. These were able to
carry the passengers during the day, but when the
commission hours began they were utterly nade-
quate and the passengers between and o'clock
were often obliged to wait from quarter to half an
hour, At Chatham-square the crush was terrible.
and ii wonld take ten fifteen minutes to get from
one train to another. Tho water pipes at the Grand
Central Depot station were also frozen, and the en-
gines running between there and the Forty-second-
at station had to 90 down to the Thirty fourth st.
st. ton for water F. X. Ham. the general manager
OF the elevated roads, SAID yesterday 10 TRIBUNE
reporter; l.. oodono ~ nrsnol,v ,oroo hrs,ress
during this cold weather. Part of this may be at
tributable TO the holidays, but our cars are 80 well
heated and 80 much more comfortable than the cars
on the oE SsS ess ns the weather
"Has your method of heating the cars proved
Yes, think 40. We have some trouble during
this very cold weather, the hose connecting the
cars has sometimes got frozen. don't sec how
that trouble can be avoided. however. IL we could
run our tTan3 1DUO COfcIeu ucpOt NJ Aho Gnu va
every trip, as they do on the surface roads.
We would have trouble. As soon
as n train gets to the end of tho road
it has TO I've sent right out again. We cannot ex-
anime every car to whether is all right or not
II we find out that the connecting hose is frozen,
inst az soon az il Is possible the train is run
side track and the hose thawed out"
DR.. Jancway, Of the Health Board, said yester;,
weather upon the health of the residents
of the city: ~ think that this weather will nlti-
mately be very bsne6cia You will probably ind. |
however that large number OF deaths has been |
reported during the week. extreme cold weather
is very bad for very old persons and persons who
have pneumonia OF any other disease which 10 &C |
companied by low vitality. II il very ettec-
tual check for all contagious diseases. Ne%-York