New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1884-01-07
JACK FROST STILL KING.
LITTLE CHANGE IN THE TEMPERATURE.

THE COLD SNAP THOUGHT TO BE AT IT'S WORST
FEW PEOPLE OUT OF DOORS YESTERDAY.
The church bells rang ont throuha clear frosty air
yesterday morning, aud the city awOke to bright
cold day. 1t was not such a day as that which the
oldest inhabitant is fond Of telling about when the
rivers froze over and people skated down to Staten
Island but it was cold enough to suit the
people of these degenerate times, and
to make pedestrians step along lively
and hold their hands to reddening noses and ears.
Men longed for three hands to be able to hold
both ears and nose at the same time. The guards
on the trains of the elevated roads felt the cold
kecnly as they were shot along through the air,
and were not particular about staying
outside the cars. The horse-car drivers
suffered more severely obliged they were to face
the cold all day. The real street-car driver was
only the motive power of huge bundle OF over
coats, blankets. caps mittens and comiorters,
which stood on theAgont platform and directed the
horses.
The passengers who crossed the Bridge in the
heated cars remarked to each other that ii was
ri1e chilly, but those who crossed in the cold cars
said nothing. However lurid they might desire
their remarks might be- the words froze on
their lips The Bridge was not a popu-
lar promenade. A few people struggled aci"Ss
il in the Of the day, and felt like perpateuc
iciclcs after the performance.
There were few people to be seen in the lower
part of the city, and even in the neighborhood of
Madison and Union squares there were not many
people who looked as if they were out because
they wanted TO be- The piles of snow
some sou g of the streets were fOzon hard
and crisp, and the ice that still covers some of
the roadways became as smooth glass and as hard
flint. In RoOsevelt-st. gang OF Italians worked
with pickaxes all the afternoon, trying to remove
the six inches of solid ice which had formed in the
road ay. 1t was dreary day for the unfortunate
meudicant for whom even the hospltalltieS OF
cheap lodging -hOuse were beyond reach. These M
streets. somehow, Somcw here, by means and ways
tia are part of the grand secrets, OF
had slowed themselves away in more or less com
Portable places of refuge. At night they went IN an
army to the police stations-the lame, the halt ana
the blind, the drunk and the sober-and sought me
warmth and shelter that should enable them to 1--we
to the dawn of another day of misery.
In the meadows near Flushing, on saturday morn
road, frozen to death. The man was respectfully
dressed and apparently an lriohman. ne had
p cents in hls pocket, but nothing that could leab
to his Identification As matter OF fact II was
quite cold on Saturday as It was yesterday, nut
the city too busy to think about II then, while
Yesterday people had nothing else 10 do The
average Temperature on Saturday, as registered by
Iudnut's Thermometer, was la. Al CLOCK on
saturday morning the mercury Went Gown 10 y,
Thcrecord Yesterday was follows: At30clook III
the morning the mercury stood at lO~ at 6ocurk at
tine same point and at o'clock At 10. Al noon the
thermometer registered l5J and mt $3.50 ~. AT
Cookbook the Temperature had fallen To l4D, and II
was evident that II would q still lowcrin the course
Of the night The average temperature Tor the past
few days has been from TO- to IL below that OF
the same time for two years past
The reports received at the signal
Service office show intense cold ir
the Northwest. At DeadN Ood. OAK. the
mercury stood at 10 below zero, and 9t Bismarck
at y below. At Duluth il was 3 below, and AT
-. Vincent, Mimi. il stood at Is below. ia"
only place IN the United states from which reports
were received which showed lower teWpeIature
than 81. Vincent was Mount Washington, which
Tcjocrd in temperature OF 220 below zero: At
Albany. DradwODd. Kingston, Omaha and Saginaw
il was showing lightly. The dispatches from the
northern part of his State show intense and III
cr.asIugc cold. lhCndicaIuUs are that hccoId wave
viii pas. 10 the uorthward Of u.s. aud that We have
already had rs much of h a we are TO get
There was not great deal OF wind yesterday,
but hat there was vaS bitterly cold and PlcrrIug.
Early in the morning an Eugllshman muIled to
the eyes IN an ulster was cudcay"rlHg to make his
way against il toward MADISON square.
Hello Bob sud friend, what makes you
wa 80 fast. ch!"
blast me h-e,es, AIRY" he replied with chatter
ing teeth, Him trying to cat myself, You know,
and Cawnt"