Morning journal and courier., 1886-01-13
FOR JACK TAR.
Its Source of Income Gets a Lift i'm
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Its Source of Income Gets a Lift in
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 The Seamen's Bethel prospects look quite bright. The Center church at their annual meeting on Sunday evening voted to give their entire annual collection for sailors here after to the work under the charge of the Bethel Heretofore the collection was divided between the Seamens Friend society here and the New York society. The sub- ject of the change having been broaohed at the meeting MT. Thomas R. Trowbridge in few telling and earnest remarks of com mendation of the proposition and of the work done here advocated the change, which was at once voted. The collection will be quite lift to the Beth ell.
 Also on Monday wealthy gentleman of this city met Superintendent Thrasher of the Bethel and drove down to the Bethel in his carriage and was shown over the institution by Mir. Thrasher and given interesting facts relative to its good work; and surprised Mir. Thrasher by sending him check for $500 in the next mail The following letter received by MT. Thrasher throws further light on the subject:
 Ivy Nook" New Haven, January Il, 1886.
 Ter enclose check for ssoo to be applied in paymen. of the deficiency as stated in the annual report of society c y'c of the port G of New a Haven ~ ''11
 Wishing the society continued success in its noble work,
 am very truly yours,
 Dr. J. J. CRANE.
 Mr. Thrasher is now soliciting funds for the society's work for the yeari all donations will be reported at the next monthly meeting and acknowledged through the press.
 ET,S COLD.
 Some Facts About the Cold Snap
 How Thermometer Vary.
 Chapel street was nearly deserted as early as o'clock last evening, and the absence of the pretty girls and young "dudes" was very noticeable. The few people who were out, however, were evidently in hurry to reach warm fire. The horse car drivers looked nearly frozen with the icieles hanging from their moustaehes, es they stamped their feet and beat their breasts with their hands to keep the blood in circulation. The police men hurried rapidly around theiT beats and waited anxiously for the time to come for them to make their first report and get near heater at headquarters. Captain Hyde notified the men that they were at liberty to 'report between times' if they thought necessary.
 In fact everything and everybody looked cold. The windows of the horse cars and of the stores were covered with thick coating of frost and the thermometer recorded only two above zero at 7 p. m. last evening.
 How cold it really is can ouly be ascertain ed at the signal office in the Insurance build ing and by means of a few other thoroughly reliable and truth-telling thermometers, as thermometers vary woefully in different parts of the city, even as much as from ten to twelve degrees, and society for the SUD- nf J1nra1iahla thermometers abnnI1 at onos he started. Some of the thermome- ters seem to have no self-respect left, as they dropped amazingly low according to the fig ures received from different places, and it is supposed that at some places the mercury has gone through the bottom of the glass tube.
 At the boat house in Whitneyyille the thermometer was eight below, at Klock's drug store two above and at other parts of the city early in the evening the records va ried from six above to ten below. The har- Dor is frozen over considerable distance beiow Long Wharf, with the exception of the channel, which is not frozen at all; and above the wharf the skating is very good, but still not quite safe. The eohooners J. D. Dewell and James Boyce are both frozen in the ice, and although they tried to get out yesterday, they were unable to do so. It will, however, take two or three days more of this kind of weather for the entire harbor to freeze over.
 Although the weather is very severe in this city, it is Baoz!s SO in the surrounding towns, and yesterday nor ing at Woodbridge, according to the best information it was IA below. At Lyme, Ct., it was 150 below zero, st Guilfora tG' below and at Branford it was S' below.
 The Connecticut river is frozen up fast and transportation above Say brook is temporarily impeded. At Litchfeld station, When, the Naugatuck train down went through, the haarcury marx TX ed 20 degrees below zero. This was st 7:3O, and was seen by the conductor himself He was told that at an earlier time the record was 27 below In Winsted 20 and 21 below were the average, and es6n Waterbury was compelled to struggle along under the 15 and 16 below. But Litchfeld- BIT II Even Monday night when the Nauga. tuck train went up the thermometer hid itself in 8 below. At several points in Norwalk 12 and IA below were reported, in Westport from to 13, Southport 3 to 10, Fairfield to H. Bridgeport to 8, Stratford 10 l2.
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