New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1888-01-24
THE COLD WAVE PUTS TO SEA

WARNER WEATHER COMING-THE HUDSON AND TIE
SOUND FROZEN OVER IN PLACES.
Great pufs Of white smoke and steam rolled from
the roofs OF houses and down into the streets yesterday
and tho weatherwlse looked them and tho gathering
clouds and predicted snow. Tho cold wave had lost
Its strength and passing over tho city into tho sea
while the mercury began to ascend to its accustomed
place In New-York thermometers. Tho Signal service
Office people said that the snow storm and warm
weather were approaching New-York from the s0u'A'
west 1t rained in the Gulf States during the day,
while IN the extreme north the coolest place was ST.
Vincent, Maine, where the mercury showed thirty
four below zero In the morning.
Skating its height in Central Park and tho lakes
are daily crowded with young people who enjoy tho
sport. Tho Park authorities have enforced strictly
the regulation this year which Keeps nom tho Ice all
those who do not skates. a great deal of COM
plant is made against the measure which confines
the sleghlng chairs to corner OF the largo lake
Young VITO are learning to 'Edo are aided Dy
the chairs and those who like to ride In them directed
by strong skaters glumble bitterly at being confined
to a limited portion Of the Ice.
thick field of ice hoated down the bay on the ebb
tide yesterday morning, choking up the Narrows and
causing some of the vessels at anchor of Quarantine
a great deal OF trouble. The ship Sckirk, OF Maitland,
Nova Scotia, when arrived on Sunday and anchored
OF Stapeton, was forced from her anchorage and
finally pushed ashore about half mile north Of tho
high upon the beach and there remained unt tn, after
tide when by the aid Of several steam tugs Sho
haul1d OIL, compaI ativcy uninjured. The ship
Bedford, from London, which anchored near tho
Sellirk also dragged her anchor, but was kept from
going ashore by two passing tugs. The ice foo
prevented the Health Officer from bcaI ding several in
coming steamers until noon.
Part and Part III Of the Court Of General sessions
were closed yest9rci! dfteraoon because Recorder
Smyth Judge Gldcrsleeve decided that the court
cold % entanger the health of tho
Jury and witnesses. The heating apparatus which
occupies lar portion of tho cellar of the Gene al
Sessions building, Is not managed furnish much
heat and stoves are In most OF rho rooms Complaints
about tho heating of the building have been repeated
for years. court officer who has examined tho
furnaces says that most OF the heat goes up tho
chimney and that the hampers are not properly ar
ranged. Almost all Of the occupants OF tho court
rooms yesterday morning wore thick overcOats aud
even then not comfortable. The building is under
the charge Of Subocias OF tho Department of Public
Works
The mercury for tho last two mornings registered IN
tho villages along the limo OF the New Haven Railroad
from four to eight degrees below zero. Tho Sound
frozen su liclentv allow skaters TO from
Portchester to Captains Island a distance OF three
miles and half. a circumstance that has not happened
I'm eight nne years. In tho Connecticut towns along
tho Sound early Sunday and Monday mornings. tho
mercury indicated from two to sixteen degrees below
zero The Hudson River is frozen solid between
GlonwOOd and tho Jersey shore, so that people
crossing to and fro on foot