The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1893-01-24


CHICAGO. Jan. 24.-With the New
York harbor frozen up, ten ocean steam
ers foundering in ice-hoes at Hamburg,
Florida suffering from cold and the en-
tire west enameled with snowbanks, it
appears that the present frost-bite is
nipping pretty large section of the CIV
ilized world. Thirty-two degrees below
zero is the bracing temperature regis
tered up near the Canadian border and
towns in North Carolina are learning to
appreciate overcoats and other luxuries
in an atmosphere which keeps the ther-
mometer at zero.
In the east an engineer was frozen
with his hand on the throttle; the rud-
ders on the Philadelphia ferry-boats
froze stiff and lay dormant in true Phil
&delphia fashion; oysters in the Chesa-
peake bay are rooted over with thick ice
and can't be got at, and up at Kingston
woman carried pail of water a short
distance and both were frozen A tug
in New York audaciously tried to split
an ice-foe in two, and ran at It only to
get wedged in and carried down the har-
Dor, shrieking for help. These and the
serious delays of many snow bound
trains and a general disturbance of
mails, and traffic mark the features of a
very vigorous cold snap.
In Chicago and towns of the same or
lower latitude the spectacular effect of
this winter panorama can best be gained
by imagining the conditions prevailing
less than six months ago. This is the
same city wherein but recently men
went about the streets, painting, in their
shirt-sleeves, waving palm-leaf fans,
guzzling iced drinks and scalded with
the humid heat. This preposterous pic
ture is a good one to keep in mind in
| the present blizzardy days, when the
only easy way to get out to the crib is to
walk
| At fire last night on Clark street the
water froze almost as fast as it left the
house and the firemen who held the noz-
zles were soon frozen to the pavement.
The front of the building was soon COW
cred with a complete coating of ice. The
telephone wires in front of the building
also fell down from the weight of ice
which gathered upon them, and they
presented picturesque sight as they lay
in festoons on the pavement.
Combining the ridiculous with the
sublime features of the storm, the
snow was scraped off the track
and banked up on either side
along the Hawthorn race-course yester-
day, leaving hard, sandy crust on
which the horses galloped with their
half frozen jockeys, in order to decide
who should take the money deposited
with the eight book-makers, whose
stands stood inside the betting-ring
A few years ago such scene, if well de-
picted upon the stage, would have
brought roars of applause because of its
merits as burlesque on the old-time
sport of horse-racing. Between the
track and the grand stand there was a
the big field and stable-roofs beyond
were all one grand expanse of white
Here and there along deep paths through
the open field men wrapped in huge
overcoats could be seen hurrying along
to and from the stables. But the rest
of humanity kept under shelter except
when the blow of the bugle summoned
starter Chinn and his assistant to the
post, and it would have been hard work
| to convince a Kentuckian of ten years
/ ago that this scene represented the good
old sport of speeding horses.
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