New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1893-02-19
COLD WEATHER ~ OLD TINES
From The IIartfold Conrant.

From The Hartford Courant.
Almost a hundred years aco Timothy Dwight; hrsl u
the name TO become president Of Yale Cole.e Or-ln
series Of notes of travel in New-Ens1Ad IRON slo S
he constructed his book. Travels IN N,N fl-Linu
NcwlOrk.' II is MOI much read now bat u Is m INV
Of iniornatonond we'll worth eAaminaon raas NH xp
III" somewhat prriuEctory ana distant resIrTit wss
prepared. Or. Dwight wrote IN Introduction ,ItlsS
OF New ENGLAND In general, anu In ms ne G s'oJJ
as to the cmac He note; D pGgpG Rad become
mildcr: that the great snow storms ana tle Pe.l $50
Of intense cold all TO be placed hundfe9 ', rae
before the time nj which he wrote ne la ~%
a gentleman Who I'm these days would be ealle gan csn
only say TIA; doubt the fact :. Within ,I.c ny
He fS S On @,6 to give ZONE EaEic"I? and ia; were
The -now which f,ll In 17I7 WAS. an per noS q;
not 80 great a mat which beam on I C and sets
crossed the harhor of Boston, and some ~ th, w.,
down on the ice 10 NantI>k"t. nine niles III s,,,en
Island dis'anc" Of ten mile In who're Il /.
WAS frozen entirely acgoS, n Fahied VIZ VIZ. on ,he
igecn miles Vide The Effects Of ne "a cora greater In
the county Of Fairfield lan nr" recorded AZ q S,en at
FSI rra about nvr !" wcrS ' The s' snow IN FIX @
ton in i7i6. From February ~. lso3 It fell an'b
c SS gGSp' fop part S Si "r % v Of S@ ' WITH NOV
in which the former prcdomlnatcd ana was ~ r,
that II contained more than double TIE quannN, I,d
1t been snow only 1t would At least have bee" "''
feet deep , h,s ,hsay
President Dwight goes to cxpouni MS IA W' ne
Of the pcrlodlciV Of and coli waves a iaSr
general e-pondcncr Of sickness VIII tl' sssOrs
ana health With the latter. Having gwen ~, coh
for Thinking that the great storm, ana 49, and
waves Of the past may have been "A1Es'Ia'.,bv n
that those Of his tim" are equally ts""sdep
enlnencc he passes 10 n consideration "i tnr,,,c
changes o. temperature which are olsrl' ~ ~
this country and develops his theory mat NJ t0cs
due 10 the descent of cold mir from The upll w
of the atmosphere. rc1chlng this conc ,yaMe
virtual exclusion Of other theories as ln'o"'
"a else not IN accordance with known iic', merely
With all this We do not care 70 d'fli' pus ,hre
call attention 10 the fact that when NJ VIZ honed
was the same fashion Of considering on 9mna ons.
winters much mOrc terrible than new 'nIonS I'm, on
and that he collected facts enough 10 thto" Nv siy
lis correctness. We do not n0wadaNs wv a y.ars,
feet deep and haven't for long Term ~, Vi matters
bnt the freezing " the sound and Suc my ro,,en-
have been duplicated too recently To- pe ao,s The
once or twice within the pas; TWENTY-FIVE y,"U The
leo blockade OF this winter came very ne,r reithr
sound was not frozen above described, p pprpiient
WAS IL I'm one Of the memorable wiitTSh ,biv the
might cites and the reason was rong winds
which prevented lee from forming as u "o"''
done In calm weather ..,c,lve subject
Much more on this percnnlally a,trarn Who takes
may bo found IN the Travels 10y any 9"r rwch other
thn trouble 10 cNamin" thc book. INV, and In The
matter quite rs intcrrstirg both IN it, and ways.
comparisons II furnishes With our own u"'' W.