New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1893-01-18
THE COLD SPELL BROKEN.
A RISE IN TEMPERATURE YESTERDAY.

zee IL THE SOUND AND LOWER FAY STILL
TRouBLEsoME-BUoY CARRIED AWAY
WARNER WEATHER TO-DAY.
The backbone OF the cold snap has been broken
The weather II the city WAS warmer Yesterday
than IL has been .or week, and there
is prospect 0; still warmer weather to-day and
tomorrow The ice IT. the Sound and In the
Lower Bay still gives trouble. and IL the neigh
borhool OF New-Yori, yesterday intensely coio
weather was reported in The early morning The
ice is mostly massed az City Island Wien the
Sound steamers came in from the eastward yes
terday morning feet Of them was stuck IN
the ice off Stepping Stones Light. The steamer
Providence finally broke a way through, ard the
Others followed her The United Press lookout al
SANDY Hook reported in the morning that a
whistng buoy several black and red can buoys
and white nun buoy were floating about within
mic OF shore These buoys had evidently
drifted ont Of New-lorl TIaroor The freight
steamship Naronic Of the White Star Line, at
tempted 10 get INTO the haIbor yesterday by
way Of the Alaln Ship Channel Whom she got
Hcary 70 the Southwest Spit she found the huoys
so out OF place that she turned back and came
Up the Swash Channel. The Schooner Normandy
canght in the ice and forced on the shoals
at the west OF the Swash Channel. Two tugs
went to her relief
Tie bell BUOY at the junction OF the Swash and
Main Ship channels got adrift and was carried
far 70 the southwark of It's proper position. Tho
steamship Egyptian Monarch. bound out. stopped
for long time at the entrance Of the Swasl be-
fore she could feel her way cut into the channel
On Tuesday night. while II WAS intensely
cold, the lighter George Lcthcridgc III tow OF
the tug Uncle Abe. got iammcd III the ice near
4. -. q finn h.rl
Havrc.which in tow of the tug Leader. TIL"
tugs and their tows were helpless Cor som"
time. and driftcd about with the tide. The
British steamship Regina tr.cd to get from fh"
Merchants Stores. Brooklvn. - 'he Eric BASIN
Three tugs had her in tow but, could not set her
into the basin FINALLY sAc GOT M steam and
forced her way in with Ter own power.
The ice settled thick about tic Long Island
shores and somewhat !:.crscred with the running
OF the South Brooklyn ard Hamilton ferries.
All the ferries ran their schedule time. however
The sun was so VAIN yesterday that after tlic
ricors OF the past week people said: Why, this Is
n mild spring day" II was hardly spring day,
however. tie thermometer 70. registering above
Is degrees, and started oUt n tie morning wi'h a
tired feeling that did Mt s!vc promise 81 ~
pleasant day as succeeded.
At o'clock in the morning tic Official th'7-
momctcr Of the Weather Burcan rec stored ) de-
crecs above zero Then tie m".cIry got cn"r-
gc,ic and begun a steady climb rp - / degrees
Pcrry's Thermometer, which is down on 'he SIDE
walk. where the temperature : mo:" nearly 'hat
which People feel in the streets. recorded lem
pcraturc oi degrees az a. ~ and Of degrees
three hours after. ~ o cock the mercury HaI
90, nm "a degrees, oul az noon Il la climbed
to II degrees At 80 p. IN. II wa- Up 20 i
Gccrcos, and at O'Clock IL Lad only ial"n orc
degree AZ . o'clock II was at y degrees. ana
at 10 IL still stood there. The prospects oi u"
weather for to-day are iartly cloudy weather ana
possible snow in the afternoon. i VIII tc warmer
To-day. and the wind VIII shift 20 'Ac southeast
Tho length and III. severity # re cold .p"ll,
which has now ended, i giprrccici 'cl FOR many
v.ars in Ncw-Yusk For tie ~ days ending
Tuesday night tie average temperature wa7 -
degrees.