Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1893-01-19

At a. M. Monday tho temperature was
90 below zero. This is undoubtedly the
coolest weather for d decade, since 1851.
II must be always remembered by those
taking notice of the temperature that there
is a difference of from A to 81 in thc read
ing of thermometers located OF streets
running north and south us compared
with instruments located on streets that
run east and west. For instance, u. J
Belt has q thermometer on Market street
and another just around the corner, on
Sixth street, On Sunday evening at
O'clock the Market street Thermometer
read lIa, While the SIKH street instrument,
hardly q feet away, read 81. This must
always be taken MS the general rule rs ,lf
tccting temperature records when taken
locally.
The truer record of cold weather would
of course be that ul The east and west
streets. The theory is that there is Il mass
of warmer air boxed up, as it We're in the
cannon-likc reservoirs OF the north ana
south streets, projected by ,he Wall-like
lines of buildings, and which had not yet
been affected by the cold western winds
which came bowling along uahindCrCd
| from the west and northwest and lower
ing the temperature along those streets.
Local influences such as the thermOme-
ter being placed upon wall which faces
| ION its INTERIOR Il heated room within
would account for some of the notable
disparity in the readings reported around
| the city.
The highest temperature ON Saturday
was 2io. At noon it stood ~ and at 4
| ii was zoe 1t was between these hours
| that the temperature ran up to 2l'. sun
| day ut d. m, the record was zoe,
! At S n. IN. Monday the thermometer
| stood 10 below zero.
| Looking from the top story Of the biz
| Equitable building sunday morning
about 10 o'clock. along the whole length Ol
the Delaware river not single vessel could
be seen, II was an eXpanse of ice from
Edge Moor to Pigeon Point with the On
ccpliun of 4 gray mass which indicated
open water from below the Chrlstiana'S
mouth To Il point Immediately east of the
line OF the building Just is the reporter
was leaving q tug was discovered pulling lt'
heavy clouds of smoke as it endeayOrcd Il
push its way along the Christiana toward!
the lighthouse
In 1851 the thermometer fell to lGa below
zero at FELTON, and great many peach
trees were killed. For several nights ii
succession the thermometer stayed below
zero.
In Dover the same year, during thu
legislative term, the thermometer at til,
State House showed below zero at $50 fol
several mornings.
The night the Capitol House burned
which was in the same month, the ther
mometer was 70 below zero. This was be
tween ! and > n. III. and during the heigh
Of the Contlagration.
: Although there were many thousand
of peach trees killed in the cold spell o
81 the present cold wave may NOT ailec
, them seriously. But still it is getting
down to the dangerous point.
NOTHING MOVING on THE RIVER.
At the Wilmington Steamboat Com
S pany's wharf Monday morning Captai
+ Bloomsbury reported weather condition
the worst for the season. There is nothin
; moving on the river The Brandywn
i did not go out, as the ice Is too heavy
"a The ice is turning mp to 10 inches clear
not jumbled, but hard, new clear ice.
: ON the river the ice boats are kept col
/ stantly at work al the Horseshoe ut Glol
r cester keeping the bend in the river at thu
point open,