New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1893-12-06
SOME POLAR TEMPERATURES.
SEVERE WINTER WEATHER, WITH sLEIGHING
AND ALL TIE ACCoMPANIMENTS



Saranac Lake. y. Y. Dec. (SpecaD.-Thirty de-
grees below registered here at O'Clock
this morning.
ST. Johnsbury. VT, Dec 5-The thermometer
registered twenty-five degrees below zero this
morning.
Kingston, y. Y. Dec. 5.-The cold snap Of last
night and to-day inGica tes an early close OF navi-
cation on the Hudson River. Rondout Creek was
covered with half an inch of ice this morning and
there has been lively work all day loading cargoes
on a score more of vessels for Eastern ana
Southern ports with coal. cement and b'ues'one'
on the Delaware and Hudson Canal seventy laden
boats are en- route for tdewater here, and ice
breakers are keeping the canal open, so the boats
can reach their destination. There Is scarci'y
of chestnut coal on the company's large docks.
and many OF these canal boats have cargoes or
this size of coal. The Martin and Tremper, OF
the Albany -Newburg line Of steamers. nave Deeh
hauled off as has the James W. Baldwin. OF the
pondou,- New-York night line OF boats. The thel-
,notneter registered ten degrees above zero here
to-day six below at Stamford and four below at
Hobart. Delaware County. This is the earliest
close Of navigation in about ten years
Poughkeepsic. Dec (specaD.-lt has been snow
ING along the Hudson all day, and the river Is
,rozen sodly at Casteton The Coxsacke ferryboat
made only one trip this afternoon, and the Hudson
forrv is closed. The propeller McAlanus, OF the
Coxsackie and New-York Line Is bound sou'h
tonight and Will not return. The steamer RIVER
Belle left Coxsackie tonight at 6 o'clock bound
south with the help Of tug, and VIII not return
The steamer Isabella. of the Hudson ana CatsNii
Line was taken of her route this afternoon There
is not much ic- south OF Catskill to-night thous n
all the bays and coves are frozen over All va! Wy.
boats between Hudson and Albany have gone, ihto
winter quarters The Hudson boats 70 New OF x
Will run as long they can. The hlhSSloh anu anu
New-York boats are still running. as are also thoSe
Of the Poughkeepsie Transportation Company
Baltimore. Dec. "a heavy shoWstorn p'Riii
at o'clock this morning and continued through,
out the day II was the first genuine SNOWMAN M Oh
the season. Street car traffic WAS only siish,IS ,
DELAYED but swcepers were kept busy IN cical''Ris *
and sanding the tracks. Sleighs and bells are III
great demand tonight. - e,uL.
IIo1ovcr ~ H. Dec. 5-rhe mercury was eieht
degrees below zero here this morning nine pgi2w
at LYME and ten below at Norwich VI flshi,
inches OF snow have fallen, and there Is sood
Atlantic City, Dec. 5-A storm from riSg 1he "ul ac
c,rcam Is moving uD the coast TINS nOThliis, AZ
comnanied hv high winds on land ana severe gaits
~ Sea 4 snowstOrm set in early TINS morning
at" Trrv Dec THE steamer city OF Troy OF the
C.i,j1.ns' Line left Troy for Ncw-Nork AT CLOCK
bis afernoon for the last trip Of The season ms
a. Tho earliest closing Of Hudson river navigation
in snveral years the last trlp In ls92 having pe1
made December 20. In 1891 the last trip was hade
December %.