The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-12-30

vannah. Florida and Western railway.
he received kilograms from the officials
OF the Plant system in Florida telling Of
the effects OF the cold wave In that
state. They were all OF the same tenor
and that was that Florida had suffered
the most destructive freeze since the
memorable cold wave -0f 1856, when all
the fruit end vegetables were killed and
most Of the young orange trees as wen
10 Is believed that the present freeze viii
be fully as disastrous in its effects Capt.
fleming's reports showed that the cold
wave had covered the entire state or
Florida. with the exception Of the far
southern portion All the oranges on the
trees are frozen, the green fruit as well
as the ripe. ii IS estimated that about
three-ffths Of the crop has been mar
kcted, leaving tWo-ffths, which has been
destroyed by the freeze. The result is
ing 10 the very large crop
produced this year they have
received small prices for their
fruit. As soon as the oranges begin to
thaw out they burst and rot. a frozen
orange is not at all bad so long as 90
remains frozen, as many persons eau
testify who sampled the fruit in this
condition during the day,
The damage in Florida is not confined
10 the orange crop, but the truck grow
ers suffered severely as well Capt. Flem-
iug's kilograms stated that all the vege-
tables up or in the ground had been
killed. He considered 100000 a low Csti-
mate of the loss to the Florida orange
and truck growers. In all probability
the loss TO the orange growers alone VIII
amount TO more than this sum. The
young trees are believed TO have been
killed and the old ones are badly nipped.
Capt Fleming thinks the result viii be
to laarau-a F-s rul~-f
year, and for several years to come. The
railroads are heavy losers by the freeze
on account OF the loss Of transportation
OF oranges and vegetables.
In the city the freeze did n good deal of
damage. The greatest complaint was on
account OF burst water pipes. Almost
every householder had one or more bro
ken water pipes TO contend with. Hot wa
ter pipes seemed to have burst with greater
frequency than any other kind. Plumbers
were in demand in every direction and
were unable to attend TO ell the calls made
upon them. Pipes were bursting all day
and the number was doubtless largely in
creased last night. The freeze means pic
mic for the plumbers and sorry time for
the landlords when the bills come in.
There was no doubt considerable suf-
fering among the poor of the city night
before last, though so far as has been
learned, all of them seemed to manage to
get along in some manner or other. The
Louisa Porter Home had several appli-
cations for aid on account of the weather.
This home, however, makes excellent pro-
vision for the poor people of the city. 1t
has charge of the distribution Of the
county poor fund or that portion of II that
goes among the white people IT issues "a
load Of wood to all the poor people on its
list on the first Thursday in every month,
and provisions are given out on every
Ihmrgfav fr with
clothing wherever there IFS a need for it,
The chief applications to this home at the
time Of a cold snap are from tramps who
so there to get a square meal During
the month Of November 1l5 meals were
given 10 men, most of them being tramps
There were half a dozen applicants there
FOR meals yesterday and that many or
day. The home has had several appn-
cations from women on account of the
cold for fuel and il is doing what it can
to alleviate the sufferings of the needy
The fuel committee, which was organized
last year and did most charitable work.
through the contributions of business
men, was al work Yesterday Up to noon
over 100 cart loads of wood have been dis
tributed among the poor of the city and
a good deal was sent out yesterdaq. The
contributions to the fund were not as large
this year as they were last year and in
consequence the committee has not been
able to do as much as IL did year ago.
1t was reported yesterday morning that
n man had been found frozen to death in
the park, having gone to sleep under one
OF the shelters there. The report was in
vestigated and proved to be unfounded. 1t
was thought not unlikely that some poor
old bum who had filled up with liquor and
gone to sleep in the open air would be
found frozen stiff in the morning, but
no such cases were reported
One saloon keeper had his stock of bot
tied beer frozen and number of the bot
ties burst There were probably a number
of others who suffered similar loss.
A peculiar effect Of the freeze was the
cracking of the asphalt pavements in
many places. The cracks were new ones,
many of them, and while they were very
apparent in the early morning, they had
almost closed at the middle of the day
when it became warmer. 1t appears that
they were caused by the contraction of
the pavement on either side on account
of cold. and when it became warmer the
slight expansion closed them up, the as
phalt having given way and cracked in
the weakest places