The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1895-02-15

"Twentysix above, the highest today,
said Observer Domain when a Citizen re-
porter called early yesterday. Just be-
fore daylight this morning the thermome-
ter registered fourteen above, which
equals the lowest record since the office
was stablshed-that of December Goth,
last. We thought that the coolest point
of this storm would be reached last night
but it looks now as if we would be mis-
taken. 1t will certainly be colder tonight
south of Jacksonville THAI last night.
In Jacksonville there were many evil
dences of the cold, some sights strange in
this state. The fountain in st. James
Park was festooned with icicles three feet
long and fringing almost the entire circum-
ference of the upper basin. From several
places about the city came reports of ice
forming on the water in low places, strong
enough to bear the weight OF Il man. Ice
was formed in pool of water, which
measured two inches thick. The windows
of most of the stores all day showed a
thick coating of frost. The reports OF
bursted water pipes came from every quar-
ter and the plumbers were merry.
The fruit men were the bluest OF all.
along that the December freeze had left
something to live for were killed by
Thursday nights experience.
Mr.. 7. r. Towers, of the Jacksonville
Fruit Auction Company, said: blue?
Well, | ought to be. | don't see any
chance for us now. Before this there was
some hope of a fair orange crop next
showing growth and the sap was running
up. Right here near Jacksonville the
eyes of the buds were showing, and |
have seen green shoots two inches long,
but now all is gone. A large acreage OF
vegetables has been put in since the De
cember freeze, and they are gone. The
strawberry crop would have been ready to
and it is gone. hear that it is going to
be colder tonight. Well, let it go to zero,
it can't hurt us any more.
Mr.. Ives, of the Fruit Exchange,
looked too discouraged to discuss the
situation. He said /" You knowas much
about it as l do.
The result of the cold through the state
on the fruit aud vegetable crops cannot
be known for few days. Most of the
experienced orange growers have said
that the full result of the damage on the
orange groves would not be known until
the trees begin to bloom in. March. If a
new crop of vegetables is put in now it
will be only about two weeks ahead of
the Georgia crops, which would give that
short time in which Florida would have
the markets to herself. None of the
large orange or vegetable growers of the
state were in town yesterday, and it will
be some days before any accurate state
ments from them can be had. For Flor
ida the outlook is gloomy, even if no
further damage is done before warmer
temperatures reach here.
Yesterdays maximum temperature, as
recorded bv the Jacksonville Office OF the
Weather Bureau, was 80 degrees above
zero, the lowest IA. The lowest maxi
mum temperature ever recorded at the
office was 20 40 degrees, in the great
freeze of January IL, 1886 Yesterday S
record was within about half a degree of
that.
The coolest place in the state was prob
ably at Quincy, where the mercury went
Key West, that was reported yesterday was
Palm Beach, where the thermometer for a
short time on Thursday night registered
80 degrees.