The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1895-02-06
In Fourteen Years the Their
mometer Has Not Been
So Low as Today.
3 BELOW ZERO.
Cold Wave Extends Over Whole
Country East Of the Rockies
Snow Coming Then An
other Cold Wave.
GREAT BRITAIN IN IT, TOO

Three degrees below. The coldest in
fourteen years!
Most men who had to get up and keep
the fire going last night thought it was
thirty below. but it wasn't
The bear market on the thermometer
exchange started in at three o'clock yes
terday afternoon, when IA degrees above
was listed. From that hour the mercury
steadily declined, standing at degrees
above at P. NJ, 6 degrees above at
P. M, 4 degrees above at midnight
and touching bottom at degrees below
at O'Clock this morning. At A M
today there was reaction, the mercury
going up to zero. At y O'Clock it stood
at 10 degrees above.
According to Mr.. Dunn the rise is
only the forerunner of q severe snow
storm, with high northeasterly winds
and fog, and when this storm has passed
away over the ocean there is another
cold wave at it's heels which will come
down upon US and be even worse than
the one we are now experiencing.
In 1880. on December 81 it was deg.
below, and that is the coolest registered
by the New York weather bureau, which
was started in 1870.
WHERE IT COMES FROM.
wave comes, the temperature has fallen
in some places from 40 to So deg.
The crest of the present wave is now
moving rapidly eastward. 1t is central
over the lake regions, and it reached
its maximum cold today at White River
on the north shore of Lake Superior
where 1t touched so deg. below zero at
6 o'clock this morning.
The wave extends as far south as
Georgia, where the mercury stands at
couple of degrees below the freezing
point. AT Alpena, Mich, it was % deg.
below at 8 o'clock this morning, at Mont
real 20 below, at Albany 8 below, at
Boston below, at Philadelphia 2 below
and at NorthfellssVt., IS below.
The warmest place in the country is
Key West, where it is pleasantly with
es deg. above. zero. and the coldest spot
"a Saz country today is Havre Mon,
wheres ft-was Is deg, below zero at s
o'clock this morning.
In the North River the enormous mass
es of ice coming down thA, Hudson have
been blown by the wind over to the east
shore. The ferryboats found it in many
cases difficult to land their bows crowd
ing the ice between them and the pier in
to a solid mass. Extra long gang planks
were necessary to bridge the distance
from the boats to the shore, and the shiv-
eng passengers slid or slSated over them
en- TO the slippery piers.
All over the Bay there is thick white
INST, caused by the water being warmer
than the air It hangs over the water
TO "a height of about four feet and makes
navigation very difficult.
Up the Hudson River at Sing Sing
the ice is solid from shore to shore and
tina, NOT haan frozen so solid since tba
gra.t hlfgzard
FEppvRnATs TN TPOJTRJE
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u, mo .,t,, tbe,r t,ns tbis morning The
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ber N<su, york ,iar hv q car f1oat of tho
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o,t 4n tha r,ver With savera1 bnn5,yed
1aseonearS Gould NOT eat IN The 90
+s,,, ~ +bo nraroor, ,fter ,va itin,, twenty
minutes steamed down to an ernptv
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a,d ,aadad t,s ,,o-sa,,e-ers .,,ara N4onv
af t,a - naddla1,besr ,.- fasryboats wera IN.
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ooor
In th,s c,tv +hss norninp two men
,,ora fo,,na o,,o,oor,a NTH tbo cold
srioh.a1 Conura,, Ak vears old of No
s5e -o,,,ou,,,,a y, ovanre 7bad hss hands
a,,a faat to Az, froza,,
Willfar Hackeft Of No 400 West
1strast New york NARROWLY escanes
5air. froven to daa+h He irnbihad tor
frealv last night and then went 10 sleep
on Grove street When found by a po-
liceman his feet and hands were terribly
frozen. He was removed to ST. Francis
Hospital.
The police of the Sixth precinct have
prohibited the boys in the neighborhood
from coasting on the Mountain Road. The
slsds made the throughfare too slippery
for horses to ascend, and much danger
was Arisked from coilfding with vehicles
at the foot OF the hill. Tbs coasters cia