The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-01-07
THE com AVE.

Places Near New Haven 10 Below-Eine
 Skating at Whitney Lake--Many Enjoy
 ing it Yesterday Cold Wave in Other
 Places.
 old winter anA Jack Frost was astir yesterday and last night, too, for that matter as the promised warmer wave did not materlall2e. The old reliable thermometer at filings drug store re- corded degrees below zero at 8 o'clock and 1 degrees below zero at 1 o'clock yesterday morning. Early last even inS it was creeping down toward zero again. The New Haven Street Railroad conductors employed on the Saltonstall lake route found that the thermometer touched 10 degrees below out at the lake, and said that the atmosphere on the first trip out was or a very Arctic kind. EX-Town Clerk Hugo's ther- mometer struck 10 degrees below when given an airing out of doors at a. m. yesterday by one of the clerks. The clerk pulled it in as it appeared to be rapidly decreasing to 20 degrees below, he being perfectly aghast at the drop in the temperature. This thermometer has been laid off for repairs.
 As was to be expected with such zero weather there is skating again on Lake Whitney and the skating IS just splendid" So all said who tried it yes terday, and there were scores of skat- CTS enjoying it. The ice Is five or six inches in thickness and is glib enough. The whole lake is frozen over this time all the way down to the dam.
 At HemiEgway's pond, Dickerman's pond-in fact at all the neighboring ponds, the skating is excellent. IT WAS A COLD DAY IN NEW YORK
 New York, Jan. 6.-This is the coldest day New York city has had for more than fifteen years. The mercury drop ped down to degrees below zero at 6 o'clock this morning and stayed there for three hours Then 1t began to rise, and at ] o'clock it had slowly crawled up to degrees above zero.
 Not since December 31, 1880, had there been such cold day. On that date the temperature fell down to $ degrees below zero, which is the cold est on record here in the history of the weather bureau with the exception of January 10, 1875, when the mercury registered the same figure. The next coldest day on record was February "A, 1873, 1 degrees below zero.
 There was one other day when the mercury dropped as low as it did to- day for a little while. That was on January 3, 1879, at s o'clock in the morning, when it registered 3 degrees below for time.
 GOING TO BE WARMER. We've had the worst of it." said Lceal Forecaster Dunn this morning. "The cold was due to an area of high pressure passing east, and it covered the entire eoutitry The crest of the cold wave now rests over the eastern section os Canada, and extends down over the New England states and the North Atlantic states. It is moving l rapidly eastward, and we have had our coldest weather. It is getting warmer all over the country. THE CoLDEsT SPOTS
 The coldest place in the continent, l from which reports were received, was Rockclif, Canada, where the temper atrre was 2S degrees below zero at B o'clock At Montreal and Quebec it was 20 degrees below. At Northfleld, 1 Vt, it was 22 degrees below. the cold i est place in the United States. At Os- i wego, N. Y, 1t was IS degrees below, and at Portlatd, Me, it was 12 degrees below. At Boston it was s degrees be- low.
 | South of New York along the Atlantic coast it was warmer. At Philadelphia it was 6 degrees above zero at Wash ington degrees above, at Lynchburg l F degrees above, and at Charleston it was just at the freezing point, S2 de- grees.
 At Jacksonville and New Orleans the 1 temperature was 3S degrees above, and | the Warmest place in the country was 1 Rev West, where the mercury was 60 1 degrees above zero
 1 r DEGREES BELOW AT ALBANY. Albany, Jan. 6--The cold wave did not let up as expected this morning. Early in the morning Albany and sub urban thermometers registered tenn perature of r degrees below zero. The
 thermometers In the center of the shop
 ping district indicated II and IF de-
 grees below zero at 9;s0 a. m Ice is
 rapidly forming in the Hudson, but
 the ice men are dissatisfied because
 there is no snow to protect it after the cold snap lets up. They fear the first
 January thaw will spoil it unless a
 snow storm arrives soon.
 IS DEGREES BELOW AT VASSAR Poughkeepsie, Jan. 6.-At Vassar col lege this morning it was IS degrees be- low zero, and at other places in this
 vicinity 15 degrees.
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