The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1896-02-17
COOLEST ON RECORD
Jersey City and New York
Under an Almost Attic
Temperature.
MERCURY BELOW ZERO.
The Brilliant Sunshine a Bitter
Sarcasm -Good 10 Last
Two Days.

NEW YORK. Feb. II. lssC.-All New
Workers whom business or pleasure COM
PEELED to be upon the streets Of this city
at eight A. NJ. today. know that there was
a compensating advantage to the GOODNESS
ana general discomfort. This compensate
irg advantage had to do with the weather.
IN fact. It was the weather-with a ven
geance, too.
Tine Weather Bureau has been a New
York Institution for more than a quarter
OF a century. In that time. which means
from the days that General Grant was
this country's President. the temperature
has not reached as low a point as it
touched at eight A. M. Monday, February
II. 1896. At that particular hour and date
the Signal Service thermometer read ca
deg. below zero.
Twice before during the reigns OF Mr..
Dunn's predecessors has the ofIicial Their
mometer touched-6. These days We're
Jan. 10, 1876, and Dec. 81. 1881. Mr.. Dunn
said this morning. that. Of course, his
records extended but twenty-five years
back. but he thought, nevertheless, tina
the memory Of man would have to go
back to a point antedating the late Civil
War to find this mornings equal.
It looked so on the streets. Il is not the
fashion OF New Workers to run along the
principal t~horoughfares. The inhabitants
OF this city generally prefer a d~ignified
Kind OF locomotion. In short. they walk
With hands at their sides shoulders up,
and carry pleasant. smiling countenances
Not SO this morning. They hurried as
though they were after dollars. They
chuckad their hands deep down in their
overeoat pockets. They nunehed their
shoulders. And they carried worse than
bicycle faces.
1t was SO cold that friends did not stop
friends to onvers about the weather.
Fhey wanted to get indoors with the great
est possible speed and the least possible
delay.
Out door skating on real ice is not dead
IN New York fer this year. The Central
Park lakes and Van CORTLAND are already
frozen over to a thickness of several
inches. The ice is making every minute.
The skaters can use It this afternoon.
The cold wave, the New York crest Of
which IS here today, is the one tina WAS
icoked for and praphesied on Saturday.
It came here from the northwest and the
lake region. It is a very extensive bit of
weather. 1t is central today in Canada
just north Of the Great Lakes. Rock
StiS ASAdo LIE ltSo-o with 90 Oufl1S
some time in thu early meraing ana 81 AZ
eight o'clock. At Montreal and Quebec
the thermometer registered 81 degrees.
The coolest spot in the United States
low zero. Following this came Oswego
Is below, Albany is below, Portland,
Me, IA below, Boston u below, Cleveland
9 below. New York GA below, Philadel-
phia 2 below and Pittsburg just zero.
Every point north of a line drawn from
Philadeipflia 70 PifIsburg and taking in
the lake region had belcW-zero weather..
Mr.. Dunn said that he expected it
would be. slightly warmer today, prob
ably reaching ITO above zero. sit win be
very cold again tomorrow morning. he
In Chicago and st. Paul the te1npera-
ture at 8 A. M. today was 8 degrees
above zero. Helena and Bismarck re-
joiced in 40 degrees above, and Denver
went them s degrees warmer.
Alabama, Georgia, Tennessee and the
Arkansas Vailey all report freezing
weather this morning.
1t is generally clear throughout the
country. There is no snow in sight for
New York. The wind is fresh to brisk
here, averaging from ten to sixteen miles
an hour Yesterday it reached a thirty
~eight-mile pace. It is from the north-
west.
Mr.. Dunn gives one of his free weather
No. 70 Oliver street tonight.
Il seem this year to strike remarkable
days the weather forecaster said this
morning. My last lecture was on Thurs
day, during the blizzard. and today holds
fee"
The vessels that arrived this morning
report very rough seas and extreme cold
along the northeastern coast.