The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-02-18
IT WdS COLD.
Lowest Thermometer in Many Hears-Low- est in Fourteen Years Here and in at Least Twenty-Five Years in New York City Eleven Degrees Below in New Haven.

est in Fourteen Years Here and in at Least
 Twenty fl ve Years in New York City
 Eleven Degrees Beiow in New Haven.
 It was cold day yesterday-one of the coldest of '95-6, and the coldest here since 1882. In New York city the wealth CT was the coldest in at least twenty i've years.
 At o'clock yesterday in this city the weather was Il degrees below zero at the weather bureau; at a. m. it had risen degrees, and at Il a, m, it was at zero and slowly rising.
 It beat the record for February. There have been two colder days in January, but the thermometer never sank so low in the month of February as far as known by the oldest inhab- itant.
 January 30, 1873, the mercury drop ped to IA below zero, which record has never since been equalled. The next coldest day was January "A, 1882, when the thermometer registered 12 below. Yesterday came third with the ther- mometer at Il below. and with the dis tinctlon of breaking all records for Feb- rnary. Last night was another cold night.
 The trouble arose in the Hudson bay region, British America. The cold wave sighted in the northwest Saturday trav- eled eastward along the Canadian bor- der, reaching northern New York Sum day afternoon, when it was reinforced by an icicle loaded wave from Hudson bay, and together they started on a trip southward and proceeded as far as Pennsylvania. Yesterday morning the cold wave was confined to New Eng land, New York, Pennsylvania and New Jersey.
 Throughout the rest of the country the temperature was normal.
 Weather Observer Myers predicts warmer weather to-day.
 New York, Feb. 17.-2The weather bureau has been a New York institu- tion for more than a quarter of cen- tury. In that time the temperature has not reached as low a point as it touched at a. m. Monday, February +, 1S96 At that particular hour and date the signal service thermometer read GA de- grees below zero.
 Twice before during the reigns of Mr. Dunns predecessors has the official thermometer touched degrees. These day were January 10, 1875, and Decem- Der 3l, 1881. MT. Dunn said this morn ing that, of course, his records extend ed twenty-five years back, but he thought, nevertheless, that the memory or 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 and every body looked pinched with the cold. Out door skating on real ice is not dead in New York for this year. The Central Park lakes and Van Cortlandt are al- ready frozen over to a thickness of sev- eral 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 to-day, is the one that was looked for and prophesied on Sat urday. It came here from the north west and the lake region. It is a very extensive bit of weather. It is central to-day in Canada just north of the great lakes. Rocllcliffe holds the record with 3S degrees during some time in the early morning, and 34 degrees at o'clock. At Montreal and Quebec the thermometer registered 24 degrees.
 The coldest spot in the United States was Northfield, Vt, with g dgrees be- low zero. Following this came Oswego IS below, Albany IS below, Portland, Me, 14 below, Boston F below, Buffalo and Cleveland g below, New York 6.4 below, Philadelphia below and Pitts burg just zero. Every point north of a line drawn from Philadelphia to Pitts burg and taking in the lake region had below zero weather
 MT. Dunn said that he expected it would be slightly warmer to-day, prob ably reaching 10 above zero. "It will be very cold again tomorrow morning." he added, "and then it will warm up again.
 In Chicago and St. Paul the tempera- ture at a. nn today was 8 degrees above zero. Helena and Bismarck re- joiced in 40 degrees above and Denver went them eight degrees warmer.
 Alabama, Georgia, Tennessee and the Arkansas valley all report freezing weather this morning.
 It is generally clear throughout the country. There is no snow in sight for New York. The wind is from fresh to brisk here, averaging from ten to six teen miles an hour Yesterday it reach ed thirty eight mile pace. It is from the northwest.