The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-12-11
UMBRELLAS.
sLEET MADE THE COLD FELT.
Soldiers Made Little Complaint
About the Cold weather.

Soldiers Made Little Complaint
About the Cold weather.
To-day is expected to bring the end of
the cold wave. 1t will be little, if any,
warmer to-day than yesterday, but to-
morrow there will be a rising temporal
ture, and the first cold weather of the
winter will become a memory. The low
est temperature recorded was 3O.6 degrees
early yesterday morning. Yesterday, while
not day marked by any unusual cold,
was decidedly wintry, the Thermometer
ranging from the minimum mentioned->up
TO but 81 degrees. What made the low
temperature so noticeable was the disa-
greeable sleetiness at times. This gave
the day the aspect of winter day in more
northern latitudes. During the early
hours of the day, before morning dawned,
there was a misty rain. that froze almost
as it fell, shrouding vegetation everywhere
with thin ice. The spectacle at dayDreak
was extremely pretty, and one seldom
seen in Savannah. 1t was feared that
much damage had been done to pants,
but investigation shows that they escap.
ed with remarkably small loss. Oleanders
are reported to have been the chief suffer-
ers from the freezing weather. Plants
that had been covered with ice early in the
day seemed little, if any, the worse for
their experience when it had melted. The
Park and Tree Commissioners made in
quries as TO the damage done, and were
satisfied that il was comparatively slight
The minimum temperature as stated
was not especially low. The thermometer
has frequently dropped several degrees be-
low what it reached yesterday. Indeed
OUT of twenty-seven past Defenders, there
have been but seven in which the tempera-
ture did not fall below yesterdays lowest
Soldiers who came into the city from
the camps reported that they had not suf-
fered from the inclemency of weather ex-
cept when on guard duty. The tents have,
as a rue been banked UP with earth
keeping the cod air from forcing it's way
through at the bottom, the blankets fur
nished the men are of good quality. and
there were but few who had found much
reason to complain. Those on guard duty
put in some miserable hours. the damn
ness worrying them more than the cold.
AS one of them expressed ii, the damp
ness seemed to go right through his
clothes and cling to him. Men VINO had
oil stoves kept them burning, but those
who were not provided do not seem to
have lost sleep through the weather. The
understanding among the men is that the
government VIII supply them with oil
stoves as soon as they get into permanent
quarters. But the number who own their
own seems TO be increasing daily. and yes
terday there were not few who added
tnis luxury to their camp outfit at their
own expense.
one cause for grumoling among the
guards was the extra work they had when
they went off duty cleaning their rifles to
prevent Tueting. But that is merely an in
cident of a soldiers life When Informed
that il they staid here an entire year they
might rot have repetition Of such nasty
weather some Of the Western soldiers re-
marked that they would not object to try
ing il.
This don't seem much like winter to a
fellow who has done duty out in Montana
and run up against a Thermometer ten TO
twenty degrees below zero. and thought
the winter was O mid one" said a regu-
lar. "Why such nights as last night arc
reminders Of gentle spring to some Of us
fellows"
The general expression among civilians
was that the soldiers must have suffered
considerably. n such were The case the ev-
licences Of % were certainly lacking an lng
The greet number thai came into the city
from camp.