Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1898-12-23
OUR NEW YORK LETTER,
The Present Winter One of the
Hardest SO Far OH Record.
Pilots Say They Have Never known
such Severe storms So Early In the
SeasOn-The Southeast Wind Light
ahlps.

Season-The Southeast wind Light
ships.
NEW YORK, Dec. 22.-[Speoiall Men
who have served as pilots off this coast all |
their lives say they have never known |
such succession of storms and spells OF |
weather at this season as they have expe.
rienced this year. This in the face of the |
fact that November and December arc al
ways hard months.
The truth is that winter has set in I'M |
usually early and with exceptional severi- |
ty all around New York. There has been |
more cold weather so far here than is of |
ten experienced by the end of January.
The snowfall to date has been much
heavier than tho entire snowfall of many
winter New Workers who for years
have been wishing that they might expert
ence ian old fashioned winter" are get.
ting the full of their desire and discover
ing at the same time that "an old fash
Toned winter is not, after ALL exactly
what it is cracked up to be.
In reality most New Workers labor un-
der queer msapprehension concerning
the weather here, for, as has often been ex-
plotted in print most New Workers are not
to the manner born. They are New Workers
now, to he sure, but they were not New
Workers in their youth and during the
years to which their memories of "old
fashioned winters" run back The Sc
we're seasons which they have in mind
were not experienced here; they were ex-
perienced in Maine, in New York state
in Massachusetts, in Pennsylvania, in al
most every state of the Union. Notwith-
standing the youth of such states as the
and other extremely cold commemorative
of tho u,iddlo nor+b,ros+ +Lo,, ba,., f,,,,
n,shpd many amonp those who nro now
New Yorlnre and tbair Uold fasbionod
winters, were never dunlicatod here
Their old fashioned yyinters uoro sooeons
in which IN Oh 70 and ovop Al dogroos
below zero were not uncommon vet onv
dogrees Mt all hollow zoro l. ,.o,.,, ,,r,,s,,ol
bero and oI,v,ys hoe boor MI rocorls
of tho weather bnraou show tint if INV
thing tho old timo yyintors In Nv Vol.
were r,ilder than tho moro roco,,t oros
though of course tbrre have bean ono mr.
two ovc,,,tior,li,, so,.or, ,,.i,,+,r. a. ,to
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the speaker, wheh so many Vessels were
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possibly lhSt spring JUST pelore anu JUS
alter the beginning Vi the war WIN Spain pain
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such greau eAcess over Ilnports 40 We
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