Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1899-03-04
COLD WEATHER IN THE SOUTH.

The following extracts from a letter
received by Rev. G. A. Adams from
his daughter who is in Austin, Texas,
will give some idea OF how the recent
cold weather was received in the
sunny South. Ed
Tillotson College, Austin, Texas,
February Is, 1899.
My Dear Home People:-Well, we
are almost breathless over this last cold
departure of the "Norther." Don't
know what to expect next. The papers
have told you that we are suffering
from the cold, but the papers know
nothing about how much we suffer, and
how much more some suffer than
others. Over at the cousins where
there are four big fires going all the
time and closely built northern fash
ion house there is only the usual dis
comforts of the north in very cold
weather. Indeed l am sure they have
been much more comfortable than you
have been in the open house at home.
But in the little open cabins SO common
about us, built of cloth and paper, and
not always the paper, there has been
real distress. One poor woman who
lives near us was found last Sunday; no
husband to get anything for her, a
houseful of little children, nothing to
eat and only three sticks of wood in the
house. Over the hills, stones throw
| off, are the poor cattle by hundreds,
that are calling as loudly as they can
for water. Pipes all burst and since
last Friday they have been on short
supply of water, none at all from Fri
| day till Tuesday. The keepers try to
thaw out the pipes so that they can
draw, but there is a lot of plumbing to
be done, and everyone is in need OF the
plumber SO there is little prospect OF
work being done out here in the sub
urbs till some time in the future. And
it is almost impossible to draw water
enough for the cattle SO the poor brutes
must suffer and we must listen TO their
heart rending cries.
| We have been three below zero, and
that is pretty bad in Texas. OF course
our pipes are all burst, In spite of the
fact that they were left open purposely
so that they shouldn't do that very
thing, and gallons and gallons of water
wasted. The water supply of the dam
is so very low that we have no elec.
triclty, and go poking around with
little lightning bugs of lamps. l have
one to study by that is capable OF hold
half a pint, think, to speak geuer
ously. The poor girls have no lamps
at all, and often go from Ely room II
some girls room to show her where
} her books, etc., are. (They study dowr
, stairs.)
Our furnaces refused to warm thu
side of the house exposed to the wind
, On my side, the sunny south side, mer
curry didn't venture higher than 80 OF
Sunday morning. By night it crawle'
, up to 48 and went down again to 40.
dressed in two full suits, put on mit
! tens, heavy cloak and leggins (bicycl
! apparatus). aud sat over the registe
8 trying to read and forget my frigidity
I We had no services at all and ther
were none in the city. No school o
= Monday at the public schools, all tn
. water pipes burst.
But the birds have cheered ou
hearts. They are very tame and /
r such numbers. They come by hur
!. dreds and settle near the house, or /
l. the fields near the cattle.
n Two men froEe to death the othe
:, day In Austin
IF We think of putting out an advertise
ment, "Lost! Strayedl Stolenl th
d sunny south" Tourists may expect I
II be searched before leaving the prem
u ises. Such a loss must be guarde
against