The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-02-10
A FROZEN CITY.
Cold Such As Has Not Been
Felt in Eleven Years
Makes Life Miserable.
ON FERRIES and TROLLEYS
Artistic Side of the Situation
Visible of the Aesthetic
Victims of the
Weather.

Jack Frost is here treating the people
of Jersey City to sample of Polar
weather; breathing with his icy breath on
window panes and nipping the ears and
noses of poor and rich alike, for Jack
is no respecter of persons. The dear
little school children yesterday felt every
word of the song when they sang
"Little Jack Frost came up the hill
''At the dead of night, when all was
"Ah, sighed the trees, we freeze. we
freeze,
Little Jack Frost said if you please. if
you please"
Jersey City never had colder day in
eleven years than yesterday and when the
business man put his nose out of the
door yesterday morning to go to work.
he heard with surprise, four degrees below
zero; in some exposed places six degrees.
The unwelcome visitor from Arctic lands
created no small amount of inconvenience
not only to passengers, but to railroad
companies, whose particular business it
is to carry them from home to office and
store and back again. The wheels of the
big trolley cars slipped on the icy tracks,
and while the cars lost their grip, many
of the passengers got the grip and what
with the delay and the cold, singularly
enough the passengers got hot.
1t was the same story with those cross
stopped the ferryboats ana TO add TO the
chapter the tide was six feet lower than
has been seen in years and THE the
the difficulty of getting onto IN the
ferryboats was only equalled by the diff
Guilty in getting of This mi d delay Eybo At the the
Place and Pavonia avenue. caused block
beginning at an early hour in the morn
ing and lasting until late n me ar,,g,, ar,g1-
bled as they with their poor painting
horses shivered in the freezing wind wait
ing to get across the river 80
s'Why don't the railroad companies pro-
vide team of horses on each side to heip
us on and off the boats when the toe Is
loW?" asked one man Slamming MS sldes
with his arms.
'.They would gain by getting the traffic
along" said another, blowing on his
hands.
Some of these teams had been standing
in Exchange place since morning and one
big oil tank drawn by two horses couldn't I
even get further than the First National
Bank for four hours because OF the DOCK
Oh, my, didn't the trolley men fume and
saw things which wouldn't look well in a
Sunday school book, when they We're
stuck fast, unable to go back or forward.
The drivers laughed at them, and having
covered their nOrSeS with DldilhetS SOuSiAl
shelter of a big truck of Lorillard & Co.,
and proceeded to swap stories.
why, this amt cold" said the driver
of that truck, you ought to have been
with me in Arizona two years ago. Gee,
after you had talked with feller for five
minutes you would find yuself up to your
knees
I'm what?" asked another driver.
I'm your words, which froze as fast as
Get on. rats" shouted some of the
group incredulously, while others laughed.
Fact" said the other. Why, that's
nothing l onst druv a load of whiskey
hotel that bugjuice was frozen stiff .
tsWhat did you do?'
.sNawthin', the landlord broke it up into
Jumps and sold it for frozen punch.
but the thrilling narrative was interrupted
by Policeman Mcmahon shouting to them
to move on in line as the way was clear
Nevertheless it was very cold all day,
and the temperature from midnight to
four o'clock yesterday afternoon, accord
ing to Hartnett's thermometer, was as
followS:-
The temperature for each hour, from
midnight Wednesday night to 4 o'clock
yesterday afternoon, according to the
weather Bureau thermometer, was as
follows:-M Midnight, 160 above; / o'clock
7o above; 4 o'clock, 80 above; s o'clock, II
above; o'clock, zero; Z O'Clock IL below
zero; 7:30 O. clock, S1o below; 5 o'clock, 2s
below; o'clock, 10 above; 10 O'Clock, q
above; II o'clock, 80 above; noon, p
above: | o'clock, 80 above; o'clock, 81
above; 8 o'clock So above; O'Clock, g
above.
Many private thermometers in front Of
business houses registered A. and s. below