The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1900-12-10
ITS COLD TO-DAY.
Mercury's Low Mark Was
Nineteen Degrees
Frosty Air and
Snappy Breeze.

1t is cold today. The ordinary citizen
may not have noticed it, but the fact
remains. The official mercury at the
New York weather bureau registered %
degrees at o'clock this morning and
bore out yesterdays forecast of st.ll co d.
er weather by recording the loss of
9 o'clock. The 10 o'clock temperature was
also 10 degrees.
The forecast for the thirty-six hours
ending at o'clock tomorrow night is
for fair and continued cold with fresh
westerly winds
1t was easily the coolest day this win
ter. but as December is only ten days
old and as last month was the warmest
November hereabouts of which the local
forecaster has record, it doesn't mean
much to say SO. Still. it established
pretty low mark for future days of the
winter to equal or exceed. There was
good snappy northwest wind, although
of diminishing force, which lent an added
bite to the freshness of the atmosphere
and the populace felt the wholly season
able conditions the more keenly because
of the wholly unseasonableness that pre-
vailed in the preceding weeks. Yesterday
broke the news of the cold snap rather
the morning with 40 deg, the temperature
declined all day long to midnight, when
% deg. was reached The decline from
that point to the o'clock temperature
this morning was very gradual.
In the delightful language of the
meteorologists we are now undergoing an
area of high pressure with much cold
weather following the storm which moved
The northwest winds of considerable
velocity marked the movement of this
area of high pressure in one direction.
Judging by the looks of things this
morning people had not taken seriously
yesterdays warning that winter was
really here. Winter wrappings were not
the rule, but signs were not wanting that
there would be a considerable rush on
the clothing stores before the day was
over.
There were enough seasonably garbed
persons on the street in the morning hours
though to show that the weather signs of
yesterday had been read correctly by not
few and these were envied b y their
less sensible fellow beings who had left
home and heavy clothing behind, con
cluding that it was not so cold after all.
One did not have to sniff very hard with
in public conveyance here and there
throughout the city to detect the odor of
camphor which indicated that recourse
had just been had by a portion of the
population to clothing laid by these many
months.
The position of the clothier was a good
one today: so was that of the coal man.
ruLo hoH how no har r11T1
of luck, what with the recent strike and
the balmy airs of November. The dis
pensers of liquids supposed to ward off
ehills also rubbed their hands with sat
isfaction this morning, and the druggists,
with soda water fountain attachments,
which had been comparatively idle for
some weeks, hung out 'Hot Chocolate"
signs and prepared to do some business.
Seasonable weather, so all merchants
say, is good for trade, and the weather
was enough in season today to suit the
most exaeting. That kind of trader who
has transportation to sell, the surface and
elevated railway corporations and ferry
companies seemed to have been rather
unusually alive to the situation this
morning, for complaints of cold cars and
boats were the exception today and not
the rule.
The evil aspects of extremes of weather,
the suffering they bring frequently, was
kept in sight today by the various chari-
table organizations and institutions which
make t their business to care for those
who need relief from summer heat and
winter cold. 1t was said today that it
was too early yet for applications for coal
or shelter to come in in any numbers,
but the charities are ready to give aid
and comfort if the cold snap keeps up.