New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-02-19
CONTINUED COLD TO-DAY
SNOW REMOVAL SLOW.
Yesterday Most Fi1gld Day OF van
fer-MGiis Greatly Delayed.


the temperature fell TO 10 degrees at ~ O'CLOCK
last night. This represented drop OF oe
srees in two hours The drop was Accompanies
with bitter wind. which rose suddenly from
the northwest at $40 p. and rapidly at'aii'eu
a speed Of fifty miles ali hour. A sho" Squ0i
followed in its wake. This did not ias' ioi's'
and the wind had fallen TO thirty-slN hi'eS al
1n:35 2 m. The forecast was for falI anu 'o''
trimmed cold to-day. with Diminishing hlgh west
,,5.ss ro-roorrow will also he fair. but not so
cold The following bulletin was received from
Washington last night
Warnings are displayed along the Atanuc
-,zeT from Wilmington Fort Monroe Tor hisil
northwest winds tonight and ThursoaH' WIN
falling temperature
F-orecsstor Emory said last night:
Tho high winds are due TO high area OF
-ress,re following closely upon the disturbance
.-,,o,, ,.e nasse5 over the lover lake section
and the ST Lawrence Valley. The W'ho- WHY"
has been southwest and west has shifted into
- ro-,b,rest Fair weather extends over the
-..-er r,-- Of the country. There has been a
1igbt snow in the lake region and the ONO Nai-
lay elsewhere II is generally fair. Inc tenn
,,ers+,lre throughout the central portion OF oe
country is slightly above zero. In the NoI'h'
over the lake region and westward 10 'he Ia
ko-se the temperature ranges bet"eeIl @eI anu
& der-ees below In the East. NeW-hoih anu
England. the temperature lalSes
4 and 76 degrees The line Of freezing te1npeIa-
&c ex+er,ds as far south as Georgia and North
ern Mississippi
A. r-,a----e snow suuall was much like
,o,-s,orro for few minutes All over the
cg+z- were thousands Of persons who fhousnt d
western blizzard had struck the town Ii
looked as if st were showing, but MI Emery
said It hadn't been. only in two or three minute
.=,1rries early in the evening He SAID that the
cold had made the snow in the streets dry ana
that the northwest wind. blowing at some IoI'S
miles an hour. did the rest
z.-l.-e,,er the cause the air was filled with
ewing and eddying snow. It swirled about the
.+rse+s and beat into the faces of those who
-,.re ont in a way thai almost rivalled the
..orro IF Monday night. About the "Flatiron'
ruil5ing. which has become famous as a wind
centre the wind howled its loudest and blew
its hardest
An explanation is due from some one or the
grounding himself. The weather OF the last
three days has certainly not been or the charac-
ser the CITY was led believe would ensue allei
February y when the grounding was SAID 10
have come out and declared that, as he coulo moi
see his shadow, he would stay out ana ehJoS
the summer weather. If he acted on that sup
position he has reaped the reward oI HIS SINE
and is now 4 frozen woo.dchuck
Had the grounding succeeded in climbing out
Of s,ear,pipe conduit yesterday and taken
1,o,- around he would have shortened his visit
70 the 1,prer world and returned TO his steam
heated apartment quickly He would nave seen
men busy with pick and shovel trying to break
M til, icy pavement. He would have observed
niles Of snow or either side of the streets lining
Them from end 10 end. His eyes could not have
failed 10 mole the wagons dragging of the piles
Of snow 10 the dump the belateC streetcars, the
t1aa fe1 lon HORSE SIR
10 rise and kicking IN the endeavor, all due to
the snow which his famous had failed TO
datar, Human H-indrnils with red noses and
cars would have warned him that it was time
fer him 10 60 ack and stay until he could learn
has business
II WAS the coolest day Of the winter. The low
esr temperatures degrees above zero-Was re-
corded at a. m This Wa = degrees colder
than on any previous day That it was cold
was plain 10 the eye, well as to the feelings.
The ferryboats were bearded, and the chain
hung along the Battery wall resembled festooned
decorations for the winter palace of Santa
Claus. Everywhere the ice which had fastened
stself 10 the branches of the trees Monday
morning still glistened in the sunlight There
was good sleighing and coastng in the parks,
hut few ventured out to enjoy IT. Here is the
vay the day progressed in the matter Of temp
erat1,re from midnight Tuesday Until o'clock
The thermometer registered 10 degrees. Then it
fell 10 9 degrees At > a. m. it went down TO
degrees at which point it remained until
= m when the minimum temperature was
reached. II had risen > degrees at o'clock,
and = remained at s degrees until IL O'Clock.
when If had gone up TO II degrees. From i
O'clock when the temperature had reached l3
degrees the mercury climbed L degree every
hour until ; p. m. when it went up TO ID de-
.rees. At 9 O'Clock It was IS degrees. At
O'Clock il dropped TO Il degrees and at p. m
il was is degrees.
The work of cleaning the streets OF the Ten
inches Of snow yesterday was not encourag-
ing one The low temperature greatly added to
-he difficulty The under stratum Of snow had
1,aen frozen to the ground, and there no
newer in the sun TO soften this base. For this
reason thus far it has been one of the hardest
storms which the snow contractors have had to
face in several years. Commissioner Woodbury.
adopted the plan of cleaning from the principal
streets the loose top snow, leaving the hard
under crust for a second attack. The contractor
was going over the downtown streets second
time last night with picks. He had 1,5o0 men
and 1000 carts at work. Late reports received
Al the headquarters OF the contractor were en-
couraging.
7 WAS said that Broadway had been cleaned
from the Battery 10 Fifty nnth-st., well
numerous other important avenues and streets
leading 10 the ferries. 1t thought that all
Of the downtown business streets would be clear
l,y to-day While no definite figures have been
submitted so far the amount Of snow that
has been removed, IL roughly estimated
that about two hundred thousand cubic yards
had been carried away. which would rep
resan, an expenditure Of about $4,000. The
storm " III be most expensive one TO the city,
The most expensive in a long time.
The mails were greatly delayed in their move