The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-01-05
INTENSE COLD WEATHER.
CoLDEsT SPELL IN SEVERAL
 FEARS.

FEARS.
 Mereuay Near Zero nt Noon Time Yss-
 terdsy SIX Below Early This
 Morning-High Winds Blew Snow
 Back on Car Tracks-A Few School
 Rooms Closed-No Warmer Weather
 Untii Tc-morrow.
 For the past four days New Haven has experienced the coldest weather of tEe winter and also for the last four years excepting one night in last Feb ruary when the thermometer was down to five below zero The weather man said last night that before daybreak this morning the mercury would take another downward course and lodge at about six below. He said that yester- day the warmest after 8 o'clock in the morning was three above and at 8 o'clock last night it stood at two above. He expected a fall of at least two de- G3ACCS IT CNCly SuCGCCQllie 1OQI llOuLS until about clock.
 There are no prospects, of moderation until this evening, when it is thought that there will be a material and very noticeable change for warmer. Snow fiurries may also be expected, but it is not thought that there will be any general disturbance until later in the week. The high storm area prevails throughout the west with exceedingly low barometer and this storm is spend ing it's efforts on the residents of this part Of the country.
 New Haven is so far having one of those old fashioned winters which are read about, and our forefathers talked about. The extreme cold since Satur- day has been accompanied part of the time by high wind, blowing some of the time at the rate of forty miles an hour.
 Some difficulty was experienced yes- terday in operating the street cars on the several lines out of the city, the high winds making 1t hard matter to keep the tracks clear. The drifts were blown back onto the tracks with almost as much rapidity as they were remov- ed. All of the lines in the city in full operation yesterday after o'clock in the morning. but on mnay of them the cars ran at unequal intervals. Even though most of the divisions Of the Consolidated road were open on Sunday, the snow having been cleared away, the prevailing high wind caused more work by blowing the piles of snow onto the tracks at many places. This caused delay of traffic and trains on most all the divisions were from a half hour to two hours late. The track gangs kept after the snsow, however, and managed late in the afternoon to clear up almost everything, so that nearly scheduled time will be maintain ed to-day. The New York trains were very late and the paper trains last might were over two hours behind time. On the Air Line there was an excep- tionally large amount of trouble and trains were very much delayed some of them more than four hours At the Dwight school yesterday the pupils were dismissed on account of heat not being sufficient to keep the building warm. It was demonstrated yesterday morning at this school that the heating apparatus is not sufficient to heat all the rooms on day as cold as yesterday.
 At the Orange street school, the old high school building, one room was dismissed on account of the lack of heat.
 Two rooms in the Roger Sherman school were dismissed. Part of the Cedar street school was sent home. At the Ezekiel Cheever school two rooms were dismissed on account of ack of heat.