New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-01-04
COLD BRINGS SUFFERING.
STREETS WE'LL IN HAND.
Traffic Unimpeded- Many Frostbit-
ten-RmIroads BGdIy Blocked.

Shivering under all the extra coverings IN thu
house. the average New-Yorker woke yesterday
morning. looked out Of the nearest window on
streets piled high with dazzling white on en-
crusted rooftops and obstructed sidewalks, and
then turned over with a long. lazy sigh and
went to sleep again. devoutly thankful that II
was Sunday and he didn't have to go out. II,
however. he happened to look at the thermome-
ter before going 10 sleep again. all desire fol
sleep left him. for the mercury was lowering
perilously near the mark, and. brought up
with a start to find it cold. he hustled around
to stir up the furnace. or make the 1anitor turn
more heat.
The prediction for to-day is fair and CONTINUES,
cold.
Mr.. Suburbs had II even worse Before hs
could get out to find the milk which should
have been left he had to shovel foot or more
Of snow away from the door. If his water pipes
hadn't burst. he was lucky while IL his furnace
could make the slightest impression on the fros,
which decorated the windows IN beautiful
tracery. he was ovAr1oyed. And II Mr. Suburbs
was able to get home at all he fairly fort
unate for trains and trolley cars ran with most
amazing independence and startling irregularity
all Saturday night. and had not fully recovered
yesterday.
Mr.. Suburbs. however, clearing his way 70 tbs
front gate. had an easy task IN comparison with
that which awaited the Street Cleaning Depart
ment yesterday at daybreak. There were seven
or eight inches OF snow. frozen hard as ice on
the top, to be removed from the three bOroughs
in the teeth OF wind so icy that drivers. aftes
one load taken TO the river front turned THEN
horses back TO the stable. and departed In spite
Of extra pay. Save for one storm last year. this
was the worst snow the department has had To
remove in several years. II win cost about $780,.
600 or $4,000 while If the intense cold con-
tinues as seems likely. IL may cost evan more
To the unfortunate homeless. yesterday was
day of urmitigated torture. Every lodgins
house in the lower part OF the city was over
crowded while charitable institutions could havs
filed their houses thrice and four times with ths
poor they were forced TO turn away. The tene-
ment house dwellers. too. found it day of in
tense suffering. Coal TO the tenement hOuse
family is almost as unobtainable the more
ornamental form OF carbon. Cold IN squalid
three room tenement house seems ever so much
colder than zero weather to the more prosper
GUS The Association for Improving the Condi-
ton of the Poor and the Charity Organization
Society do a great work in their distribution Of
coal to the poor
Many hospital cases resulted from the intense
cold of Saturday night and yesterday. and mOrs
than one police slip noted the finding of body
under little mound of snow.
The storm has given rain snow to the en-
tire eastern part OF the country. from the Gulf
to Canada. Yesterday IT rained in New Eng
land Temperatures of zero and below were re-
ported over the entire country east of the Rocky
Mountains and north OF the Ohio River Tenn
peratures below freezing were reported south
10 the Gulf coast. the falls in tempera-
ture having been severe in many places. There
was a change of 81 degrees at Vicksburg so at
Galveston. 30 at Corpus Christi. "a at Atlanta.
40 at Knoxville. 40 at Chattanooga, SO at Mem
phis 30 at Cairo
Here the Thermometer stood at above zero.
At Portland. Me-. it was 4 below: at Boston 2.
and Nantucket q above; Albany below; Phila-
delphia g. Atlantic City 6. Washington 16. Norfolk
16 Jacksonville 10 Charleston 3S. Tampa So. Key
West 20 New Orleans so. Memphis 16. Chat
tanooga H. Louisville s. Chicago o and Cleve-
land 1 above; Buffalo was zero. ST. Paul IA be-
low Davenport II below. Omaha below. KAN
sas City below. Bismarck u below; Helena IS.
Salt Lake City 26 Denver 12. Portland. Ore.
40 San Francisco 46. Los Angeles 4S above The
lowest temperature reported. 46 below. was at
Bissett. Canada.