New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-01-05
MERCURY AT ZERO.
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ons from Long Island. New-Jersey and staten
Island are being used whenever possible TO get
them.
Not the heaviest snowfall I've tackled. but
probably the hardest to fight. said COM
missioner Woodbury. at noon when he reached
his office. after making a trip around the CITY
II am going TO get the fremen's coffee wagon
from Commissioner Hayes. II can't get II l Il
get one somewhere else. Something must De
done to put heart into these poor fellows. The
public cannot realize what this work heahs'
Think of them last nignt or at o'clock this
morning. with the Thermometer nearly down 10
zero over on the North River front shovelling
snow into boxcars. and many OF them Win
their toes out OF their boots and wltn@ut sio'es'
Think how a man must need money to DO that
kind of work. They can't stand 1t Tor more IMAM
two hours at a time. II was so cold this morn
ing that I sent man 10 the New YORK iios-
pital He was badly frostbitten- The cold was
so bad that even the horses could hardly en-
dure it."
TRAINS STILL DELAYED.
The New-York Central and Hudson River
Railroad and the New-York, New-H1Ven ana
Hartford Railroad have not yet recovered rom
the effects Of the heavy storm. and the trains
are all more or less behind schedule time. Inc
western trains of the Central are from one 10
trains of the New-Haven are also late
Tho outer covering of the engine boilers coos
IA allows the steam to drop continually max
49,. q ,r,nossible to maintain high speed. AL
~ Grand Central Station the chief train dis
,o.cbar said he attributed the late arrival or
+a,rs more to the intense cold than TO the
snow.
CARS TOO wAR3I. SAY SOME
con7nlaints received by the Health Depart
ment and the street railroads about cold cars
apnear to be overbalanced by others declaring
that the cars are kept too warm, and are i'm
rronerlv ventilated. It is certain that for the
first time in years the street cars and the
elevated trains have been comfortable The
temperature, however. cannot be regulated to
suit everybody. Oren Root, jr. manager of
the Metropolitan system. said that in this ex-
IRENE cold the heat generators were being
run to their full capacity. He had not received
/ a complaint of cold cars. but thought there
! might be or two eccentrics VINO would
complain IN either case
Mary Cunningham. sixty years old. who re-
fused TO give her address. was arrested or
complaint of Michael Sheehan. ticket chopper
Of the Third-ave elevated road at One-hun-
dred-and- thirty eighth-st. She refused TO buy
a ticket, and when demonstrated with declared
that the railroad company had no right to de-
mand fare for rides in cold cars. She was
! fined SO and locked up after a struggle
! with the officers The police say the woman
/ has been arrested on three previous occasion:
/ for q similar offence. usually on surface cars.
The following message was received at the
/ local weather bureau last night from Wash
/ ington:
Northeast storm warnings p. from Co
4 lumbia to New-York. Slight disturbance of
/ Carolina coast, probably moving northeastward
! Brisk to high northeast 10 north winds probable
! tonight and Tuesday morning the Middle
Atlantic and South England coasts
The prediction for to-day and Wednesday 1!
! fair and not cold.