The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-02-05
Good Warning, Given by the Re
sourceful Outram, Restricts
the Damage.
HOURLY TEMPERATURES FROM
MIDNIGHT

Today is the coolest day of the pres
ent winter The thermometer at the
weather bureau registered IL below
zero at z am, the minimum for the
past twenty-four hours, and 9 degrees
lower than the coolest day preceding.
months are: November, 3; Deem
Der. Il; January. 5.
While this IL degree weather IS
hardly in the same class with that of
February, 1868, when the mercury went
down to 80 and established a local
cold record which is the best for the
period from 1919 to now. it is cold
enough, coming after a spell of season
ably warm weather.
Warner Is Coming.
Only three places in tie United
States are colder than Minneapolis to-
day. They are the 500. with -22 de-
grees;, Duluth, with -e2 degrees; Dey-.
dosa, Man, where the mercury is
! punched on the PA scratch in the Of
| fetal tube. Warmer weather is at
| hand, according to the government ex-
| perts, who base this prediction upon
a general falling off of the cold in the
/ Canadian northwest.
The change began yesterday morning
/ WnSu tH0s CIV
zero. With few upward spurts, due
i to the influence of the sun, the mercury
/ kept on curling up In TIE bulb Fat the
1 end of the tube until today IS opening
quotation was LII degrees with the
/ chances good for further drop. Many
| private cold indicators out-strlpped the
more conservative government lnstru-
ment and registered all the way from
10 to -25 degrees, and their. owners
4 Oh M
] Even those who gauge the cold by
| the official figures are going about with
chattering teeth, congratulating every
one they meet on the fact that eve
have some real winter weather now.
The only warm people on the street are
| those who are not infected with the
/ thermometer habit. They are going
about in comparative comfort enjoying
| the brisk, dry, air with its surcharge OF
ozone. They will enjoy it just so long
as they avoid the mercury fend for
once the depths to which the tempera-
ture has fallen is announced, even the
heaviest buffalo hide let's in the cold
like suit of fishnet lingerie.
APPLE Warning Given.
Prompt and efficient work on the
part Of T. S. Outram, the director OF
/ the local weather observatory, did much
serious damage to property thru the
| sudden fall. An advance warning was
Given out Saturday afternoon, which t.
tined full circulation. On Sunday a
telegram was received from Director
Cox of Chicago, announcing that there
| was more cold coming.
None of the usual means OF making
this warning public was aValianle. as
the commission merchants and freight
men. who usually receive such warn,
mos in their Offices, were at home, and
no newspaper would be out until TO-
day1 MI. Outram foresaw the posslb1,
itV of such a tieup early in the fall ana
i was ready for it. By previous arrange
ment with the street railway company
warnings were posted In all stFee.saits'
thus giving the forecast wide elrcuia.
/ tion and thus a much serious damage
was aNerted. &c
Waterpipes were the chief victims OF
the frost. king. and one of the leading
plumbers estimated today that there
we're a tleast $50 cases OF frozen OF .,
bursted pipes in the city as the result
of last night s cold. r..,.
The charitable agencies report little
increase in the demands upon them as
a result of tn ecold wave. Ensign MIL
Ter of the Salvation Army said today
That in his experience he had foune |.
that the moor seldom applied for relief
IN cold DAYS. as their clothing was usu-
civ TOO thin to permit their venturlng
out. p.o,o;na
Tee men and fuel dealers who have
been manifesting deep depression for
some months are now sitting up ana
: nreparing to get even for the iean
months Which have gone before. The
} ice men say that three days of this sort
. of weather followed by reasonable
:, amount of cold will put the prospective
i ice famine out of business. The fuel
dealers report rush of small orders as
, soon as their doors were opened today
and expect to have larger ones 1t the
cold holds for forty-eight hours.
Railroad traffic has not shown the eff
, fects of the cold snap as yet, tho trains
due here late in the day may be delayed
, by difficulty in keeping up steam. The
+ Chicago Great Western train from Chi
cage, due here at s am. today, was two
hours late. The Great Northern train
from Winnipeg, due at, 1885 am, was
three hours late and the Northern Pa,
cifc coast train, due at 1905 am, is re-
) ported six hours late.
The Great Northern ssOriental Linn
tied, due at 1925 pm, is reported
eight hours late Trains coming in
from southern and eastern points dc
,, not show such a tendency to fall be
: hind their schedules as those which
, have to keep up steam in the face OF
: bitter winds on the Montana and Da
, kota prairies.
: Stories of blizzard raging in NORTH
Dakota said to have been brought in