The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1908-01-31
IN THE GRIP OF JACK FROST
Cold Weather Yesterday and More
Due To-day.
Skating on small POnds-Frcezins
Temperatures All over North.
j6 Below in Manitoba.

Washington Is in the gIi poi the first
real cold Nwate OF the winter. Swept In
upon brisk wind from the northwest
that whistled around corners, the cold
sent the mersury down from 40 degrees
At noon Wednesday TO Z degrees above
zera yesterday morning at 80 o'clock.
While the weather man predicts "a lit
tie warmer weather" for to-day, ne says
the mercury will not get very high.
Persons who were of their guard when
the cold wave arrived retired for the
night with just enough cOyerying to keep
them warm in ordinary weather. and
found themselves reaching for more be-
fore morning. The poor, who did not
have any flannel to greet the hand when
it sought the REINFORCED covers. shiv-
cred and suffered
Every one who put his window up
little bit at the bottom before retiring
was 10th to tiptop across the refrigerated
floor in the morning and close It.
There was no ice on the river at "A late
hour last night Harbor police report the
tidal basin, which IN past years has been
the ideal skating place for local enthu-
siasts, will not freeze over unless the
cold spell lasts a week. The reason given
for this condition is the dredging that
has been conducted there recently.
II is probable the only skating this year
will be on the small lakes at the ZOologi-
cal Park and at Chevy Chase.
The sudden cold wave comes directly
from the frozen Northwest, where nearly
every weather station reported tempera-
lures far belOT the zero mark Officials
at the Weather Bureau reported at tenn
perature of 1913 degrees at 10 O'Clock last
night, and predicted snow for Washing
ton either Saturday or Saturday night.
There are several Eastern cities which
are suffering a lower temperature than
Washington. 1t is showing in Buffalo
n. Y, and the thermometer is zero.
The coolest day of the winter caused
two death in New York City, and more
are likely to occur, as little relief from
the frigid temperature is promised by the
official fOrecaster in that city. The near
zero mercury has already caused much
suffering among the poor.
At o'clock yesterday morning the
Thermometer registered degrees. and
during the entire day lid not go higher
than 16 degrees, lowering mostly between
and y. 1t went as low as degrees
before daylight.
Six men were partially frozen and in
jured as a result of the bitterness.
The weather department expected even
a lower temperature before the day was
over. anad a blizzard was scheduled to
arrive to-day.
The cold spell has caught the entire
East and Middle West, even as far as St.
Louis and st. Paul, from Canada to the
Gulf. Manitoba has thermometers regis
teTing So degrees below zero.
Lake Placid was IS degrees below zero,
Saranac Lake 30 below and all through
the Adirondack region the mercury
ranged about 80 below or Whereabouts.
On Long Island the mercury went from
zero TO above. All along the Hudson
zero was the balancing point. The bays
are frozen over on Long Island for the
first time this winter
All over Northern New Jersey the Their
mometers read about 3 degrees. and the
Haekensack River is frozen over for the
first time this winter.