The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1909-12-30
TWO DEGREES
BELOW POINT
OF FREEZING
STREET THERMOMETER READ
LOW AT MIDNIGHT, INDICATING
THE OFFICIAL REGISTER SEW
ERAL DEGREES LOWER

street thermometers exposed TO 'he
northwestern blasts at y O'Clock last
night registered on the point OF 80
which was two degrees below the
freezing point, and therefore going
lower than at any time during the
present winter. Sufficient warning
was given by the weather bureau IN
the forecast which was pubIIshed by
the station here yesterday, and pre-
cautions were generally taken through
out the CITY. The cold snap. however
will Iikly play havoc with unprotected
plants. Many citizens on many OF the
streets where the paving had been
completed had started in to add beauty
to the grass plots by planting flowers
and handsome cuttings In those plots
Unless protected, these green's VIII
likely be badly damaged, for the freeze
was a hard one and people who were
on - did not tarry long on the
street. nor did they remain in any
spot where the wind would strike
them for any length OF time.
While the street instruments read
as stated, the indications are that the
temperature was really lower, as
there is always a variation of some
two to three degrees with those on
the street level and the instruments
at the weather observatory.
The brand of weather which is hand (
ed out to PenSacOuanS today is rather :
unusual if the report of the weather /
bureau In its daily summary may be /
taken for a comparison The maximum /!
temperature for yesterday was A de /
grees, which was registered at 2:45 !
p. m. The minimum temperature was /
IS degrees, which was registered at . /
an. The mean temperature for this 1
date is Al degrees. and the normal /
temperature 80 degrees The weather /
today shows the temperature lower l.
than the low readings of yesterday y .
eight degrees. The average maximum
temperature for this date is 90 de-
grees, while the average minimum
temperature is 40 degrees.
As the weather began to get colder
last evening at 6 o'clock, several crews /
of negroes who were employed on a
job for the night on Alcaniz street
stopped work and crowded around a
fire which had been built in the middle
of the street Charcoal furnaces were
used by the all-night hackmen. and .
the latter were thoughtful enough to
spread blankets over the horses they .
used in the cold Watchmen and
policemen readily stated that they felt
the weather more severely during the
night than at any time Of the present
winter and for any time in many Of
she previous ones. The street car
men, some of the crews working until
midnight, reported poor traffic on the
cars, and they said that they did not
believe it was Florida weather that
they passed through.
Crusts on some Of the streets hard
ened with the cold during the night.
This was particularly the case on some
of the d9mpened thOrOughfares.
Icicles on Fountain.
At 1 O'Clock this morning icicIes
formed on the fountain in the Plaza
to varying lengths, and some of them
were fully nine inches IOng. The Tor
nation was noticed by hackmen and
policemen early in the night, and IS
the night wore on and the tempera-
ture continued 10 fall, the icicles con
tinued 10 lengthen- They gHstened
like FURNISHED silver when the rays
Of the electric lights were reflected.
The fountain continued to flow
the night as usual, and
early risers will have opportunity OF
seeing the clinging ice early today.
Ice In Streets.
Standing water skirtinE the paving
an PRlafOX and other streets formed
B surface coating of ice at an early
hour this morning. In front Of the
city hall, where the water had been
backed up by dirt which had been
thrown up for the cross-walk work.
the ice was broken by an officer TINS
morning and was nearly an eighth Of ]
an inch thick
An automobile driver said that he I
had run has machine through several
ce-Coyered patches Of water during
he early morning, and one OF these ,
which he noticed particularly was l- .
he corner OF CevallOS and Gadsdcn
streets.
Wind. cold as anyone cared to pass
through, whiStled about The SkyScrar- 5
ars early this morning and made life
niseVabIe for s few straCglers who Z
we're out late i
A street thermometer. read BY a /
Waterman at I o'clock this morning. /
denoted a further fall than hat OF j
midnight. The thermometer register ,
d at % degrees 4 further fan was .
expected.
Mrs. s. Joyce, CIaremout. y. H
writes About a year ago I bought
TWO bottles Of Foley's Ktdrey Reno.
dy- II cured me Of a severe case or g.,
kidney TrN7Th Ia Df several r-1gv. --,--.r