The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-12-30
SUNNY SOUTH IN Cg1 OF COLD Frs lng Weather in Many
 States. WINNIPEG IS THE C0LDEST Los Angeles Holds Record for
 Warmth at 54 Condition on ohio River l. Serious and Steamboat Men are Discour- sged--scsrcity of Coal
 Threatens Poor
 People.

Louisville, ky. Dec. 29.--The Sunny South. from the ohio River to North ern Georgia and Alabama today expe- rienced the coldest weather of the win ter.
 Louisville. with temperature of six above was the coldest city, with Nash yflle a close second at eight. Chatta- nooga reported sixteen degrees. Mem- phis eighteen and Atlanta twenty-two. Freezing weather is reported as far south as Central Alabama and Georgia. with practicalyy the entire country covered with snow c! varying depths.
 The cold Is reported severe over Ken- lucky, with heavy snow falls from Pa- ris to Padueah. In Louisville the tenn perature fell twenty-six degrees from yesterdays maximum. after stormy night.
 The condition of the Ohio River is becoming worse daily and river men are pessimistic. There Is not much ice in the Louisville harbor at present. but this Is attributed to big gorge which Is holding 1t above.
 The river is frozen from Pittsburg to Cairo and with navigation entirely suspended a shortage of coal Is anticf- pated within week unless the wealth CT moderates. The millions of bushels of Pittsburg coal intended for Loufs- vile and Southern consumption, which is held in reserve at the Pumpkin Patch" the storage station for the Ohio River, cannot be handled under present river and weather conditions.
 All of the packets and even the wharf boats at Evansville. Ind. have been lowed into the mouth of the Green River, nine miles away. until all danger Is passed.
 At Leavenworth, Ind. people are walking acros the Ohio on the ice.
 The Weather Bureau in its state- ment of general weather conditions today, says:
 The temperature is from ten to twen- ty- degrees below zero in the Missouri and upper Mississippi valleys and below zero as far south as St. Louis. Is is nearly zero in the Ohio Valley and from eight to twelve above In Tennessee.
 There are frozen goFges both above and below Cincinnati and the Ohio River Is frozen over at many places below Louisville. No change in the situation in this part of the country can occur for number of days.
 The coldest place on the continent to- day. according to the weather map. is Winnipeg, Man. with a temperature of 2S below, and the warmest locality Is around Los Angeles, Cal, where 54 above is recorded.
 The warm area which has swept in over the northwest territory. gives Call gary a temperature of A. while Jack sonvilIe, Fla, thousands of miles to the south. Is six degrees colder. New Orleans, Tampa and Galveston are about on a par with Calgary.
 The coal situation in Louisville. al- ways a serious one on occasions of this kind, is becoming interesting, es- pecially to the consumer. While both the big companies have plenty of coal in their harbors. it is almost impossible to get 1t to the Louisville market. The coast. ordinarily. to dealer is $5 per barge to have 1t delivered at the Lou isville wharf. Now the cost Is many times that amount
 In Louisville today Pittsburg coal Is quoted by retailers at s4 50 per ton. But few days ago 1t was $3 50. This means naturally that the poor will suf- fer extremely unless this condition is relieved. This calls for charity coal, which come to the desk of Secretary Poster of the Mayors office. are rolling in with almost unheard of frequency.
 Thousands of people 1ocked to the river today to view the long glistening sheets of ice which spread in all di- rections.