New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-02-08
yEAR'SCOLDEST DAY
RECORD FOR FEB. : IN
nTT,S HISTORY.
Mercury Drops .4imost TO Zero
-Eren the Polar Bears
Seek Hdrmer Quarters.

.ol6 6sx Indeed that drives
bes- in search Of steam PIP
- re NAV make believe he IS flbeT
-.,ins. such one rarely comes 10 ->eN
- h1,t il came YESTERDAY. AFTER
threat in advance, and the coloes
IN the annals of the loCa
.--..,e- Bureau was recorded ! ii'
bos made good his promise tha'
b,ests would follow CandlemaS
r6 the intense dry cold Of yester-
,se6 the credulous Who had
.,-e5 him 10 regret their unseasonahle
- ue viii be held in more respect
hereafter.
r.. mercury got down 10 > degrees
-,,-s zero here. In some places OUTSIDE
oirv where the thermometer was
ose5 70 the northwest wind, II went
-, ,o--e- Il was 3 dry cold. such as
=. Inhabitants Of Canada and the
,-o--+uest speak of With condescendinS
,,-s5e when referring 70 the humidity OF
,-az- York. but for all its dryness 1t was
--,ori7r. It made the eyehalls hurt.
he checks tingle and the ears-well, the
ssrs we're not annoying until they began
~ tfaw indoors.
P,-+ sU this personal annoyance was
x nothing compared with other dis
,rsseinE effects Of the Coldest February
eyer" It ErippeG the railroads. and
.,i-h only little remnants Of snow on the
,-scLs whole systems were tied up and
,-si7e deIaved for Two hours. in some
.asea Car brakes wedged in ice packs
,er1,ssd 10 work, switches were hare 10
cne-ate and the general effect Of the
r-5deD and extreme cold threw the rail-
-oads ? bit of in their normal functions.
COATS NTPPED IN THE BRONX.
:. even got some goats in The Bronx;
sor,. n the Angora kind that blissfully
rrv the rags and the theatre posters
me blizzar7s usually blow their way
mis- -7cord cold snap even got the goat
of RAYMOND I. Ditmars. curator of rep
taas II the New York Geological
Gardens in The Bronx.
r-. Dit~ars's goat Is hard TO get in
.rs coolest kind of "a Gather. but Annie,
ne favo-fte of the flock, pleaded yes
,a~dsv Tor shelter phen she heard that
she polar bear family was pining for a
steam heated flst Sir. Ditmars had
s~rr one arartmcnt vacant. and. as the
family f-o-, TIE Farthest North had ap-
MID first. he gave il without . lease
fI7 was overwhelmed for a time when
me herds came in unbidden and tren~
bf7d for housing. It might have been
such dsv as yesterday he thought.
-rst PROMPTED Keats 10 write the lines.
The hare I1nped trembling through the
frozen rrees and silent Were the fiocks
in voeUv fold
BUt M-. Dimarz is not man to let
situations or that sort hafle him. and
within fen hours he had charcoal fires
burning IN emergency shelters. and the
cgd-chevfnr quadrupeds of The Bronx
~sre made comfortable.
50 nucu for Tho Bronx. 1t vas an
r7ar story further south and beyond
'ts Batter. whcrc Staten Island was
r--plctefy frozen tight. The only sem
nance az life in that section Wa when
'5e mU1icfpal ferry boats took on and
snded the coura EcoUs Who dared travel
r7 the Pa The quarters Of Dr. Doty,
'aa FesrE Office. show Cd activity, for
-aromin- ships h2C to be inspected and
TT cutters putting in and out Of Quaran-
n1e through The ice foes showed that
s-sten Island vas not literally dead.
Tle men ryho patrol the beaches 81
'lEtcr and summer alike Il tho various