Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1910-01-06
SEVEN BELOW
ZERO TODAY
Coldest Weather Here in
January Reported in II
Years
MAN FROZEN NEAR NAMBE
Seven Bears Seek Caves as
Haven From Biting
Cold.

Santa Fe restaurant this morning. And
they chose seats near the big stove.
To the waiter one said: Bring me
some powered pemmican." And the
other added: And give me a gum
drop"
These orders having been taken both
travellers proceeded to shovel coal into
the stove And there was a reason,
for the weather today has broken
records for cold snaps. Not since jan
uary p, 1888, has the mercury jump
ed to a created depth this month. 1t
was then 13 below. On January 8,
1881, it fell to below and on January
%, of the same year, it was also 8
below.
The weather prediction for tonight
is fair with continued cold weather.
Tomorrow will be fair, with rising
temperature. This news will doubt
less elecit a Santa Fe chorus of
Let it rise"
Story of the Drop.
The drop, mercurial, not gum, was
an insidious affair, but there was one
man in Santa Fe who suspected it.
That gentleman was A. j. Fischer
who told several young men at his
drug store early last night that he ex-
pected the night would be the coolest
of the year. At 6 p. m. it was above
zero and at p. m. above. Then at
8 o'clock it was only above and peo-
pie fiOcked to the Elks theatre to get
warm, For the melodrama was ex-
pected to have lots of fire in it, The
weather man took the hint that Harry
Tracy gave him, it seems, and raised
his temperature two degrees, keeping
the mercury at until 10 p. m. At the
news of Tracy's death at II p. M, the
mercury dropped one degree and kept
on the downward plunge, reaching l
degree above zero at midnight.
Down, Down, 1t Went.
The man who attended the show
and returned home late wondered why
everything in the house seemed SO
cold. The wise ones wrapped up, In
dian fashion, in blankets and tried to
forget that the pillow seemed like a
small sized cake of ice from a scene
in Uncle Toms Cabin. At l o'clock
the silver bulb dipped to 2 below and
at 2 a. m. it managed to dig down to
4 below. With reckless abandon
the mercury kept on a downward
course while old Boreas outside lent
a melodramatic accompaniment and
real sympathetic support. A 3 a. m.
5 below had been recorded and the
mercurial rascal was not yet satisfied
IT. was clear case of record smashing
and with a slight rest at 4 O'Clock,
when the mercury rose to A below, it
took its great plunge reaching seven
and three-tenths below zero at
o'clock.
Fires on Strike.
This is about the hour that poets
say men sleep the soundest, but the
household gods woke up the men who
take kindly interest in their family's
comfort and down to the cellar furnace
they hiked. The furnace, however,
seemed to be on strike and gave
forth little heat. But it was only a
trick of the weather. The would-be
fire builder went upstairs again and
tried to look out of the window. But it
wasn't any use as the allies of mer-
curry had painted the panes white so
that the game could be better played.
At 6 a. m. the mercury climbed to
below and at to 5 below, and at
to 6 below. Then at a. m the
thermometer became respectable and
was 3 above zero, ascending to
above at 10 a. m.
knife-Cutting Wind.
When Weather Experts Linnev and
Sloan arrived at the federal building
this morning then remarked to each
other that the breeze around there
cut like Harry Tracys knife With
icicles on his moustache Mr. Sloan
made a rush for the thermometer and
after reading the registration looked
in the looking glass to see if he was
dreaming.
Colder Elsewhere.
The consolation, however, is given
that Colorado Springs which so many
fasteners talk of in balmy terms,
"basked" in a temperature of 10 be-
low zero today and Topeka and other
Kansas towns Is below. Just what
Montana and Minnesota had to say
for themselves was unrecorded 1t is
stated, however, that DR.. Frederick
A. Cooks assertion that the temper
ature around the pole was " below
zero is being given serious attention
now by his enemies who think the