Omaha daily bee., 1911-01-03
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The cold wave stnl has Nebraska and
most Of the rest OF the country firmly IN
IFS grasp and this grasp will not be much
loosened during today. Local Forecaster
welsh last night said: Zero and below
zero weather win prevail during today at
least
The mercury has hung around eight and
ten degrees below zero ever since early
Monday morning and It does not bid fair
to climb far higher today. AZ o'clock
last night the government thermometer
registered minus ten degrees and seemed
likely TO go lower
IL was warmer yesterday at p m than
at 2 and at 4, but as it was minus seven
then against minus eight before and after
the increase was not much more apprecia-
BILE than Il was durable.
Train service is not so badly balled up as
on Monday and Sunday night, but at best
schedules are shot to pieces and with con-
tinued cold ieeather today a great improve
ment Is not likely at once.
Engine FIremen work Hard.
Many lines have abandoned schedules for
the time being and snow and coid-stormed
engines are poiing frigd noses through
the drifts while firemen are shoveling
against a heavy handicap One not very
late burlington train pulled into the Bur
lington station at 6 O'Clock last evening.
Come on. take the 4;2Ol' shouted the
passenger director, who seemed uncon-
soious Of any humor in his remark. Other
trains on this and all other roads were
much more than one hour and forty min
utes late and engines and coaches came
limping in. stor mbattered and cold from
two to six and eight hours behind official
schedule.
Omaha kept indoors yesterday, as on
Sunday. None emerged who had not inn
portant business downtown and the fact
that the day was generally observed as a
holiday permitted many a man and women
to remain at home and toast his or her
Ehlns before a pleasant CRATE fire, siz-
cling radiator or ,an old fashioned wood
stove.
Those who did have tos come forth pa
tronized the street cars which had a good
deal less difficulty fighting the weather
than on sunday because there was no snow
fail yesterday But the wind and slippery
rails made adherence to schedules a mat
ter OF extreme difficulty and on wind
swept streets like Farnam practically an
iinpossibnity.
NOld Muittpites MendtcnutA.
The storm and cold seemed to have one
curious effect. which might be called so
biological The number Of we'll dressed oI
comparatively well dressed men who wers
begging on the streets increased and ths
''panhandlers'' Of lower Douglas street ven
tured up onto upper Douglas. sixteenth
street and FarnRm street. They reaped
harvest. too, II anyone were willing tC
stop long enough to dig into pockets FOL
change, he would not refuse a man VIII,
begged a dime, ITO get something 10 eat
Tor the love Of heaven Sir"
II vas too cold TO stop and Teflec
as TO whether the beggar was or was no
a worthy object OF charity and the fir
thought, that Il was a cruel hard da,
on the poor beggar was likely 10 be tn
last one before initial charitable impuls
ended IN philanthropio action, unless on
we're bitterly cold himself that he woul
not have stopped long enough to rescue
freezins man.
The homeless did not hang around door
ways and store fronts. Many OF theu
hied themselves TO the city jail where sun
day night fifty-sevsn sought and foun,
shelter FROM snow and wind and cold. Las
night an equal number were thus housed
The cells were nearly filled up with these
and with men and women whose entrano
was less voluntary. and the overflow wa
hCLdCd IN the "bull pen"