The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1912-01-14
THREE DEGREES BELOW,
COOLEST IN 8 YEARS
Close to Zero Again This Morning.
Then Warmer. With
Snow. Maybe.
COLD BREAKS IN THE WEST
Here Take In Their Maxi
mum of Refugees From
Zero Weather.

Ice appeared for the first time this sea-
son IN the flank ing rivers of Manhattan a.
tidal drift from their shallow and quieter
tributaries. The rivers themselves froHe
near the shores as they we're entitled TO
do with the temperature 3 degrees below
zero at 4 80 4 NJ the cold.-t in eight
years. In suburban places the record
was lower than this which was taken
from the top of the Whitehall Building
4la feet above the ground Central Parh s
Government Thermometer, SIXTY iert
above the street agreed with the elevated
instrument also recording 3 below.
Al II clock last night the mercury
away up in the air showed degrees
above. or IL degree colder than was re-
corded the night before al the same
hour The prophet said thls should not
I've construed 10 mean that the tempera O..
ture was going 10 drop below the record
Of the morning, though II may gel close
To zero All reports from stations to the
West and Northwest showed rise in
temperature and II seemed likely that
there would be no below zero weather
this morning The coolest place IN the
United States last night was Northheld
VI where II was ~ below HE local
prophets look for Cloudinees and now o.
day with temperature hat may reach -
Men who have been providing shelter
III the rooms OF the Bowery Mission. the
warm reading rooms of the salvation
Army hotels that We're thrown open ~
all Corners and the Municipal Lodging
House thought that it would b- close
race between last nigh, and In. night be
fore for the heaviest run Of the winter
All day the Bowery Mission had been Civ
ing o,it clothing TO the men who cam" To
them in newspa per underclo' hes. coat
and trousers and a PAIR OF shoes from
200 10 5UO pieces Of clothing we're dis
tribl-d among 500 men. and NJ. Hunt
had kept eight men busy travelling about
the city collecting clothes. lie wants
more, for the demand has leen greatly
above his supply The big meeting rooms
were thrown open much earlier than
usual. and II crowd filled hem imme
diaielv The night before the iron gate
had been broken hv the press IN" audi
rorium was to be open all night, aud MIR
Hunt counted on $50 men sitting through
the ght in the big rooms AroReth her the
mission had arranged 10 provide between
POO and 800 men with lodgings. paying
tor beds in ncighhoring lodging houses
for several hundred Contributions have
been coming in from some Of he churches
to pay for beds r.,.,,. ..;.,
i'll Narck street. has teen converte ed into
lodging quarters for the time and was
looking att"f l% men lhS' nlSll' Nv TWO
Salvation Army hotels on tn" Bowery were
providingn nearly 200 tree beds and expected
i3o men to sit up all night in the chairs
of the reading rooms
At the Municipal Lodging House $50
had leen assigned to beds before o clock
and there We're men on the floor waiting
assignments who would fill up the house
to 735, it's capacity The overflow was
taken care of aboard the Charities De-
partment steamer Thomas Brennan
Supt Yorke said that more than hundred
men had been treated by the doctors for
frost bitten fingers, toes and ears. flve
mothers with children were taken in from
the streets by the womeDs department.
Seventy fires in Manhattan and The
Bronx were reported by the police yes
terday Fight cases of exposure were
attended by ambulance surgeons In
Brooklyn, Louis Olsen. in char ge of a
garbage scow in the Wallabout Basin,
fell into the river and died Of the cold