The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-01-14
IS NO ABATEMENT OF THE COLD WAVE Washington Predicts Still Colder Weather Today HEAVY SHOWS FALL Lodging Houses in Big Cities Are Overcrowded - Ranchers Suffer
 Terribly-Is Now Warmer
 at Chattanooga
HEAVY SHOWS FALL

Washington, January 1s.--Within the last si hours the extreme cold in tue North Atlantic statef, snow and rains in the South Atlantls states. and local snow il. the lake region, gave the ter- ritory east of the Mississippi river one of it's most disagreeable winter weather spells in many years
 Indications tonight according to the government weather bureau, were that temperatures would rise over practical ly all districts east of the Mississipni river and in the southwest.
 On Monday the mercury is expected to ascend on the Atlantic seaboard, In the east gulf states and the north west storm warnings are displayed along the Atlantic coast from Jackson vile, Fla, to Norfolk. Va, as well as on the north coast.
 New York, January 13(Special )--New York today experienced the coIdest wealth CT since 19O3 The temperature dropped steadily until it reached a minimum of three degrees below zero.
 It was so cold at the Bronx Geological park that the keepers had to turn on the steam heat in the dens of the polar bears. The polar bears, the muskrats and the walrus arc the only animals left out all winter. The walrus didn't mind even today. He was doing frost dance on the ice over the pond and barking for joy.
 The head nishtkeeper, Mike O'Keefe, heard the bears roaring early, today in
 faI ;t, pain. He took look at them and found them shivering and pacing up and down outside their dens-which are little more than caves in the rocks back of their cages. He turned the steam into pipes under the floors of the dens, which never have been used since the polar bears were installed there, and were never ex- pected to be put in use for the big white bears.
 North Pole and his spouse, Aurora Bereais. seemed to appreciate the heat when they found the floor getting warmer and at once spread themselves out on it as flat as they could and stopped bowling.
 Rainey, another polar bear, who has Il cage near the lion house. made so much noise that he woke the lions and tigers and they made bedlan, of the park. He was bundled into q wagon and taken around to cage inside the lion house. Silver King the Alaskan bear who ha been the terror of the park ever since he reached N was stiff with cold the back of Iris den, in which thepe wei, no steam pipes. He stupidly submitted to being pried into a cart to be taken to quarters where he could be thawe out.
 Causing Misery | The frigid weather that holds New Yorn | in it's grasp is causing misery and con ! s. ernation among the poor. All Tod sing houses are crowded to theii capacity and shiverng applicants keef coming to ask for succor. All the chari- table organizations have issued appeals for clothes and funds to aid in relieving the distress. They all report gerater de mands for charity than ever before. 1 Canton N Y., reports 26 beIows zero Binghampton has p below; Providence R. l., an1 Hartford. Conn.,, report be- l low. Boston is below; Philadelphia zero Buffalo zero. and Erie, Pa- below The .recorl' cold that prevailed At Huron & D. was f2 below. 20 ff