New-York tribune., 1912-02-12
n;tv Welcomes Decided Advance
Of Temperature, Which Falls
Before Forecast of Con-
tinued Arctic Weather as
Night Arrives.
noLo WAVE REcEDEs, BUT
SHOWS SIGNS OF RETURNING.

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The cold wave that swept down from
tbs north on the city last Friday night
relaxed its hold yesterday to some ex-
,ent but the rise in the temperature did
NOT relieve the suffering among the poor
q great deal. Two deaths from colo ana
.xposure occurred during the day, and
many persons were rescued from the
streets by charitable organizations in the
nick Of time.
AS late in the morning as o'clock the
thermometer registered ] degree below
zero. but from that time till noon 1t rose
steadily. At IL o'clock ii had ascended
to S degrees and by 3 o'clock the high
est temperature Of the day, 20 degrees
was reached. The mercury hoVereo
around that point for the next three
hours and then started on downward
movement and shortly before midnight
Il had gone down to Is degrees.
The first death recorded during the
day was that of Jacob Smith, htty-hVe
wears old, a street cleaner, living at NO
so5 Melrose avenue, The Bronx. He was
AZ work on the city dumping ground at
Eastern Boulevard and the West Chester
Canal when he was overcome by the cold
and died before Dr. Pickard, Of Fordham
Hospital, could reach him.
James Dalton. who had been living at
a lodging house at No. 100 Bowery for
tas last month, was the other victim.
" was found dead without a cent Of
money in his clothes in the hall of fac
tory at No. 134 Hester street, where, 1t
is thought he had gone to seek shelter
from the cold. He was said to be fifty
two years old.
Lodoina Houses Fill Early.
An through the day the charitable or
Ranizations in the tenement house dis
tricts Of the city were kept busy relieV-
ing the applicants who sought for aid
and as evening drew near the homeless
started a run on the lodging houses that
was one of the largest in years. The
municipal lodging house in 25th street
that has accommodations for 768 per
sons. was filled as early as o'clock IN
the evening, and the authorities had 10
send the applicants who came later to
the boat owned by the city that is an
chored at the side Of the pier at 26th
street
Missions along the Bowery and At
other places where bed tickets are dis
tributed had more than they could do to
supply the demand that was made for
them
The snowstorm that was predicted by
the. forecasters TO strike the city last
night did not arrive, as the blizzard that
has been raging in the Western states
was met by high pressure area before
II had travelled far in this direction, and
the influence brought to bear shifted it
back 10 the northeast The official
forecast issued last night predicted more
arctic weather, with the possibility that
a snowstorm from another direction
would reach the city some time to-day.
Traffic on the North and East rivers
vas seriously hampered yesterday by the
huge foes of ice that came down stream
and under the pressure Of high wind
were pied up along the piers and in the
ferry slips Ferries plying between Jer-
sey City and Manhattan had difficulty in
making landing on the New York side,
as the wind was from the northwest and
cakes Of ice some being more than fif-
teen feet in diameter, were piled against
tho piers and ferry slips, extending in
some places quarter Of a mile out from
the shore. making what seemed from the
jersey side Of the river to be solid
border Of ice
In the East River the same trouble at
tended the plotting Of the ferries. al
though the size of the cakes that made
up the ice pack that lined the Brooklyn
shore were somewhat smaller.
No Schedule for Ferries.
None Of the ferries was reported as be-
ing disabled by the ice jams through
which they had 10 fight their way, but
such thing as running schedule was
impossible, and even the powerful Staten
Island ferryboats were delayed by what
is said to have been the worst ice foe IN
years
The ice extended even as far as the
Narrows ard caused lot Of trouble ioi
incoming vessels. Both the Staten ISL
and and Long Island shores were DOT
dered by : did expanse Of ice. apd th'
fragments that fioated down during th'
day became so thick at times that th'
narrow channel appeared TO be entirely
frozen over
Early I'm the afternoon the marine op
server on the Staten Island shore OF IN
Narrows received shock when d
scanned the opposite shore through III
glasses. He perceived what appeared U
oe persons walking on the Ice near ln
ncst Of the Crescent Athletic Clup.
called the superintendent Of the cluD o.
he telephone and learned from MN tha
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