Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-03-02
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SETS(?OLD
MARX Of
WINTER
Car and Phone Service Crippled
and People Suffer When lem
perature Drops to 15,2,
Forecast for Atlanta and
vicinity-Continued fair, with
slowly rising temperature,

Atlanta S cold record for the
winter went by the board Mon
day morning, when a temporal
ture of 1872 degrees rushed dwon
upon the city ON the wings OF
what Bayard Taylor calls "a
blast from the Norseman S hell.
The wind Vas not quite so ferocious
as on Sunday afternoon, when tele-
phone and telegraph wires and troll
ley lines We're torn from the posts by
gale that reached 81 miles an hour
The street car service was badly Grip
pied on a number of lines, The wind
moderated slightly during the night
but Monday morning it was whoopir;
sayagely around the corners and max
ing a speed of from 40 to As miles
an hour around the thermometer On
the Empire Building.
Much Suffering.
There was much suffering In At
in any other cold snap of the winter.
For one thing, 1t was colder by nearly
four degrees For another the terrific
wind drove the cold air into the best
built houses and whistled through the
cracks and crannies of ordinary build
ngs with freedom that dehed alike
furnace and stove and fireplace Wa
ter pipes froze and burst in all parts
of the city.
Fortunately for Atlanta. the fury
Of the elements burst in its full force
on Sunday, when it was not necessary
for many persons to be exposed. True
a couple Of thousand persons who at
tended the organ recital at the Au-
ditorium We're nipped and buffeted by
the cold blast and reached home
partly frozen. But those who set out
to work Monday morning were pre-
pared by the warning Of the prev-
Gus day They went well wrapped
and prepared to fight the wind at all
corners
Wind Plays Havoc
And that is just what they had to
do. Waiting for street ears at trans
fer points downtown, women might
be seen sitting on the pavement-the
only practical means Of controlling
skirts in the mighty swirl Of the
wind around the tall corners. Early
pedestrians presented a thin red line"
OF noses and glowing ears as they
scIrried along. seeking shelter now
and again in doorways. There were
collars and ear muffs, furs
and listers and overshoes-and still
there was intense suffering from the
wind driven cold that swept the
streets.
BY 10 o'clock the official thermom
eter had risen to Is degrees and was
clambering slowly The wind was
slackenlne, too. and conditions were
generally more tolerable.
The prospect is for a failing wind
afternoon, with a gradually
rising temperature, so that Monday
night and Tuesday morning should be
fairly comfortable No rain is expect
I'd to follow the cold wave--at Least,
not before the end of the week, when
a considerable storm is expected b.
he long range 70" caster in Wash
ngton to sweep across the country
Toll Lines Down.
The Southern Bell Company re-
ported Monday morning that the At
anta exchange had suffered from
number OF breaks in lines, princi
pally on the west side of town, all Of
which would be repaired before night
The damage in the city, where most
of the lines were cabled, was not to be
compared TO the damage to toll lines,
open to the danger OF falling trees
Several toll lines out OF Atlanta were
broken. but the main damage was
'arther south.
Six toll lines out OF Macon were
down. and four from Au-
susta. while damage all through the
southern parI Of tho STATE Gas re-