Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-02-12
MERCURY PLUNGES
BELOW ZERO MARK;
BLIZZARD ON WAY
Homeless Fill Lodging-Houses.
SnowstOrm Coming from
Texas by Tomorrow.
COLDEST LINC0LN'S DAY IN
43 YEARS, RECORDS SHOW
Thermometer Registers Three
Degrees Below at 3 A. M. and
Zero at Noon.

After lowering just q little above
the zero mark from sundown yester-
day, the mercury took a downward
plunge early today, falling to three
degrees below zero at a. m. At
noon temperature of zero was reg
lstered. and it was above at 1
o'clock The Weather Bureau as
serted no break in the cold wave can
be looked for for twenty-four hours.
The cold wave which has struck this
city is extending through the whole
eastern section Of the country.
1t is expected TO be succeeded by a
snow storm from Texas in the next
twenty-four hours.
Real winter weather is with the
snow storm, the weather bureau SAID
today, and 1t was predicted that
flakes would be falling over the Mid
die Atlantic and Southern New Eng
land States by tonight or tomorrow
morning.
The weather bureau issued spe-
cia | forecast today heralding the
coming of the storm.
The weather forecasterS said today
is the coldest Lincoln's Birthday in
forty-three years.
Great suffering accompanied the
arctic weather. Lodging houses and
rescue homes were more than filed
and several cases of sickness from
exposure were reported by the hos
pitfalls.
Between o'clock last night and
midnight, the mercury dropped eight
degrees. At o'clock the tempera-
ture was IL degrees above. No change
was noted until 10 p. m, when a
drop of two degrees was registered.
At II o'clock the mercury stood at s.
but before midnight it had dropped
four degrees to a.
After midnight the thermometer
continued its downward journey, the
lowest temperature being registered
at 8 a. M, when the mercury dropped
to degrees below zero. The ther-
mometer continued to hold this figure
5 until a. m, when it shot up. again.
At a. m. the temperature was zero,
and at 1t was Q degrees above.
Mercury Drops Again.
The rising of the sun did not bring
a corresponding rise in the ther-
nometer. On the contrary the mer-
cury dropped. At 10 a. m. the tenn
perature was zero, and It wassstill
zero at noon. The wind was from
the north and northwest and was
light.
InoSe workers TO WHom To-Day was
not holiday felt the cold intensely
when they left their homes in the
early morning. The heating system
of the street cars was not sufficient
to cope with the exceptionally low
temperature, and red faces, blue noses
and chilled feet were the rule with
those who had to be out today.
Today, however. was not the coidest
day of the winter. January IA holds
the record for the winter of 1913-14,
for early that day temperature of
five degrees below zero was regis
tered The coldest weather this Sec
tion ever experienced, the records
say, was six degrees below zero on
February II, 1899, and on one or two
previous occasions.
Despite the freezing temperature,
however, school children and others
who expected to enjoy the holiday
skating. failed to find the red ball up
in the Newark parks. There was
skating on the swimming pools in
Branch Brook Park but the ice on
the large lakes was not in condition
to be used The Essex County Park
Commission this afternoon said there
perhaps will be skating on the Wee
quahic Park lake tomorrow.
Last night was the busiest one OF
the winter in the lodging houses of
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