Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-03-02
81 Nj. GALE
SETS(;()LD
MARK Of
WINTER
Car and Phone Service Crippled
and People Suffer When Tenn
perature Drops to 1872,

Atlanta S cold record for the
winter went by the board Mon
day morning, when tempera-
ture of 15.2 degrees rushed dwon
upon the city on the wings of
what Bayard Taylor calls "a
blast from the Norseman s hell. "
The wind was not quite so ferocious
as on Sunday afternoon, when tele-
phone and telegraph wires and troll
ley lines were torn from the posts by
gale that reached % miles an hou-.
The street car service was badly Grip
pied on number of lines. The wind
moderated slightly during the night,
but Monday morning it was whoopirS
savagely around the corners and maxi.
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
lanta--far more than there has been
in any other cold snap of the winter.
For one thing, It 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
ings with freedom that defied alike
furnace and stove and fireplace. Wa
ter pipes froze and burst in all parts
Of the city
Fortunately for Atlanta, the fury
on Sunday when it was not necessary
for many persons to be exposed True,
couple of thousand persons who at
tended the organ recital at the Au-
ditorium were nipped and buffeted by
the cold b last 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 we'll wrapped.
and prepared to fight the wind at all
corners.
Wind Plays Havoc.
And that is just what they had ts
do. Waiting for street cars at trans-
fer points downtown, women might
be seen sitting on the pavement-the
only practical means of controlling
skirts in tine mighty swirl OF the
wind around the tall corners. Early
presented thin red line
OF noses and glowing ears as they
scurried along. seeking shelter now
and again in doorways. There were
turned-up collars and ear umffs, ftrs
and listers and overShoes-and ST.
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
slowly. The wind was
too, and conditions were
generally more tolerable
The prospect is for a failing wind
Monday afternoon, with a gradually
rising temperature, so that Monday
night and Tuesday morning should be
fairly comfortable. No rain is expect
ed to follow the cold wave--at leasi.
not before the end Of the week, when
2 considerable storm il expected ny
the long range forecaster In Wash
iugton to sweep across the country
Toll Lines Down.
The Southern Bell Company re-
ported Monday morning that the Al
lanta exchange had suffered from d
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-
to the damage TO toll lines,
open to the danger Of falling trees.
Several toll lines out of Atlanta wer~
broken. but the main damage was
farther south.
Six toll lines out OF Macon were
down. and four from An
x usta, while damage all through the
southern part Of the state was re
ported. The Atlanta Office of the wire
chief reported that all connections
would he restored by Monday night