New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-12-27
Mercury Covers Within
Four Degrees of Bleak
Zero Mark.
TO-DAY WILL HELP
THAW ICY WOES
BITTER Blasts Bring About Sew
eraI Deaths-0ne Life Is
Lost by Exposure.
Pin goes another cold wavel

Yin goes another colo WaNe'
Take II from our genial foreeaster
that to-day you'll need only one OF the
two overeOats you had 70 wear yes'er-
dav 20 keep from being frozen aoS0-
lutely 70 an ieiele.
That gentleman, surveying tue i'
no-ts OF the days weather carnage a.
n. sat in his warm Office on a ioi'S
soor 81 the Whitehall Building, re-
r,orked that this morning the tenn
neratpre would start in the direcVioh
q, the clouds, falling short Of that
height by just enough feet to preserve
the tradition that because it's winter
cold weather is necessary
Certainly you'll all extend hearty
welcome TO anything that resembles
nercury rising in a narrow little TUBE
YESTERDAY was about as tough col
lection Of twenty-f0ur hours as any
one should send a page boy Tor, as IL
Last ia balance several times during
+be dav and fell all over the 4-degree
mark. When il regained ITS Ieet anu
leaned up to II degrees the difference
vscs striking enough 20 make one ieei
thet he had travelled from Greenland
10 Palm Beach in two hours.
Until afternoon arrived the situation
seemed to threaten q long period OF
addressing cold and heavy run on the
orraI izations who care for the nome
less in disheartening weather mere
in Now York the temperature was 10"
enough, but beyond IT'S eonnnes 'he
weather was very heartless.
A slight wind contributed TO the as
comfort. but that died down soon ai,eI
the shades of night had been puiieu
down, and though the cold KEPT up Tvs
,ro,tsS around the left and right wings
and forced it back an encouraging us
tarce. H.. ,L;ot,
- besiaged on cold nights, experienced
m trouble in handling its visitors. Inc
main building, at the foot OF East 2otn
~ holds about 1000 men. 1t was full
AZ o'clock last night Thirty-nVe
women and two children were also
boused there. The annex, which takes
an the second floor of the Recreation
pisr NJ the foot of East oath St, mad
shout 400 men. Its 500 double-decked
cots accommodate 1000 persons.
Twenty stoves. their coal fires burning
kent the inclosed pier at temperature
OF Sc degrees. Two heavy blankets are
on each cot, so the men, after a good
supper, slept in comfort. Superlnfend'
ent G. u. Newnsus seeing to II tha'
every applicant was taken care OF.
Death accompanied the cold wave IN
IRIS city. On Christmas night man
Who had been fed at the "Big Tim" Sui
Ivan dinner walked into the night court
and asked Magistrate Krotel to send him
10 Blackwell's Island for the winter
He said he was homeless and without
friends, and for months had slept IN
me parks He was sent Temporarily u
a cell in Yorkville prison. Yesterday
morning. shortly after he had taken a
howl of hot oatmeal. he was found dead
IN his cell An ambulance surgeon said
heart disease had caused death. The
man in court had said he had occa'
sionally been befriended BY Mrs
Elfnor Baumel, whose address he re-
membered as IL st. Marks Place
Brooklyn. He said his name was Franz
Blossom.
Anthony c. Wills, Of Montclair. n. j.
collapsed at 81 CortlRndt 81. YESTERDAY
morning. lie died before at ambulance
surgeon could reach him. Wills Owne,
house at lat Lefferts av., Brooklyn.
Several persons slipped on the icy
streets. but they were not seriously in
iured. and ambulance surgeons fount
that day which had threatened mucf
work turned out light IN this respect.
Patrick Maher, fifty-fve, a long
shoreman. of % Bowery, was foun
semi-conscious at Bowery and Pell 81
last evening, suffering from exposure
lie died in Gouverneur Hospital.
Outside of New York City severe