The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-01-14
Bridgeport In Throes Of Worst Cold Snap In Years. PLUMBERS ARE
 REAPING HARVEST Shivering Morals Experience Wintry Blasts For First
 Time This Winter. BELOW ZERO MARK
 HIT DURING NIGHT Incipient Fires And Minor Mishaps Reported-Ice Dealers Getting Ready
 For Fine Harvest. N -
E0r FIne HarVest.

Relief from the present i1i- tensely cold weather is prom ised by the Weather Depart ment at Washington who today sent broadcast a bulletin for Connecticut and vicinity stat ing that it would be fair today, slightly warmer tonight and moderating tomorrow. Those who have suffered in Bridge port yesterday and today will draw a sigh of relief
 One Of the greatest freeEes Tf eh. has struck BridEeport in many y.ars
 Throughout the night ana early n1oerl- ing Fecple who sought tha comfort of added bedelothea in tlneir sIeenfnr.- rooms this morning woke up 4o nnd
 that wateE and gas pipes had froSen in the most unexpected placee, and n1aaisicns went wft1loue breakfast and
 heat until D Iaste 1toszr-
 The greRtest harrae which has been reaped by plumbers and steamft tten9 began yesterday.s and continued throughout the night. only to be re- neWed again this lmoESliug. The plumb
 ing bills to the residents of this city will be enormous.
 While but one fatality resulting from the cold had been reported up to a late hour this afternoon ana that an unknown man who was found fro zen to death i'm vacant lot near Bishop and Barnum avenue, trivial accidente. fires and many frozen hands feet and ears are reported about the city, and doctors have been kept busy explaining that the sharp and insistent stinging in the feet or
 Trrfr resulting from exposure to the cold
 Schools in ffferent sections of the city have had to partially shut down and dismiss their classes, charity orr ganizations have had their hands full attending to fhe necessities of those applying to them for necessities and the Bank street mission was taxed to it's utmost to accommodate those who sought shelter and the overflow was taken care of at police headquarters-
 Throughout the adjacent section or the country while thermometer read ines were lower than in Bridgeport where a maximum of degrees below was reached last night, with steady rise from 2 this morning to 14 degrees above at noon, no extreme records ara reported and no deaths from exposure as vet noted Though cattle are sut- fering in some isolated, spots and tlq milk supply may be shortened some what. the elements did little damage since the storm of Monday
 It was said at both the Spraeu1 and Naugattpck Valley Ice companies of71ces fhat cutting would probaoly neein about Monday with a large force of men employed. It was found that a.. depth of eight inches of ice had formed on Beardsley park lake, ana Fairfield, Stratford ana Milford about the same thickness Waa noted. with freezing weather it ia fT1 r1f1ieffa- 12 inches would be formed, The ice--th1s- year Is said to. be clear, compact and all most flawYess.
 Tide conditions in the harbor wers slightly better than the low Water mark recorded yesterday, and with the reducing of the wind upon the Sound vessels storm-bound in this port were able to proceed eastward with their parges- The tugs Charles Henry, and the Owen" passed out oH he breakwater shorty aIeeI, Q StoeA tsssl and the 24-hour delayed Park City made the trip from Port Jefferson she. that the harbor of Port Jeff ,erson, N. Y., was ice-bound and like wise reports reached this office that he local harbor is frozen over with wo-fnch coating as far down as the & Wilson plant.
 At the offices of the Board of Edu- ,ation it was announced that the school on Sanford avenue vas closed this morning owing 10 ln- sufficient heat in lower grades. Thf 3ryant school on Poplar street aIsQ closed this morning but resumed worA n the afternoon. One room of the street school was closed. Afs er repairs were made to the Nichols school yesterday work was again be. yun this morning
 The clock on Main street which haa -ecentlv been changed to the norta- vest side of Fairfield avenue, stopped turing the night but was again plac. d in working order this morning
 Automobile dealers about the city generally report that radiators and ,ther parts of machines have bee4 rozen and considerable damage done t is estimated that 30 per cent. o automobile trafFlc has been a;bandonet hroueh cold weather. Cha-umeuH md demonstrators about the city rs port the most discomforting period
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