New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-02-13

where policemen found him uncon-
scious. lie will recover.
There staggered into the 9th street
police station Yesterday woman with
a baby wrapped in a thin shawl she
SAID she was Mrs. Anna Steahora and
was earning 81 week in an East SIDE
sweatshop since her husband deserted
her. ON that amount she supported
herself and three children. The baby
vas blue from cold and UNDERGOING
and near death when Or. Wellington
OF Bellevue Hospital, applied restora-
uves.
A little relief is predicted for to-day
a Nt,le-folloved 10y heavy snow
storm that the weather sharps say IS
On the way from Texas and coming
fast. II is too cold 20 snow. but when
the relief comes the snow will take up
the Job OF adding 10 the general SUI
lering.
Thousands Of shiyering unfortunates
anplied 10 the city for aid, taxing the
capacity Of institutions that were
forced 10 dispense with genealogical
formula IN favor Of something to eat.
The Municipal Lodging House was
tanned with men, and forty women
and fifteen children we're also received
Whom the overflow came the men were
sent 10 the recreation pier at the foot
NJ East oath street and TO the steam
ere Thomas :. Brennan and Lowell
AZ the Charities pier at East 9eth
street.
The recreation pier presented grim
.sicht last night II WAS built Tor iuh'
but before midnish, the high tide OF mis-
,r, had swept over ii. Driven from the
streets bv the intense cold. six hundred
transformations from the Bowery's cohorts
Of misfortune hudded on the floor and
tho cots.
"Wreckreation pier was an apt name for
II. after the shutting unfortunstes had
drunk their scaldine coffee and lain down
10 toss and mutter through the night
The morsue was the motif Of last
NIGHTS song or Woe" BY an uncanny
disposition Of relief the suffering seemed
ranged around that institution. The rec
reation pier looks over the dreary build
ine and the two city steamers. the bren-
nan and the Lowell. whose decks have
been the scene Of many a political and
champagne juaket. were tied handy to
the house where the city takes note OF
tho poor when the final dissolution comes
The hardness Of the morGue was not
rnnotcod by those who passed on their
way to relief.
List night the bread line was impos-
sible. Foot by foot 1t diminished as the
nenumbinc wind whipped down llth
street Starvation might be imminent to
the ragged line that swayed and stamped
hut circulation was the more pressing
need. At midnight the line was gone
seeking the organized charity scrlmped
and iced" that somehow was able 10
dispensc with red tape long enough 10
furnish food and shelter.
Missions took i'm the half-frozen april
cants and fed them before asking ques-
lions.
Along with the stories Of suherlns
came the important announcement that
tho ternerature having dropped 10 ~
hove az Miami Fla. folks were not en-
loving the bathing as much as usual
Another matter for worry came from
East Meadow. Long Island. where the
Ground was 50 hard that sportsmeh
simply had TO call off proposed ION
hunt skating was substituted and the
tssl, OF putting IN day was nicely SoNeu'
The zero weather didn't stop thirty
five Young athletes from starting ID the
Marathon Of the 18th Regiment OF BROOK
l,n. from the armOry TO sea Gate ana
hack. II did stop some from nnishins'
thouch Twcnty-four whose frosty sh'ns
and bucl,linc kneccaps made running =
burden conceded il was cold and dropped
.,ut An ambulance and six doctors made
tine run comfortably The doctors were
in the ambulance.
From ali over the country came re-
ports Of low temperatures and much sur
ferine.
New England was in the grip OF
cold snap" as they call II up there
when the mercury ranges all the way
from On below to the limit At Barre
VT. George earle. policeman, was found
unconscious from cold Al his post ana
is expcoted 10 die At Island Falls Me.
Albert Mclaughlin. farmer, became 50
numl. that he dropped from his wagon
and died on the road. Worcester had a
few hours when the mercury WAS ~ ne
low and rittsfeld registered 50 below.
The annua lie from UP the Hudson was
told YESTERDAY aud over IN New Jersey
thev began harvesting a third ice crop.
Winsted reported % below, which can
hc accepted without question. as up at
Biz Moose in the Adirondscks, 1t touched
~ below. which seemed 10 be the coolest
snot recorded I'm the United States.
Canada supplied few rather cold
places. where 80 and 20 below was en-
loved hv the hardy wights from that re
Gon.
Upstate cities were hit hard. tempela-
tucs around 80 below being recorded gem
orallv. Buffalo registered "a below, Rome
20 l-tca 20. Pompton 81 and Little Falls
80 Albany escaped with 1s below.
CITIES through the West missed most ~
Tho cold. but much snow fell i'm Des
Moines particularly. where traffic was
badly tied M.