New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-02-11
COLD SNAP BRINGS
DEATH and MISERY
Thinly Clad Thousands
Suffer, Lined Up for
Bread or Bundles.
THREE FOUND DEAD,
TWO WOMEN, ONE MAN
Salvation Army Says Situation
Is Improved-Socialists ASK
Prendergast to Speak.

Cold caused much suffering IN the
city Yesterday and led, indirectly 10
several deaths. At in the morning inc
thermometer registered degrees
above. and though il rose slightly dur
ing the day. the snap brought mucn
distress. especially evident in the line
Of 1000 men and women VINO sIooh
waiting for bundles Of clothing IN "au
ison Square. 10,
Earlv in the morning an underlined
man. about fifty-five years old was
found dead from exposure at the BOW,
crv and First Street. lie was " feet
inches tall. weighed 100 pounds and had
gray hair and mustache. DR.. VOL OF
bellevue Hospital, found that the man
was clad only in a thin suit, with no
M derclothes or overcoat. The oody
was taken to the Morgue.
Mrs. Barbara Haag. eighty-iour; o,
1871 Avenue +, Bayonne, was found deaG
on the tracks Of the New Jersey Central
Railroad Yesterday morning. she mao
fallen down the steep embankment ~
the foot of East Twenty-seventh Street
and was either killed by the fall or
frozen TO death. Temporary insanity
caused by illness is thought TO have
caused her to wander from rome late
| Tuesday night.
Drawn Under Ice.
While looking for shovel Mrs. Har-
riet Hogencamp. seventy-four, slipped
on some ice and fell into creek in her
doorvard in Valley Cottage, suburb OF
Nyack. yesterday. The strong currenl
swept her under the ice, and she was
drowned. 80.
! Mrs. Mary Hertz, twenty-five, OF 33l
Willis Avenue, The Bronx, was almost
/ frozen TO death on her own doorstep
When she returned from making call
! Tuesday evening she found that she
had forgotten her key, and sat down on
tn steps to wait for her husband. she
/ fell asleep. and was found unconscious
/ at . o'clock yesterday morning by Pa
trolman Stephens. She was revived al
the Lincoln Hospital, where she was
/ found to be suffering from exposure
/ Her husband had been at home, but was
not aroused by her ring.
Hundreds OF children shivercd and
shook along with their elders who
! formed the bundle line" in Madison
! Square. Cold as il was, and scanty
| as was most OF the attire of those
waiting, remarkable patience was
! shown. and even courtesy. A large
number of the persons asked for work
/ but the supply of jobs connected with
the distribution was much too small for
J he demand. The distribution commit
J tee has been surprised to find the
| number of children who have beer pre-
vented from attending school because
/ they have not had sufficient clothes to
/ cover them.
! Owing to the confusion caused at the
/ Headquarters, 2l0 Fifth Avenue, by
: having the men and women call at the
l same time. the committee announced
( last evening that hereafter tho women
must call at $3.50 a. m. and the men a
/ | D. m. II had not been intended to
give the clothing out from headqusr-
tiers but TIE crowds were so great that
it was decided to begin the distribution
without delay.
Conditions Improved.
Places of employment have been
| found for $50 men recently by the
| Salvation Army, and at headquarters it
was said that there has been a notice
able improvement in conditions during
the last week.
More than 300 women we're seen in
the Knickerbocker bread line, and about
I 1000 men. The destitute now haze the
unoccupied store at 1877 West Forty
| first Street in which 70 wait for their
frankfurters and coffee. A woman
stopped her automobile at the rear en-
trance of the hotel yesterday afternoon
and left $50 to be distributed down the
line.
A very large suit of clothes was left
with patrolman 10 give some needy
man in the line. The officer noticed a
huge Polish Jew who could speak no
English, and, walking over, tapped him