Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-02-17
Mercury Hits 4
on COLdest Dan
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fifteen minutes. registering the record
low Of 4 a, 7:l0. 1t began to rise
! again after that.
Tho worst OF the cold weather Is over.
the forccasicr thinks. Tt will be cold
again tonight. but not as cold as last
night. and tomorrow will be consid-
crably warmer than today. BY to.
morrow afternoon IL Is expected that
the temperature will have climbed up
to above freezing.
The Delaware Capcs have been having
another severe blizzard. Nine inches OF
snow fell at Cape May and the wind
had risen to forty miles an hour. The
revenue cutter kickapoo is being held in
readiness at It's dock to aid any ship
that may be in distress because Of the
storm. ..-
The intense cold caused great suffer.
ing throughout the city.
road and Ridge avenue. Falls Of
Schuylkill. last night. were an aged
woman and three children. lost, and
near death from the cold. The woman
had gathered the children about her.
and was gazing hopelessly up and down
the street when Police Captain McFad.
den found them. .as. ..,
He was unable 70 make himself IN.
derstood. and calling the patrol. took
them to. the Twenty second and Hunt
ing Park avenue police station. There
it was discovered the woman was Mrs.
Mary Cryisik. The children are her
grandchildren, Veronica. six years old !;
Sophie, seven: and John. eight.
A few days ugo the four arrived from
Europe at Boston. and then went to
Waterbury. Conn. where the father of
the children, Antonio Uset. was living.
From there they came to this city, in
tending to join tho mother at 1884 East
Toronto street.
Turning west instead Of east. they
walked miles. finally winding up IN the
Falls of Schuylkill district. CAPTAIN
McFadden provided warm drink of
coffee for the woman and children,
while their story was investigated. The
mother was located. and Mrs. Cryisik
and the children were sent to her in the
patrol wagon. The father. they said.
will come TO this city from Connect.
cut in n few weeks.
Man Frozen TO Pavement
Policemen who found man uncon .
scious in the street at Bath and Cam.
bria streets last night had to cut away
the ice which bound him to the pave
mcnt before they could take him to the
hospital.
| The man who later said he is Tyrus
! Erlandsire, n deckhand on the sloop
Maple Hill, lying at the foot of Cam
bria street, Port Richmond, said he
was returning to his ship about ia
o'clock. when he tripped against an
! obstruction. He struck the pavement
So hard that he was knocked uncon .
scious. He rolled into a mass of snow
and slush. which froze and held him
fast. Doctors at the Episcopal Hos
pital. who gave him restoratives and
helped to thaw him out. say be will
recover.
Increased suffering among the poor
caused by the bclow-Icro weather. re-
suited in more urgent demands upon
relief organizations and missions. All
said that they we're making every Of.
complained that money for relief work
did not flow In as freely as in other
years, although the need was much
greater.
The Salvation Army reported an in .
crease in the number of families need
ing relief. These were so numerou.
that the organization was unable to give
help to all who made appeal. Relief
work will be extended as much rs pos
sible as long as the cold weather lasts.
About 200 men were given shelter BY
! the Salvation Army last night or sen
to missions.
/ Volunteers of America also reported
an increase In the number of families
that have been forced to ask for help
Fuel became as pressing a need as food
when the zero weather came. it wa.
said. At the Whosoever Mission. 1O1
East Cheltcn avenue, Germantown, il
was said that forty three men were
sheltered last night. These men will bt
permitted to remain at the mission to
day and receive lodging again tonight
Efforts will be made to find employnen,
for the men now at the mission.
1t was said at the Galilee Mission
S23 Vine street, that 1873 men slep
there last night. The mission has beer
crowded for four nights.
The Seamen's Church Institute. Sec.
ond and Walnut streets, housed 1Jt
men during the night. and today gave
soup and coffee to hundreds Of unem
ployed scamen.