New-York Tribune from New York, New York • 1

I ifitf'ilijt? £zjQ laf 20,888. wSSft SHOVELX.INO BNOW IN FRONT OF THE OSTOFFICB. JAPAN AWAITING WAR. POPULAR CALL TO ARMS. BankM Withholding Funds All Ready for Action.

Tokio, War it'a Russia Is regarded as unavoidable, and the press is urging the Immediate oper.ir.g of hostilities. All tit the banks are funds, and this is the result of official in- Btructi i Doaapteted and perfected I traaep Ttation of troops pie calmly await develop: lbe continued dissemination of optimistic i causes genuine surprise and WARSHIPS HELD BACK. Departure of Russian Vessels in French Waters Postponed. Eizerta. Tunis.

Jan. The Russian cruiser Aurora sati -1 to-day for Alexandria, but in accordance with tl inkle Instructions the remainder of th" Eijundron destined for service In the Far East baa postponed its departure. 1 arts, Jan. Tne Russian warships in yreneh waters have boa ordered to postpone thf Ir departure. RUSSIA TO ANSWER SOOX.

Wo Grave Resvltt Fear of United Slates' Action. Ft. i 1i 1 Jan. Diplomatic circles confidently expect that the answer to the be htMH to the japen SP I a by Baron de Rosen. Russian tsaa lor japan, within a very few days, i not expect crave results to follow.

Iv other ijuarters the conciliatory attitude of both govermnests Inspires beUef that the answer vay to further negotiations. If. not directly lead to a pacific ent i the trouble. The chara terisrJe note tn "The Press" to-day Is Ike doubt about the altitude of the United iae of war between Russia and Japan. 1 "Btrahewja Vedomostl- has a long article Oa power in the in the proilm- Ity of.

the jmd Formosa, and save: "it is bo seen I to any one In Europe that the I of tbe United States la the Bast Asiatic Crisis highly problematical." Thai" whoas staff la made up cf employes of the "Novoe Vremya," treats subject in a similar manner. The Viinya" ill will toward the Pliilmd States In a long leader about the allegofi BStracttaas given to American consuls in Russia to rt-j-nrt tbe prospects of re- Dewed tstl-fSemitic disorders, and in an edito'-ia! opposes sale of the Manchurian Railway either to tbe United States or to China, it flfeelarea, Is advocatod in rome re. AH (papers I I copy from the orsan of i War Ministry n. belated, and all the more Order nt the Day, published by Admiral Alerieff. Husslan Viceroy ta the Flax Bast, after the fall ma- Doewres and parade at Port Arthur.

It unsftntrffly praises the troops and declares that come who had Just finished a twelve days' xaari-h bad arrived hi condition. The that a Chinese attack Is UllflHriy. and reprints a Chinese newspaper ncry that Etassta Dae 2.000 Cossacks and 2,900 Monga i at The report thai tbe liussitin volunteer fleet cruis' ty, the Kazan ai the Bkatefteosla car- lri v. ar and marines to the recalled to Black Boa, officially denied. According to the rumor too vessels were recalled ause the possibility of rheir captur- was The Ekaterinoslav Saturday last for Port Arthur.

SITI i TIOX I Advices Lacking in England Stir in Home Squadron. London. Jtn. No '-is received by the Japanese legation or apparently by the Foreign Office to-flay concerning the Russ)- Japasese difficulty In the Far Bast, and according to Raror; Hayashi. the Japanese Minister, the sttaatfoa remains unchaneeij.

a Bsw days the cruisers Kaaaea and tarumiir ths Moreno and Rlvudavja which bought by the Japanese from Argentina and which were tuiit at Genoa, be formally delivered to Immediately on their delivery the Jajanese will be run up. The Japanese lec-ition thereby to avoid any objections ca the part of the ittllan government regarding of tin- cruise should hostilities before are ready to put to sea. No excitement prevails on the British Bquadron. whose officers are under the that they may -'i any moment bo to replace the Channel S-juadron which BeW to Jh MedltetraassA should the fc4 nt deem it advisable to Btrengthen its force tht Jar JlutL In the Home Continued ommm, INVASION OF ISTHMUS? Strong to Go to Darien The Dixie at Colon. Panama.

Jan. Strong reinforcements will be sent to the Bayajr.o and Darien districts tomorrow. Color, Jan. The United States eon-verted cruiser Dixie arrived here to-day. Brigadier General Elliott, of the United States marine corps, has gone to Empire Station, on the Panama Railroad, iw.d will inspect that and other stations along th -i: for the purpose selecting suitable camp for the marines from the Dixie.

The marines will probably be landed 10-nicrrow. PORTO EICANS EXPECT ORDEBS. Belief That Regiment Will Soon Be Sent to Panama. San Juan, P. Jan.

8. Governor Hunt has receive! advices from Washington countermanding the order to dismount the remaining mounted Porto From this fact, coupled with the constant drilling of the troops, it is inft-nv-i that the Itii an rep will soon be to Panama. MORE WARSHIPS SAIL FOR COLON. Kingston. lamal Jan.

The X'nlted States cruiser sad the torpedo boats Truxton and Stewart, having finished coaling, sailed this morn- Ing for Colon. BRITISH CRUISER AT LA GUAYRA. ''aracas. I British authored at La Ouayra last Wedi THE UXIOX TO ADMIT 200. So It Is Union League Nominates Officers.

The Chib, with a membership of 1.438, and waiting list of 407, from which any vacancies that may occur may be filled; Intends, It v.as declared yesterday, soon increase Its membership limit by Another change contemplated is to raise the annual dues of the club, wbJefa are bow $75, to $100. The Union League Club, which hns tremely successful ladies' ption days In the past, with interesting art displays, in repeating its social programme this yar, and is planning other features of a social nature The annual billiard and pool tournament of the club will begte to-day at 4 p. an will continue until finished. Fourteen handsome prizes have already been bought for the tournament. Dr.

Ambrose L. Ranney, the well known billiard player, Is a member of the club, and Is taking considerable Interest In the tournament. To-morrow Harry de Wink will lecture In meeting room of the club at BsSO p. m. on tho subject, "Paris to New-York, Overland." Trie following list of nominations, most of them for re-election, has been made at the Union ague Club: President.

Cornelius N. Bliss: vice-president, class of -06. Warner Miller. John H. Btarta, E.

B. Hinsdale. Seta II Mllllken; secretary Henry Harden: treuurer, Andrew Mills- executive committee. Coroellus H. Hacketl Mass of "06 H.

C. Pahnestock, a. Mccook. Bayard Domlnlck. Clarence B.

Day. Hoffman Miller committee on admit class of "06, F. Elliott. Clarence W. Bowen.

W. Fooa niacfc C. H. IMair. wnmlttee on library and publication, class of Charles H.

Lane. Daniel Lewis, Benjamin T. Fairchild; committee on art V. V. Bewell.

Clarkson Cowl. M. Nichols, D. D. Simpson.

Henry B. Wilson. John Elderkln Paoldlng Farabam; committee on political reform, Cephas Bratnerd, C. T. Harbeci Watson.

G. B. Agnew, James A. Blanchard, J. A.

B. Cowles. J. c. OConor, j.

Rollins, David John S. Wise. Edward Brown William Mitchell. W. d.

Murphy; auditing committee, VT. r. Cornell, w. H. Remlck George B.

Kdgr-11. The board of trustees of the Beawanhaka Corinthian Yacht Club announces that arrangements have been concluded between that club and the city Club of New-York for in Interchange of house privileges for the ensulnc year. The city club baa extended the privileges of its cjubhouee. Noa, 55 at-d West Fortyfourth-Bt to all the members of the Beawanhaka Corinthian Tacht Club, and the latter club has extended all the privileges of its clubhouse, grounds and anchorages, at Oyster Bay to the members of the City Club of Under this arrangement the privileges of the house of the city dub are now open to all members of the Beawanhaka Corinthian Yacht dub upon their names in the visitors'' book, and they are Invited by the City Club to avail themselves of them to the fullest extent The Metropolitan Club, which at the of met a defi.it by a voluntary tax of .510 a member ar.d In 1902 by a tax of a member, has sent out word that no i needed for the rear Just ended. EMBEZZLER IN BRAZILIAN MINES.

TO THE Baltimore, Jan. Willie Tucker, formerly well known socially, who last Bummer after BMdreas of thousands of dollars, has written to a Crlesd In thl3 city that Is now working in the Brazilian mines at $30 a month, but soon expects to i- 1 irn boms, Soon Tucker his mother, the widow of Wesley A. Tucker, opened her safe deposit box in the Merchants' Trust and Deposit Company's "vault. "aSS only about of the KfiOtOOO In Btocka and bonds found. A was left In tho box wavlntr that the rrrlr.K: son bad departed for Centra' America.

He was 00-trustee with his mother of his father's estate C. M. SCHWAB GOING ABROAD. A close friend and associate of Charles M. Schwab Bald yesterday that Mr.

Schwab intended to so abroad to remain several months. He will not go however. It was added, until after he has had aii 'opportunity testify i the United States bearing. Tne noxt session will be tomorrow. expecta to return lons before his newhouse, now building In this city, is completed The trip, i 3 ur.dPTatood, Is to bo taken partly or, account of Mrs.

Schwab, who. although not seriously 111. haji not bctn in jfood beaith for a year or 1 gEWgOBK, MONDAY, PRICE THREE CENTS. SCENES IN NETK-YORK YESTERDAY. SLEIQHINO CENTRAL PARK.

THE FAST MAIL IN WRECK ENGINEER DEAD AT POST. Express Crashes Into Empty Passenger Train at Utica. TELEGRAPH TO TUX TRllirTni.l Utlea, N. Jan. Two engineers and a number of mall clerks on the fast mall due here at 3 a.

m. to-day were unable to Bet the airbrakes, and as a result the train ran through the Utlra station nt a forty-mile an hour Rait and ran Into an empty Home, Watertown and Ogdensburg Railroad passenger train on a side track, about two hundred feet west of Qeneseest. One of the engineers was killed. The Intense cold made railroad travel extremely difficult to-day. The train, which left New.

York on schedule time last night, lost five hours in the run to this city. It reached the Utlcn. yards at 9:03 drawn by two engines. The first one was In charge of Edward Murphy, of Albany, the engineer, and George Smith, of Hchenectndy, the fireman. The second engine, was In charge of "Nick" Decker, as engineer.

There were eleven moll cars and the Rochester sleeper attached to the train. When the utica yard was reached Murphy phut off Some distance beyond he tried tn apply air brakes, but they failed to work. Then Decker noticed that something was wrong and he tried to set the brakea on his engine and Failed. The trail clerks, also realismg 1 that something was wrong ahead, tried to set the brakes from their but they were unable to do bo. The sp.

of the train could not be checked In the least. It went through the Utica yard, and over lng, striking the passenger train OR Its aide, knocking cars over and badly smashing them. Murphy, with Is on the air was struck over the left eye the bund- mil on the engine tender. His iv.TH badly fractured and he died after reaching a hospltiU. His Jumped and craped serious Injury.

mail b-rks wen' tumbled Bbotli the train, but only one, I. i Smith. Syracuse, was Injured, his leg betas broken. engine was badly smashed, and passenger trail! was blocked for several hours. Murphy was about forty years old.

leaves a. widow and several children He had been an extra passenger engineer for throo years. When asked for Infonnati about the Station last night, the chief train despatcher said he had recelred no news of the reck. EXPRESS RUTJS INTO FREIGHT TRAIN. Engineer Critically Injured at Bolton, Vt.

Locomotive Wrecked. Jan. Th" Montreal Boston ran Into a freight train on the Vermont Railway near the station to-day. Charles. Holland, engineer, Jumped was critically Injured.

The were unharmed. passenger locomotive was wrecked and traffic delayed several hours. LTIMATUM OX WAGE CUT The Carnegie Company Faces a Walk-Out at All Its Mills fur TOMOtUTB to the: tiiibcne.l Pittaburfi Jan. The. employes of the Carnegle Steel Company at Homestead, have Issued an ultimatum to Superintendent A.

IX. Hunt that, unless a compromise Is reached on the wage reductions made the first fthe year, the tonnage men will quit work within five days. Yesterday the crews of the forty-Inch mill quit, refusing to work at the reductions proposed. Superintendent Hunt did not have any time to decide whether he could have the scale, changed. The crews of the other mills adopted scales of their own and presented them to Mr.

Hunt, who will place them before the directors of the company. It Is doubtful If the company will admit weakness by acceding to the demands of the rrten. The employes are not organized, but they have formed associations among themselves In the mills. They disavow any Intention of creat- Ing a general strike. The Amalgamated Association will back a strike, however, as it means the existence of that organisation.

Should the company the new wage scale. It means that every union mill will have to stand a ilin- The reduction made by the company in the wakes of rollers and heaters in the big mills from $2 72 a hundred tons to $1 74. The men are willing to accept a reduction to $2 a hundred tons The reductions are on the basis for all helpers about the plants. The rollers and heaters are the very skilled men and the most difficult to replace. If a strike takes place it will spread to all the other plints of the Carnegie company, and may also extend to the coke workers, who are angry over their reduction; to the railroad men.

the hoop workers and the furnace men. At Uraddock and there are thousands of Carnegie employes, and to-day meetings were held by the groups to discuss the course taken by the Homestead workmen. The Carnegie Company will have to back down or face a strike. The action of the Homestead men threatens to upset all the plans for export trade which the United States Ft eel Corporation has been figuring on. CAE ROLLS DOWN MOUNTAIN Two Killed and Many Hurt On the Western Maryland.

Baltimore, Jan. Two persons were killed and a large number injured to-day by the breaking of a rail on the Western Maryland near Mountain House Statin. A coach was thrown from the track and rolled down the mountain. TRIES TO BURN BUILDING. BORES HOLES IX STAIRS.

Incendiary Fills Them Kith Oil Soaked Waste Hampers Firemen. Hampered by piles of snow and Ice, the Fire Department fought all last night an incendiary fire in the building at and Broadway, numbered 845-347 Broadway, and owned by the Weld estate, of Boston. The fire was a hard one to fight, even if the firemen had not been hampered by the wind and the enow, for the building is a seven story one, In the shape of an L. running back 150 feet In Leonard-st. At 0:30 there was an automatic alarm from the third floor.

When the firemen arrived, they found holes had been bored at five different points in stairway and filled with oilsoaked waste. Piles of finely cut wood, soaked in kerosene, had been placed around and scattered near by. The floors of the corridors and the stairs had boon soaked with kerosene. When the doors at NV-s. 88 and 90 Leonard-st wore broken hi by the firemen an Intense draught was created and the flames shot upward, eating their way through th" ceiling and spreading along the oil soaked runners of the fourth door.

No motive could be found for the deed of the Incendiary, Dntets it was the act of a pyronumiac or bad been done fur The ilrst piece of apparatus to arrive was No. 31. led by Captain McDermott, who smashed In the door. Just before they arrived tbe patrolman on pool saw flames bursting from the third floor and sent In a regular alarm. IfcDermott and his men fOUght their way to third floor In the face of (lames and btltllng imrrtrr.

In the discovered the freshly bored holes In the era or the perpendicular sldea of the steps up the seventh floor. All the holes were above the third floor. In each hole, which was about two and a half Inches In diameter, had been thrust quantities of ollsoaked waste. This bad fallen through the stairs, and was scattered up and down and mixed in with piles of kindling wood. The offices on the various flours are separated by thin partitions of light wood ami glass.

in itll the corners of these partitions Incendiary had piled his oil-soaked WOOd and waste. Leading from pile to pile were of oil to help the spread of the flames. The firemen began work on the Leonard-Si side of the building and cut off progress of the flames toward Broadway, saving that end of the building. Acting Chief Kruger arrived soon after the first alarm had been sounded. After he had received Captain BfcDenaott'a report and had seen the work of the Incendiary, he Bent for ting Fire Marshal De Malignon to Investigate tho circumstances surrounding: the fire.

De ifalignon took some of the waste and wood to the house of engine No. 31. In Klm-st. He said in his report that there was nothing that would attach suspicion to any tenant of the Building. There Is little doubt hut that fire was an "outside" Job.

Every detail carefully planned, and it was no fault of the Incendiary that the entire building was not destroyed. fire presented great obstacles to the flreiiun. startir.tr In a place hard to reach at first with any amount of water. All the windows, on the Leonard-st, side were covered by heavy Pti-el shuttera A bitter cold wind and the low temperature were other handicaps to the work of the firemen. In a short time there was over a foot of ice In Broadway, obstructing traffic, and the fireman and the ladders were sheathed In ice.

At first the flames gained headway so rapidly that Chief Kruger sent in a third alarm noon after his arrival, and then a fourth. For a while it looked as though "three nines 1 would be sounded. When the cotton waste and oil beg.m to blaze the Broadway end. the fourth alarm was sent out. Realizing what the consequences would be If the fire got a good foothold on that end, the firemen concentrated their energies there.

Then the flames burst out on the fifth floor, having worked their way upward through the elevator shaft nnd the steamptpe boles. The floors are all flreproofed nnd held the flames In (heck. For more than three hours the firemen fought before the lire whs under control. Ladders had been thrown up to every window ami the firemen had carried a line up every ladder. When the fire was drowned out every ptpeman had been frozen to the ladders, nnd men and ladders alike were dad in glittering sheaths of ice.

In the fee piled on the sidewalk in heaps nearly a yard high, and the cellars of buildings in were flooded. The intense cold caused a great deal of suffering among the men. The Broadway cars were blocked for over two hours by the ice, formed by the water which flowed from the dozen lines of across Broadway. The street was covered from curb to curb with ice a foot thick. The burning building was incased in ice from cornice to basement windows, and from every sill Icicles of huge dimensions were pendent.

Chief Kruger's gloves were frozen to his hands and he had to call his driver to his aid with a knife before he could get them off. Leonard-st. is lined on both sides with drygoods houses, and all will suffer considerable damage from the floods of water that flowed Into their basements. A block or more away the water soaked snow was frozen Into solid ice a foot or more thick. On the way to the fire, water tower No.

1 stuck in the snow, and the horses of two engines Continued on fourth CAETT OF SNOW ARftrVINO AT THB ATTEKY. BODY FOUND IN A DRIFT. Another Death at Xerc-llaven Connecticut Railroads Tied Up. New-Haven, Jan. Connecticut tonight lies burled under more snow than has fallen in a single storm for a great many years, and along the coast line the only comparison of the experience of last night is with the memorable blizzard of 1888.

Intense cold prevailed during the storm, and by reason of the high wind it was keenly Low temperature continues to-night. For so severe a storm the damage has not been heavy, except to the New-York, New- Haver, and Hartford Railroad, which was completely tied up in all divisions In the State for many hours. Trolley lines for the most part were kept in operation. No -wrecks have been reported, or any casualties along the Connecticut shore, although seafaring men last night feared many coasting craft had been caught in the Sound. Aside from the killing of four Italian shovellers in the New-Haven railroad yards yesterday, the only other death in the storm reported was that of a Civil War veteran.

Patrick O'Neil. at Moodua, whose body waa found in a drift to-day. TO BUILD IX MTH-ST. Site for Union Engineering Building. Carnegie Gift.

Cost $.517,000. ENGINEERS' CLUB TO BE NEARBY. The announcement has Just been made that tW3 new club buildings will erected on Murray Hill, the work probably to start this year. No. 25 to 31.

Inclusive. In West representing feet front, have been purchased at a total of Ml and on these plots is to he erected a ten story clubhouse, to be known as the Union Engineering Building. Here ample provision is to be provided for the American of CM Engin-ers. the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, the American Institute of Mining and American Institute of Electrical Engineers. Those societies, with the exception of the Society of Civil Engineers, have formally agreed to unite one roof.

It is expected that the last named society will within the next two. weeks pass the favorable vote necessary to thl3 union. The plans for this clubhouse are not yet complete, but each of these technical societies Will have a floor for Its exclusive use. Including a small hall for special business meetings. There will also be provided a large hall for union meetings of all these societies.

In the of this building, fronting in Fortleth-st. 32 and 34 West, part of which Is known as the Corns took School building, there is to be erected a ten story clubhouse for the Knglneers' Club, which is now at Not 374 Fifthave. This is a social organization. The cost of the site in Fortieth-st. was It Is not fully decided that these two club buildings will be connected at the rear, though this is Mr.

Carnegie's plan. The total purchase for these two clubhouse sites was advanced by Mr. Carnegie, and the titles to the five lots in and the two in Fortieth-st. are now in the names of friends of these five organizations. Possession will be given on July 1.

and immediate steps will then be taken to erect the two clubhouses. Mr. Carnegie. in his letter of February 14, to the societies, "It will give me great pleasure to give. say.

to erect a suitable union building for you all. as the same may bo needed." The total cost of these two clubhouses will be. it is said, over THE REVOLT IX URUGUAY, State of Siege Proclaimed in Entire Republic. Buenos Ayres, Jan. A dispatch from Montevideo says that a revolution has broken out in the Department of Maldonado, and that a state has been proclaimed in the entire republic of Truguay.

TJVO SUCCUMB TO BEXDS. Caisson Workers in Hospital- Four Canes in a Month. Two more caisson workers in the last two days have succumbed to the terrific air pressure in which they are forced to labor In the Pikest. caisson of the new Manhattan Bridge, and are now In Gouverneur and Bellevue hospitals in a serious condition. George Ashton, a worker in this caisson, went insane from the bends the first part of last week, and died from the disease.

On Saturday night Michael Olltzky. twentythree years old, of No. 246 Clinton-st was taken to Gouverneur Hospital from his home. He became ill several days ago. When he was taken to the hospital his limbs were drawn up and his body bent over.

Even the muscles o( his face, which was swollen to an enormous size, were contracted. His was the third case taken to Gouverneur Hospital In the last month. It is said that were there a chamber having a lower pressure of compressed air in it than the one in use at the cuisson, the patient might be taken in there and have a chance for his life when first overcome. William Mack, twenty-five years old. was removed to Bellevue Hospital from his home.

No. 237 tfanroe-st. He was bleeding from the mouth and ears and complained that his bones were breaking. He had been a companion of Asnton in the Pike-st caisson On Saturday afternoon he complained of not feelmg well. Yesterday his landlady told a policeman that Mack waa very Bick and an ambulance waa called.

COLD BRINGS SUFFERING. STREETS WELL IX HAXD. Traffic Unimpeded Many ten Badly Blocked. Shivering under ail the extra coverings In the house, the average New-Yorker woka yesterday morning, looked out of the nearest window on streets piled high with dazzling white, on encrusted rooftops and obstructed sidewalks, and then turned over with a long, lazy sigh and went to sleep again, devoutly thankful that 11 was Sunday and he didn't have to go out. If; however, he happened to look at the thermometer before going to sleep again, all desire foi sleep left him, for the mercury was hovering perilously near zero ma'k, and.

brought un a start to find it so cold, he hustled around to stir up the furnace, or make the Janitor turn on more heat. The prediction for to-day is fair an 3 continual cold. Mr. Suburbs had it even worse. F.ef^r« could get out to fi-nl the milk which should have been left he had to shovel a foot or of snow away from the dcor.

If his water pipes hadn't burst, he was lucky, while If his furnacs could make the slightest Impression on the frost which decorated the windows in beautlfu! tracery, he was ovrjoyed. And if Mr. waa able to get home at all he was fairly for trains and trolley cars ran with most amazing independence and starting irregularity all Saturday night, and had noc fully recovered yesterday. Mr. Suburbs, however, clearing- his way to front gate, an easy task in comparison with that which awaited the Street Cleaning Department yesterday at daybreak.

There were seven or eight Inches of snow, frozen hard as ice en the top, to be removed from the three boroughs in the teeth of a wind so icy that drivers, aftei one load taken to th" river front, turned theii horses back to the stable, and departed. in spite of extra pay. Save for one storm last year, this was the worst snow the department has had to remove in several years. It will cost about imi) or Sl73.t»»\ while if the intense cold continues, as seems likely, it may cost To tne unfortunate homeless, yesterday was a day of unmitigated torture. Every lodging house In the lower part of the city was overcrowded, while charitable institutions could have filled their houses thrice and four times with poor they weie forced to turn away.

The tenement house dwellers, too. found it a day of intense suffering. Coal to the tenement house family is almost as unobtainable as the more ornamental form of carbon. Cold In a squalid three room tenement house seems ever so much colder than zero weather to the more prosperous. The Association for Improving the Condition of the Poor and the Charity Organization Society do a great work in their distribution of coal to the poor.

Many hospital cases resulted from the intense cold of Saturday night mat yesterday, and than one police slip noted the finding of a body under a little mound of snow. The storm has rain or to the entire eastern part of the country, from the Cult to Canada. Yesterday It rained In How England. Temperatures of zero and below were reported over the entire country east of the Reeky Mountains and north of the Ohio River. Temperatures below freezing 1 were reported scuta to the Gulf coast, the falls In temperature having been severe in many places.

There was a change of 34 degrees at Vicksburg. 30 at Galvesteat, at Corpus 34 at Atlanta, 42 at 40 at Chattanooga. 38 at Memphis. 22 at Cairo. Here the thermometer stood at 4 above zero.

At Portland. Me. it was 4 below; at Boston 2. and Nanturket 2i ab-ne: Albany 4 below; Philadelphia 6. Atlantic City rt.

Washington 16. Norfolk IG. JaihWl'i'llr 1" Charleston 38, Tampa 62. Key West New Orleans Memphis 16. Chattanooga 14, 8.

Chicago and Cleveland 4 above; Buffalo waa zero. St. Paul 14 balow. 12 below. Omaha 2 below.

Kansas City 2 below, Bismarck 12 below; Helena 28, Salt Lake Penver 12. Portland. 4o Sau Francisco 46. Los Angeles above. Tho lowest temperature 4ri below, was ax Blssett.

Canada. THE POOR HARD HIT. Ijong Lines of Cold and Hungry Seek Charitable Doors. What the cold really meant to the poor of the city could only be realized when one saw lons lines of hungry, half-clad, shivering humanity waiting for admittance to the lodging houses or hanging round a wagon where coffee and sandwiches were being distributed. Before the Municipal Lodging: House in Flrst-ave.

wagopened last night there was a great throng around the doors, and when the superintendent began to admit the people the place was filled to Its capacity Immediately. There are only 250 beds, and there must have been 500 persons It. the throng outside the doors. As they stood In line, however, they received coffee and and, with somewhat of heart put into them by the strong coffee, those who were not fortunate enough to gain admittance marched clown to the long pier of ths Charities Department, where they were allowed to stay all night in warmed rooms without beds. Tne cheap Bowery lodging houses reap benefit from such weather, for panhandlers who in ordinary times make some arrangement for staying outdoors are glad to get any shelter they can when the mercury bows to zero.

The Salvation Amj lodging houses ana tiomea.