Salt Lake Tribune | 1917-12-30 | Page 26 | Much Suffering among the Poor of New York City

MUCH SUFFERING AMONG THE POOR OF NEW YORK CITY NEW YORK, Dec. 29. "With a mini-. mini-. mum temperature of six degrees below zero at 11 o'clock tonjght this city experienced ex-perienced t"he coldest weather over officially of-ficially recorded for December. Only once before on December o0, 1SS0 was that, temperature reached, according accord-ing to the records of the local weather bureau. From 8 o'clock this morning, when t!ai pfTii-ial thermometer registered one 1 de-iivc bulow zero, the men-ury m;ver 1 rone more than two di-res above. There was much buffering among-the poor, inativ families without coal Ij'-nig ebliged to burn wood in kitrheu laiigr:, and use the kitchen as u living , room. The .situation in handling the oal I shortage hnre was made extraordinarily j difficult t'ur coal dealt-rs, barge men on the river and the coal carrying rail-loads, rail-loads, which were obliged to thaw out all ;he coal shipped across the Hudson river from New .Jersey.