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Show SCHOOLS FEEL THE EFFECTS I OF FROST As a result of the heavy cold snap, nearly every pipe in the State School for the Deaf and Blind was frozen, and ns a result it was necessary to! dismiss school this morning Plumbers are now at Work' repairing repair-ing the damage done to the pipes. The basement In the blind department Is filled with ice and water due to the bursting ot a water pipe iu that t.ul Id ing. At the Weber academy It was impossible im-possible to get water into the steam boilers and the building could not be beftted for the classes this morning. When the conditions in the rooms could not be remedied, school was dismissed dis-missed for the morning, and when the afternoon session was called not I more than half of the students were present With heavy fires, the tern-' perature could not he raised higher than ."id degree- A fire will be kept goirjg tonight iu the hope that by tomorrow to-morrow morning the building will be Buff(cientl) warm for occupancy Several classes in tbe giammar grades thioughout the city were f'is" missed because the rooms e.oukl uot ! be heated sufficient to be comfortable comfort-able for the students t the Madison. Madi-son. Ixirin Fair aud tJrant schools the condition In the rooms was such that many of the pupils were dismissed. .fin |