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PLUMBERS BUSY REPAIRING BURST WATER PIPES
COLDEST LAST WINTER 4 BELOW IN MARCH
[Welland Tribune, 15 January 1914]
After an unusually mild winter, a cold wave hit here on Monday night bringing the mercury at the court house down to 11 degrees below zero. Increasing in intensity on Tuesday, below zero was registered that night. Last night the cold wave departed as suddenly as it arrived.
While the ice dealers and hockey players welcomed the cold weather, others suffered. All over town water pipes were frozen in the houses and plumbers had more calls than they could attend to. On one street alone eight houses had frozen water pipes, the householders have been spending much time thawing them out.
The coldest weather last year was in March, when 4 below was registered. Two years ago the mercury went down to 20-below on one occasion.
Train service was considerably interfered with by Monday night’s blizzard and severe weather, but no blockades occurred locally.
The gas supply proved excellent throughout the cold snap very fortunately.
Very low temperatures were registered throughout Ontario. At Toronto it went 23 below, the coldest for 23 years.
Oh, petticoat! Oh, petticoat!
You vanished long ago.
We wish we had you back again,
Our *_____are cold, you know.
Julia
*Arms
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