"Many times we saw men whose ears had turned white, stopped them and applied first aid, i.e., a handful of snow until the circulation returned, and our handkerchiefs were often blown aside by the wind, and our ears became frozen, and a good Samaritan would give us similar treatment."

Mr. Brown tells of crossing the river to and from Brooklyn on the ice. "The ice floe had come down the North River during the night, carried along by the ebb tide, and as it reached the Battery the tide turned, and the incoming tide swung the floe around the Battery and up the East River almost to the old East River Bridge. By the time the tide again began to ebb, numerous tug boats had made channels along the shore on both sides of the river, and the floe went down the Bay and out to sea."