The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1872-09-10
THE WEATHER.

Yesterday was another sc0rcher, and hundreds OF
Summer resorters, who had arrived In town on
Saturday to stay. under the impression that the
backbone OF the heated term had been broken by
the brief cold snap OF last week. took the first boat
or train for the country yesterday. The fact is as
the more than usually crowded churches on Sunday
amply testified, very large number OF city resi-
dents had packed up their buds and slowed them
selves away In their own houses In town last
week, and among this class especially the intense
heat OF yesterday and the day previous created a
feeling which can only be appropriately described
by the ill-used characterization. They had an
idea that full-nedged period mad been put to their
fashionable out-oftown hotel bills and that even
from the start OF the present month they could
safely count upon comfortable time In the city,
with no prospect Of the August furnace weeks to
make them mediate suicide In an ice house or
voyage to the North Pole, with no other provision
as a standby than cracked Ice and hard tack, chop
ped up into sort OF Esqumaux salad. But Sum-
mer resorters like all other humans. They pro-
pose, and the Clerk Of the Weather dsposes Things
just as the humor OF the moment takes him. Up to
noon yesterday his humOr was Of the most perspir-
regular early July hegra from the city OF the fat
men and their wives and the Out-0ftOwn clubs gen.
orally, who had made mlscalcuati0ns as to what
September was to do for them in o refrigeratOrial
way as compared with swetering August Still
we all know that one mans misfortune In every
department of life Is some other mans opportunity
and the sudden upshot of the mercury during the
past two days proved that there Ii exception to
the rule among the hotel keepers In the country.
1t Is true they seemed to suffer from the heat as
much as anybody else; but while the disappointed
city people, fresh from the country, cursed their
preciptate haste In leaving the Summer resorts so
suddenly ana at such an unfortunate time,
and suffered all the more from the heat
because Of the knowledge Of the cool comforts
they had left behind the country hotel
men In town suffered with all the spirit OF martyrs
who knew that the cause OF their suiferlngs was
certain to bring its golden reward at once even
though the season. was nearly at an end and the
"regulars' had flown away to their city haunts.
AS to the city people who so far have been unable
to get out Of town at all they went about their
business as diligently and as regardless OF fate as
ever, knowing that they had seen the worst OF the
hot weather, had gone through 1t safely and that
they had already reached point OF endurance that
defed all future terms OF the "hundred in the
shade" compile iOn.
The rain that began to fall late In the afternoon
was gOdsend however, In its way and did much
to alleviate the sufferings OF the city-bOund thou
sands. even though 1t did catch the business CON-
munity on its UNCONVENTIONAL trip and gave many
as sudden as it may have been welcome shower
bath.
The following record Will show the changes in the
temperature for the past twenty-fOu hours COM
pared with the corresponding day OF last year, as
Indicated by the thermometer at Hudnuts Phar, -
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