New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-08-30
able, and it will soon find its prosperity arrested
by an excess Of production over consumption.
4 COOL HUMMER.

COOL SUMMER.
And still that long spell of hot weather does
NOT come When the mercury began TO run
up early in July. the weather prophets looked
Mt one another and shook their heads, saying
u It's coming now" But the mercury soon ran
down the tube again, and stayed down. ana the
hot spell was postponed. Twice before the end
of the month the mercury did succeed In CLIMB
ing painfully little above 800, but the
ground gained was all lost in single day, ana
July closed with people still wondering when
the really hot weather-the weather OF time
honored fierceness, with it's long list of sun
strokes-would come. It's appearance was
confidently announced now for August, but
August has been cooler than July. BY tho
middle of the month the prophets were saying
that we should "catch it" IN the latter half.
The latter half has almost gone, and yet the
weather ia so delightfully."- cool that even in the
cities blankets are comfort at night, and the
seaside hotels ara being fast emptied of their
occupants, who find almost u wintry keenness at
times in the winds from the ocean. The last
refuge of the prophets now is the first ton
days of September, when there is usually
brief reign of heat. 1t remains to he seen
whether they Will be disappointed there also.
1t has been, in fact, an exceptionally cool
summer, during which it has really been prac-
ticable to enjoy life in the city. Taking the
mean of the average daily temperatures recorded
in THE TRIBUNE's oh ervatons for July, IL
will be found that the average OF the mercury
for that month was 76o for August, thus far,
il has been only 72o, or even four degrees
lower than July. There were only eight days
in July when the mercury rose to 9O0 or ABOVE
it, and six of these constituted the brief heated
term which lasted from the second day OF the
month to the seventh-the warmest weather OF
the summer. On the Fourth of July, perhaps
in honor of the day. the mercury SCARED to go,
the highest figure recorded in these two
months There were nine days in July, or
nearly one-third of the month, on which the
average temperature was either below TO-, or
only fraction of degree above it. The low
est average Of temperature was on the 9Th or
July, following the heated term just alluded TO.
On that day the average was 613l'. me low
est recorded temperature of the month was on
the first-59o In August the highest recorded
temperature WAS on last Thursday-94N.
There were eleven days, or more than one-third
of the month, on which the average temperature
was below zoe, or only fraction OF degree
above it. The lowest average OF temperature
was that of the 9Th iEst.-63os'. Ihere nave
been only five days in the month on which the
mercury reached 800 or rose above 1t. lhese
are the distinctively summer months but June
also was cool showing, as the entire season
ha, done, n considerably lower average OF tenn
perature than last year.
These figures tell the story OF comfortable
summer Its results have been seen in the
diminished death-rate, which is considerably
below that both of the summer of 1882 and OF
the year preceding. The largest part of the
difference is probably among the Children OF
tender years. who form great proportion OF the
victims of every summers heat. But the general
health of the community has been excellent.
The stercotyped notions that mlld weather III
winter and cool weather IN summer are I'M
reasonable and unhealthy" do not seem TO
he well founded in fact, and certainly have not
been sustained by the experience oil recent
wears One shrewd, though perhaps cynical,
observer of human nature has made the ulscov-
cry that persons who are troubled by the
- unseasonableness and dangers of cool
weather in summer, when they are ut home In
New-York, or st. Louis, or Oshkosh, do not
seem to suffer any anxiety on that score when
a cool spell finds them at fashionable hotel
by the seaside or IN the mountains. Certainly,
TO those who have been obliged to stay mt their
desks in the cities during the summer the cool
weather has been directly beneficial. 1t is
reasonable to suppose that they begin the work
Of the coming year much stronger and fresher
than they would he if they had been subjected
to n succession of exhausting heats
There is another respect IN which New I ork-
ers have been especially fortunate this summer.
This is in the comparative freedom from cas-
ualties The year has been one of dire disasters
the world over. The catalogue OF slaughter by
fire, pcstilence, earthquake, tornado. railroad
collisions, explosions and drowning, will make
the year 1883 sadly memorable. But although
there is more excursion travel on the water ont
of New-York than from Cny other city in the
world. the record of tho summer would have
been comparatively clear but for the lament
able Rivrrdale disaster. There seems to have
been no excuse for this, but in view of the
laxity of the Government system of boiler in
specton which does not seem to inspect, there
il abundant room for self-cong graduation that
we have come out so we'll
The arrangements for .lcbrating the birthday OF
Iuther are assuming gigantic proportions In Con-
tirental Europe and even in England, which IS not