Daily Republican., 1885-07-21
1t Still Continues.

Athb ~OtbktsbO bOS0n
THE HOT WAVE TESTING HU
MANlTY's ENDURAHCE-A
1ORRID DAY
SCENES AND INCIDENTS.
The hot wave still continues in all its
force, and although there was
. difference of about three degrees
yesterday from the torrid heat of Sat
urday, it was 30 slight that it was
scarcely noticed. Very few were on the
stree Is except those who were obliged
to be there by business, and they
sought the shady side. Many who
were engaged in out door work were
compelled to quit, as it was as much as
a mans life was worth to work under
the scorching rays of the sun, while the
hands in the rolling mills, gas house
and other places where an intense de.
gree of heat is used suffered terribly.
The boys were the only ones who
seemed to be able to find any spj 10y ment,
and person walking up the Brandy
wine would have been led to believe
that half the boys in Wilmington were
enjoying the luxury of . bath and swim.
Within a space of two hundred yards
above the tirss dam there were fully
one hundred toys sporting in the water.
While they were thus enjoying them
selves one of the special officers came
along, and after satisfying himself that
each was provided with the regulation
|swimming tights, continued on his
walk up the stream. A number OF
grown persons went TO the same spot,
ftay Inr nrly loo nj, on1 IN nj . han,
selves in the same manner.
Those who hoped for a change for the
better after sunset were doomed to bs
disappointed, as the day was followed
by one of the hottest nights of the sea
son. There was not a breath OF all
string, ard bedrooms were more lik,
bake ovens than sleeping apartments
Men who had tOiled hafo al. day, ant
women who had spent the dayligh
hours in hot kitchens attending Il
household duties, tried to cooi off OIL
front steps, and many sat out Until mid
night, dreading to venture in the hot
bed. rooms.
| The long continued drought is havinI
a disastrous effect on all vegetation
and pastures fields are burned up
The consequence is that the farmers ar
Obliged to use the food intended for mex
winter for present use, and this
causing the price Of butter to advanc
to midwinter prices. A few week.
since good butter could be had for l
to 70 cents per pound, but it has no'
advauced to double these figures, an
it is probable that before many day
there Will be an increase in the priG
of milk.
The peach crop is also being badl
injured, and the dry, hot weather
causing the fruit to shrivel and drol
1t is now thought that unless there
Train before long the crop will nt
reach more than one half the estimate
4, 600, 900 baskets, and it is probable IL
price will not be much inside OF 81
basket.
THE HEAT IN PHILADELPHIA.
u At half past 2 O'Clock on Monds
Philadelphia was, with one exception
the hottest city in the United State
The thermometer stood at 96o in Il
3 shade up at the top OF the Pest. Off
!, building, where the Signal Servi
A Office is situated, and at several plac
8 on Chestnut street thermometers mar
ed 1902, while at one place quarter
}. a degree higher was reached. n
4 velocity of the wind up a hundred fe
o from the pavements was four miles |
/ hour, while upon the street no brea
q of air stirred.
vi The reports of the Signal Servi
l. Bureau show that in no other cit
:, except Baltimore, where the temper
" ture was 99o, was the heat so opprt
B. siye, for although at Shreveport, l.;
Is and at Pittsburg the temperate
y reached 96C, at both places the veloci
b. of the wind was greater than here, al
Ia the heat, therefore, less perceptib b
80 The instruments in the Signal OFF
:lshowed the comparative temperate
il of the day to have been as follows:
l. IL q. M, .74.1 10o; IL o. m 80 D.
"l2.3Op. M, 96c (maximum temparatuI
3p M, 9i.3-5c- and at p. IL, s
3.1Oo.
There appears TO be little reason
hone that the weather will mod sra
lfor the next day or two. The ne
u from the Weathe. Bureau al Wa
Nv ington Is sindeed distressing. Not ol
w. do the officers there anticipate no
'h, proyement, but they fear that the VIC
is to follow. They officially report C
tinued warm and fair weather. Th
lat appears to be no indication of c
vol breeze from any point and AS for C
ty. waves, they appear TO have gone TO
,ly North for the summer.
During the past few days there h;
been many cases of prostration OF
nd streets, and in work shops several
Es. which have resulted in the death OF
an victims.
CHICAGo, July 2O.-Despatches f
various points throughout the No
ON west show that the hot wave exte
III. all over Illinois, Iowa, Wiscoi
afn n
morning at Des Moines the metC
stood at IS degrees aud at noon mar
d. l92 degrees. Dubuque reports 10 deg
40 and Omaha e3. Cooler weather
walls in Minnesota and Manitoba.
Winuipeg the mercury marks
degrees. In Chicago the heat is !ncr'
ling, it now being y IL the sh
~ No fatalities have yet been reported
Ash NEW YORK, July % The we&i
was extremely warm, bu, up 10 p
louly one case of sunstroke wasrepoi
ond The thermometer registered AS foli'
Eh- ) a. M, ~ degrees. a. III, 20 deg;
ga NJ, so degrees; IL M, 10 deg
so p. n. ~ degrees
iceI PIrTSBURt, July 2o.-The Inl
-htb lheat of the past few days has ca
great suffering among tine iron worl
hut only one case OF sunstroke mas
reported. The temperature at o't
nlrd this morning was 90 10 AM
yies, . n'nio,k TINS afternoon, % degrees.
1ers, pIrrsHIIn,t Pa, July co.
VI. afteruoon the mercury registere
degrees in the shade, the highest
. the rea ched this season. The mini
'ase, temperature was Il" degrees at :
clock tn is morning. AT midnigi
mercury had fallen TO so deg
/, at Great suffering exists among the
nv and mill hands, bnt no rata