The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-06-28
SWEEP OF THE HOT WAVE
THE ENTIRE COUNTRY SUFFERING
FROM 1T.

FROM IT.
Mercury in Savannah Goes Up TO e7'
at the Signal Station and Higher
Still in Other Parts OF the City-Peo-
pie Rush to the Seaside and the
Salts to Get a Breath of Air-The
Temperature Throughout the South
Higher Than IL Has Been Known In
Many Years.
Yesterday was the hottest day Of the sea-
son throughout the whole United States,
only two small sections being exempt, the
New England and Middle Atlantic States.
The northwestern states and the Mississippi
valley felt the full force of the hot wave.
1t is nothing unusual here, but when the
thermometer plays between 900 and 1908 in
Kansas City and st. Paul the people of
those cities begin to think they will be able
to enumerate the population of the lower
world to round out their census reports.
AT st. Louis the maximum temperature
for the day was 9S', and it was the same at
Omaha. ST. Paul, of the far northwest,
had record of 94'. At Cincinnati the
maximum was 92@, and at Kansas City it
was 90:
Yesterday was the hottest day in Georgia,
The average highest for the Savannah dis
trict of the cotton region was go, and for
the Charleston and Augusta districts $50.
THE MERCURY IN THE CITY.
Savannahs maximum temperature was
81, one degree less than the day before.
The minimum was rs and the mean. So,
was three degrees above the normal.
Other southern cities Jared worse. Au-
gusta's temperature reached 1922. Augusta
lFr1ar
mington went to 100s, Charleston 98S, Jack
sonville 9So, Atlanta 96e, Charlotte go,
Montgomery 96o and other places in about
the same ratio Ii any one doesn't think it
was hot in Georgia let him look at the fol-
lowing record for the Savannah district:
Millen 104e, Eastman 1909, Jesup 1OO0,
Alapaha, Albany, Quitman, Fort Gaines
and Milledgeville 96e. cambridge and
Townsville were considered cool at 94e
Numbers of cases of sunstroke were re-
ported from the northern cities, but none
were heard Of in Savannah. The people
are certainly well acclimated to the heat,
for it seems to come in waves and blasts.
Many believed the day hotter than the day
before. A thermometer was hung on the
wall on the sunny side of Bull street, east
of Broughton, by way of experiment.
At 4:3O o'clock in the afternoon the mer-
curry stood at 140', and could go no higher
because it bad reached the top OF the tube
III was lOklDRiY TeuluIh6Q ybSteTQdH bDdb
Signal Observer Whitney had resigned his
office to escape being lynched but his sue
cessor has not learned wisdom from his act.
An evidence of his temerity is his prediction
of continued high temperature for to-mor-
row, without even the probability of
shower.
A RUSH TO THE RESORTS.
There was a rush for the resorts yester-
day. The Warsaw steamer went crowded.
There was an immense crowd at Tybee all
day. Nearly every train from the city
went down filed with people seeking the
breezes of the sea. There was a through
train from Guyton, which went direct to the
beach, passing around the city by way Of
Southover junction. AS the :10regular train
was leaving the city, the Central railroad
train with the Guytonians passed round the
curve Of the Savannah, Florida and West
ern railway wharf extension from the
TYbee railroad track. 1t was pleasant
sight to see this evidence Of the increasing
popularity of Savannah's seaside resort
and to fully realize the importance of the
railroad to the sea and the rapidly increas-
ing business of the railroad company. 1t is
we'll equipped and its way of handling its
patrons is not equaled by any company
catering for pleasure seekers this side of
New York.
At the beaches and on the salts the
weather was cool and delightful The con-
Z
Game in ON the early trains. The heat
radiated from the hot stone and asphalt
pavements and from the heated brick walls
of the buildings 80 that it was suffocating.
Many people sought the parks and squares
in the early evening, but there was hardly
breath of air stirring, and they were no
cooler than the houses.
WAITING FOR A BREEZE.
Front door stoops and balconies were oc-
TOD x,asd DT.vEN > O1n
cool ocean breeze began to come in, but it
did not afford much relief, and at midnight
many people were still on their feet.
Thermometers were closely watched all
day, and the closer they were watched the
higher the mercury went. The signal station
thermometer is on the fourth floor of the
postotfice building, and the mercury does
notgo as high as it does in standard Their
mometers near the ground.
The heat along the wharves. on the out
skirts of the city and in the fields on the
truck farms was intense, and few white peo-
pie were able to stand it. No pros
trations, however. were reported. The
police sweltered in their uniforms, but they
kept the shady side of the streets. The
street car animals suffered severely. Poo
pie and brutes, in fact, suffered alike.
THE MONTHS HOT DAYS.
The hot spell began two weeks ago yes
terday, ana since then theresh have been but
two days that mercury has not been 90 or
higher. The record of highest temperatures
at the signal station for the last two weeks
is as follows:
June H. ......-. 900 June 81 900
June IS. ........... .92O June 2. 9le
June 16 ......,,.....S9o June % ,,.,.. 92o
June 17..............e 500 June "a. 92o
June IS. June 25 ..,.,...9 go
June 10. $50 June 28. $50
June 20 ............Sj $50 June q go
The highest that mercury went in June
last year was go, and the highest that it
has ever gone in June since the signal sta
ton was established was 1908 June Is, 1887
That is within 50 of the hottest day that has
been known in the last twenty years,
and that was July u, 1879, when mercury