The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1892-07-25
FEEL IT WARM?
One Man Wanted His OVercoat-
Thermometic Varieties.

1t was warm today. Everybody admit
ted that, from the banker in his cool pri-
vare Office to the hodcarrier with no office
had not the face to deny that the amount
of caloric in the atmosphere was ABOVE
the ordinary.
1t was dangerous to speak of the wealth
er, and positive suicide to ask" is it hot
enough for your"
Acting under instructions l took my
life in my hands and asked Montgomery
street pedestrian If he did not think it
was little warm. &
Warm" he replied, "my dear boy. it
isn't at all warm. The weather is posi-
lively too cool for comfort. / am just on
my way home to shake the camphor-ber-
ries out Of my overcoat and get it ready
to put on this afternoon" just here
weird, wild look appeared around the
corner of his eyes and I thought it best to
make my adieu.
Up to TWO o'clock no heat cases were
reported at Police Headquarters. AT that
time the worst Of the heat was over.
WHEN THERMOMETERS DIFFER.
At twelve o'clock Hartnetts ther-
mometer registered over 95 in the shade.
Greenville saw that and went Ave de-
grees better. The thermometer in the
doorway shaded by the porch-roof regis
tered over 100 degrees.
The NEWS office was the coolest spot
I met with in my travels. There the
electric fans forced the mercury down TO
90 degrees. In Ewing-s pharmacy, cool
and shady. it was 81 degrees. Up near the
corner OF Jersey and Newark avenues 93
was the record.
More eloquent than thermometric
records was the rush at the soda warer
fountains and beer saloons all over the
A f,.&, l,~-s
ing along the street with their heads
in the air would become suddenly
aware Of the existence of wet goods.
dispensary on their starboard bows. They
looked once--again-welL. the man who
hesitates is lost, and there were no ex-
ceptions to the rule. They hurried in
side. smacked their lips in anticipation
with a little cracked ice and dash of
lemon"
HARD NIGHT.
The trouble with the heat began last
night. The mercury. which was high all
day, let out reef after sunset and
started outo on new squirt toward boiling
point. which seriously interfered with
people people saw saw it stIll climbing. al
noon it reached the highest point. Then
breeze sprang up and the weather
cooled trife. Ihe breeze brought in its
train thunder storm shower which eff
fectually downed the mercury's aspira-
tions. At2 O'Clock it again became
pleasure to live.
THE OFFICIAL RECORD
Mr.. Dunn, who regulates such matters.
said he had no doubt the mercury would
G. lmb up to 90 degrees by two o'clock,
which is the highest point reached this
year on July IA. But on that day the
percentage of humidity In the air was
not nearly so great as it Is today.
AT eleven O'Clock there was SO per cent.
of humidity, 10 per cent. more than
normal. Thts, taken with the high tenn
perature. makes today the most unpleas-
ant of all this year
from Kansas" said Mr.. Dunn this morn
ing. 'This Is the wRrmest day of the
year, generally, east of the Ohio Valley.
New York was favored at eight o'clock
this morning by two degrees less of heat
than other Atlantic cities had. 1t was
73 degrees here. at Portland, Me-, Bos-
ton, Philadelphia, Washington and
tered so degrees. In fact. all over the
Atlantic States, the temperature ranged
between 90 degrees and SO degrees.
ST. Louis was the warmest place. It
was SO degrees there In the Upper Lake
region the weather was cooler, ranging
from 66 degrees to 6S degrees.
"Tbis warm spell Will last until We'd
nesday at least wRs the Sergeant's dis
comforting prediction. Tonight we viii
have thunder showers. but they will not
cool the air to any appreciable extent''
This is the first day this summer that
humidity and temperature have kept so
well together in their upward flight It
is this which Mr.. Dunn says makes today
record breaker.
The hottest July 25 on record was in
1885. The temperature reached 81 degrees