The evening world., 1892-08-12
LAST EDITION.
DUNN'S COOL WAVE.
Il Is Heralded with SO Per Cent.
Of Humidity.
This, the Fifth, Is to Be The Last
Day Of the Hot Spell.
A Heavy II ninfall and Much Damage
by Lightning.

The NTH day OF the 81 cOnd hot wave that
has swept over or rathcred hovcrcd over
aud submerged Manhattan Island during
August gave promise TINS morning OF
being the last and Local Foreca st
Ollc.al Dunn confidently predicts that to-
night and tomorrow will be much cooler,
and that even sunday VIII have q quasi
frgd atmosphere.
But there We're no iciclcs on Mr.. DunnS
cold wave when II arrived this mOrnin z, AMI
New Workers on their way 10 business and
work wiped their rcrspiring pates and sug-
gcsted that Il was gong TO be another
measly, hot, sticky day.
Ana so IL was, ON the start but MIR. Dunn
cOolly explained that the discomfort was duo
10 the 03 per cent. OF humidity which blew
In on the south wind from The
OCEAN after last nights showers. lie
predicted that the humidity woGli be b wn
out TO sea again shortly by the veerin. OF the
1Orr-mile breeze around TO the southwest,
tnd at 10 O'Clock his prediction was sus taned
b. the dropping or humidty's rercentag to
80, while soon after brisk breeze WAS tlow-
Ing almost directly from the west.
The showers during the night ana early
this morning, In spite OF the heavy rainfall,
afforded little relief. They c1oled the atmo-
sphere temporarily throughout the Middle
| Atlantic states, in the lower lake region and
New England. At Boston the rainfall was
especially heavy, the total reaching . 2s.l 90
inches.
Here the rainfall was one and thirty.nine
-hundredth Inches, making total fall Of
over two inches since Tuesday night.
Had 1t not been for the remarkably large
percentage OF humidity this morning doubt =
less the showers would have afforded
New Workers much relIcr, but the
prevalence OF the southwest wind
brought more humiuiy at au earlier hour,
too than on any previous day during the
heated term. The vccrlng or the wind un-
doubtedly prevented what would otherwise
have proved an almost uncomfortable day.
"1hcrc Is every Indication this morning.
said observer Dunn. "that 1t will be mucn
cooler this afternoon ana tomorrow.
"Thc humidity VIII gradually disappear with
the change Of the wind, and at no time NIL
the temperature equal that Of yesterday.
doubt II 1t VIII exceed 81 or &C. ! anticipate
no more rain for the present"
The temperature, as Indicated by MIR.
Dunn's har-splittlng instrument on top ol
the Equitable building, was rs ut o'clock
this morning.
nv p'StNh anu ~ l.buiN IL Nu' -, buuui
G2, Chicago 20, Cincinnati GS and at Jupiter
Fla. 81, the highest point ri ached The cool
est place was Spokane, Wasl., where D! wa.
tie record.
For once In the history OF current events
the thermometers at pcrry's and Hudnur
pha! a!macies agre, u to q dot this morning.
Generally iiudnut's leads up to or .
O'clock, when Pcrry's energies from the cool
ny Sh do DO, frnt,
It's Broadway brother with alarming rapid'y
AT 0.3O O'clock this morning, however
both thermometers registered 1Gla degrees
or one-half degree ablvc summer heat. a
1880 they were still agreed, but had move'
up two degrees.
While last rights showers afforded onl.
temporary relief from the heat, the accom-
rob> Ia, lightning did considerable damage.
1t toycd with the Western Unions tcle
graph wires and prevented their working 10
the time being but did no serious daiGag
except on the Harlem road, just above til
city.
There the lightning struck a tree, wh,c
ieli across the tracks and carried down thirty
one wires NEST OF them Trunk lines.
Wire Chicf Mitchell said this morning tina
they would all be repaired and working agai
oy afternoon, but the accident had cause
considerable embarrassment because OF tw
thl' had preceded II.
Night before last two scnooners drayge
'hei. aNcaors IN the North River and pullc
up the wccMawken cable, rendering fort
trunk wires less.
The next day lightning prostrattd fort
piles between Schenectady and Utica an
altogether Mr.. Mitchell thought the Wester
lhioh had had very hard ck.:aithoush q
no lime had communication been cntirel
cu. on rom any part o. he country.
AZ Tower III, near Red Bank, ~ j., light
nm Yesterday damaged nr. j. h. Kinney
SUMMER cottage
AZ New Brighton, staten Island, the Pavi
Ih motel was struck. i rig chimney iell an
created pGnic amlEg the ;vvcra hundre
guests who were scatcu on the ye;andas