Grand Rapids herald. [volume] (Grand Rapids, Mich.) 1892-1959, 1892-07-27
JUST A LITTLE HOT
Yesterday Was the Hottesr Of
the Season.
LITTLE SICKNESS IN The CITY
In Spite OF the Hot Weather the Sick
Record for July IL the Lowest
known IN Years

known IN Years
The weather has long since ceased TO
be matter To make merry over. II 10
. terrible, stifiing. blcod-hsstlng. sner-
waiting, prostratlng reality. In spite Of
its caloriferous msliciousness. only three
eases Of proetration have been reported.
But that isn't any fault of the weather.
j. X. Balm OF No. 100 Dayton street
was the first person that succumbed 70
the effects of the heat He WAS work.
ing on Grandville avenue, near Fifth
avenue, yesterday and was overcome.
He was taken 10 his home apd will
probably recover.
Yesterday was red-ietter day in the
weather department. From A to lizard
1t was magnificent display Of Pluton-
ian sheoiism. The sun rose at the APP
pointed time and Immediately began to
do business il the old stand. 1t was
evident from the go-in that he bad az
tended his sizzling facilities. and before
9 o'clock he had every one Of them in
full blast. Mr.. Aeolus. . classical gen.
tleman, who manipulstes the atmospher-
ic end Of that peculiar article, defined
by Mr.. Webster - vicissitude Ut season,
was on hand bright and early and
shied HE castor into the ring. Then he
began poking up NEUROLOGICAL under
strspper named Notus, and the latter
opened up oil! the valves In the hot Air
fiues. The wind that swept up from
the south Was positively whitening, and
grew worse at every instAllment. II
was dry, hot. suffocatlng. dust-laden,
devastating sort Of q wind, and felt like
Q concentrated combination Of simoon
and crematory to the foot-weary pedes-
TRAN.
The Mercury Dead In Line.
The mercury WAS also dead in line
yesterday. Ii dragged its attenuated
expansiveness up TO the So degree notch
and never blushed. But it was in the
shade on the north side of remarkably
cool ice houses that the record of SO
was made. Humanity and thermome-
ters porsistently refuse TO record the
actual temperature of localities infested
by sunshine and the greater portion Of
mankind.
The man that has walked ten blocks
in the broiling sun and never got within
speaking distance Of any shade isn't
allowed TO guage HE sorrow and eun-
burns by the actual temperature OF the
sidewalk. Instead, he must hang q
thermometer in the coolest place in
the city, where nobody has any chance
to finger, and be informed that IL isn't
. very hot day after all, a. the mer-
curry indicates only 80 In the shade.
But yesterday was hot even in the
shade, and the cooler and more invIs.
ing . spot seemed 70 be, the more close
and sitting it Was in reality. The pres.
ent succession Of hot days has knocked
out even the oldest inhabitant, who il
forced to admit that it's hotter than
anything he ever saw before in this
world, or cares to encounter in the
next. There is no really accurate Their.
mometer IN any public institution IN
the city. % 1t is virtually impossible to
get the correct temperature for all
hours of the day.
Told by Thermometers.
Thermometers on Monroe street
averaged 81 degrees at 2 O'Clock yester.
day afternoon and the one at the Union
depot registered 86 degrees. The heat
was more keenly felt on Canal and
Monroe streets than in any other por
ton of the city, and business on those
streets was practically suspended dur
ing the hottest portion of the after
noon. Notwithstanding the intense
and almost unparalleled heat of the
past few days, the amount of scknesl
in the city 10 remarkably low. Cases OF
cholera infantum and other intestinal
diseases that thrive upon this kind oil
weather are very scarce. Only six cases
of cholera infantum were reported
during the past four days. The record
of sickness thus far during the month
OF July 10 the lightest that has been
known in years.
II the present hot weather continues,
however, physicians fear . rapid in.
crease in the amount of sickness, espe-
cially in the lower and less cleanly
portions OF the city. Cholera infan.
tum. especially, 10 disease that de.
velopes with Astounding rapidity, and
often results fatally In . few hours.
1t thrives on heat and unsanitary regu-
lations, and the city is now well cup.
piled with both.
The weather department givesplittle
encouragement for . decrease In the
temperature. So long ~ the wind ID
in the south the hot weather will con-
tinue, and the wind hangs 10 tina,
locality like . politician 70 federal
office.
In all the array Of suffering and per.
epiration caused by the intense heat
only one word of consolation has been
received. Yesterday afternoon while
the Morton horse thermometer was
making frantic efforts to boil over al
the top, Boyd Pantlind mopped his
dripping brow and remarked that II
might be blame eight hotter thsnit 10.
They Wilted Under the Sun.
Two cases of prostration BY the ex-
ceesive heat were reported yesterday.
The city ambulance was called n the
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