Morning journal and courier., 1893-06-21
HOTI

The Universal Exclamation Tester.
 day-Hottest of Any Day in June in
 TweRty.one Tears in New Haven.
 Yesterday distinguished itself. It was thus far the hottest day of 1893. Every body admits this. The unanimity of opin- ion on the subject needs no comment. The perspiring small boys and girls at the grammar schools yesterday, the bigger boys and girls at the high school. the peo- pie who rode on tue street Icars hoping to get cool draught of air; those who, staid at home to keep cool, if possible, those who took drive In the early morning to escape the torrid heat'of the noon and afternoon body including the ice men who had to lug ice around more than ever, concluded than it was hot day.
 Signal Observer Cox says 1t was the hot test June day New Haven has had iu twen- ty-one years. This is according to official records The signal observer was vigor- ously flaming himself as he told the re- porter the fact.
 Yesterday in Town Clerk Thomas room,
 
 9S in the shade at p. nn., and his office fronts on Main street. The highest ther- mometer yesterday at the weather signal building was 96 degrees in the shade.
 In the superior court room the court of
 icials faintly piled fans and one of the old est officials remarked upon full investiga- tion of the subject that it was the hottest in the court room since September, 1881, when the court room thermometer, @ very reliable and truth-tslling instrument, re- corded 101. Yesterday afternoon it re- corded 95.
 The thermometer just outside Trefry's drug store in the shade afternoon regis tered 100 for several hours. People gszed at the thermometer and immediately rushed In and called for the contents of the coda fountain.
 The ice wagons did 8 rushing busi- ness and were constantly pursued afte, school hours by hordes of young folks craving for bits of ice. The to~ n pumps supply of water proved | inexhsustible. A policeman kept count oi the number of people who drank at the pump in the space of ten minutes and | time for the pump either. The town pumI l paid for itself in Its yesterdays work. A New Haven congressman when asked | tO CAPiCSo hAo opkhAOh oh tLko SkAVCA oAA ! question, on Church street, in spot where the sun's rays were getting in their work l justly replied as he mopped his brow thsi | the weather itself was a veto on all finan eial discussion. and he evidently was no hsnkerine-afte 6 special session of con gress in this kind of weather any nor,
 than is the head of this government with his constantly increasing avoirdupois. Tn,
 bankers closed up the banks promptly ant
 fled as soon as possible away from the
 scenes of financial labors which they ar daily accustomed to. Even the sttendanc,
 of the ladies upon the bargains at the dry
 goods stores was woefully thin and half O
 the time the clerks were flaming them
 selves, or looking wistfully toward th doors of exit and the hands of the clock
 Altogether, as aforesaid, 1t was a yer,
 hot day. The crowds, however, got out il
 the evening and made Chapel street ant
 Church street lively.
 The Fair Haven and Westville Railroad
 comp pany favored It's horses yesterday, giv
 ing them all lighter work owing to the in
 tense heat. The animals were given drinl
 oftener and given much longer rests be l tween trips. The animals no doubt appre
 cisted this humane treatment, and tn
 public was we'll served as usual, notwith | standing