St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-07-24
HOTTEST DAY OF ALL.
YESTERDAY DEVELOPED SOME OF
NATURES WARMEST BLASTS.
ALMOST 100 I'm THE SHADE.

SctSSS Va o1H-
stroke Reported-Lakes and
Parks Visited by Thousands
The weather was hot yesterday. o.
course, to any live person who was moi
asleep i'll an icehouSe all day this state
ment will be Supertiuous. But the day
was noticeable from the fact that it was
the very hottest day that st. Paul people
have lived through in over three years.
In private residences even, with doors
and windows open, except for screens,
thermometers registered as high as 9s
deg. Indicators in houses surrounded
by trees OF generous spread showed &C
deg and upward.
In the deep recesses of great business
blocks the air was warm, and the sticky
qualities of the atmosphere were I'M
comfortably made manifest, On the
shady side of the street the sultriness
was like unto a boiler room with the
windows closed. On the sunny side a
pedestrian could easily imagine that a
large section of a sun-scorched desert
had been laid down TO reduce perambu-
ton. A sweet smile and
a Necklace OF EcIcIes
would have been considered ample
raiment by the average being. Ordi-
nary clothes had a depressing effect on
everybody except awfully ''spirituelle"
people. Men who had -ventured out
dressed only i'll the scantiest rig they
commlSSerated each other, and perforce
indulged in cool liquids to aid the per
spring process. Women arrayed in
loose robes, iilmy as cobwebs in appear
ance, carefully laid dainty handker-
chiefs to their faces and wondered at
the endurance or pitied themartyrdom
OF their sisters clad in close-WoVen,
heavy-looking robes.
Under the shade of convenient trees
all over the city might be seen families,
groups and pairs stripped of all frillS
and sweating at the mere thought of
having to venture into contact with the
hot air in the open, unprotected places.
Only cold-blooded people could restrain
themselves from useless comment on
the peStlferous oppresslVeneSs of nat
ure'S hot blast. Thoughtful people
might bless the fact that st. Paul is SO
BeneficenLly Located
as to seldom lack refreshing breeze
but thoughtless sufferers might be ex-
cused from kicking that Providence did
not chop off chunk of waiting winter
and drop it into their front yard. On
business streets soda water and lemon
ade counters were favorite stopping
places, and the cash registers smiled
even while the laboring clerk or pro-
prIetor wished the nickelS and dimes
were chips OF ice that he might string
onto a frosty line and tie about his
thrObbing temples.
Reputable people quoted well-known
thermometers to the effect that 100 deg
IN the shade was not the top notch of
the warm wave. While doubters looked
askance, a GLOBE reporter slowly moved
into the vicinity OF the thermometer
quoted as authority, and aScertained for
himself that the report was not Jar
wrong. 1t speaks well for the climatic
reputation of st. Paul, however, that
not case OF SunStroke was reported
from any section of the city. There
were occasional breezes that gave suffi-
cient cool ozone to counterfeit any bad
effects of the SUMS melting rays, and
the railway lines, steam and electric,
carried thousands of people to breezy
lake shore or shady dell.
st. PauI's Good Luck.
st. Paul is one of the coolest cities in
the country during day like that of
yesterday, and this fact is mainly owing
to its pavements. A cedar block pave
ment does not reflect any great amount
of heat as compared with one of granite
or any other kind of stone, which could
be easily demonstrated by simply riding
on the Selby avenue cable. The greet
ing of heat from the stones alongside
the track was like the blasts from fur
mace, and when gust OF wind would go
with it the atmosphere was almost
sitting. Pity the poor policemen and
mortalS who had 10 tramp around a
stone-paved city yesterday.
A noticeable indication of the severity
of the heat yesterday was the high
bridge. For over an hour at a time it
would be practically deserted, and
hardly ever could more than one weary
traveller be seen on its half-mlle length
of boards. 1t was cool and Shady under
the trees on the other side, but to get
there was like walking through a DIES:
ert, and the oasis had charms only for
those who could stay there after they
got there. Any other Sunday the bridge
is thronged. ,a-
A slight experience of what the heat
must have been in the White City yes
terday could be had by walking along.
side the Hill arches in st. Paul. The
White City is built practically of the
some material, and the glistening rays
that were east back from the columns
and towers were not only binding to the
eye. but the feeling of suffocation thai
accompanied them nearly laid the trav.
eler low. Under the triumphal arches
shade 1T could be stood, but from the
sunny side its rejecting CLEANS were
shafts of light aud heat that pierced the
eye and brain and brought before ones
Devil Tered Imagination sights of cool
ing ices andthoughts of gentle zephyrs
Sunbeams.
Lawn and garden parties were the
order of the day, and it was lucky
family that could sit under the waving.
shady trees or on the side of the house
that the san had passed by.
Tom Lowry ran short of nickels, for
but very few people could getup energy
enough to take a ride, and for one Sun
day, at least, seat could be had on
the electric cars at most any hour of the
day.
Umbrella parades were feature yes
terday, aud the silk, cotton or even
gingham varieties of this useful article
were i'll great demand. You would steal
an umbrella yesterday just as quick,
and even quicker, than If it was raining
1t was a novel sight to see the Sons of
Hermann as they started for their pic
nic grounds yesterday afternoon from
the corner of Washington and Sixth
streets. 1t was just 100 in the shade
when they gathered, and out in the
middle of the street il was 80 But
this did not deter them from starting Gu
the march 10 their realms of pleasure,
and at 1920 they began to move out
West Seventh street, each with huge
umbrella spread DER the descendants OF
Old Hermann. 1t was indeed a novel
spectacle to see an umbrella brigade On
a rainle5s day.
IL was a tough day on little babies,
and many poor little innocent will
undoubtedly succumb to the results OF
! the heat.
There was one business that doomed
| yesterday, even in these dull times-the
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