The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1894-09-19
Rain, Rain, GO AWAY!
So Say New Workers, but Brook
lynites Are Thankful.
Water Famine Probably Averted In
the City Of Churches.
Over Three Inches Rainfall in Thir-
ty-one Hours.

Unhappy mortals who have been look
ing at the rain falling steadily since 6
o'clock yesterday morning will be in
clined to take issue with Weather Fore
caster Dunn. who says that In compa1-
son with other years we have only sx-
perienced just a mild shower.
After 1t had rained It's hardest from
tv 10 O'Clock this morning there were
thousands who were willing to wager
hat all previous records had been
broken, and that had 1t continued for
the forty days and nights even the
story of Noah and his ark would have
faded into insgnificance.
So heavy did the rain seem that the
wind had no effect whatever upon It,
1t came down in drops SO big that they
came straight downwards, without any
of the curves and winding sheets pecu-
liar to September storms. 1t found out
and uprooted beds Of mud and filth that
Commissioner Andrews men never
dreamed existed. It flooded cellars,
cleaned the streets perfectly, choked up
the sewers killed the sparrows. and did
hundred and one other things that
the entire STRENGTHENING Department
could not do in a year.
1t gave the Broadway policemen a
chance to half carry timid women over
regular mill races. 1t caused the Bridge
officers to say questionable words. 1t
helped block the cable, and, to sum It
up. 1t made everybody feel miserable
everybody save those who live in Brook
lyn and who for weeks have been threat
ened with a water famine.
No one knows all about these things
better than Farmer Dunn; yet he had
the assurance to-day to say that 1t was
all nonsense. ihe storm was only mild
of the record
Why. he said. '.just think OF It..
The total rainfall since s o'clock yes
morning. was only two inches and
twenty-seven hundredths. That was
for twenty-eight hours In 1882. for the
%. six inches and seventeen one-hun-
dredths rain fell When, again, between
Sept. l6 and y. 1880. Ave inches and
twelve ,b Snehundre 18th Of rain fell
would beat the, record. but even that
S &C s!dina ts denied; Between and
year, however. fol- one single hour. the
rainfall was l6o so that this storm was
not even in it.
York but look at the South. They have
got more than twice as much and
stories Of foods from that section ought
soon 10 be coming over the wires"
from 1t gave out the information that
the general rain area extended all along
the Atlantic coast, from, Florida to
iMassaGhusetts' and that 4 rained in
lake regions. Throughout Georgia, he
said, the rainfall was exceptionally
heavy. four inches forty-one hundredths
being reported up to o'clock to-day.
That was at Athens. In Blackville.
same State, go, 226 and 2 inches had
been reported. The heaviest rainfall
during the night was IA at Tampa,
f Ell; IN m ms Git cyoc only ho2 inches had
After 10 o'clock the rain eased up
little bit, but about noon II began to
fall apparently as hard as ever. An
hour later Mr. Dunn again began fg
uring, and then he announced that the
total rainfall up to that time had been
400 inches. Not very much after all, he
thought, for thirty-one hours.
IT did not seem to blow very much
wind was bowling along at a twenty
four mil e-an-hour rate at O'Clock, and
1t had only dropped two points at 10.
While he promises clearing weather
towards the close OF the day, Mr.. Dunn
centre is forming over the Carolinas and
Is moving northeast, The storm is as
yet underlined, and he cannot tell lust
what IL will amount to. 1t may get here,
West Of the Ohio valley and the lake
regions II is generally fair and be-
coming warmer, There is very little
SsosS toda eee the at
tered 20 degrees. There was then. how
ever, % per cent. OF humidity in the at
That the storm may have proved dan