Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-07-28
HOT, HOTTER, HOT
Any One in Washington Can Add
the Missing Syllable
MLT CALORIC SUPPLY UNCORKED
Reasons Why the Country is Swell
tering in a Solstice.
NJ AKING THE WEATHER

satisfaction at the fun he was going to
have with the population in this part Of
the country today. When he went to bed
last night he left a sufficient amount of
cajoric behind him to cause every sleeping
room to feel like furnace and compel its
occupants to take Turkish bath towels to
bed with them in lieu of handkerchiefs
Accordingly, when he came on the scene
again this morning and announced to the
unfortunate people who have to do such
things that 1t was time for them to hurry
TO breakfast and get to work. he was very
much pleased to see such a number of limp
victims Upon whom to further visit his tor
ture As the morning wore on the sun put
on extra exertions. and by o o'clock there
wasn't perfect linen collar around any
neck IN town, while an hour later any
boiled shirt in the District that inclosed
human form divine could have been pulled
through napkin ring, bosom and ALL
Everybody perspired and complained. and
the boys who engineer the various soda
water fountains sat on chunks of ice be-
tween customers visits and took surrep-
titiOus shower baths from the squirt EN-
faucets when the proprietors weren't look
ing. The effect of the intense heat was
seen in the diminished numbers on the
streets and in the stores. The Saturday
crowd never seemed SO small before, and
1.-THE bank clerks and the employees of other
establishments which observe the Saturday
half holiday never welcomed the chime OF
noon more cordially in their lives.
There was another drawback to the day
almost as aggravating as the state of the
atmosphere That was the persistence with
which everybody wanted to talk about it.
A Star reporter thought he could get sur
cease from the numerous inquiries about the
state of the thermometer received over the
telephone and catch a breeze and an item as
well out in the vicinity of Mount Pleasant
He boarded yellow cable car on the ave-
nue. and fell into the midst Of crowd of
strangers to one another discoursing on the
universal topic
Some stiff Weather Stories,
Il think the hottest time 1 ever seen,"
said the man with the S9-cent shirt and
fthe black and yellow necktie, was the
Isl INNER followin arter the war. Up toe
,abcut this time O. tn year weather was jist
splendid, an 1 never seen corn what growed
better. 1t was all in tossel, with roastin'
yeers on ev'ry stalk, when along comes tn
hot weather. 1t began TO bile up on a
,Ckewsdy, an tn mex Satydy my ma says
tshe didn't tnink 1t would be any use putin
water on to bile corn becos you could go
,ost and pull it already cooked, and I hope
y may die ef We didn't do that very thing
don't. know how high tn thermometer
went that time, bscos tn "srn got so hot
that II melted tn brass parts of tn in
tstrumen' and tn glass fell on tn fo an
broke, an you kin believe 1t not. as you
dog gone please. but when tn quicksilver
run out on tn mattin' il didn't spread a
oit- but list begun to stick right up in tn
salr and git higher and higher, and reckon
II cold wave hadn' come along that tn
mercury would reached clean from tn
no to tn ceilin'.''
That was right hot" said the old man.
who had been an attentive listener, but
don't think Ii were anything like the last
week in July in 1854; tell you that il
were not that time. sure. 1 amt never
wore metal buttons on my close since that
time, cause the sun made 'em SO hot that
tAey sot nre TO my garments, and 1 came
near glttln burned to death. We didn't
nave no gas down in my part of Baltimore:
] lived in Baltimore at that time. and the
burned insurance was so skeered about
coal oil lamps that folks had to use
, Ganuies Ter 70 see by at night. 1 was al
the even'n' paper for three weeks or as
long as that hot spell lasted. for there
warn't candle to be had in Baltimore for
love or money. Why not? Cause the
weather melted them ALL
This Occurred in st. Louis
See that scar on my neck?" inquired the
hoarse-voiced man with the forid face
Weii, that Is reminder of what / call
hot weather Eff you fellers had of STEP
PED out of temperature like it is today
into the air of ST. Louis at the time got
this scar. you would have given all your
money an your last hopes for a drink for
an overeoat- They amt been no hot wealth
er nowhere like there was that August in
st. Louis. Vas sir it was in 1877 and tho
weather had been right peart for warmth
Tor two or three weeks. but il didn't do
much but to occasionally set lumber ward
on fire or loosen solder in the tin roofs and
do lot of other things that are common
almost every year in summer out in ST
Louis. Well, sir, / was mighty perticklar
shout my personal appearance in them
days. and when il began to warm up real
good 1 couldn't keep collar from within
TO save my life, 50 got some of these here
Celluloid collars. You know. they are made
outen gun cotton. nitro-glycerine and dyna-
mite and giant powder and lot of them
other things. all mashed up together, but
they certainly white. and look more
naturaller like linen than a paper collar
does any time. Well, sirs. one real hot
morning durin the time / was telling YOU
about l went out of the Southern Hotel
where i was stoppin' in st. Louis an
started down the street. and somehow or
other my umbrella was brushed aside and
the sun hit my collar full and square. Gen.
nermen'. the mex thing 1 knew there was
a explosion. and / was knocked forty feet
The sun had jest set off that collar of mine
like percussion Cap, and this here scar
on my neck shows the truth of what 1 say"
The car was just passing X street at this
point when the conductor. in mournfuI
monotone. yelled out Next is L.
The deaf man on the rear seat looked up
o him half inquiringly. but with much ap-
probation, as he responded, with mild en-
phasis:
Yes. sir. it's just as hot without q
No Hope.
At the signal corps the thermometer at
noon registered two degrees higher than il
did at the same hour yesterday, and Mr.
GarriOtt. the who forecasts the
weather, and is responsible for letting US
know going to suffer instead of al
lowing us to remain in blissful ignorance of
our meteorological fate. no matter what it
may be, seemed TO regard the instrument
with an affection not unmixed with pride
III that average advance keeps up said
Mr.. GaTriott cool. apparently, as a Gu
cumber in cold storage. the maximum will
reach ninety-sevsn Inh1y, There is no h..
TO be held out for immediate relief. ! Re
lieve. While the highest temperature of
- prv9vnt not spell will probably be
reached today, there are no evidences of q
probable drop in the thermometer of a
heavy character. We have just prepared q
bulletin, he concluded, and the document
is given herewith;
Weather bureau Bulletin.
The warm wave, whose crest will cover
the middle Atlantic and New England
states toGay first appeared over the upper