New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1894-09-09
REJOICE TOGETHER

IIVELY-1HE HAZE OF THE SKY CLEARED
AwAY-wATER- SOAKED PEOPLE
REJOICE TOGETHER
me long drouth was broken yesterday and all
urs the country, from the great plains of the
rst and the forests of the Northwest to the
,,lantc seaboard the rain fell upon the parched
9TH II was a long -waited-for and long hoped
ar rain. The storm came up without previous
,,ning. and while the official bulletins of the
Weather Bureau at 10:30 O'Clock on Friday night
announced the prospects Of a clear day, with no
ain In sight. by the time these prognOstications
,sre being read in the morning papers the water
~as pouring down from the heavens. The dry
ard willing crops and he springs which. under
the effects of the long dry spell had lost almost
every semblance Of moisture got new lease Of
he To-day the springs full again and are
snding out their streams TO water the land
The rain began at o'clock yesterday morning.
and all day series Of showers. one following fast
mon the beating footsteps OF the other, poured
down upon the city and the surrounding country.
Between the heavy showers there were periods
Of drzz,ing rain. and all day excessive humidity
made the heat seem greater than ii was. New
York yesterday reminded one of the tropical
city In the rainy season when fierce showers are
welcomed as relief from the sitting and humid
atmosphere.
1t was certainly a damp heavy rainy and un-
pleasant day for human beings, but the good
done by the showers cannot be Overestimated.
At o'clock there was heavy thunder storm.
The lightning and the thunder for a time We're
lncessant, the flashes of lightning and peals Of
thunder coming almost simultaneously For
two hours the air was heavily charged with eec-
tricity The downpour of rain was great 1t
ran of the roofs and through water spouts in
ereat volumes OF water. and so fierCey did II
pour down. that umbrellas and mackintoshes
were almost useless All the afternoon and far
into the night there were occasional distant
rumblings Of thunder and even at midnight oc-
casonal flashes OF lightning appeared above the
horizon. During the hardest of the showers the
cutters We're not large enough to contain the
streams Of water which flowed down them and
big pools Of water collected In the streets IT
was rain which had been long wished for. out
was nevertheless unpleasant and uncomfortaDe
when 1t came.
The temperature during the day ranged be-
tween Il degrees and "A degrees, the highes'
pont reached by the mercury being at noon.
The heavy shower at o'clock reduced the tehl-
perature. which did not rise again until O CLOCK
IN the evening, when the mercury CLIMBED up ~
z degrees and remained there up 10 o CLOCK III
the evening.
The showers in the West. like the storm mere
were local disturbances The rainstorm which
began early in the morning was born somewhere
IN the ocean 70 the southeast Of New-YOrk. and
With a cool wave behind ii came sweeping up
the Atlantic coast. The heavy thunder shower
which began at O'Clock, came up against 'he
wind from the northwest. The other showers OF
the day came from the southwest, and they
were of an entirely different and separate family
from the main portion Of the weather which
came In from the southeast over the ocean.
The rainfall in New-York yesterday was. ac-
cording 10 the records Of the Weather Bu-
reau III inches. 1t seemed, when the greatest
dovnpour of rain was taking place. as II an
other deluge were beginning. and official sta.
tistics seemed meagre and small when compared
with the Impression of people who were out
In the drenching showers or saw from thelf
windows the continued drizzle which filled the
time between the showers. The officiais OF
\ the Weather Bureau declare that the showers
Of yesterday were of no general character. ano
that there will be fair weather to-day. IT Is
one Of the most happy characteristics or thif
most happy country that the official utterances
Of the Weather Bureau are generally taken al
the law and the gospel. The officials are not
Of course, responsible for the untoward med
ding of storms which come up from the At
hntic on whose surface they have not as ye
established a signal station. but as far a.
pertains to the general breeding place o
storms the Gulf of Mexico and the south
western portion Of the country generally, ah'
their ADMINISTRATIONS of where those storm
will 90 and into what they will ultimately de
yelop their findings must be found. IKE thos
Of any court unimpeachable-so we may eA
meet fair weather to-day.
The storms OF yesterday have undouotedi!
cleared the air of a haze which nlIed IL iron
the sreat forest fires of the Northwest. an
p~opie will no longer look at lurid, Diooo-rt'
suns peeping through a September afternoon