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 {
o'clock yesterday morning will be in.
clined to take issue with Weat Fore.
caster Dunn. who says that In compari.
son with other years we have only e1-
perienced just a mild shower.
After It had rained it's hardest from
s to 10 O'Clock this morning there were
thousands who were willing to wager
hat all previous records had been
broken, and that had It continued for
the forty days and nights even the
story Of Noah and his ark would have
faded into insIgnificance.
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
or the curves and winding sheets pecu-
liar to September storms. 1t found out
and uprooted beds OF mud and Nth that
Commissioner Andrewss men never
dreamed existed. 1t 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 II
up 1t made everybody feel miserable
everybody save those who live In Brook
Ign 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. The storm was only a mild
one, and not even within seeing distance
Of the record.
The total rainfall since s o'clock yes
terday morning, until 10 o'clock this
morning, was only two inches and
twenty-seven hundredths, That was
twenty-four hours between Sept. % and
%, six inches and seventeen one-hun-
dredths rain fell. When, again, between
tweve one H ID S of fG rain nef fe and
thought at one time to-day that
this storm-or rather two hours of 1T
would beat the, record, but even that
10 o'clock l.o2 inch fell. Aug. 10, last
year, however. for one single hour. the
rainfall was l;6O, 50 that this storm was
You think it is bad enough in New
York but look at the South. They have
got more than twice as much, and
stories Of floods from that section ought
soon to be coming over the wires"
Mr.. Dunn then consulted his map. and
from II gave out the information that
the general rain area extended all along
tie Atlantic coast from Florida to
land as far as the Ohio Valley and the
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
Allendale and Greenwood, ali in the
same State, 40 2,8 and 2 Inches had
been reported. The heaviest rainfall
during the night was 2.A at Tampa
Fla. In this city only lO2 Inches had
fallen up to S O'Clock
After 10 o'clock the rain eased up n
Iittle hit, but about noon 1t began to
hour later Mr.. Dunn again began hg-
uring and then he announced that the
total rainfall up TO that time had been
3,o6 inches. Not very much after all, he
thought, for thirty-one hours.
1t did not seem 10 blow very much
about here, yet Mr.. Dunn says the
wind was bowling along at twenty
four mile-an-hour rate at S o'clock, and
While he promises clearing weather
towards the close OF the day, MIR. Dunn
announces that what looks like a storm
centre Is forming over the Carolinas and
yet underlined, and he cannot tell JUS
what 1t VIII amount to. 1t may get here
Vest Of the Ohio valley and the lake
regions II is generally fair and be-
coming warmer. There is very little
change In the temperature. as at s
o'clock to-day the thermometer regis
ever ever ss per cent. OF humidity IN the eV at.
That the storm may have proved dan