The evening world., 1894-09-19
RAIN, RAIN, GO AWAY!
So Say New 70 kers, but Brook
lynites Are Thankful
Water Famine Probably Averted in
the City Of Churches.
Over Two Inches Rainfall In twenty
eight Hours.

Unhappy mortais 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 compari-
son with other years, we have only sx-
perienced Just a mild shower.
After 1t had rained Its hardest from
to 10 O'Clock this morning there were
thousands who were willing to wager
that 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 insignificance.
So heavy did the rain seem that the
| wind had no effect whatever upon It.
1t came down in drops 80 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 Nth that
Commissioner Andrews's men never
dreamed existed. 1t flooded cellars
cleaned the streets perfectly. choked up
| the sewers, killed the sparrows. and did
a 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 every body feel miserable
every body save those who liye In Brook
| lyn and who for weeks have been threat
ened with a water famine.
No one knows all about here things
better than Farmer Dunn; yet he had
the assurance to-day to say that 1t was
i "A h uNA ..xalx "A
one, and not. even within seeing distance
why, he said, "tust think of it.
edas s0a anaa uns nHe 10 oSoSk
twenty-seven hundredths. That was
for tWepty,eight hours; In lss2, for the
%, six inches and seventeen one-hun-
dredths rain fell. when. again. between
Sept; 10 and Y 1sSo: Aye inches and
II thought at one time, to-day thai
this etorm-or rather two hours OF it
would, beat the, record, but even tina
10 o'clock lo2 inch fell. Aug. 10. ias
year, however. for one single hour. tht
rainfall was 49, SO that this torn was
You think it is bad enough In New
York but look at the South. They hav,
got more than twice as much, and
stories of floods from that section ought
| oOoH NC SoiiinB oNci tnc WIits'
| Mr.. Dunn then consulted his map, and
| from 1t gave out the Information tina,
| the general rain area extended all along
the Atlantic Coast. from Florida &c
Massachusetts. and that 1t rained in.
| 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 8 o'clock to-day
That was at Athens. In Blackville
same State, ,2.4o 2,2e and 2 inches had
Fla In this city only l.o2 Inches had
fallen up to o'clock.
1T did not seem to blow very much
about here. yet Mr.. Dunn says the
| wind was bowling along at twenty
| ur-mile-an-hour rate at o'clock, and
1t had only dropped two points at TO-
| While he promises clearing weather
| towards the close OF the day, Mr. Dunn
announces that what looks like a storm
| centre Is forming over the Carolinas and
is moving northeast. The storm is al
yet underlined. and he cannot tell just
what It will amount to. 1t may get here
East Of the Ohio valley and the lake
regions It is generally fair and be,
coming warmer. There Is very little
change in the. temperature. as at
O'Clock to-day the thermometer regis.
tered 70 degrees. There was then how.
ever, 90 per cent. Of humidity in the at
That the storm may have proved dan.
| gerous to navigation 10 evident from the
fact that besides rain and wind. there
Is dense fog all along the coast