Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-09-19
DRUGGISTS HAPPY
September is Trying to Boom Their
Soda Water Receipts.
fHB Is, 4 MIGHTY bot DAY
The Thermometers Say So, Even
if They Vary.
NINETY-sIX IN THE SHADE '

Deceitful September! Tickle, coy, uncer-
| tain month! She first tempts the tourist
back to his home, then roasts him for a
| fortnight, then makes him SILVER for three
| or four nights and now she takes a hand
| at booming the soda, water trade and the
cold beer business. April Is no longer to
| be mentioned for uncertainty. September
is the leader in surprises.
| Last Saturday night the Washingtonians
| who had come back to their beautiful city
| from the warm resorts Of the coast were
sorry that shey had been so precipitate.
Today they are condemning their haste
| even more roundly than before. Washing
| ton Is hot, hot, hot.
Woe to the unfortunate wight who
| month! Woe to him who gave his straw
| hat to the corner bootblack and regulated
! his headgear according to the calendar in
| stead of his memory of the weather history
down as a month Of surprises! Woe again
| to the sad one who told his wife up in the
| mountains that the appointed time for re-
| turning to town had come! He will never
| be able to explain away the unhappy cir
| cumstances that are now causing cool
ness in his family. the only cool place, in
| deed, that he find. Woe to all who
| breathe. for it is hot, hot, hot.
| Nobody cares a snap Of the fingers to-
| day what the weather bureau says about
how hot it is. Every one knows how hot
1t is-just too hot for comfort. No one
is bothered about the reasons why it is
hot whether it is a low" crowding a
"high," or a high" pushing up against
| a "low," or whether both high" and a
low have got tangled up In barometric
trough and cannot get out 1t may be a
storm in the sun that is causing It., and
| the fact does not scare a single Washing
tonian in the least. He Just knows it is
| hot
| One Scientific Explanation.
| The suggestion Of the scientific citizen
who came into The Star Office at about 1
| o'clock and held up small thermometer
| counts for naught What he gave as an
| explanation of the heat may have been
| based on the hardest of rock-bottom facts.
Nobody cared a picayune. It made 1t not
a degree cooler to know all about 1t. Said
| the Scientist"
| do you want to know why it is hot?
Do you want to have the real reason for
| this sudden wave OF calortc? Are you
in search Of the TRUTH" !.
| Nobody was after it very rapidly. for it
was too hot to be swiftly DESTROYS for any
| thing but a cool draught OF something
| But the visitor went on:
| "Then I'll tell you. 1t Is neteoric
storm that is causing all the trouble. The
| earth is JUS now psssing through great
| This makes a friction in the atmosphere,
ard in turn causes heat. We are in grave
PERIL
The scientists voice sank to a whisper
such as that which the heavy villain tells
| the heroine that she is his'n. He said:
Some Of these meteors are very, very
| large. We may hit one of them. Then it
| will he the end of all our troubles, for We
will never know what struck u.s.
He was gone. He had taken his ther-
| n.cmeter with him, and 1t was .just as hot
out to find out just exactly how hot it was
No one could stop to calculate the chances
| of one of the big metecrs hitting the earth
| Over in Baltimore the base bail cranks-
| ard that term includes pretty nearly all
| the people-are figuring out the chances OF
some other club than Baltimore winniI g
| the pennant, but that is a pastfme that
| Washingtonians never indulge in. The
hunt after the real temperature was far
| mere exciting. 1t was a bright spot on an
otherwise dreary and desolate day.
What Some Thermometers Registered
| To begin with. the mercury in The Star
office registered So degrees. This was in
| side the building, on the east side. Up at
Merits drug store, at F and 18th. the Their
| mometer at the southeast corner door stood
| at 90. That at Williams soda water shop
| at 9th and F, on the east front. was 921a
| Down 9th street at Budds place there was
| a record Of 81. This was reasonably close
! agreement between the instruments. At
| kloczewski's drug store, corner of 9th and
| E, there was record of OS, and at bar
| Der shop a few doors south of E street the
| tickle fluid ran up to %. Things were get
| ting interesting. But Shedd's thermometer
stccd at %, and hat at Keyworth's at "a.
| If matters had stopped there they would
have been puzzling enough. But Scheller
| & Stevens, at the corner of 9th and the
| avenue, had three thermometers. and each
| stood on an Independent basis. That at the
east door was naturally lowest, at SO; at
| the corner door the giant slab recorded 90,
record of 9S degrees. At Sickle's near 18th
| ard D streets there was a record Of 96,
| and at Brentanos, a few doors away, 81
| was marked.
Harris & Skaters store registered 81. while
| across the street, at Davis Sons, there
| Was record of 100. Dave Hagerty's COL
rmn of mercury had reached 104 degrees.
| and the same was marked by the instru-
| ment in front of Ford & Graham's place,
| but the latter was square in the sun, and
| there is no wonder that 1t was high At
| Franklins, where thermometers are a con-
| siderable item of trade, one might expect
| to get a reasonably accurate return from
| the heat. An instrument that hung inside
end was proclaimed to be perfect stood at
| 50 degrees, while another on the doorway
| marked 96. There was probably just that
amount Of difference between the two
| places.
| Taking the seventeen thermometers that
| hung in doorways near the street, whose
| records have been given 1t Is found that
| the probable temperature on the streets,
| beneath awnings, this afternoon at about
| DJt
| summer heat. OF course 1t was hotter than
| that in the middle of the street, in the
| midst of the mass of heated air rising from
| the asphalt pavements. 1t was cooler than
! that too, in the houses. where a majority
| of the people remained during the midst
| of the day. But 95.7 Is probably a good
| fair average temperature, midway between
| the streets and the houses:
| The Weather Bureau.
| The weather bureau cannot be wholly
| ignored during days when everybody be-
| gins conversation with the unchallenged
remark: MY, my, but it's hot!' There
| are some things in life that can be put
| aside and forgotten, but on such days as
| this the weather bureau will keep popping
| up in the mind. This morning the bureau
| stated, with keen realization of the fact
! that the chances were all its way, that it
| would be very warm in the District, with
| generally fair weather. This, 1t was prom
Used, would continue Friday, but there was
| prospect of showers Friday night or Sat
| urday. The map showed that there was a
| great "low" in the far northwest, and the
| general rate at which storms travel might
| bring that within range of Washington in
| side of three days. During the afternoon
| there was a gradual banking up of clouds
| in the west, and this gave rise to hopes
| that before night there would be a thunder
foil