The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-08-01
NO SIGN OF ALET-UP IN HEAT.
THREE DEGREES LOWER YEsTER-
DAY THAN THE DAY BEFORE.

The Air Was Full OF Humidity,
Though. and Most People Thought
the Day Was the Hottest Net-Sev-
eraI Prostrations on the WharVes,
Hut None of Them Likely to Prove
Farai-ObServer sherfer's Account
of the Hot Wave-CroSvds OF Peo-
PIE Rush TO the ResOrts-May De a
Tribe Cooler This Afternoon.
While the temperature was not as high
yesterday by three degrees ass DO was the
day before. there was but one degree DIFF
ference in the average, and that was 50
slight il was impcrcepubla
Most people thought it was few de-
grees hotter than 10 has been at any time
yet The highest that mercury went was
s. degrees IL was in fair way 10 dis
lance the record Of the day before when a
thunder shower somewhere west OF here
cooled of the heated atmosphere for
awhile. but after il had passed mercury
rose again.
Last night was by far the worst Savan-
nahians have experienced since the hot
spell began. There was little breeze and
the heat was sunocaung. The electric
cars We're crowded with people until late.
Children were out an the streets and hun
dreds Of people spent the early part Of the
night on piazzas and balconies, where
they could catch whatever breath Of air
was stirring.
The heat, as usual. was the most severe
~ felt In the lower part Of the city. along
the wharves and on the river front TIE
loading of vessels went on very slowly.
urrfHh
and even then every now and then one or
more would topple over. None Of the pros
trations reported during the day, however,
are likely TO prove fatal Lieut. Norman
Of the revenue cutter Boutwell, was strick-
en- while walking on Broughton street, but
soon recovered, and reJoinel his vessel in
the afternoon.
There was. II anything a greater rush
10 Tybee, ThunderbOlt and the other re-
sorts on the salts than there has been yet.
The Iybee trains carried down crowds
Of people In the afternoon. many OF them
10 spend the night on the Island and es-
cape the heat in the city. Thunderbolt
blum was alive with people and the last
cars into the city were loaded
There were number Of calls for the po-
lice ambulance during the day. chiefly for
persons who had been overcome by the
heat There were two calls 10 the Cen
trail railroad wharf, both on account of
negro laborers who had been overcome.
on the last call at o'clock, the ambu-
lance took in two men al once, one ne
gro who had been overcome at the Cen
tral railroad wharf and the other a sick
negro, picked up near the park.
The police barracks were notified from
ST. Joseph's Inhrmary last night What no
more charity patients could be accOmo-
dated there for the present, the charity
wards being entirely filled up.
Court officials, lawyers and liugants are
keeping In the background as much as
possible, and the heat is expeditng the
NE .Ta1uu EFrrprnrfnfuee hn
a decided air Of summer time around the
court house. even the atmosphere. Judge
Norwood has adjourned his court until
Monday, in hopes that the edge Of the
cold wave will have reached here by that
time. Deputies and bailiffs are sitting
around in shirt sleeves with palm leaf
fans except when the court Is on the
bench, and Official dignity requires
more docorous appearance. In one sense
however. the weather, to a certain eX-
tent. eXpedites litigation. Both the law
yers and their clients are far more ready
to settle cases, and an amicable under
standing Is more easily reached than il
the weather were propitious for con-
testing the grounds. Somehow or other
the hotter the weather the more numer-
Gus seem to be the fighting, shooting
ana cutting scrapes and all sorts Of mis-
demeanOrs. The ordinary thief would
rather steal in hat weather; there Is a sort
of a fascination about It, and he always
gets the limit for putting the extra work
on the court in hot weather. II there
isn't a let up soon, court Will no doubt
be declared adjourned for the term
The weather reports for the cotton re-
gion do not show the highest temperatures
yesterday. All Of the reports are for the
tWenty-four hours ending at s o'clock in
the morning. The temperature day be-
fore yesterday throughout the Savannah
district of the cotton belt and through
out the entire south, was the highest ever
known. Millen broke the record in this
section with l05 degrees. Alapaha was
close behind with 102 degrees; then came
Waycross, Americas, cambridge and
Eastman with 100 degreesa after Savan-
nah's l0l degrees. The average for the
district was higher than it has been since
the hot wave appeared
II is hot all over the south. Throughout
Arkansas the temperature has ranged up
to lO4 and 100 degrees for week. The
average for the FIVE stations of the
Charleston district, for the thirteen of
Memphis. nine of Mobile thirteen of New
Orleans and seven of Vicksburg district
was 100 degrees.
As yet there is no indication Of a ces-
satiOn OF the hot weather. The forecast
at midnight was for slightly cooler this
afternoon. The general bank of heat is
likely to stay right along, however.
Weather Observer Sherier was asked
yesterday as to the cause of the heated
spen. "Since July 2lst" he said 'the be-
ginning Of the present heated term, the
South Atlantic and gulf coasts have been
covered by an area of comparatively high
pressure and the copditions in the south
have undergone practically no change.
The temperature has risen to more than
80 degrees each day, the humidities have
been generally high, and the winds most
ly southerly.
"Such conditions have prevailed over
all the sections along the northern edge
of the "high," the mercury being kept
a an abnormal degree by the passage of
u succession of storms over the central
valleys and the lake region causing south
erly winds and high temporal ure along
the Lower Mississippi and Lower Ohio
valleys and the South Atlantic states.
"As a rule, storm centers are followed
by movements of decided high pressure,
accompanied by cool weather, but the pres
ent case is an exception. At times the
barometer was normal. or nearly so, over
a portion Of the country to the nOrthWard,
but these highs" were only comparative
and OF short duration. No decided ones
have been noted
"If the bank of high pressure, which
now covers the southern coast, should
pass off, it might, in a short time be fol-
lowed by a storm center which would, in
all probability, cause warm weather for u
day or two, but this would, in turn, be re-
placed by the usual anti-cyclone or high
pressure area, accompanied by lower tenn
peratures Until such a change occurs. or
until the comparative high" now cover
ing this section, is augmented by a decided
movement of the same kind from the