The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1896-08-13

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count Of the heat; but yesterday there
WAS very general suspension. Early in
the forenoon the large crew of men en-
gagged In laying the track of the electric
railway on Forest avenue, in Deerins,
| suspended work during the day. Most
of this men are natives of sunny Italy,
and there was a shoub of delight as they
got the word to leave off work. Thew
were 1eekiEg with perspiration and
some of them would probably have suf-
fered had they continued. work.
AT noon Superintendent Staples called
off all the men at WORK on the streets of
Portland.
At the factory of the Portland Stove
Foundry, the heat was SO upbearable th at
the men refused to work on both Tues
day and yesterday. The melting of the
iron of course added to tine heat, pro-
ducing a temperature of 125 degrees
even.
The heat ranged all the way from 90
to 95 degrees. The thermometer of the
Weather Bureau, ON the roof of the First
National bank building, reached its high
est reading at p. M, when it registered
about 80 degrees. This is very conser-
vative thermometer. 1t has not gone so
high before this season, the highest for
Tuesday having been SO degrees, and for
Mondayss5 degrees.
Last year the months of July and Au-
gust did not begin to furnish such
weather. The hottest day of last August
the mercury reached So degrees, and on
degrees.
OF course the thermometers down on
the streets whore men live and move are
much nearer the real heat which we en-
dure. The thermometer at Censer's store
on Exchange street, glass that is
business men, registered "a degrees in
the shade at $50 p. m. The thermometer
of the Casoo Tanning Company at the
foot of Green street, reached 90 degrees
In the shade.
At noon, on Pleasant street, in Deer
ing, the f1guresswere 81 in the shade.
The cases of prostration by the heat
were not numerous. The general suspen-
SIGN of work undoubtedly prevented
many prostrations.
An elderly man was overcome on IN
dia streeu near the Grand Trunk Two
longshorsmen who were lounging in the
shade of tree near the Allan line Office,
knew just what to do and they did it
quickly. They picked the man up and
put him under the street fountain near
by. The man quickly recovered and too k
Car for up town.
A longshoreman employed in unload
ing salt from the Italian bark at Lord
Brothers, was overcome and had to be
taken out of the hold. After liberal
sousing he recovered and went home.
There was general feeling of relief
among all those who read the predictions
of the weather man that the cold wave
from the regions of Manitoba would be
here today. This cold wave has been
idling away its time around the metro
polls of Medicine Hat, in those regions,
and is little late is getting here. The
Northern Atlantic coast, which has been
suffering worst, is ready to welcome the
cold wave.
The following Maine Central coal
shovellers required medical attention
Tuesday night: Patrick Gorham, %
Union street; L. 81. Gorham, Cotton
street; Michael Weloh, IA South street;
Michael Flaherty, 43 Centre street;
Thomas Norton, 103 York street and
Martin Flaherty, 40 Pleasant street. OF
this number the last named is the worst
off, it being very doubtful last night If
he would recover.
schooner Il. E. Pettigrew at the Marine
railroad, suspended work on account of
the heat.