The evening times., 1896-08-11
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I 10 sit I'm one position, Imprisoned in tall
buildings. The men who handle the lutfibef
on the outside are tbs eaes who set the
full benefit of che SUMS burning rays
Next q ride was taken to the wfarpes
to look upon the roustahouts and see them
lead and -aisload freight They are the
boys who know SBow to kill time. They.
are not troubling theft swcaty bodies by
too much motion. Not at all
Back to the Emergency Hospital. They
have heat case. How quickly the poor
creatures cIotises are stripped Off. and he
! ispiaced on ira yin ward carriage. The
hose is started on him; his head is put In
the ice-pack.
| All the physlcians and three or four
nurses are working over him, rubbing his
body with ice His temperature was 110.
Think of it,!
| The patient Is piethoric; they nieed him
| little: they give him little sttmu-
laht-s How carefully they watc1, his tent
(, perature. 1t is down to 1O2 now. four
degrees above normal, aud they stop.
He Is put in bed, aud soon his tcurpera-
turc tails naturally. below normal. He
Is deiirious now, aud II takes two strong
men to hold him. ls@
On the street car now, and away TO the
Weather Bureau On Pennsylvania avenue
between Eighteenth and Nineteenth streets
thcIe Is a gang of black fellows ut work
| tearing up the asphaltun. The sun DOES
not phase thenf They are laughing and
sweating. at QUE and the sane time.
THE FORECAST.
II amy people are clapping their hands
r
the heat. they had better save this exer-
tion for more appropriate occasion. The
relief brought by the few drops ofratn and
| wind that blew last night was like an oasis
| In the desert, but II soon faded away, like
the ailuring and iilusive mirage. The
| hope for cooler weather soon became the
| shadow of a hope and then the shadow OF a
| shadow.
At8u.m the thermometer at the weather
| bureau registered so; at a. IN. 1t had
mounted to S2:'at 10 a. IN. il was SO;
| IL u. m. 80, aud at noon it reached 90.
| There ia no indication of change for to-
| morrow, but there is Il prospect held out
that 1t will not be quite so warm. Thurs
and Friday. There is noting certain about
this latter; IL is only prospect.
| During the first ten days in August all
known records for maximum temperatures
for corresponding periods in former years
| have been equaled or broken in the follow
ing places:
Little Rock, Ark; Memphis, Tenn: Pal
estinr, Tex. Oklahoma City; Abilene, Tex !;
Eureka, Cal: San Diego, CAL; Jacksonville.
Fla; Springfield Mo-; ST. Paul, Mimi;
Albany, n. Y.:Parkersburg. W. Va: Spring
field, ILL.,. Chicago, H.; Tampa, Fla; Nor
folk. Va: Boston, Muss.; Nantucket. X. L.;
Block Island. Z. T.; New York City, and
Atlantic City. N. ],
No marked change is predicted in the
| general weather conditions throughout the
| country There is rossibility of shower rs
in New England apd local tilunderstornis
in eastern Pennsylvania. New Jersey and
Delaware. 1t will lie trifie cooler in
Oklahoma. New Mexico and westcrnTexas
| The government crop report will he
issued this afterhoon. 1t will without doubt
confirm the statement IN The Times n few
| da Is ago relatiteto the damage done by the
hot speli To the cotto d and other crops.
| AT SehelIer & stevens drug store. Penn
slyania ayenne and Ninth street. at 8
O'Clock, the thermometer registered So;
10 a. m. ST; noon, so; p. m. 81. The
| thermometer In the doorway registered
81 at O'clock
| AT ogram' s drug store. Seventeenth and
| II streets northwest the thermometer reg
istered 90 at 8 O'Clock and 96 at p. u.
| AT Petzer's drug store. Fifth and East
Capitol. the inside thermometer reached 30
at p- m.
| DEATHS AMONG HORSES.
The mortality record among the horses
of the city had mounted up TO fifteen at
noon today. The sufterings OF the poor.
dumb animals make one of the tragic
features OF the hot wave.
The same general mode of treatment is
roilowed that is employed with human Lc-
iDgs, but the facilities are inadequate, be-
cause the horse has 10 be treated where it
| falls.
Tine greatest sufferers among the live
stock are the car horses. Frequent changes
are made, as one round trip in the binding
sun, with heavy car behind them, Is suf.
ftcient to use up a team OF horses.
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