Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-07-10
lOlslN THE SHADE.
The Hottest Weather That Augusta
Has Seen for Years.
Mercury Stands All Up In the SOS. hov
the People Stand It.

When the thermometer registers 1O
degrees above zero, in the shade; 12t
or more in the sunshine, and in tn,
common everyday places indoors, un.
affected by any artificial conditions, 81
and in some places 80 degrees, it car
be stated with perfect safety and all
due consideration that it is really hot.
| Friday was the fourth day of this sort
of business and we want a rest. There
no necessity of having it so powerfully
warm and it is beginning to tell on us
We lose cur love for life and every
thing else, when it gets to be like that
1 It's not right. There is no sense in it.
| Up on State street at noon two Their
mometers placed in the shade, regis
tered 100 and 90 respectively. That at
the Augusta Beef Co, which in the
shady side of the building, where the
sun couldn't reach to save it's life, the
mercury stood at SO. and at noon, 1Ol
BY Kinsman's standard thermometer
about o'clock, the tube said it was 81
degrees in the shade. c. l.. Marston !;
thermometer at his office at the rail-
road station showed a temperature of
about 80 all the morning, and 95 in the
afternoon-and that was where the
wind blew upon it. -
This is unquestionably the most even
holiness that has spread itself in our
direction for many years. There are
the figures and there is no mistake
| about it. Very often thermometer
will be placed where the conditions are
influenced by the sun shining near 70
it or in some way to give it an unduly
high registration because of the failure
of the air to circulate and receive heat
from the SUMS rays close by. But, in
the instances above quoted there
seemed to be every evidence of a free
circulation and a fair guage of what
we were getting.
The heat, of course, affects some diff
IISItIllly IloII oluCIS anu lHCIc dtt
those who like it. They say it makes
them feel very good natured, but none
of these speak CT noticing any great
Iamount of energy created by the heat.
Mind, body and, perhaps, soul. feels
the decline of stimulus in the air.
1t is as refreshing as breeze to meet
such a one as doesn't let the heat worry
or stop him any. There are those and
among the number We're. somewhat
paradoxical to the general rule, some
very heavy persons. while some little
shipper snappers We're grooming away
as if their last hour had come.
Each one has his own way of keeping
cool It's the only way and there is no
use in trying to tell him anything about
any other. 1t is really dangerous to do
it, But, with all that of the many who
nave theories this way and theories
| that, there seems to be precious few
who get any very heavy results from
the theories.
Some tried to work along but simply
working ont in the sun with the mer-
curry at 120 and hot, stuffy, dusty
breeze blowing misery into one. On the
roof tops, in some places where men
star ted in to work, it was nothing short
of cfazness to stay there. In doors
was one thing, but out in the beautiful
sunshine was another.
The many employees In the cotton mill
were reported to keep at work very
pluckily and at the publishing houses
the young ladies seemed to endure the
heat with Spartan heroism mingled
with a few stray murmurs of misery,
escaping to relieve their Indignation
against such outrageous heat.
The sprinklers about the buildings
were brought into good use and gave
some little refreshment, but, on the
other hand, it increased the humidity
in the air and leaves it in condition
|
have been some comfort to let the
whole force loose upon the drug stores
and restaurants to seek comfort in ice
cream and soda.
The passengers on trains wore a
ltired, detected look all day long, as the
trains came along. And, for fact,
the locomotives seemed to be the only
moving things which didn't let up on
their speed a little. The cars looked
hot as open windows seemed to be
gasping for breath. The passengers
even to the bondholders and family en-
route for Bar Harbor, looked bit put
out, you know, and had there been any
around would have probably bought VI
a few icebergs.
, There Is some little talk as usual as
to the hottest place in the city. You
r can find it in any kitchen where there
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