New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-09-26
Fulton St., Galatin Place and Livingston st.
FREAKS or THE CLIMATE.
SOME or IT'S ECCLIARITItS IN THIS
COUNTRY.
From The Chicago Tlmes-iIcrIld

From The Chicago Times-iIcrIld
have run about the United States good deal
for the last thirty years and nave mad" memory
notes Of such climatic pcculiaiit'cs as nav" come
The place having the wild 'st range o. tomper!tur"
the Yellowstone Valley. not lnfrcqucnlly In the
winter the mercury tumbcs down To 30 degrees
below zero. and II mas been known In summer 10
climb up TO IN above. Here In an extreme rang,
Of 10 degree. and yet people manage to live very
comfortably there the year around. In the cary
summer the grass on III" plains ana HIS turns
brown and yellow. and al green vansh"s from me
wide landscape except where a fringe oi cotton
wood trees skirts watrr-coursc. II Is "A pc
culiarity of the extreme nigh ternpcr'ture IN IN,
arid regions mat y9u 10 not perSRitc ~ a.n,nns
Is, you do not sensibly per4pirc. Inc moisture u
all syap3raId r1m Eo"r Tn oT ,hs air. The
heat IL not nearly 20 onprersiyr. now',rr -
seaboard II YOU ar" indoors or under me sh h,n
Of tree you are qui'" comforinble Any INN mn
Client to relieve you from ~ oppression from ,nr
high temperature Travelling some years agSS
across the hot billowy plain o: the great basin or
the Columbia with a camping lary looking up a
route for railroad we cane - hmse coium Ina.
We stopped the teams ard, throwing ourselves
down on the shady side OF the rock. We recalled
great rock In a weary land" and realized that a
little shade meant as much TO the people OF ara
Palestine us tired travellers In arid America
THE HOTTEST PLACE.
The hotties, place In the United States Is unques-
tionably Death Valley. In Southern California u
is about two hundred feet below the level and 4
flying across this valley in the heated season often
drop dead Borax Is found here but the mining
processes cease in the heats Of midsummer. read
somewhere OF a party OF men who entered the valley
In July, knowing nothing OF the deadly heat ana
who preserved their lives by lying ali day in the
water OF Il l,tle st'eam that came out OF the noun
tans and dried up In the fierce rays OF the
sun. They were glad TO escape under the cooling
shades of night. -
The rainiest place in the United States IL Neah
Bay on the Strait of Fuca. In the State of Wash
Ington. II actually rains every day In the year,
and the total annual precipitation Is nearly one
hundred inches. There Is an Indian reservation on
the bay The natives have a very pretty knack or
making ornamental basins and carving wooden
bowls which they decorate with high colors They
make long graceful canoes from the trunks OF
cedar trees. which they hollow out with infinite
labor and with the aid OF fire. once employed
as an artist n half breed Indian born Neah Hay.
whose mother was squaw and whose father was
an army officer on duty in that region when ne was
n lieutenant. The father became a famous Con
federate general and was killed at Gettysburg. He
had provided for the education or the boy, and the
young man was excellent landscape sketcher
Evidently here "a combination OF the artistic
talent OF the Neah Bay Indian woman and an In
heritance OF skill from the education In drawing re-
celved by the ofrcer at West Point,
The most remarkable climatic barrier In the
United States 10 that OF the Cascade Mountains In