Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1897-07-06
TAKES A CHEERFUL VIEW
Weather Prophet Says Change Must Occur
Before Thanksgiving.
High and Low Both Played, with the
Jack I'm View and the
Game Assured.

81 don't think this weather can possibly
continue beyond Thanksgiving day." was
the cheerful response given by a weather
bureau official today, in answer to a ques-
tion as to whether it would run clear I'D to
Christmas.
THE trouble is,'' he continued, there is
high south of US, which is pushing the
heat right up against US. Just as soon as 1t
tires of its diversion we will probably have
a rest"
Just the other day 1t was low" that
turned up face foremost, and took the
chips. Today it is a high" From the
way things appear Jack" will come out
next and "the game" will follow as q
matter of course. The weather seems to
have the cards stacked in good shape
1t was two degrees warmer today at noon
than at the same time yesterday, the
weather man said, as he held fan in one
hand. handkerchief in the other, glanced at
the varicose veins on the weather map
with enc eye, and cooked the other at the
water cooler 1t was Sc degrees at noon
as compared with 81 degrees yesterday. At
O'Clock this morning the temperature was
7G degrees, with 30 per cent of humidity.
The Maximum.
The minimum temperature last night
was 6S degrees, SO that sleeping was not
at all difficult of accomplishment.
The temperature, like Emile in the old
poem, "uprose with the sum-" and as th4y
surveyed the situation they were well
pleased with their combined efforts to
make mortals in this section complain with
oppressiveness.
AT o'clock this morning the mercury
registered IS degrees in Boston, and resi-
dents of the hub thought verify volcano
had been set beneath their city. 1t was
two degrees warmer there than here. 1t
was IA degrees in New York, and two de-
grees anead of Washington in Albany.
This morning the mercury registered So
degrees at Montreal rs at St. Louis and
New Orleans. ~ at Atlanta, 7G at Chicago
and rs at Philadelphia. comparison
shows that with the exception of Montreal
these figures are much the same those
here. The heat belt extends clear across
the country.
The maximum temperature in Washing
ton and New Orleans was exactly the
same yesterday-9O degrees. 1t was de-
grees warmer in Boston and in Pttsburs.
If residents of Phoenix, Ariz, and East
pert, Me-. had been required suddenly 10
exchange places yesterday they would
The Eastport people woall have died Of
prostration and. those in Phoenix would
have been frozen stiff. In Passport the
mercury showed 81 degrees, and in Phoenix
1U2 degrees.
Weather Man and HIS Map.
The weather man coughed deprecatingly
and glanced over his map in much the
same manner as card player skins"
over his pasteboards to see what he has in
his hand. The low" and thigh" had been
played and the next was waited with
bated breath.
There may be local showers tonight" he
said, (which will most likely cool the at
mosphere temporarily. :. The indications are,
however. for continued high temperature.
The warm weather will doubtless continue
some time yet-until the back of the warm
wave is broken"
"Wonld it not be a good plan to start
IT. with fracture of the neck in the be-
ginning?" was what the reporter mentally
inquired
At pm. the mercury registered 50 de-
grees Yesterday at the same time it was
So degrees.