The times., 1897-09-09
STILL ANOTHER HOT DAY
Was Ninety Degrees Yesterday
Will Be as Much Today.
But THE YUKON Is FROZEN
While Nor.h Dakota Was the Hottest
Place in the Country There Was
Sleigh Riding at Dawson City
Washington Will Keep Warm
Thirty-six Hours Longer.

Washington is going To swelter again to-
day, just as it did yesterday and the day
before. and the Weather Bureau holds out
no elusive prospects that the sweltering
win not couunne tomorrow. According to
the Weather Bureau, we ought not 10
complain Of being so warm.
We were not 50 warm yesterday as we
were the day before, as the very con
servative thermometer at the bureauregls
tered only 80 degrees yesterday, while the
day before it scored as high as 81. The
prospects are that today viii be repeti-
tion Or yesterday, and that SOME time to-
MORROW the THERMOMETER will take down
ward spGrt.
The most peculiar feature of the pres
eht hot spell is that this is September,
and last month, commonly supposed TO be
the hottest scorcher OF the year, was
like real autumn weather. This brief
experience of colder weather warmed us
into fancied immunity from hot breezes,
but the freezes got there just the same
The spell was explained at the Weather
Bureau as being due 10 an area of high
pressure. This area extended from New
York 70 South Carolina, and from the
coast to Ohio. In that area, the highest
temperature was 90 degrees. experienced
here, and at Norfolk, Charlotte and Rich
nond 1T Philadelphia, it was only 81
This area Of high press ure was not dot
ted b. single cloud, and there was
nothing hut heated air to ward eff the
suns rays. This condition will continue
e. s.-i.. /. l..
possible that il may be at least forty
eight bours before the hot scorcher stops
With regard TO the query as TO why
august was so III uch cooler this year, the
officials at the Weather Bureau stated that
Washington should take its good luck as
il CONES. aud not ask fool questions.
The hottest place in the country yeSter-
day was Bismarck. y. D., where the score
tubes showed 104 degrees. The day be-
fore it was 102. Palestine, Texas, also
got in sone good work. and averaged up
y ith %; Little Rock had 81, Parkersbnrg,
W. Va, and Green Bay, Wis, footed up
Uhe respectable figures of "a each. Chi
cago, generally the hottest place this side
OF certain wei known post mortem re-
| sort, had only 81.
To offset these upward inclination OF
the mercury, II II refreshing To know that
San Francisco slumbered peacefully last
night with a temperature of only 90. The
mere reading of such figures makes one
cfllly. At Quebec it was 5S. The Of
ficial returns from Dawson City and
Forty Nile have not yet been received at
tie office Of the Weather Bureau. but it
/ Is learned from reliable sources that it
was about 10 degrees above zero.
The Yukon River commenced to freeze
| yesterday, and ice three inches thick Is
/ already reported. Good skating is in
prospect. Sleighlng parties are quite FIRE
quent. Tile ground is already frozen t.
depth CT three feet A number o ( K Ion
d1kers who were going up the Yukon in
an open boat were caught in che ice
] flces ana had 70 ak ashore. The pros
/ poets are 'ltat there Will be about three
| feet OF snow at Dawson City today. Under
such circumstances the people OF Wash.
ington should not feel weary d the pros.
pect Of working in temperature of only
so degrees. They should feel glad that ii
IL Lot Ia degrees above or below zero.