The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-06-07
YES, A ROASTER,
III
One of the Hottest
June Days Ever
Seen in City.
=,
OLDEST INHADITANT FOOLED.
Timid Thermometer Regis
tered 81, While Others
Reached Century Mark.

The Oldest inhabitant was distanced
yesterday on the weather question, and
from 10 O'Clock until the flicker that IL
Eliminates the city hall went off its
beat this morning, that unique charac-
ter had to remain in the background
with his instances where Old Vulcan
had put on an extra force to keep the
inhabitants of this busy world think
ing about the little bunch of words,
How would you like to be the ice
MANI"
The mercury rose to 81 on the official
thermometer which registers the heat
on top of the State Mutual building.
Yesterday was rooster. The lowest
point registered on the thermometer
during the day was 70, and at noon it
had assembled to SO. At 6 .. m. last
night 1t was back to 81, although there
seemed to be no indication of a let-up.
Little punches of wind from the west
began to blow about o'clock, and for
time II looked as though the heat
would be obliged to give up in its ia
vor. The majority of business men
who could afford to leave their places
for a few minutes, stole off to the lake,
and yesterday the attendance at that
section of the city was larger than any
day this year.
In some sections of the city sympa-
thetic thermometers registered 100 and
over, and these were regarded with
more attention by the people, who
thought it was warmer than any Off
cial record that was ever dealt out to
the people. Today may be cooler, but
it would not be safe to gamble on it,
although the official weather bureau at
Washington says that thunder showers
are expected to deluge the northern
part of the United States, but we shall
be lucky if even little brother of a
thunder storm gets this far south.
One Main street storekeeper who
filled his show window up with ice
cream bricks to show how well his
cream would keep in the heat, no more
than got them in the window than he
had to use a sponge to get them out
again. The bricks were done up in paper
and the majority of people who saw
them told each other how nice it would
be to own lot of ice cream bricks, but
the storekeeper did not think so unless
they were safely stored away on top of
an ice cake.
A man with load of palm leaf fans
did the business section and got a regu-
lar Dewey reception for few minutes.
Worcester policemen even noticed the
heat and all the day men made pur-
chases of straw hats which they were
allowed to wear instead of the heavy
helmets. As often as the sun shifted it's
position the policemen shifted positions
also and up to a late hour last night
Chief brennan did not have to send the
ambulance after any member of the
force who had sucoumbed to the heat.
The city hospital did not receive a
single case Of prostration during the
day. In several of the shops men were
allowed to go home, and in the public
schools the children gave up wrestling
with mathematical problems and spent
the day in singing patriotic songs.
The iceman had things all his own
way and did rushing business. An
ice wagon drawn by pair of mules
was the subject of all kinds of jokes
It was dubbed the "horseless ice cart"
and as every citizen of Worcester Is in
terested in vehicles moved by other
than horse power, more than one was
jollied about the new tangled wagon.
1t is expected that the weather today
will be cooler, but there is not an even
chance for an argument with the major
ity of people in Worcester that Wor-
cester was not the warmest place on
earth yesterday, even If its ball team
was beaten by the Hartfords.