Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1900-08-12
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Very few of the industrial plants
were in operation yesterday, but in all
the mills that were running, employees
were compelled to discontinue work
on account of the heat.
George Stein, who is employed at
the retorts in the city gas works, was
overcome by the heat during the after
noon, and was compelled to quit He
was removed to his home on Nine
teenth street.
There were several other cases OF
prostrations from the heat, but none
were serious.
The degree of heat yesterday was
the highest reached within two years.
The highest degree of heat in 1899 was
SO on July oath. The greatest heat
ever recorded here was 104 at Schnepf's
on. the afternoon of July ord. 1898. the
day of the American victory over the
Spanish at Santiago On July 7. 1897.
Schnepfs thermometer recorded 1913
degrees.
AS far as is Known the highest tenn
perature ever observed in Wheeling
was 104 degrees. by tire standard gov
eminent thermometer on the third
day of July, 1897 Yesterday 1t was an
even 100 degrees for two hotsrs in the
afternoon. This made 1t a net day,
but when contrasted with some au-
thentdc statistics it was not so bad.
The writer has seen a temperaturA>of
104 in Wheeling, in the shade. he nd
hnQn fhrnfI0h in, q
and he has been in the drying bin
at Reymann's brewery, where the tenn
perature was 1856. The last is extra
ordinary and not natural in this por-
ton Of the earth's surface and yet a
man can stand 1t for a certain time
and feel none the worse for the ex-
perience. In the desert OF Southern
California, in our own country, the
record for temperature in the shade Is
f31, and yet men live and work in
that atmosphere. In the Pubjab. In
India, even though the province is In
the foothills or the Hymalias, there is
a record of 116 degrees. At Alden. on
the Red Sea, 125 degrees is not I'M
unusual, and in the Great Desert OF
Africa Loomis. in his "Meteorology"
gives the highest recorded tempera-
ture as 1873 degrees in the shade
The annual changes In the natural
temperature Is sometimes astonishing
Here in Wheeling. for instance, we
have had 10i above zero and IL below
a range Of 116 degrees, but that Is
moderate compared with Verhoyansky.
where there has been registered
minimum of G12 below zero and a
maximum Of 10 above. a range OF t71.2
degrees. At Maiden, South Dakota, 1t
frequently gets down TO 35 below zero
Only last week the mercury there reg
istered III above, a range OF 146 de-
grees.
There is a great popular misconcep-
ton as to temperature. 1t Is fire.
quently much warmer, or hotter, II
you please, in Australia. in January
and February. than II ever Is in the
United States. X is much hotter,
some times. in the northern portion
of the United States than ii ever Is in
Cuba or Porto Rico or the Philippines
or in Sumatra or Borneo, or Java.
Here in Wheeling we can frequently
match the heat IN Demara British
Guinea, where the natives wear MOTH
ing except complacent smile and the
white population not much more
New Orleans seldom has as hot
weather as we experience here in
Wheeling every year. and Havana Is
not so badly of. Vera Cruz. Mexico.
is one OF the hottest holes in creation,
and yet the. thermometer there seldom
reaches the 100 mark. and even Yuma,
Arizona, with its dust and general
discomfort, does not come up TO the
| occasional Wheeling record.
There are points in the United
States where the heat is particularly
felt. One of these places is 81. Louis.
A temperature Of IS in that city. when
the air is moist, is enough 20 kill
/ snake. Another such place Is New
York City When 1t gets hot in New
York 1t is hot. and. owing 20 the
! humidity OF the atmosphere people
simply stew. Some OF the far North
western points are also pretty bad
Here at home we appear 10 get
through the hot weather pretty well
Our lists OF prostrations Is always
small. and II Is rare thing 70 have a
death as a direct result OF the heat
Our people are unfortunate In being
! planted down in a valley. where the
i sun gets in its worst work, but they
are compensated by the facts that they
can struggle through the worst blasts
OF Old Sol without anything more
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