Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1900-08-27
They Are Evidently What Washing
ton is Trying to Follow.
CONDITIONS ALL DISCOMFORTING
Even the Thunderheads Seemed
Afraid to Visit Town.
A SPELL OF SUFFERING

II a poll Of the population in this vicinity
was to be taken ON the weather question
there is no chance for doubt that unan-
imous vote We aid be cast in favor of de-
claring the last three days the most oppres-
sive and intolerable of summer whose
heat record has been unenviable from its
beginning Not an inconsiderabe number
of the ballot-casters too. would unques-
tionably declare the period mentioned the
meanest when 1t comes to heat and humid
ity in their entire experience.
Friday was surfeited with all the most
emphatic exhibitions a solstice can make.
The heat was accompanied by moisture
that made it blanket-like. Saturday was
nearly as bad. and yesterday was indie
scribable. Only those who suffered through
the Sabbath daylight and sweltered when
the sleep hours came can fully appreciate
what the experience was, and words would
be therefore idle in pictnring the discomfort
so vivid to all. Suffice it to say that the
weather bureau thermometer reached vs. at
pm, while at the same hour Aff1ecks
mercury marked 101. And the latter was
down at the street level. where people eX-
list. or try to. in such times as these
After a terrible trinity of such days 1t
was but natural to expect some sort of re-
lief. and the weather bureau experts aided
this by promising local thunder storms ana
mot so warm" Early risers who saw the
rose were inclined to doubt that declaration
about 1t being not so warm. but 1t isn't
everybody who gets up soon enough to
view the orb of day do likewise, and con-
sequently the great majority chung as fond
ly to the weather bureau indications as
drowning people cling to anything in reach
The morning hours caused good many
Of these to grow weak In their faith. how
ever, as the heat of the same oppressive
chara cter that has marked this last period
was apparently as intense as ever. Along
about noon. however. signs OF promise be-
gan to appear In the northern and western
skies in the shape of thunder heads, and
there was every evidence that those thun-
der storms would materialize
TantalfxinE Clouds.
1t became really exaspera;ing after awhile
to see the way those Clouds coQuetted all
around the horizon only to disappear when
they apparently had made up their minds
to come right into town and leave refresh.
ing remembIances of their visit. For near
ly two hours they kept up this coy and
tanta.i=.Dg assembling and were still at
1t when this account was written, with bet
ter Indications. however, that they would
soon cease flirting and agree to please in
stead of to poster.
According to the thermometers the tenn
perature was not hot it was yester-
day. but 1t was caloric enough for all pur-
poses, such as the precipitation OF profan-
Ky. the destruction of collars and SHRINK
age CT the shopping crowds.
tt;ieck's S:reet-.cvei instrument recorded
8S a: am, ~ a noon AID 36 at p m.
VIXEN those fc:sle clouds yelled the sun COM
p.eteiy. AT the weather bureau the read
:ngs were SO at o'cicck, 81 at noon and u
at Pm. The humidity was 5j.
Local rains and thuEderstorms are sug-
sested for tcEiyht. while the same old fair
is still bracketed with Tuesday.
Overcome by the Heat.
William Hicks colored twenty-n!ne years
old. was overcome by the heat yesterday
afternoon while working in the kitchen OF
dining room on E street The sick man.
VINO lives al $40 Pennsylvania avenue. was
treated at the Emergency Hospital
Charlotte Saks colored domestic, fifty
years old. employed at the house Of d.
OMera. corner of 18th and streets north
east. was overcome by the heat while II
work Saturday afternoon She was re-
moved to her home No. 6o5 18th street
northeast in the patrol wagon.
Wilson Selden, living at 12S d street
northwest, was found sick on NJ street near
Goth Saturday afternoon suffering from the
effects of the heat He was removed to
the Georgetown University Hospital in the
patrol wagon.
George Um:ries. colored. who resides on
the Bowen road, Anacestia, was overcome
by the heat on M street near seth street
Saturday afternoon. He was given treat
ment at the Georgetown University Hos
p.tal, where he was taken in the patrol
wagon.