The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-08-04
HOT ENOUGH
FOR YOU?
Yesterday Was One Of
The WarmeSt.
COATS WERE "SHUCKEO''
1t Was a Regular Ice Cream and
SarsaparilIa Day, Say the
Experts.

Old Sol hung out the heat signal yes
t. rday and paid his respects to the den.-
gems of Honolulu and Oahu generally by
a red-hot s.zzle. The thermometer trem-
bled yesterday as Old Sol played lively
tattoo upon the mercury bulb. 1t ran
from II to 81, according to Professor Ly-
on's official thermometer at Punahou.
But Punahou isn't Honolulu, properly
speaking. 1t is far removed from the tor
rid zone where the business man swelt-
ers from eight TO ten hours day. Down
to give the soda water counters a good
turn. and so he did, for thirsty, suffering
humanity stood IN long lines in the vi
entity of the drug stores and took their
turns in quaffing sarsaparillas and vanil-
las with chunks of cold ice cream thrown
in.
The coatless brigade early put in an
were red suspenders and blue shirt did
not take into consideration that he looked
like a plantation laborer. He was out for
ccmfort-what there was to be gained by
shrcking his coat.
"whew! What do you think of this for
hot?" was the general query. If two men
ste rped each other On the street, each
quizzed the other about his impressions
of the state of the mercury in the Their
mCmeter. and both mopped their fore
heads and streaming faces vigorously.
Stand-up collars had bear movement
yesterday. some of the stock brokers as
serted. They went down pretty fast. Lay
down collars Jared little better. and hand
kerchiefs finally decorated the necks of
the male genus in lieu of the wilted linen.
| Professor Berger, who Yields the baton
J for the band, says that the weather mans
accounts of the condition of the thermom-
eter are very weak. "vot, only s7r' said
Herr Berger yesterday. Dose mergur-
les is lazy. Vot you dink, heinz Wy, ven
/ vos on my borch / yoost saw de mark
a. Won hundred and swell, und / vos a
fannin' der place nit mein Handkerchief,
Iund dot aindt no fairy dale. Dot vedder
egsbert better dake his MERCURY off der
ize. heinz"
I Professor Curtis ]. Lyons telephoned
from his cool and airy nook at Purahou
where the weather instruments do not
have much opportunity to get too hot, &c
handle, that the general average of the
thermometer for the day, up to p. m.
was 1873, the humidity was n, the dewpoint
"a, while the maximum temperature re-
, corded was 81, the lowest being ~. Thi:
vas at Punahou.
In downtown professional mans of.
flee the mercury was observed about ev
lery fifteen minutes, or when the gentle
nan had an opportunity to stop moppins
his countenance and could gaze at it:
] climbing antics. 1t registered 95!
The heat of yesterday, although the
ger eral average of 1873 does not indicat.
1t to layman's mind was greater thar
a. any other tine this season. The low
: laN erage was due to the great amount o
the system. When the dewpoint is indi
Gated at a low registration, the evapora
ton Is more rapid aud one feels cool
When the moisture Is extraordinaril,
: heavy in the atmospheric. The evaporation
from the system is diminished and an op
pressive heat is felt. This explains tn
peculiar conditions resulting from an of
fetal survey of the thermometer
There were no sun-spots on Old Soll
face yesterday, says the weather man. /
! Old Sol had no eruptions on his counte
narce he played sad havoc with those o
the mortals who are compelled to wall
upon the burning soil of Honolulu, 70
prickly heat became a common com
plaint.
4 There was south wind which brough
W warm breeZes from the southern
waters. This counteracted the usual,
be nefictal breezes which blow across tn
Pail. The change in the direction of tn
wind assisted in the general red-ho
: treatment which the atmosphere received