Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1900-07-17
No Relief in Sight From the Prevail
ing Torridity.
MAY SLIGHTLY MODERATE TOMORROW
Weather Bureau and Downtown
Thermometer Tales.
A HOT SPELL RECALLED

Suffering humanity swabbed its fevered
brow today and wondered how long it
would keep on doing so. The manly shirt
sleeve was almost as numerous on the
streets as the feminine shirt waists and
II there was handkerchief in town in an
outdoor beings possession that wasn't as
damp as dish rag by II o'clock it must
have been the ice mans. The heat seemed
to reach almost intolerable proportions
even before the sun rose. Persons who re-
tred comparatively comfortable were
awakened between and o'clock to find
themselves encompassed with torridity.
AS the morning grew toward noon the
discomfort increased, until shortly after IL
O'Clock a pretty strong southeast breeze
sprang up that did excellent service as an
evaporating agent
Even with this breeze blowing outdoor
movements were attended by misery, to
say nothing of danger, but there was a
percept1ble diminution in the number that
fiSked llVelfnesS on sidewalks or concrete
Inc stores were barometers for this in
clnat1on on the part of shoppers to stay
at nome and the fevered clerks, at least
were glad of it.
Before Il o'clock downtown thermom-
eters IN doorways and under awnings,
"here passers by stopped to "cool off -
registered 93. and two hours later were
crawling steadily across bloodheat mark
TO the 100 line.
No Hope at Weather Bureau.
The weather bureau savants could not
mold out any definite hope for break in
the hot spell. The chances were even that
1t would continue, with a possibility that
more moderate temperature would prevail
tomorrow and Thursday. The only hope
for actual relief. and that of a temporary
character was in the possibility of local
( hD No
weather bureau had shown a tendency to
make slightly lower marks than yesterday
curing the early hours today but at /
clock it was equaing its Monday efforts
at the same time, and 1t was pretty certain
that 1t would keep up the record through
out the day. The humidity was the same
as yesterday-30. The downtown thermom-
eters III many places marked blood heat as
z oclock drew near. and gave promise OF
gong slightly further to the 100 mark.
Col. Jimson'a Contribution.
There is no intense meteorological period,
however, when some peoples memories
can recall others still worse, which no de-
grees of heat or cold could stew out or
freeze out from their alleged recollections,
Old Col. Micah Jimson is one of these
While the sun was peeling the cuticle off
OF other people. the colonel stood on News
paper Row this afternoon gazing ruefully
at the ruins of Wizards Hotel, of whose
ioopS ittl DteI SO long a Strlklng inquire.
to use striking in the vernacular mean
ing of that suggestive word.
This weathaw ma be pretty wahm toe
some foxes, he remarked condescendingly
but it pears toe me toe be quite com
fable. 1t faint a circumstance sub, toe a
spell we he'd down in old Cha wles county in
tn month of September, eighteen fohty six.
Ef we he'd er tech of tibet weathaw we
might feel some concern.
4 don't remember whut tn thermomytv
WIZ. but eff thare had ben any of them
murkry bulbs down Pisg'y way I'm sho'
they I'D hev busted by reason of tn MUIR
kry bilin' in EN-. Why, sub. tn Gavin got
cooked right in TIL husks, yaas, sub, an all
We halter do awfter tibet wuZ ter go out
when We wanted er roastin yeer an Jest
pull it off TIL stawk. TIL pertaters, too, got
cooked in TIL groun', an Inever tasted mo-
mealy pertaters than them dug up an ate
with tn roots still hangin' to EN-.
Me and LATE Bowie went fecshin. LATE
was er pow full boy toe stan hcat-an' evry
flesh we catched wuZ billed befo' we got it
outen tn warter. How cud they bite eff
they wuz billed? Why. sub, the feesh was
down in tn deep water. where it wuZ cool
er when they wuZ hooked. an they got billed
when we droved en- up throo' the no,
wust thing bout tibet spell tho, wuz tn
ice all meltin' in tn ice house, and pap got
ter BILE sick Grinkin' his mint tulips hot. i
don't mind eff l do jine you, sub, in er cole
wun jest now