The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1900-08-19
WHERE The WEATHER is HOT

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When anybody asks me II II is hot enough
tor me- said tho Inspired idiot, as be ham
nered on his plate with his knife for another
glass Of ice water, II feel like taking him
aside and talking quietly yet firmly to him on
tereut kinds Of heat and the people who are
fortunate enough to live ia Chicago are ac-
branches one would infer TO sec the crowds
On the street and In places Of business, mop
lpiug themselves with sweat stained handkcF-
,niets, that Chicago WAS the hottest plnce on
Earth And ell this Is going on, too when
the thermometer Is only around the 30 mark.
1 Why, do you know there are places ON this
ealth where the people would think they were
IN u cold storage house II the thermometer
stood az p0y
There are several places on this habltable
globe where they make speciality OF heat.
nave sometimes wondered why they did not
Eot out an advertisement calling attention 70
our New styles OF summer Heat Marked
| Down TO Make Room for q New Stock OF
Tailor Made Heat Fitted While You Walt
Maybe By this way they could dispose of some
of their surplus goods
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ANY of you ever in singaporey No, Then
you never can discuss heat iutelligently.
Singapore is only about a fve-minutes' walk
! from the equator, and the sun doesn't do
lGnything but just shine. I've seen the pitch
IN the seams Of the deck OF "a ship bubble and
simmer as II IL were over IRE. IL was the
lSngaporo's sun that was getting In some of
Its best licks and the sailors lay around
lgasping for breath The natives would lie
loutsde beside the ship in an open boat MS
comfortable as II they were in summer
garden. The Thermometer in the sun would
be 100 II our ship had stayed there another
week | believe every man In the crew would
have gone crazy.
Another warm spot in natures bosom is
the doldrums. This is the space few miles
wide along the equator in the Atlantic
ocean. IL Is the meeting point OF the south
west and northwest trade winds--that is, It is
the place where the trade winds stop, leaving
a dead calm. The heat outheats any heat
know Of. II Is bad enough to have to pass
through the doldrums on steamship, but II
is Dante's Inferno raised to the ninth power
10 so through it on a sailing ship, There
being no wind. the ship depends wholly or
the ocean currents 10 be driftea across. Some
times n vessel is becalmed week before II
gets far enough over the doldrums TO catch
the trade Winds There are instances wher,
sailors have gone insane from the intense
heat No more work than is absolutely ne.
cessary for tho working Of the ship Is ex
Ipucted of the crew. In the water, which Il
smooth as a mirror and reflects and inteusi
ies the SUMS rays, the ship lies day after
day ana night after night with not enough
wind blowing to MI studdngsail. The al
s like that from an oven, heated through
and through and then heated over again
What makes the heat IN these two places
Nudity in the air. 1t is this humidity tina
makes Chicago go hot and MAKES people lool
as II they ought to bc run through wrngcr
"The hottest place in the United States 4
In the American desert In Arizona. There /
q stretch of about 100 miles west OF Yuma tina
1 is literally lined with the bones OF men an
animals who have died from hent and thirst
fow years ago before the Santa Flo roa
was built through there this stretch Of bar
rem earth was travelled by ierls-line frcightors
] These frciphtors consisted OF two or thre
heaV" freight wagons drawn by from lively
10 eighteen horses The driver sat on III
r u,gh-v heel horse and handled his team b
a single line. which stretched through to th
nigh leader BY Jerking the line the lende
2 knew what was expected OF him and hence tn
: name OF ierk-line freight, There was not
I drop oil water along the entire route aud dur
I ing the summer months the mercury stuck q
T. TO like poor relation. Travellers had I
carry water enough for the trip, both 70
& themselves and the animals. II this gave on
r the heRt did the rest and smother pile {
Y bones was left in the sun 20 be hleaghe,
People still travel that road but the SAINT
Pc company has dug wells along II, thereb
= saving many life
at ~ so hot at Yuma that the Unite
.. States had to abandon 1t as a fort, Tho onl
thing there now is prison and few peopl
who make n living by furnishing supplies
the miners back IN the mountains II was
i Yuma, you remember that a man droamc
o leaving the door open to see what became
Il him. lie motioned for thom 10 close the fu
mace door as he was afraid the draft wou
give him cold -