Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1900-08-13
A PLEA TO JUPITER PLUVIUS
GENERAL DESIRE THAT HE REPEAT
YESTERDAYS PERFORMANCE.
Conditions of the Temperature Today
and More Pleasant Prospects
for Future.

]. Pluvius We greet you with earnest
hearty thanks
For coming you did last night and curb
ing Sunday pranks
OF that young madcap. Mercury, who, like
a monkey, sought
To climb to attitudes that cen Simian
never ought.
So Pluvius. dear fellow, our plaudits we
outpour:
Now can't you bring yourself, old boy, to
answer the encore?
We care not If you just repeat the tune you
played last night,
For anything you'd deign to give will please
us out of sight.
There is no telling what would have hap
pened to everybody if that Sabbath break
in the solstice hadn't arrived just when 1t
did. The day had been almost repetition
of Saturday in the intensity of the heat,
where degrees are concerned, but In its ef-
feet upon animate nature it had been
worse. Sleep had been impossible to
very large proportion of the people Satur-
day night and the prospects of another
such period with pillows and mattresses
was nerve wrecking almost to the point of
mind shattering. too.
The maximum degree reached by the Off
cal weather bureau thermometer was W,
but the quicksilver was not destined to
continue ambitious. Shortly after 8
O'Clock the welcome thunder storm brought
sweet relief and by S o'clock the mercury
had fallen over % degrees. Thus night
of repose and sleep of refreshing character
was assured the suffering community and
everybody felt better for it this morning.
The conditions today have not been or
cold storage character by any means, but
cortrasted with yesterday and Saturday the
early and midday hours seemed almost am
hrCs.al. But they weren't. Afileck's stand
ard thermometer marked 81 a a. m. today,
~ at II O'Clock and ~ at pm
The weather bureau mercury was more
circumspect after the lesson it got last
night. 1t reached - at am. 81 at noon
and 80 at . o'clock. 1t will probably go
above the 9O line a the hottest part of the
afternoon, but there is relief in sight to-
night The men who direct the weather bu-
reau. even if they don't control the weather.
have announced local rains for the District
and Maryland tonight and tomorrow, mod
crate temperature and light to fresh north
winds.
Death Due to Heat.
John ]. ODonnell. twenty-one years old
who was employed as bartender at j. j.
O'Keefe's saloon. No. ZIG 7th street north
west died suddenly about o'clock yester
day morning. Saturday ODonnell COM
planned of the heat. and. although he was
evidently a sick man when he retired. he
did not have a physician called. Yesterday
morning he had hemorrhage, which re-
suited In his death before medical aid
Acting Coroner Glazebrook investigated
the case and gave a certificate in accord
ance to the facts developed. He decided
that the mans death was due to excessive
heat.
Michael NJ. Lyon. a cousin of the de-
ceased. who is in business al 900 Pennsyl-
wanna avenue. took charge of the body and
made the necessary funeral arrangements
Traveller Frustrated.
Mrs. Thomas c. Law of Mercedes. Cal.
was overcome by the heat while on her
way to this city yesterday from Charlotte,
n. c. She was with her husband and the
latter had her taken to the Emergency
Hospital. When she is able to travel the
homeward journey will be resumed.
Overcome at AnacOxtia.
Miss Mary c. Chase. a young lady who is
stopping at the residence of Rev George
Bowmon, on Chestnut street Anacostia,
was Frustrated by the heat Saturday after
noon She was doing some work in an up
stairs room when she became overcome by
the intense heat. After a time she was
discovered in the room by members of the
family Restoratives Were applied but she
appeared to be SO dangerously Ill that a
physician was summoned to attend her
She regained consciousness after receiving
treatment and no serious consequences are
now feared. The police learned of the case
1t.