The Washington times., 1901-06-30
HOTTEST DAY OF THE YEAR.
Washington Swelters Under the
Suns SeOrching Rays.

No Rain Comes to Relieve the People
of the Capital CIty-The High Tenn
perature to Continue - Two Pros
trntions Reported by the Police.
For 121 hours yesterday Old Sol, with
bright and shining face, unveiled by either
cloud or mist from his lofty elevation in
lhe heavens, looked down upon Mother
Earth and smiled his warmest smile. 1t
was a smile unmingled with either sigh
or tear, for until evening not even gem
tie zephyr was waited through the green
leaves of the trees TO kiss the perspiring
brows OF suffering humanity, and not a
drop of rain fell to moisten the bIistering
concrete of the city streets.
AS carly as o'clock in the morning the
smile measured % degrees Fahrenheit.
and as the day progressed it stretched to
81 degrees at O'Clock in the afternoon,
when it was little less than uproarious
laughter. That is, it was probably all
very funny for the glittering orb of day,
but it was mighty hard on sweltering
Washingtonians
In fact yesterday was the warmest day
of the year thus far experienced The
downtown thermometers registered sc and
81 degrees, a slight increase over the Off
eial record at the Weather Bureau. 1t
was day which made people long for a
tTill of the robins note and a Whit of
the new mown hay, for a shady nook and
an interesting book for a hammock and
a big tin can, for repose at some noun
tain resort or seaside inn, for cooling
breeze and great deal of ease. Yet, de-
spite the fact that all outgoing trains
were crowded with comfort seekers there
were some thousands who were left in
IL.
IT, "a mot well avoid.
-t.at srratic individual known as the
Official forecaster OF the Weather Bureau.
whose daily histories of climatic condi-
tious so far surpass in point of accuracy
his prophecies, promised that rain would
fan !n Washington yesterday. Some peo-
pie were otherwise enough to take this to
mean that there would be showers yester-
day. but they do not understand the jokes
of the professional meteorologist- As was
TO be expected. there was no rain here
yesterday. Having perpetrated this play
full prank upon the public, the weather
man said last night that there would be
continuation of the elevated temperature
for Sunday and Monday over the District
of Columbia.
But we were not the warmest people by
any means yesterday. This statement is
literally true. although il should not be so
stated figuratively. There were others
just as warm as we. For instance, what
was once bleeding Kansas was perspiring
Kansas yesterday, for the temperature in
the Sunflower State ranged from leo TO
102 degrees. Missouri kept pace with her
sister Commonwealth and registered an
equal amount of heat.
There are no indications OF a break in
the present hot wave. which inundated
practically all of the region east Of the
Rockies. even in those sections along the
Lakes, and in New England, where there
have been local showers, the conditions
favor a rise iii the mercury today and to-
morrow. II il doesn't get warmer on sun
day. the prognostieator says it surely viii
on Monday, for he is determined TO get
the warmth in somewhere.
Horses suffered q great deal from the
heat yesterday, and looked with envy
upon the WdiZZing and steaming automo-
biies and speeding electric cars as II to
welcome the day when all equines might
be rele2ated to the paddock and pasture.
Two cases of heat prostration Were re-
ported yesterday from the Emergency
Hospital Those overcome by the eX-
treme heat are Robert fsfcFadden, forty
years of age, whose home is at 620 Fitz-
gerald Court northwest, and Thomas
Noonan, about thirty years old, who lives
at 626 North Capitol Street While at
Fourteenth and @ Streets northwest dur
ing yesterday afternoon McFadden suf-
fered greatly from the heat. He was
overcome, and was sent by the police
to the hospital in the ambulance Under
treatment he revived, and last night was
able to go home in carriage
NO0nan is driver employed by the
Knox Express Company He was mounted
on his wagon late in the afternoon, when
he was overcome by the heat. II seems
that Noonan was about to pick up box
10 remove il from the wagon near Ninth
Street and Pennsylvania Avenue north
west, when he reeled and fell in the We
hiele. Several people saw that something
was the matter. ana went to his assist
ance. The ambulance was summoned and
Nocnen sent to the hospital for treat
ment He is thirty-eight years Of age.