The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-07-05
NEW YORK WEATHER.

Observant newspaper readers long ago
discovered that whatever happens in New
York is the biggest event of its kind and far
more important than similar occurrences
elsewhere-that is. according TO New York
papers and New York correspondents. If
there Is a financial deal it is a more tre-
mendous deal than was ever pulled off,
In any other quarter of the globe; If IL is
a bank failure it is a more significant fail
ure than is possible to an outside bank-if
New Workers are to be believed. Even
Nature is represented as reserving her most
striking phenomena for that city. If there
is a snowstorm ii is the greatest snowstorm
of the century; If il rains heavily no rain
fall was ever so tempestuous and terrible.
Some Of the most memorable fine writ
ing of the New York press has had to do
neurological events impels the writing fra
ternity Of the metropolis 10 the highest
rhetorical flights. IL affects even the ordi-
narily Unconditional purveyors for the Asso-
ciated Press. and some of the most eloquent
language that ever came over the New
York wires treated of downpours' Of rain
that flooded New York cutters and gusts
of wind that knocked bricks of of New
York chimneys. Naturally. the recent high
temperature has been an inspiration TO
these writer's. and their vocabularies have
been strained 10 their limits in the effort
to make portrayals OF the heats effects i'm
pressive and narrowing. The reader. wise
g. -. H..
counts to distress him too greatly. espe-
cially as a study of official weather statis-
tics shows him that New York is not the
hottest place In the country. Moreover, he
recalls the repeated assurances of the same
New York papers-made at other seasons OF
the year-that the temperature of New
York is always modified by the surround
ing water. And II appears that the heat
stories may become of even too great mag
nitude for local consumption. One citizen.
who signs himself Disguised. . is moved to
indignant protest. and this is what he says
in the New York Evening sun:
This incessant newspaper yawping about
the weather makes me sick. IL is hot In
New York just now. but IL is much hotter
i'm many other places. Let the New Yorker
who means about. the heat go 10 Chicago.
or St. Louis. or Kansas City, or let him
go 10 Hades for all / care. He will get
some idea OF what heat Is then. Its too
hot TO work" is the silly excuse of the lazy.
melted by the hysterical and false news
paper stories OF Deaths from Heat" Ask
any competent medical man how many
genuine cases OF sunstroke occur in New
York city In a summer. and you will be
very much surprised. They are very few
and far between. When the weather gets
a little warm every malady under the sun is
put down as heat prostration." IL a man
falls of a ladder and breaks his neck II
comes under Deaths from Heat | once
knew a smallpox case reported that way.
And. OF course. all the booze cases are
heat prostrations.' That il invariable.
Let the Evening Sun institute a much
needed reform. New York is the coolest
and most delightful city i'm the country,
and II a man only takes half care of him
self he needn't whine about the heat.
There is no doubt that IL has been hot in
New York. but. as the vigorous correspond
ent says. no hotter than wi In
dianapolis. for instance. which. remember
ing Kansas city. St. Louis. Washington.
Fort Scott. Phoenix and numerous Kansas
towns with an official record running from
100 to los. does not set up" to be the hot