Evening star., 1901-07-31
RAIN CHASED AWAY HEAT
1T ALSO SERVED TO ILLUSTRATES
HUMAN FICKLENEsS.
Welcome Temporary Banishment Of
the Season of Sultrfness-Mer-
curry Goes Groundysards.

'I wish 1t would just start in and rain
hard for a week!
1t was easy to see that he meant every
word of 1t. He was standing at l5th anu
G streets at II o'clock yesterday morning
when he declared himself as recorded, and
his collar was wilted and his cuffs were
catching up He swabbed his fevered fore
head with an already moist mouchoir to ac-
centuate his remarks.
About the same hour this morning the
same individual was standing under the
shelter at 7th street and Pennsylvania ave-
nue. rubbernecking down the former thor
oughfare to see IL car was coming. His
tow suit of clothes was nearly as damp
as his handkerchief was yesterday. He re-
garded umbrella possessors with envy.
'.Doggone this rain he remarked, Vi
ciously. Il wonder II It's ever going 10
stop.'
There were probably a score Of thousands
of persons, and maybe more, In this neck
of the woods who delivered themselves In
much the same manner yesterday and To-
day, because the individual quoted doesn't
possess a monopoly of all the human ma
ture and its accompanying ickleness here
abouts. There is no doubt, thougn, tnal
the big majority welcomed the rain, even
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sticky and cause the atmosphere indoors TO
be anything but pleasant. These discom-
forts began to disappear about MIDDAY,
however and with the wind veering arouno
TO its wet uuarter-the east-the prospects
for the steady rain that fellow wished Tor
Yesterday were strong. Some people were
mean enough to assert tnat the ram caHe
lust because the weather bureau Wlseacres
hadn't said 1t would, but no matter the
cause. 1t was welcome for the RELIEF u
brought to those who have been suHerlns
from the sultriness OF the past two days
Those same wiseacres said this morning,
however that it would probably rain this
afternoon, and be partly cloudy and cool
er tonight and fair tomorrow. Anybody
that is not satisfied with that assortment
is, indeed, hard to please
Mercury in the Seventies.
The effect on the stuff in thermometers
was as marked as the effect on people. The
weather bureau story was one that reads
like autumn leaves. At s am 70 was re-
corded; at noon 75 was the mark, and at 2
o'clock "A was as high as the mercury
could get.
House & Herrmanns standard thermom-
eter at 7th and streets northwest told a
similar tale. Here 1t is: o am, "a; II M,
IS; 2 pm, n.
Heat Sufferers.
Several cases of heat illness were treated
at the Emergency Hospital yesterday.
Thomas Thackeray, sixty years old, OF oO9
11th street southwest was prostrated at
14th street and Maryland avenue south
west. He was soon relieved.
Augustus Taense, thirty-seven years old,
was overcome near his residence, SOC North
Capitol street His case was not serious.
Benjamin Dixon, colored, twenty-nine
years DID, was overcome at his home, 21I9
Virginia avenue northwest.
Irwin Small, thirty-eight years old. OF All
I street northwest, was treated during the
evening, and SO was Henry Jones, colored,
of ST. Virginia avenue southwest.
The police picked up B. N. Caldwell,
forty-seven years old, of 1923 9th street
northwest who was overcome at 18th and
streets, and he was given treatment
Thomas Henkerford, thirty-eight years
old of 204 18th street northwest, was over
come at the fish wharf.
Harrison Jones, colored, f1fty-three years
ol~ of 1923 Bell court northwest, was over
come while working on q sewer in Arizona
avenue extended, and was treated at
Georgetown University Hospital.
Turner Fairfax, colored, forty-five years
old. Of 72O I'd street southwest, was re-
moved to Freedmen's Hospital from 7th
and N streets northwest, where he was
overcome.