The Savannah morning news., 1902-08-22
CLIMED UP TO Io2
ONLY ore HOTTER AUGUST DAY In
81 YEARS.
NO RELIEF YET IN. SIGHT.
FEW REGISTRATIONS REPORTED
AND NONE FATAL.

Humidity Helped Make the Heat In
tensely FcIt-The Day Started in
Hot and Ended Hot Thunder
storms All Around Savannah, but
No Indications That They win
Reach Here-Laborers Unable to
Work In Exposed PIaces-A Brick
layer on MickVa Israel Synagogue
Overcome and Taken to His Home.
Savannah was the hottest place on
the map yesterday. 1t led everything,
and worse to tell the end is not yet
in sight. All day the sun beamed
down on a suffering people, and the
mercury climbed higher and higher as
Old Sol neared the meridian, until it
came to be a question whether one
could stand it any hotter.
1t was a record day. But it did not
surpass all August hot days. Aug. 20.
. 1900 mercury reached the top-notcn Of
102 degrees. Yesterday was no. far be
hind, however, having (. maximum of
1914 degrees at 3:15 o'clock, which is
officially reported as 1O2 degrees.
At o'clock in the morning the mer-
curry rested quietly at the bearable fig
ure of 80. At o'clock it had cotton
a move on, and was at SO. An hour
later it was going ahead at lively gait
and hit the So degree mark. From
then on it did not do any fooling With
its gorge excited it went upward,
seemingly determined to knock the
glass off the top of the thermometer.
and it might have succeeded, too, if the
sun had not gone down when it did.
At 10 O'Clock in the forenoon it was 81
degrees; at II O'Clock, 95; at noon, 81;
at l o'clock, 50; at 2 O'Clock, SO; at 8
O'Clock it was 101, and a quarter of an
hour afterward it went the limit. Then
1t gave up the fight and cooled off,
though very slowly. At s o'clock at
night it had gotten down TO 80. What
it did after that hour, no one knows
as that is the time of taking the last
observation at the weather bureau.
Humidity Made Misery.
These figures are all taken from the
observers office and do not tell the
story from the viewpoint of the man
on the street. Unquestionaoly it is hot
ter on the level where the heat from
the paVementS radiates with Giabolical
impartiality and rushes into the faces
of ali so unfortunate as to be out in It,
Then the humidity is the great factor.
The thermometer is only an approx
mate indicator of the heat that bothers
people. Assistant Observer Baldwin
said last night that the percentage of
moisture in the air was IS per cent.
the OrpUinIc nj
cent, so that it was really hotter by
4 per cent.
ThunderstOrms All Around.
The late reports indicated that there
were several thunderstorms around Sa-
vannah, though none in close prox-
unity. Atlanta had one, with a con-
sequent drop in temperature. Tampa
had one and there were plenty in
North Carolina. All South Georgia
was in the same fix as Savannah, dry
to the limit of sufferance.
The weather men do not hold out
any prospect of immediate relief. The
indications for to-day call for contin-
ued fair and dry and it may prove
to be even hotter than yesterday If
it is there will be lots of people who
will leave town who intended to fight
it out, If it took all summer. AS a
drummer at one of the hotels re-
marked, Summer is all we'll enough,
but this is not summer. Its-well,
we won't say just what 1t Isl
There were several prostrations DIR
ing the day, one of
which was a bricklayar on
the Mickva Israel ,ynag) gue, lam
ed Starr. He was attended by the am
bulance surgeon and removed to his
| home on First street, near Hapershan,.
He is not thought to nave been dan
gerously affected. number Of ami
mails fell in the streets and work in
the fields and along the wharves was
| carried on slowly.