The Washington times., 1902-07-20
Says Mercury Is to Reach
a High Degree Mark
Today.
YESTERDAY NOT so HOT
Cool Breeze Tempered Matters During
Most of Afternoon-Many People
Frequent Pleasure Resorts Around
Washington.

"Washingtonians should consider
themselves lucky when they know that
it is cool here compared to some parts
of North Carolina" said the Weather
Man last evening. why, down in the
Tar Heel State the thermometer regis
tered 102 degrees yesterday afternoon.
The prophet then whispered, Il hate
to tell you, but Sunday is going to be a
scorcher. The mercury's goin' and
there's no tellin' where she will stop.
Some relief may be afforded, however,
by thunder storms, which are promised"
Suffers From the Heat.
You may not believe it, continued
the distributor of hot waves, but /
think 1 suffer more from the heat than
any man in Washington. You see l sit
up here in my sanctum and know the
hot air is coming. / begin to perspire
three or four hours Before the wave
gets here, Just from thinking about how
to keep cool. Then you know 1 have to
be around these thermometers all the
time-I am never able to leave them.
There is always something to be re-
corded, some calculation to be made
or something else Of that sort. l can
not go out en- car rides and enjoy fresh
breczes like the rest of humanity. We
don't have the envious position that
some people think"
Officially, the weather was compare
lively bearabe in Washington yester-
day. The thermometer could only get
up TO 80 degrees. There was good
breeze blowing most CT the afternoon,
which made the heat little less In
tense.
Being Saturday, all the department
and bank clerks were set free two or
three hours earlier. One clerk, an en-
ploye of a large banking house. said:
II tell you, l don't take much stock
in these half holidays we get on
Saturdays. l have never spent worse
afternoon in my life. l got out Of the
Office shortly after / o'clock ard as |
stepped from the door great chunks OF
heat met me.
Office a Cool Spot
81 did not have any place 10 go. and
80 / tramped around; no, l can't say
tramped, / waded around through the
asphalt streets. Now. if l had not
left the office, would have had sew
eral electric fans, plenty of ice water.
and everything that could possibly keep
me cool. l am going 10 stay ct the Of
fee next Saturday."
According to the Government officials.
it was a pleasant day, but everybody
knows they are the most optimistic set
of progncsticators in the country. 1T
wasn't hot they say, ''it was only
humid
Such a wise observation is all right
for the well informed. He understands
and appreciates that there is no occasion
for alarm over the weather. But to the
lavman. heat and humidity are the same,
as they bring the same results-per
sDiration.
No PIostrat;cas.
But even if It was an uncomfortable
day-the kind OF day when ones
clothes seem to be lined with sticky
fy-pa per-thc hospital records bear out
the contention OF the Weather Bureau
that it wasn't hot. Not single case OF
heat prostration was registered.
1t felt like such a day as one might |
imagine the rule in certain portions OF |
India, after reading Rudyard Kipling's |
giving good advice for hot weather con-
duct, says:
But the worst Of your foes is the sun overhead. |
You must your elmet, for all that l. said; |
If be finds you uncovered he'll strike you down |
dea-.
And you'n die like fool Of soldier.
But if the people kept their heads |
well protected during the heat of the |
day, they certainly loose their locks TO /
the breeze at night. BY the time the |
last rays of the burning sun had dis
appeared from behind the Treasury, hat
less men and women sailed forth. Some |
few strolled where they thought the
most air circulated, but the great ma
iority took the trolley for pleasure re-
sorts.
Cabin John Bride, Chesapeake Beach,
Chevy Chase Lake, and Marshall Hall
We're the favorite spots. At each OF
them the crowds ran well into the hun
dreds.
Tent in Cyclone.
Among the freaks OF Fridays eIectri-
cal storm, a whirling wind caught the
large tent on Maryland Avenue and
Street. and snapped one OF
the poles and split the tent clear across.
At the time, apparently a complete
wreck. 1t was only short time when
the damage was completely repaired,
and the cotton chuch put in splendid
trim for tonight's service at O'clock