Evening star., 1903-07-01
MADE A NEW RECORD
Caloric Opening Of the Fiscal
Year.
TODAY THE HOTTEST
THE MERCURY WENT UP TO THE
NINETY-FIVE MARK.
Even at the Weather Bureau It Was
Ninety-Two-Announ That the
Good Old Summer Time Has Come.

Today Is the hottest day this summer
The thermometer down town registered Sa
degrees. At the weather bureau the ther-
mometer registered % degrees. The sage
at the weather bureau whose acquaintance
with the elements leads him to predict the
state of the atmosphere twenty-four hours
in advance states that summer has come,
after much pa tient waiting, and that here
after no cool weather may be expected
OF course there will be very hot days sue
ceeded by slightly cooler weather, but
there will be no such weather as has been
experienced during the past six or eight
weeks.
There is no prospect. either. for long
continued wet spell. such as has been ielt
throughout the country, with the excep-
ton of New England. The prospects are
that there will be no rain storms OF four or
five days duration and there is every rea-
son to believe the sage states, that the
days will be generally clear.
Increased Office Force.
The weather bureau has begun the fiscal
year with an entirely new idea Of what Is
going to happen meteo,ologically. 1t has
been alleged that the roseate view OF the
atmospheric conditions is superinduced by
the increased force of the bureau staT.
Promptly on the hour this morning the Of
fee achieved that degree OF dignity "hlcn
requires the support not only OF cniei
but of an assistant chief and a CHIEF clerk
as well.
It has heretofore had the chief and chief
clerk. but up to date no assistant chle1.
Congress realized its Importance during the
last session and made provision Tor an
assistant chief.
This morning Mr. Henry E. Williams was
sworn in as assistant chief. and Mr.. Daniel
]. Carroll was made chief clerk. Mr. WI
liams has been chief clerk or the bureau
for several years. He came originally from
Connecticut and is regarded as an able
official. After his assumption OF the new
office this morning he was the recipient OF
much congratulation.
MIR. Carroll was also heartily congratu-
lated on his recognition. he was appointed
from the District of Columbia.
Compared With Year Ago.
The excitement at the weather bureau
was therefore well calculated to run the
mercury well up in the tube. and as though
to prove this to be the cause the sage who
looks at the clouds and makes his prognos-
LEGATIONS hunted up the files of the wealth
er bureau bulletin for the first of July. 1907.
and found that today is exactly II de-
grees hotter than the highest temperature
recorded year ago, the thermometer nav
ing registered 75 degrees at the weather
bureau at O'Clock in the afternoon on
that day. The temperature throughout the
day, July /, 1902, was: am, 10; am,
10; II noon, 10; pm, "A.
July l. 1903 dawned just four degrees
warmer than the same day last year and
a fairly even temperature was maintained
to 8 o'clock. Between 8 and 1D o ciock'
however, the thermometer jumped fourteen
degrees at the latter hour registering SS
degrees. 1t was between these two hours
that the new assistant chief was sworn
in At noon a rise of one degree had been
~ I,a1rf fl,af fhny 1n
was registering exactly W degrees, rise
OF three degrees from II o'clock.
1t is within the realm of possibilities that
rain will fall in this vicinity within the
next forty-eight hours. The weather bu-
reau sage seems to think that some time
tomorrow night or day after tomorrow the
atmosphere will condense and rain will
fall copiously.