Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-08-26
WEATHER STILL HOT
INT Yrunisea Shower Fails to Mate
riahze-Hum3dity Gets in
Its Work.

would last night dispel the warm weather.
the prognosticator at the weather bureau
was unable to deliver the goods. Instead
he sent the shower up into Maryland. NOW
It Is not probable there will be any shower
soon in this bailiwick. However, the peo-
pie of Washington VIII not need the snow
err The cooler weather has arrived. AT
least the weather bureau experts say 80.
They proclaim that the temperature Is low
enough to make 1t comfortable. This may
be true at the weather bureau. but the
forecast official would have hard time
convincing any one of the perspiring pc
destrians to be met with on the avenue
that the weather Ii comfortable or that
the cool wave has come.
The heat yesterday afternoon ana last
night was so intense that thirteen people
succumbed to prostration and were sent
to hospitals or treated In drug stores. One
case of prostration was reported tooay'
The temperature was lower today-ten oe
grees lower, In fact. The hourly statenhe1 ~:
at the weather bureau show: Am. "a;
am, 70; 8 am, so; am, 81; III a. m
So; II am, SO, and II noon, 81. 1t Will oe
seen, therefore, that the mercury at the
weather bureau dropped degrees between
the hours of 10 and IL, but the decrease
did not continue. On the avenue the tenn
perature at 8 o'clock was 50 and at noon
was 90.
The uncomfortable phase Of the situation
grows out of the density of the atmosphere.
While the actual temperature might be ten
or even fifteen degrees lower than II was at
this time yesterday. the heat Is almost as
unbearable on account or the humloIty.
Consequently the suffering is Just as sreat.
The atmosphere may be cleared up TINS
evening. as fresh northwest WIND Is pre-
dicted, but present conditions may continue
until rain comes and there Is no prospect
of rain at present.
Heat Prostrations.
James Lee, forty-f1ve years old. was over
come by the heat this morning about ~
O. clock near Pennsylvania avenue and ~
street northwest. The sick man. who lives
at 21Os New York avenue northwest, was
taken to the Emergency Hospital for treat
ment
Thomas Brightwood, thirty years old,
whose home Is at 800 LIST street southeast,
yesterday afternoon. The police patrol
wagon was summoned and he was taken to
Providence Hospital for treatment.
William r. Frey. twenty-eight years olo'
was a victim of the heat yesterday AFTER
noon. He was at his home. near Bright
wood avenue and the Piney Branch roao'
when he was stricken. He was given treat
ment at Freedmen's Hospital.
Edward Gooding, thirty-one years old, or
ZIG E street northeast, was taken to the
Emergency Hospital about O'Clock yester-
day afternoon for treatment. He had be-
come suddenly III at Pennsylvania avenue
and 9th street. The doctors found him SUI
fering from heat prostration He was given
treatment and sent to a ward.
Clarence Williams, colored, seventeen
years old, employed as a laborer by the Bal
timore and Ohio Railroad Company. was
overcome by the heat about o'c1ock yes
terday afternoon while working near Eek
ington. He was removed to F'reedmen's
Hospital in the eighth precinct patrol
wagon. Williams home is in Maryland.
Mrs. Ramey, an elderly woman, living at
2213 4th street northwest. suffered an attack
of heat prostration yesterday afternoon
about $50 o'clock at LIST and v streets
northwest. She was assisted to her home
by Policeman Jennings.