New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-06-05
| HAZE HIDES THE sun.
Yellos0 Pail CoUers the City, but No
Storm Comes.

II one had not known the cause Of yesterdays
haze, one would have said that storm. which
would have been welcome. impending All
day the haze. that srew thicker the dav
advanced, clouded the sky. The tried to
struggle through It, and in the early morning
hours it able to cast slight shadow. red
dish il color As the day advanced. the sun
slowly gave up the struggle Each hour its light
became less binding, until one could look at
# with the naked eye. Late in the afternoon
it assumed the color Of blood. and gradually IL
dis appeared. Before sunset 1t was entirely OBJ
scured
The unearthly yellow light at midday made
every object look as it does sometimes when a
heavy thunder shower is approaching rapidly or
the wings Of the wind. Instinctively one talked
of rain and took umbrella before going out.
1t difficult convince ones self that there
was not cloud from which moisture could by
any means be extracted within many miles oe
this city. The supernatural yellow light sug-
gested to some the so-called yellow day in
the eighties, when the grass on the Boston Com
mon looked as though it were coated with yel-
low paint
The haze which obscured the heavens, accord
ing to the officials of the Weather Bureau.
a combination of dust. incident to the lOng
drouth, and of smoke waited here from the
Adirondacks. New-England and Long Island.
where forest fires have been raging in the dry
underground. 1t first manifested itself on
Wednesday afternoon, when the wind swung
into the northeast from the northwest on
Wednesday afternoon the sunlight was OF a
peculiar brassy color The sunset was strik-
ing one. Close down upon the horizon lay a
dark bank, a dense stratum OF atmosphere
Above this was another stratum Of dull rel
The half moon. which shone early in the even
ing was reddish in color In the course of the
night the veil OF smoke increased in density.
When the sun rose like Samson it had been
shorn of it's power and cast a feeble light. The
shadows were red, like copper BY noon it re-
sembled disk OF gold hung in the sky. and ii
cast no shadows whatever Gradually from that
moment it lost every semblance Of being the
source of the light and heat OF this globe
Mr. Emery Of the Weather Bureau. in speak
ing of the phenomena said that the sky would
have been hazy even had there been smoke.
''It is usual in a period OF drOuth.'' he said
''The dust rises from the dry roads and ground.
and the smoke Of the cities assists in making
the sky hazy. 1t hangs In the air. This condi-
ton is likely to remain long as the wind re-
mains in it's present quarter. A good rain.
even a shower. would dissiDate the hazs and
smoke effectuany. At present there is rain
in sight, but one cannot tell more than day
in advance when rain may be expected. y IA
yorabIe condition may develop within twenty
four hours"
When asked why the smoke was borne
hither ON the north east winds while the fires
were to the northward. he said that the smoke
might have been waited to the eastward on the
northwest wind and then blown in this city
with the change in direction
That the haze was of an unusual composition
was indicated by It's effect the OlfaCtory
organs and the eyes. Many detected pungent
odor and many others found that their eyes
troubled them beeausc Of it. 1t also had a de-
pressing effect on many persons II gave the
day q sort Of rfelessness- The feeling OF ap-
preaching storm strengthened toward even
ing by the higher percentage Of humidity and
the dropping OF the mercury. The atmosphere
became almost clammy-
The haze interfered with navigation the
bay 10 some extent The movements Of several
steamships were hampered. and few were re-
ported in the course Of the day. The Deutschland
ran aground In the Gedney Channel because or
it, and the Palatia, which arrived here from
Italy anchored at Quarantine 10 await the lift
ing of the cloud. One could see less than an
eighth OF mile the water. 1t also slightly
delayed traffic the elevated and trolley lines.
The prospects that the haze will hang
over the city to-day, the weather forecast last
night for fair weather to-day and to-mor-
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