The Beaumont enterprise. [volume] (Beaumont, Tex.) 1904-current, 1904-08-26
SUFFERING HUMANITY Sale
MERCURY WETT TO 's3 IN
THE SHADE.
THERMOMETER REGISTERED sS
Precipitation Ran off Horses Limbs
and Formed Puddles OF Water
on the Pavements-Re'
lief in Evening.

III IL ever gets worse than THIS
| don't want to be- here
Warm enough Tor you;'
"Oh. this Is what ! like, This IS
good corn weather"
These and other remarks Of Il
similar character have been the dom
inant factor In all conversation on
the streets OF Beaumont for the
pat three days. Boiling. sizzling,
blistering. depressing. cOlar.mcltinS
heat II has been. Hotter heat than
the city has experienced AT any pro-
yious time this summer. 80 hot II
made your bloomin' eyebrows crawl.
That's the kind Of heat il has
been. The kind OF heat that makes
the blood boil and fume and chase
up and down the veins, and then
finally accumulate In the top of the
head and struggle madly to burst
| out. Sticky, miserable, perSpiring,
| painting weather, when the under
wear feels like sticky fly paper and
looks, when peeled Off. like water
soaked rags. This is the kind OF
heat Beaumont has been expert
encing.
No Weather Bureau.
AS Uncle Sam does not see fit
to send one of his little boys down
here to the oil center to tell us ey-
cry day how hot it is we have
10 definite and absolutely accurate
record of just how hot 1t has been
I'm Beaumont this week. However,
as a matter of fact it is lots better
not to have any government weather
bu ieau TO refer to. We simply have
to accept the Federal experts state
ments as to heat, because it would
approach lese majesty not to, but
we know just as well as we know
our name that he always lies. After
we have sweat and fumed and fretted
and wiltcd down half a dozen col
lars and lost about all the religion
we ever had cussing the weather it
is very aggravating to get up the
next morning and read the weather
mans calmly peaceful statement
that "a slightly higher temporal
ture prevailed in this community,
although it was not excessively
warm, as such and such day had
been in such and such year fifteen
or twenty years ago"
Hot Yesterday.
Here we have no weather man to
robukc us and we propose to cusn
the weather with iripunity. 1ester'
day it was hot. II was the hottest
day we ever experienced. We don t
know positively but we think the
thermometer was somewhere in the
neighborhood of 1873 in the shade.
We know it was hot enough to fry
eggs on the sidewalk, to roast the
cars off brass monkey and to do
any other thing that great neat 3
supposed to do If you don't be-
neve this you simply didn't go ont
yesterday, but spent the day in a
tub of ice water under lemonade
apiget, with an electro fan buHzlns
above you. Everybody that was on
the streets OF the city believes it
and Will swear to IL.
Besides being horribly suffering
ly, unbearably hot 1t was humid.
II is estimated that a test of the
moisture in the atmosphere early
yesterday morning would have show
ed n relative humidity of about %
per cent Great waves OF torrid, en-
veloping heat surged across the
city and wrapped themselves about
everything with which they came in
contact. Man suffered most but the
dumb brutcs came IN ~ their share
of agony. An instance OF now not
and humid il was could have been
found i'm the case ~ a horse.
hitchcd on Main street in the shade.
After standing an hour. and without
having been driven two blocks, tn"
poor beast spread out his legs, as II
il feared Il would fall il il stood
naturally. lowered its head. dropped
n. tail and painted. painted. painted.
II brcathed like a horse with The
hoaves and the sweat ran on us
limbs In streams and formed puddlcS
ON the pavement. And that horse
/ was standing i'm the shade.
Sudden Change.
Tho sudden change from clear.
blazing sky to a cloudy atmosphere
the marshallmg Of rain clouds on
! the horizon. he quick breeze from
/ the southeast and the shower OF
Z rain. an nf which occurred about
] I O'Clock. brought untold relief 10
] thousands az suffering men. women
and cnllrcn People who had 70
/ manned boz their offices under cleo
. trio fans lacking the moral courage
tu venture forth into the heat.
4 walked up and down the sidewalk
their coat and hats N. inhalinc and
. ,.haHin- deeply Isn't this good
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