Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-07-26
OLD SOL HANDICAPPED.
Clouds Intervene to Relieve Oppressive
Weather Conditions.

Thanks to the Clouds which put severe
handicap upon Old Sol. and strong breeze,
which famed the cheeks of mankind
Washington passed the hours under fairly
comfortable conditions today The highest
point touched by the mercury was at noon,
when 91k degrees were registered by AZ
heck's thermometer. and then by easy
stages the quicksilver dropped down the
tube. Showers are in prospect for this
afternoon evening, the weather man
said. and he expected still further de-
cline in the temperature as result.
The varying temperatures today were as
follows:
At the weather bureau-Eglt o'clock, II;
10 o'clock. 81; noon, "a; o clock 81.
At Aftieck,s-Eight O'Clock 81: 10 o'clock.
80; noon. 91R. and o'clock, 9UR
Peter Shappirio. eighty-four years of age.
whose address given as 1414 North
Capitol street. was overcome by the heat
yesterday while on his way home from the
Washington Asylum Hospital He had
been in the hospital under treatment. and
yesterday he was discharged. When he
reached Kentucky avenue and E street he
became i'll and was returned to the hos
pital.
Charles F.. Stanley, thirty-one years of
age living at 1906 c street southwest, was
treated at the Emergency Hospital last
night about I o'clock for heat exhaustion.
He was taken sick while at 62S PennSyl-
vania avenue northwest.
Records for TwentyFour Hours.
The following were the readings of the
thermometer and barometer at the weather
bureau for the twenty-four hours beginning
at p. m. yesterday
Thermometer-July %, pm. IL: s pm.
"a: - midnight, I6. July 26. am, 10; 3
am. II: II noon S4; pm, "a.
Maximum 81. at 3 pm, July %; mini
mum, -. at 5 am, July 26.
Barometer-July % 4 pm. 1881: pm.
$3.50; II midnight, 29.7s. July 26, am.
- 10; 8 a m. 20 -: noon, %. 10; pm, 29.6S
Maximum temperature past twenty-four
hours, 90; year ago. 80.
Downtown Temperature.
The temperature recorded today by Feast
& Co.'S standard thermometer was fol-
lows: 8 am, 50; II noon, 81; pm, 81.
Longest Hot Day in New York.
NEW YORK, July 26-The tail of the hot
wave which blew out to last week
whipped and dashed New Workers in the
face again yesterday. 1t was the longest
hot day Of the season. The temperature
which stood 70 degrees at am, gradually
rose until the maximum figure for the day
and summer 80 degrees, was reached at
4:1O pm. Then it dropped one degree an
hour, showing 50 degrees at o'clock last
evening. AS the night advanced there was
further relief. though the mercury remain
ed well above the average of other years.
fortunately, the numlulty leSSened as the
temperature rose. At am. the humidity
mark was SO. at noon SO, at pm. 40 and
at O clock .3S.
These are the official figures recorded at
the top of a skyscraper. Street thermome-
tiers during the afternoon registered as high
as "a degrees.
Half dozen deaths, including two sui
cides, were attributed to the heat, while
many cases of prostraton were reported.
On theta Side the scenes that invaria bly,
accompany hot spell We're in evidence
suffering women and fretful babies sprawl
ed, half clad, upon the fire escapes and the
sidewa ks; children following in swarms the
street cleaners, who sprayed the steamng
streets, and cart horses dropping from heat
and exhaustion. In the better neighbour
hoods there was much discomfort and re-
newed exit countryward