Arizona republican., 1907-07-27

doctor let us make the comparison.
The 3rd of July this year, is acknowl-
edged to have been about the limit.
even in Phoenix. The temperature has
but seldom IL ever been higher, and
though the humidity has otter been
higher il is seldom IL ever higher on
very hot day than 1t was then. The
high reading on the dry bulb Their
mOmeter was III, on the wst bulb 1t
was 81, and the humidity was Z. And
vet, nobody dropped dead. nor was
ANYBODY overcome or hurt by the heat,
and people went about their ordinary
work as usual,-except for little kick
ing Just as they would have done In
the east when the mercury stood at
so. Take the wet bulb reading OF 81,
and add 10 for the clothes. The Phoe-
nix air that day happened to be more
like the east, for humidity than usual,
though still it was lower than IS per
cent of other places. The Phoenix man
on JULY Sd suffered just about what
the eastern man suffers at IS or so,
or. to be very liberal IS. a little
after S o'clock on the morning of the
Sd the reading was dry bulb 50. wet
bulb 81, humidity 10. The sun got to
" DIRK early that da- and put in a full
shift. the sensible temperature being
at that hour about So.
The next day the humidity was
about the same, but the temperature
was a few degrees cooler. 1t was stat
ed above that nobody WAS overcome
by the heat To be eminentlv fair it
should be said that one workman on
81, ~ ha Noble black
overcome one day or the other. the
only case reported thus far this season.
except where the victim was intOxicat-
ed. This man was working down in
the cellar, several feet below the sur
face OF the ground and away from all
air currents. in the blazing Sunshine
where the dry bulb thermometer would
undoubtedly have gone up to 140 or
$50. If the tube had been long enough.
Fifty or seyenty-five of his fellow
workmen however finished the day
with nothing worse than a wet shirt
and tired feeling. There is no effort
here to prove that heat will not kill
a man II he gets enough Of il, in any
country.
There are occasional DAYS, during the
summer rainy season, when the hu-
nudity will go up to so or 30, almost
as high as the eastern weather, but
the thermometer in such cases has the
decency to stay down among the nine
ties or still lower, and the wet bulb
somewhat lower let. II is also true
that on some occasions OF this kind,
when the wet and the dry bulb are
closer together. the conditions are
mi N health liLaIxr
to create prostration. even with the
high mark at 80 or %. than on the
memorable July }, 1907.
DIR. Foss stated that while he was in
Boston he came near falling by the
wayside one dav. He had to walk
quite rapidly for about six blocks to
keep an engagement. The thermom-
eter stood at SO and the humidity was
S.. For two or three hours afterward
he had splitting headache and could
not breathe freely. He said that in
the eight years he has lived here he
never experienced such day II was
the same way all over the east during
his stay there and as far west as CEN
trail Kansas. on the Pullman going
into Chicago. the thermometer was 81
and the humidity So. About the mid
die of Kansas he began to feel bet
ter and by the time he. reached New
Mexico he was all right Mrs. Foss,
who has always considered him some
thing Of crank on the weather ques-
ton heretofore. and who was return
ing from her first trip east since COM
ing here. was keeping a close watch on
him, and secretly comparing notes her
self. for it was the first chance she
has had TO do so, though the doctor
has made many practical experiments.
When they got back into northern Ari-
IONA, where the summer climate was
ideal. she freely and fully acknowl-