Evening star., 1909-06-26
TEMPERATURE 102 DOWN TOWN
Many Washingtonians Leaving the
City for Mountain and seashore.
Official and Street Temperatures.
Temperatures Today.

Another hottest day Of the season. The
kiosk thermometers registered 102 again
at o'clock today. Beginning at 80 de-
grees at o'clock this morning the mer-
curry went up the, tube two degrees every
hour, except between IL o'clock and noon,
when it made an upward leap Of 4 de-
grees.
At 2 o'clock the temperature was still
rising.
Tomorrow it will be likewise, says Fore
caster Garriott. There will be no relief
whatever until Monday, he added. and
then there will be but slight modera-
tion Of the temperature.
At = o'clock this afternoon the kiosk
of the weather bureau, which gives the
actual street temperature registered 102
degrees. 1t was beginning to cloud up
at that hour and big thunder heads
were mastering their humid forces in
the sky. There is a prospect Of heavy
thunder showers later in the day. In
fact. while the mercury is bubbling up
about the one-hundred mark there is al
ways a probability of thunder showers.
But there are hotter places on the map
than Washington. For instance. the Of
fetal maximum temperature at Boston and
other eastern cities for the past twenty
four hours has been 81. which means a
much higher reading for the street ther-
mometers, such as that in the weather
bureau kiosk on Pennsylvania avenue. At
Yuma and Phoenix. Ariz. the official read
ings-not street temperatures-gave 1O6 de-
gress, and the entire east Is fairly ablaze
with atmospheric heat.
Prostrations Reported.
Stricken on the street by the intense
heat, Samuel Harris. colored. fifty-six
years of age, of 916 Sd street north
west, was removed to the Emergency
Hospital shortly before noon today from
nth street and Pennsylvania avenue
northwest.
While trimming coal at 3OO6 K street
northwest shortly before 10 o'clock this
morning, Adam Larcum, colored, twenty
five years OF age, of 2731 Rock court
northwest, was overcome by tbs heat and
was removed to the Emergency Hospital
In the ambulance.
Suffering from heat exhaustion. Ernest
Houser, forty-seven years Of age, OF 237
Q street northwest was removed to the
Emergency Hospital about 10 o'clock this
morning from the grounds of the Agri-
cultural Department. His condition Is
not serious.
Randolph Fortune. colored. fourteen
years of age. of 134O Myrtle street north
east was overcome by the heat last even
ing at list street and Massachusetts ave-
nue. northeast. He was removed to the
Casualty Hospital
While at Sth and E streets southeast
last night, Sarah McLane. colOred. sixty
five years of age. of 49O Maine avenue
southwest became suddenly i'll and Was
removed to the Casualty Hospital. where
it was found she was suffering from heat
exhaustion.
Official and Kiosk Temperatures.
Isaac Cans. chairman of the advertising
committee of the Chamber Of Commerce,
today wrote to the newspapers that you
are stating in very large type that Wash
ington Is 1O2 degrees warm when 1t Is Of
ficially stated that 1t is 82 degrees, and
by making the weather warmer than 1t
really is it might keep great many peo-
pie out of Washington that intend COM
ing E,a here. ss.r has nser nr,nt,ne the temnera-
ture here as it is recorded on the official
thermometers of the United States wealth
er bureau. The temperature termed off
cial" is obtained from instruments in q
shelter on the roof OF the weather Office.
The thermometers are shielded by shut
ters from the direct rays of the sun and
are supposed to give the temperature of
the air without interference by radiation
or other causes.
| The "official' downtown temperature as
given by the instruments In the kiosk,
! constructed by direction of Chief Moore
| of the weather bureau gives the street
| temperature--the heat that pedestrians
and those working outdoors are COM
PEELED to endure 1t gives the torridity
that u man feels when standing at or
about the corner Of 18th street and Penn
| sylvania avenue. This is the difference
between downtown official heat and the
heat in the air as 1t passes through the
triple Stats Of an instrument shelter high
above ground.
Many Persons Leaving City.
The continuance of the enervating
| weather is telling upon wilted humanity
| in Washington The effects are shown
in the slow and shuffling walk of men
and women and their generally droopy
| appearance. There has been q general
exodus of Washingtonians to the sea-
shore and mountains in the past few
days.
AS continuance of the hot wave is
| expected tomorrow many WashingtO-
mans may HE themselves to- the dark
green woods about the city where the
cool and purling brooklets flow, and for
| one day enjoy GOODNESS under the green
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