Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-07-25
BREEzES ARE EXPECTED
TO TEMPER THE HEAT
Weather Forecaster Says a
Thunderstorm May Come
This Evening.
Temperatures Today.

Washington will be a good place to
get letters from for the next two or
three days-maybe longer. The official
Bowie. was standing between two busy
electric fans, sticking pins in a neat
map, when The Star reporter trickled into
the bureau.
Mr. Bowie held out no hope But he
suggested that perhaps by dusk time
this evening, when sitting folks are
counting their car tickets and the trac-
ton officials are thinking what a glorious
season the summer time is anyhow. a
spectacular thunderstorm may break
loose over the National Capital. Under
stand. he didn't make this a prediction.
He called 1t possibility and looked hope
full when he said 1t.
But If this storm feature doesn't ma
terialize it will be snorting hot tonight
and tomorrow, with fair weather all
around. But the humidity will not go
much above the normal, according to
present indications, and there'll be
breezes from the west to help out
Heat General East of the Rockies.
The present hot wave wandered this
way from the middle west, the weather
man says, and is pretty general east of
the Rockies. The mercury touched 100
in Kansas yesterday, Chicago suffered
with 9S, and New York didn't enjoy
its maximum of 81.
Most local folks were badly fooled to-
day. The breeze that jumped out of
nowhere yesterday about noon and made
conditions bearabie for the rest OF the
day was an indication to the uninitiated
that the backbone OF the torrid spell
had been broken. But no such luck
was in the vicinity. Today is hum
mer, and if it weren't for the breeze
that still continues and the absence Of
excessive humidity 'twould be easily the
worst OF the present summer.
The intense heat yesterday, which
drove the mercury to 1U2 at the down
town kiosk and to 93 at the weather
bureau, was made more bearable be-
cause of the brisk breeZes from the
south and because the humidity was
not great. Had it not been for these
two factors yesterday would have been
one of the most distressing days Of
the summer SO far.
Three Frustrated by Heat.
Edith Terry, fourteen years old, of
515 9TH street northeast. was over
come by the heat while in Stanton
Park last night and removed to the
Casualty Hospital, and James Gordon,
sixty three years old, was overcome in
Judiciary Square in the afternoon. He
was taken to the Emergency Hospital
Neither was seriously i'll, however, and
later they were able to return home.
LOttie Simms, colored, forty-one years
old, was overcome by the heat last
night. She was treated at her home,
BIB Pleasant court, by a physician from
the Emergency Hospital.
Nine Deaths in Greater New York.
NEW YORK, July 25.-After its rec
ord rise to 81 degrees yesterday, marking
the hottest day Of the season, the official
mercury lowered above or not far be-
meath the SO-degree mark all night, regis
'tering a minimum of 70 and at 8 o'clock
this morning standing at 49, or two de-
grees above the figures for the same hour
yesterday. The prospects were for an
other sizzling day, although something of
a. breeze from the southwest ana d lower
percentage of humidity tended to allevi-
ate conditions. Despite this, prostration
cases began to be reported early.
Five deaths which occurred in the last
twenty-four hours are attributed to the
heat Thousands of tenement jewellers
were unable to stand the heat of the
crowded districts during the night and
fled to the parks for refuge. A consider
able degree of. comfort was found in the
open spaces. where the breeze that
sprang up in the night had chance to
get in it's beneficent work.
Reports from the Brooklyn hospitals
dead from the effects of the torrid wave.