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And Washington Says That
the Whole Week viii
Be T0rrid Too.
MISUNDERSTANDING
That Was Because II Was q Hol-
iday and Crowds Were Able
to Get Away to Seek Relief.

When the temperature gets Co the
tropical altitude Of % degrees up on the
! Official tower there il always weather
OF the clustering sort down where people
have formed habit Of walking and
breathing. The mercury struck the top
notch of the summer at p NJ IL had
an hour before reached &c degrees. the
previous high record ~ the season. made
on July 10.
The big percentage of humidity in the
morning 1T was ~ az o'clock gave
the impression 10 the per=pirinR multi
tude that IL was hotter than It was The
mercury had risen swiftly 10 the record
rung and II climbed down slowly. taking
four hours To fall to Of. Meanwhile
a breeze that fucttiated between nine and
fourteen miles and came sometimes out
Of the south and sometimes from tha
southwest helped 10 sooths those WHOSE
windows faced the broszy points. The
humidity went down with the rising
breeze. Al Q p. NJ. tn. Thermometer
showed =, degrees.
was HFth- even w
many Widowed flats and life in the tsne-
ments was almost uncomfortable. Every
body who could get out Of doors did 80.
Those Who could AFFORD IL went 10 places
where they could get boats to take them
To open water where the breezes might
he felt Thousands lay on the grass in
the parks ~ the city. and thousands
more found some solace in trips on the
ferryboats. especially the long distance
ones To Staten Island snd South Brooklyn.
All the excursion steamboats, were
crowded. IL was almost everybody's
day OF. Otherwise there doubtless would
have been many more deaths from ex-
ertion in the moist and fervent air. Even
the pleasure seekers were Frustrated.
The Washington prophets must have
felt surprised when they noted IN at the
weather was eccentric enough 90 do
exactly what they said il was going 20 do.
They prophesied partly cloudy and
warmer with south and southwest Winds
'rhey said also that Il would continue
warta to-day and for the rest 10 the week.
There were seven cases NJ persons over
come by the heat IN Manhattan and The
Bronx reported TO Police Headquarters
Yesterday They were
samuel wonk 49, ~. taken from sII
Second street TO his home no sixth street
William Hsgh. "a. Of $50 Third avenue.
taken from I7sth street and PARK avenue
To Harlem Hospital
Michael Sichderg. -. taken from his
home. 80 st Nicholas avenue. to Harlem
Hospital
Mary Rooney. So who said her home was
on Randalls island taken from I22d
street and First avenue Ia Harlem Hos
pital
Jossphins Halsey. ~. Of 80 Wr>t 4Sth
street. taken from iSath street and Ssy-
enth avenue tn Harlem Hospital
Jennie eastman. ~. taken to her home.
80 West IiIst street, from 1870 West Itist
street
Michael Ingr.inch. -. Of "a Sus~cS
street. Jersey city. taken from the foot
of Ninth street and Fast River tn Bellevue
Brooklyn had only a Cnupl" " ca~es
~ heat prostTatinn that were reported
to the police.
Down on Staten Island where IN.
Poles of the greater city were gathered for
their Grnnwald celebration twenty men
and women were attended for heat pros
ration by the field hospital service -stsb-
lished for the day.
WasHINoroS July % The Weather
Bureau gav. out this statement to-day
The general pressure distribution over
the North American continent and the
adjacent OCEANS Is such ~ To ind cats
that the coming week will lie ono Of high
temperature throughout th. greater part
- 81 II -.
tains and in the extreme Southwest. A
disturbance that IL over the Great Lakes
will move eastward and cause local
showers and thunderstorm sunday night
and Monday in the lower Lake regions.
northern New York and northern New
England Another disturbance will APP
pear IN the Northwest Monday or Tuesday
and move thence eastward along tho
northern border and reach the NJ. Law
renee Valley by the 18th II will be
attended by local rains There are no
indications OF general rains during the
week. and such az may occur will be oon-
fined mostly 90 the Northern States from
the Missouri Valley 10 New England and
the Southeastern States.
Indications are that strong southwest
and west winds will prevail during the
coming week over the north Atlantic
routes and tho weather will
be showery the greater part Of tho week
over northern Europe and the British
Isles over southern Europe the weather
will be generally fair and warm
CHICAGO. July 3a.-This was the hottest
day in Chicago for nine years. The maxi
mum temperature was ~ degrees. with
minimum % rs In the year 1901 the tenn
psrature reached IOi degrees.
There were several hundred proStra-
tons in and about the city to-day. but
owing TO the absence Of humidity few ~
them proved fatal.