Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1910-07-20
YESTERDAY WAS
HOTTEST DAY
Santa Fe's 1910 Record
Broken By Temperature
HUMIDITY ONLY 81 PER CENT
Los Angeles Had SO; Denver 81;
Fl. Worth los and Lots
of Moisture.
Yesterdays Temperatures.

| Santa Fe ....... So
After struggling in vain TO rival the
Fourth of July record which was S6
this year, Mercury finally succeeded
yesterday in smashing all heat records
for 1910 in Santa Fe at 3:35 p. m.
touching the SO mark. 1t was a great
| effort, however, and was the result of
| constant climbing from $40 a. m.
when ga, the minimum held sway. An
hour afterward Mr.. Mercury reached
the 66 notch and then went through
the degrees with dogged persistency.
This is as hot as Denver" said a
travelling man who had been travelling
around with heavy grip in his hand.
But he was mistaken for Denver was
sweltering in a temperature of nine
degrees higher than Santa Fe's rec
ord breaker
This Ancient City is every bit as
warm as Los Angeles" said a sight
seer who had been seeing the sights,
walking around in the sun. But again
a mistake was made, for dear Old Los
Angeles had a non-angelic temper or
SO to make the residents of the city
of roses say mean things. And then
a husky looking Texan came along
and doffing his huge sombrero said in
the lobby of hotel to one of the
bell boys, "Geewhiz, if this doesn't
l. Gov, T,,4 .+l l.
was at that moment sweltering in
los degrees. So much for magma
tions; so much for comparisons being
, odious
Low Humidity.
Although the day was a record
breaker for the year the fondling OF
ice cream soda Slippers of straws, the
! yearning for the music of the cracked
! ice waltzing around in glasses of
soothing beverages, and the seeking
/ for the shady and breezy nook near
the electric fans in the thirst par
lors' by the public was not SO notice
able as on other days. 1T Is all the
fault of General Humidity said one
disappointed ice cream dispenser. If we
had a high humidity today this place
would be jammed from door to door"
The general referred to was only
"a, considerably below his prime and
that is why the heat was so easily
endured.
Outside the City.
I Outside of the city, especially on
the Cerrillos road toward the peni-
tentiary and Indian school, the prank
of Mercury climbing so high was con-
sidered as joke, for Aeolus sent his
Iegions of zephyrs which famed the
: suburbanites and made them feel that
'it is good for us to be here"
Wherever one could catch the
breeze which was bestowing GOODNESS
one had no occasion to complain, and
the hammock brigade was out in full
force when the maximum temperature
v was in full control.
n Reducing Food Allowance.
J. The maxim of the physical cul-
s. ture director in the east, Eat little il
r you would keep cool in summer" was
" put into practice in some of the hotels
d and restaurants, according to the wait
" ers, "This here light diet you read
IS about" said one, "is struck Santa Fe,
h He continued: Eggs and fruit is all
n l want says one travelling man, and
n ice tea and a salad says another
e But they all drink lots of ice water
e and they don't need so much of other
Il things"
incidentally it is stated by an OBJ
server that those who eat very little
at their meals in hot weather manage
to consume half dozen ice cream
sodas between lunch hours.
, And so it goes, while the flies keeI
,r up constant buzz reminding us
" that summer is nigh"-most decid
t. edly so.