The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-07-05

| Reports from the local weather
 bureau at New Haven are much more | encouraging however, and showers and cooler weather are promised for l tomorrow.
 | Cheer up The worst is over. Now that it's ancient history, we'll let yor1
 in on the secret. Monday, July 3rd,
 was the hottest day in the history of Bridgeport, without exception. The official recorded temperature on the thermometer of Weather Observer
 William Jennings was 101 degrees at
 2 o'clock. This is a mark which nev-
 CT was touched in the past, and. praise be, never will be duplicated in l the future.
 | If you had known this at the time, you would probably have passed a way. That's why MT. Jennings didn't l was all over.
 l Until Monday Bridgeport's heat
 record was held by July 2, 1891, on
 which day the thermometer here reg istered 100.
 l Look at today's measly 92 and re-
 member that Bridgeport's an iceberg
 now in comparison with Monday. | Yesterday was no slouch as hot | days ago. The thermometer hovered
 around 94 in Bridgeport for several
 compared with the noble, the won
 derful, the awe-inspiring mark of 1O1?
 The hottest poin. recorded on the | self-registering thermometer at F.
 Lyman's today was 95, about the would be a few degrees lower than
 this, for the thermometer is in a hot | place.
 But that doesn't alter the fact that
 lots of Bridgeporters are also in hot | places, and the suffering in places
 where workmen were particularly ex. posed to the heat was great Some | of the local factories shut down the
 more affected departments at the
 noon hour today, finding work prac- | tically impossible.
 | All the parks and bathing places l around Bridgeport are thronged to- | day. although the crowds of course
 are not so great as Yesterday, as Bridgeport is back to work again
 But it is probable that the parks to- | night will hold great throngs and that three-fourths of Bridgeport will 1 be out doors in search of a cool spot
 So great is the demand upon the electric current as the result of the electric fans in operation that the Illuminating company is obliged to
 keep an extra dynamo at work dur l ing the hot wave.
 1 Up to press hour this afternoon. no heat prostrations had been reported, | beyond the one which occurred yes l iSi eidS. <a ldIl DIeGZ0 Ifldu0 matters much more bearable than hitherto George Line, 593 Warren street is recovering from heat prostration at | St. VinCent's hospital. He was taken there from his home early yesterday New York, July 5-"Sprained but not broken was the diagnosis today of the torrid wave that has smitten New York since Sunday. The mercury
 dropped only a feW degrees from yes- terday's markings, but the humidity was much less and timid breeze crept out of somewhere and lessened the suffering.
 Thirty-two victims Succumb bed yes terday, bringing the toll of death for the first three days of the sweIter to
 64. In addition, there were nearly three hundred prostrations, yesterday and
 scores today, many of-swhich will re-
 suit fatally.
 Added to this, there were 20 drown ings in the waters of Greater New York, yesterday, many of them due indirectly to the heat. More than 100 persons have also suffered injuries such, as falls from roofs and fire
 escapes while attempting to escape the heat.
 At o'clock today, the official tenn
 perature was given at SO three de-
 grees under yesterdays On the streets, however, the thermometers registered from 10 to 15 degrees higher. Chicago, July 5-Chicago entered today upon it's sixth day of wither-