The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-05-20
Missed Thursday S High
Mark by Two-Tenths
Of One Degree.
TOUCHED IS AT
!. THREE O'CLOCK
Ten Degrees Hotter Than That
in Street, With No Promise
III Of Relief To-Day-With
South and East Swelter-
ing, West Has Snow
storm.

u although the official thermometer at
the Weather Bureau made desperate
Efforts yesterday TO Guido its wicked
performance OF Thursday, when IL
touched the So mark-4 two degrees
higher than the hottest day last year
us Wild climb was cut short two tentfs
OF degree below that ngure b. a
areeze which came out OF the south
weat at an average velocity OF twelve
miles an hour So while II failed,
therefore. 10 break it's own record III.
mercury established another by repeat
ing, FOR Il seldom happens. especially
at this season of the year. that 1t can
hat The bulls eye twice in forty eight
hours.
40 Cool Hope for To-Day.
director Evans last night was I'M
Indeed, ne said that the prediction
called for another scorcher, thong h
not quite as bad as that which fell
Upon the Town yesterday. Had II not
been Tor that southwest breeze the
mercury would have Travelled higher,
the accumulation OF heat in the earth
having given II q good start st day-
light Ats o'clock. when the FIRST
reading OF the day is taken, ii was on q
degree warmer than al the same hour
OF Thursday. II was 81 as against 81
Ct con- 81 NJ o'clock. and then about
NJ, IL hit within two-tcnths or a
decree OF %! The record put the TOP
hgure OF the day at9 5.
Our in the Capitol square that Kiosk.
winch gives the exact street and sun
temperature went as high as Il did on
Thursday- lQ5-though the lines on
Which the needle leaves It's trace are
rather d.tiicult TO read.
iiets Won by The Bears
Just beeanse they had been reminded
that records were smashed on Thurs-
day. tic people yesterday began to
suffer with the heat. Gambling men
laid big wagers that The mercury
would travel beyond the 50 mark. and.
While II felt that way TO the average
,naa. weather bets must be decided
from chimborazo Hill. and The bears
won hy an eye-lash
again II was rather surprising to
some that Washington and Richmond
were the hottest places on the weather
map on tho eighteenth day Of the
epring month, which ma squerades
under the name OF May. For a colt
10 prence out and SKATER all records
made By old stGgers last year and
then set mark which those same
summer stagers Viii have dihiculiy In
topping before frost was something
of a performance, and one which left
It's sting.
Relief Coming From West.
But there is hope From the far
Northw est there comes the promise OF
n cool wave. which is sweeping this
wretches in big cities who were
whipped and crushed and beaten by
the heat. II will cross the MISSISSIPPI
River and eventually reach here be :
fore Its backbone is broken. no cold
wave signals Will rs from the Wea-
Their Bureau. bur the drop in the tenn
perature will bring world OF relief.
IF you add an inch TO the length of
that lamp post out there 1t would not
attract attention.. said weather sharp
last night but II they should add an
inch TO the length of your nose you
would be a curiosity. In the same way,
two degrees would cut no ice il the
mercury registered around 10. but add
two after 1t hits 95 and see EN- With
er and wilt II those Kiosk figures
should be transferred to Chimborazo
Hill 1t would all be over but the shout
ing"
And sofit would,
Several Ilent Prostrations.
III Charles Walker, fourteen years old
was prostrated with the heat at the
Larus Tobacco Factory yesterday af-
ternoon and for few minutes was in
an alarming condition. The city am
bulnnce was called, and Dr. thurman
administered the necessary medical
taken TO his home at IL West Bak. T
Street.
While attending a lecture Al Muir
phys Hotel last night. woman in
the audience was overcome by the heat
end had to be removed. Many other
cases We're reported, but none result
ed seriously