The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-07-08
Relief Comes After Re-
cord for Eleven Years
Is Broken.
HOTTEST JULY IN
HISTORY OF TOWN
Street Temperature Reaches 1oo,
and Then Declines rs Degrees
by7 o'Clock-One Heat Pros
tration-S h ers and
Cooler Weather Prom
ised To-Day.

Determined to show its contemp,
for those wise men who had predicted
overcast skies and relief from the
neat, the temperature yesterday
rounded off an even 100 degrees. four
degrees above the top mark on Friday.
ana the highest known in Richmond
in eleven years. Then when 1t had
forced painting humanity to beg for
mercy 1t fell abruptly, after stormy
winds and clouds had threatened to
break forth into real food
The kiosk. that true index to the
exact temperature in the street,
climbed to 1o6 at 2:3o o'clock, while
the thermometer on Chimborazo Park
was hating at 100. But at o'clock
last night the kiosk had changed back
to SO. bringing relief while it was
falling 25 degrees in the shank OF
the afternoon
Bureau Whipsomcd Again.
Exactly why conditions became so
intolerable while there had been an
oihcial promise of cooler weather. was
not explained But the bureau was
unwilling to trifle longer with public
feeling. The first predictions issued
yesterday morning announced that
there would be no important change
in temperature up to o'clock to-
night. And on the heels of that there
was decline OF % degrees which
shows that the bureau was doubled
crossed by the elements which it
claims to understand. Last night
Washington announced local showers
for to-day with cooler weather.
Never in the history of the local
Weather Bureau has the July temper
allure reached the 100 mark. There
was never anything like that reading
of yesterday since August IL, 1906
eleven years ago. when the mercury
blazed its way to 102.
Got Up Speed After Noon.
With less humidity and with an
a. NJ. temperature OF 81 as compared
with Sc on Thursday, the day started
II it would not undertake any high
flying after Its sensational perform
ance earlier in the week. There was
hope again at noon when 1t touched
%, which was one degree lower than
the same hour Of the preceding day.
But along about > o'clock something
happened. and at $50 everybody in
the bureau stopped work when II was
found that the mercury was at the
century figure. 1t remained there
long enough to give everybody notice
that II was on the job. and then drop
ped back to IS at 3 p. NJ. Two hours
later it was lowering around 10. with
IS and comfort at 10 o'clock last night
Heat Victim In Hospital.
William r. Mason. about forty five
years old. of South Beech Street. a
clerk OF the stephen Putney Shoe
Company, was Frustrated by the heat
yesterday afternoon about . o'clock
The city ambulance was called and
the unconscious man taken TO the Vir-
ginia Hospital. For several hours his
condition continued serious but last
night it was said that he would re-
cover.
Pau Banks (colored). sixty-five
years old, a convict who was working
on the roads near Drewry's Bluff
Chesterfield county. was overcome by
the heat Thursday afternoon and died
a few minutes afterwards.
For more than an hour yesterday
there was a heavy rain on the south
side of the James. and especially
around Forest Hill Park. 1t reached
out into Chesterfield county and then
across the river into Henrico. The
Cary Street Road got q good shower.
But there was none in Richmond.