The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-06-22
Mercury Went to 81,
Touching High Mark
Reached Last Year.
ONE PROSTRATION
BY HEAT REPORTED
Street Temperature (Witness
KIOSK Scars to 10s, and
Stays There for Nearly Two
Hours-Whole City Swell
tiers and Seeks Relief
Out of Doors.

With a maximum temperature OF
81 degrees, Richmond yesterday broke
all records for the year. touched the
higheat mark recorded in 1912, and went
TO the front as the hottest city on the
governments weather map The kiosk.
which gives the correct street temper
allure. traced It's red line to lOs de-
grees shortly after o'clock, and
fingered there for an hour or more,
while the whole town sweltered ST.
Louis stood next TO Richmond with
e6. The highest June record last year
was 20, on June -. although on June
%. 1911, the mercury got up TO 9S.
the top mark that year. On August 49,
1912. the Chimborazo thermometer was
81. yet nobody hereabouts can rcmcm-
Der any day half so hotias yesterday
when the figure was the same.
Right after breakfast time the mer-
curry began It's upward climb. strik-
Ing % at noon. and then cdgng its
way 10 81, staying there for nearly
two hours. At o'clock last night II
had dropped to 81. the top figure for
the month at that hour. A little
breeze brought some relief during the
carly part OF the night. but there was
enough humidity 10 drive folk dis
tracted. One heat prostration in the
city was reported.
Taken as n whole. Richmond cap
tured all the dubious honors of the
Weather Bureau yesterday. The only
outsider 10 break in was ST. Louis
which ran second with &c degrees OF
torrid heat Virginia scored again in
third place. when Norfolk tied with
Washington. Atlanta, Louisville and
Raleigh al the - mark. Montgomery
Savannah and Tampa traled in fourth
place with a maximum temperature OF
%. while Oklahoma City. with 90 d..
grees. was Tho ,ailender in the elias.
column New York and Pittsburgh
we're comparatively comfortable with
temperatures OF 50 and so. respec.
lively, while Chicago was smiling
under a thermometer reading OF So.
Calgary ShivcrinG.
The same old sob me- out OF Cal
gary. the pimple on the face OF Cana.
da. which was made famous by the
fatal McCarty- Pelky fstic affair and
IFS Arctic breeze, from which tine
weather man sent word that the coal
supply was running low and bitter
August coming on. The Calgary ofii
cial ran his dog sled down to the
telegraph station and wired that hi;
sky vas clear and his thermometer
standing At 10 degrees. AS usual. Cal
gary was the coolest spot on the
weather map oy twenty degrees
One Heat Prostrntion.
Considering the sizzling nature OF
yesterdays temperature, IL is regard
ed as remarkable that the heat found
only single victim in the city. A. Nc
Kim. of GA China Street. n member OF
the city street Cleaning Department.
was overcome by the burning sun about
noon while at work on the 1900 block
OF West Broad Street He was treated
by DIR. j. y. Williams. of the city ambu
lance and taken to his home The
complaints OF the heat were innum
cradle. and the hospitals especially
round difhculty in relieving this addi-
tional burden on the sick. hut the ma
jority of the city's population seemed
TO have made the best of bad situa :
ton and kept to the shade as much as
possible.
Parks Overlooking.
The blasting, scorching heat waves
drove hundreds into the public parks
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