The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1914-09-09
THERMOMETER DROPS
TH|RTY-S|X DEGREES
FROM Top Place OH Weather Map,
Richmond Jumps to Almost
Lowest Position.
oVEHcoATs ARE IN DEMAND
'hhcn Suits Disappear From Streets.
anu Knsli Is Made 10 Have Fur
haccs Tut In Order md 10 Get i'm
ConI Supply.

From being the hottest civ In III.
United states on Monday uicbmord
Yesterday changed to one OF the cool
49, 'he mean temperature OF the tuo
DAYS dropping seventeen. degree. while
me discrepancy between the hiubcs,
reach of tho mercury on Monday and
rs greatest ascent ia tho tube vcxtcr
DAY Was twcuty-sevcil degrees IL wa.
not 80 unreasonable az IL might have
seemed mat the same people Who wore
thcir duck and linen on Monday and
still complained Of the excessive heat
yesterday donn"d light ovcrcoats ami
sim Insisted that thcy wcr. chilly.
II had been forecast by tho United
states Weather iiureau that ycstcrdav
would pc cool; but tho public was no;
Informed that m. brccxch from Green
sahdS Icy mountains would descend
upon tho Atlantic scaboard nnd cause
p"opl" To open up their cedar chests.
shake out the moth balls and appear
I" the public view III garb that is
generally left 10 late October.
DROP or ~ DEGREES
~ TWENTY-rOLn Nouns
The thcrmomcter la the kiosh. which
records of the heat more nearly as il ~
f"It bN the man on the street and inc
woman labornS over the washtub
uroppcd from LOG degrees on Monday
To seventy degrees yesterday yclpian-
ing 80 degrees before it came TO i
rttill3tion oil What II Was doing and
the effect upon the populacc. And IN.
nercuridi drop came at Il time when
even the Weather class wss unprc-
pared. Their furnaces were closed aud
rust Was on the furnace door Coal
was still at tho dealers, and the wood.
pie WAS innocent OF even Il chip So
thcSc who have ducats TO Sncctcn fha
pot where others content themselves
with raising IL cents a time were
no more fortunate than the later ana
the sly weather man laughed at both
IN" chang. was more noticeable III
IIchmond, perhaps. than anywhere else
for This city was twenty four hours
ago one OF the hottest places on tho
map Is yet unscaritied by war, and
thcn became cooler than winnipeg ami
but slightly warmer than Calgary both
Ia Canada. Mud In further compari.
son the change from the normal was
2 degrees III excess on Monday, while
yesterday IL WAS degrees less. The
variation was not unwclcomc, though.
for tn" blasts OF winter were more Ac-
ccptablc than the breczcs from Africa's
desert sands. which were felt here bu,
few short hours ago.
FOIU CITIES WE'RE
COOLER THAN RICHMOND
The minimum mpcratute as re-
corded b. the government thermometer,
on Chimborazo Hin yesterday. was 81
degrees. from where it rose 10 81 de-
srees. the highest during the day
Twenty-four hours before the II, minimum
temperature was ~ degrees, and the
highest. % degrees. The Chimborazo
thermometer showed a drop OF - de-
rt"es, and the kiosh thermomet.r went
degrees lower
There We're but hve cities in Tho
United states cooler thau Richmond
ycstcrday -chicago. Duluth. Ennaio
Spokane and llavre-and on Monday
every one or which there was any
record was cooler. In HaNre the Their
moincter recorded 6s degrees. and In
the other four just mentioned the mer-
curry went down to rs degrees
Even the man who does the fore
casting Was surprised. Occasionally he
hits the bulls-cye, but yesterday he
hit II right III the centre, and IL rang
down more change than nc expected
and no pun intended. For to-day ne
forecasts only that il will be fair and
leaves II 10 the public TO guess whether
II VIII he warmer, cooler or just the