Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-09-13
COLD WEATHER WAVE
IS LOST ON WAY HERE
bareback Of Summer Heat Remains
UnbrOken Despite Slight
Afternoon Shower.
WHOLE SOUTH is swELTER1Ne,
Kiosk In Capitol Square Climbs Stead, !
lily to 102 Degrees, While Weather,
Bureau Admits Park Temperature,
of 02-Relief Is Promised.

Richmond yesterday axperienced a
neat that is usually the proper portion
Oh July or August, heat that one ex-
poets Just before corn begins to tassel'
and when tobacco is ripenlnz for the
man who loves the old Virginia lea
and finds it as soothing as that which
Is grown on Cuban Turkish soil
fortunately, II was the Sabbath. wher
the great majority had not TO shout
der days burden: when he who &C
preferred could sit upon his fronf
stoop and mediate In quiet seclusior
upon what changes in the city char!
ter would. in his opinion, best suit the
city. or devote his thoughts TO the in
ternational situation and TO the latest
news from the three European val
zones. The day was better suited 10
contem lation than TO labor, and IL
was with calm gratefulness that those
who earn their daily bread hy thn
sweat Of their brows realized that II
was the day which the laws OF God
and man have set aside for rest anG
meditation.
KIOSK PERFORMS SOME
HlGH-DiNING STUNTS
"a
which registers the real sun-madt
heat, showed 100 degrees between !
and o'clock Since midnight tn.
mercury had climbed from IS degree
which is ( degrees above normal 10,
this time OF the year y, o'clock y
the morning the quicksilver was on
T-osite the seventy-,wo mark Ii hac
IA lien. but only temporarily. for ate.
that II climbed steadily back until 4,
had pa ssed the 100 point and Their
some After = o'clock in the after
noon tho mercury descended RAPIDLY.
and then fuctunicd back and forth un
I'll o'clock, when 1t rested at 81 de,
grees shower between 5 and .
o'clock is probably responsible for IN.
mercnrial variation downward
Tn" United States Weather Bureau,
station on Chimhorazo Park where
always delightful hreezcs blow TO cool
the anxious brow of the government
expert was not so variable. and thu
mercury climbed not SO high At moor,
the Thermometer registered % degrees
and At 3 o'clock IL reached 81 degrees
which was the highest for the day
EVENING BRINGS
but LITTLE RELIEF
Towards the shank OF the evenins'
II began TO fall. and at O'Clock ~
had gotten down 10 IS degrees But
there was no breeze from the tau.ns
JecH'S, ana early-rlsers were lo1ti
10 retire TO stuny rooms and to bed
Tho minimum temperature for the ian
was ~ degrees, and tho mean ,empera
ture 81 degrees, or 70 degrees above
normal The cold wca Their wave which,
was 10 have come out OF the West wa.
lost on tho way
The hot wave was not confined T.,
Richmond II rpread over all the
Southern States. though IL was no.
warmer in far Jacksonville than II wal
In Richmond. The coolest place on thf
map reported by the Weather Bureau
was Calgary. Can, where II was onl>
~ degrees, and in Spokane. Washing
ton State, the thermometer Registered,
Only 81 GcgreeH
There is comfort in the forecast o.
the amateur prophets. They say tina
the present SPELL cannot last muclI
longer In that they arc supported
by tho fact that every day brings winj
ter and Christmas a !!ttle closer.