Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1916-07-17
COOLING Winds
Bring RELIEF At
LAST TO OMAHA
Old Sol Starts Out to Make a
Record in the Way of Turn
ing on Heat, But Falls
Down in Attempt.
EARLY MORNING A sIzZLER
People Rush to Lakes and
Swimming Pools in Effort
to Cool Off.
CROPS STILL UN1NJURED

1t was another scorcher yesterday
1t was the nineteenth day Of the con-
tinuous hot spell and during the aft
ernoon the maximum temperature
reached 90 degrees above zero, one
degree below the highest of Satur-
day.
Along about 4 o'clock relief came
when clouds rolled up in the wind
and the wind brisked up, cooling oil
the heated atmosphere. From that
time the temperature went down a
couple of degrees and hour and by
9 o'clock last night it was pretty
comfortable
The day started in to be record
breaker for the season and at noon a
temperature of 90 degrees was re-
corded. The mercury continued to
climb until 3 o'clock, when 9S de-
grecs, the maximum Of the day was
reached.
People thought it was hot, and it
was, but it was not marker to July
10, 1918, when the mercury climbed
l04 degrees.
Yesterday, however, was bad
enough for the humidity was there
and. it made you feel likt hunting
cool place, none of which were
<pparent.
Great Day for Bathers.
Sunday was great day for the
swimmers and they took advantage of
the public bathing places to cool off.
During the day $500 took dips at the
Municipal beach. Three hundred had
taken baths before E o'clock in the
morning and 800'before 8. At River
view there was crowd of $500 bath
ing in the pool during the day.
Downtown the streets reflected the
heat and made the sidewalks seem like
the entrance to a furnace. The as
phalt was soft.
The heat Saturday and Sunday was
so intense as to seriously damage sew
eral downtown rooms. On the roofs
, covered with tar or creosote roofing
compositions the binder softened up
to such an extent that where there
was an appreciab1e pitch to the roof
it flowed down and into the drain
pipes and in several instances ran
clear to the gutter for carrying off
the water.
The heat had considerable effect on
the attendance nithe churches, it go
ing down as the temperature went up.
Men dispensed with their coats,
even in the congregations and church
choirs.
The parks were popular, many fam
lilies spending the day there sleeping
on the grass and eating their dinners
and suppers under the trees.
Fine for Crops.
y While the weather has been unusu-
Ally hot all over Nebraska, it is not
believed that crops have been injured.
The Northwestern railroad crop re-
port that came in last night, covering
conditions up to last Saturday indi-
Gated that the agricultural situation
all through the state is most excel
lent, though there are few localities
where rain would be beneficial to, he
corn, especially that planted late.
This crop report indicates that all
through the South Platte couty the
small harvest is finished and that the
yield will exceed that of most Of the
former years. North of the Platte
harvest is we'll under way and will be
completed.
Some fears had been expressed that
the continued hot weather was prov
ing injurious to the corn. The report
OF the Northwestern dispells all such
fears, it indicating that during the
last two weeks the weather has been
ideal for this cereal and that it has
made most wonderful growth, and
that while late in being planted, it
has now reached normal condition.