Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-08-07

The highest temperature reached
was registered at p. m. when the
mercury registered lO44 degrees.
This broke the previous maximum
temperature record, made on Santi-
ago Day. July 3. 1898, when 101 de-
grees Fahrenheit was registered.
Washington was the hottest city
in the United States yesterday and
the only one in the country with
higher temperature than Harris
burg. The mercury there reached
the lO6 mark. Washington and Har-
risburg. together with Baltimore,
Nd. hung up new maximum tem-
perature records during the day.
\ number of cities with United
States Weather Bureaus had tenn
peratures equal to Harrisburg 5.
Those with maximum temperatures
of 104 degrees were Detroit, Phila-
delphia and Pittsburgh.
Many Cannot Work
Humidity is exceptionally low to-
day and together with a good breeze,
is helping better conditions for Har-
risburgers. The humidity at l o'clock
to-day was 81, ten degrees lower
than yesterday
This uneXampled heat wave is
seriously interfering with industry i'll
Harrisburg. Hundreds of men are
failing TO report regularly for work
and have seriously crippled several
of the plants, some of which are now
engaged in hlling war contracts.
In several instances departments
of some of the establishments have
been closed down altogether. Fail
ure of enough employees to report Tor
work to man these departments was
the cause in several instances, but
in others the officials of the estab-
lishments have voluntarily closed
them.
Plea For Work
Hot though it be-" one empower
this morning said, employees should
report for work. We may be suffer-
ing here, but We should remember
the boys in khaki in camps and can
tonments in this country and on Cor
elgn shores. They cannot dress
nearly as coolly as we can"
The Harrisburg Pipe and Pipe
bending Works is the Harrisburg in
dustrial plant that is the most seri-
ously affected. At that establish
ment. the entire shell department is
closed to-day. Twelve hundred men
are employed in it.
An insufficient supply of material
is given as the reason for the closing
of the department which is scheduled
to open tomorrow morning at
o'clock. The department receives
its material from the forge shop,
which has not been able to keep its
output up to the standard because
so many employees have failed to re-
port for duty.
While the Pipe and Pipe Bending
Plant is exceptionally cool, cooler in
fact than the city streets and many
of the houses in which the men
slept last evening, the output of the
entire plant is somewhat affected.
The output of the projectile force
department had been halved and the
seamless cylinder department to-day
/ is producing 25 per cent less than its
average output
Mills Closed
The Central Iron and Steel Com
pany is another Harrisburg plant
/ that has been seriously affected by
the heat wave. Last night the Uni
! versal Mill was closed all night while
! Rolling Mill No. was not operated
! on parts Of both night and day tricks
| yesterday because of the intense
/ heat. These two mills, together with
| the remainder of the plant opened
up for operations as usual this morn
/ ing All of the departments were
! operating as usual at o'clock this
| afternoon. Many men. however,
| have been of duty at this establish
ment, too. because of the heat
The Steelton plant of the Bethle-
/ hem Steel Company is one establish
ment that has not been compelled to
! close any departments of the plant
! Some departments are not operating,
but the heat has not caused their