Evening star., 1924-08-07
SCORES OVERCOME
BY INTENSE HEAT
u. S. Workers May Be Dis.
missed-PoIice and Mail
Carriers Relieved.

"ashington's worst heat blanket in
six years today continued to clog the
wheels Of government and private
business and to pile UP prostration
cases in the hospitals, with relief
from the sizzling rise of the mercury
promised withip IL hours.
Two serious cases of prostration
were exacted as toll by the abnormal
weather Scores of persons suffering
from the heat were treated at hos
pitals. and thousands of Washing
tonians suffered severely. Qnly emr
ployes OF refrigeration plants failed
to feel the heat
Employees OF temporary buildings,
which become literal sweat shops In
the brofling afternoon, may be re-
leased today, Assistant Secretary of
the Treasury Wadsworth said at noon.
He was at that time giving consid-
GRAFTON to the relief of employees
especially of the buildings on the Mall
near Sixth and B streets. Yesterday IS
employees were treated in restrooms
for ailments incident to the heat
wave.
Today May Set Record.
Whether today will go into the rec
ord of the weather bureau as a great
er scorcher than yesterday remains
TO be seen at the compilation of rec
ords later this afternoon.
At noon. the thermometer had
logged on upward at exactly the
same pace it kept yesterday For
instance, at II o'clock, the kiosk at
Thirteen-and-a-Half street and Penn
sylvania avenue registered 90 in the
shade. Within Is minutes it had jumped
to 81, and before noon had passed Sc
and was vending onward toward the
100 mark. At the same time thermome-
ters scattered along Fourteenth street
in the shade were registering 100 and
going up. Yesterdays highest there
was log around around 4 o'clock
At the Weather Bureau, situated in
the heights off Rock Creek, the ther-
mometer showed 95 degrees shortly
before 11:30.
Hospitals Kept Busy.
Not only at Casualty. Emergency
and other hospitals were postration
cases being treated, but also in the
emergency rooms in virtually all gov
ernment buildings. Scores are off to-
day on sick leave because of the heat.
The two serious cases of heat pros
tration recorded here are: Elizabeth
Nelson, colored, 2021 Eleventh street,
who was taken from a street car at
Eleventh and F streets in a dazed con-
dition and treated at Emergency Hos
pital, and James Rollins, also colored,
IS, of 4o7 First street southeast, strick-
en- while at Third and E streets south
east and taken to Casualty Hospital
Hardest hit of the public servants
were policeman and mailmen. Mai.
Sullivan, chief Of police, relieved all
traffic policemen from duty from 11:30
to 80 today, this extreme step being
taken to avoid chances of them being
disabled by the terrific heat Post
master Mooney announced that the
sweltering midday mail delivery
would be cut out of the routine of the
postmen.
Ten others were treated at hospi-
tails for prostration or heat afrec-
tions, as follows:
Stack Lee, colored. SO. 439 Armory
place southwest, employed on the
steamer Charles Macalester, was TAX
en- i'll while at work yesterday at
ternoon, shortly before the boat left
on its evening trip to Marshall Hall.
He was taken to Emergency Hos
pital.
Thomas Baker. colored. ST, 1914
Third street, in the employ OF the
Street Cleaning Department, was over
come by the heat about o'clock yes
terday afternoon while working at
Thirty-fourth and o streets. He
was treated at Georgetown Univer-
sity Hospital and taken home.
Arthur Garner, colored, suffered an
attack of heat prostration while at
his home. $50 Twenty-seventh street,
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