New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1926-07-21
Bistered Crops And
Human Fatalities Left
In Wake Of Torrid
Spell As 1t Sweeps
From Midwest.
Connecticut Cities Suffer
Parks and Beaches Are
Thronged With People
Seeking Relief From
High Temperatures.
THUNDER SHOWERS
LIKELY TONIGHT

BY the Associated Press.
Fasteners mopped their brows
and scowled into the west today.
For out of the west had rolled the
summers greatest heat wave.
But appealing glances of hope
we're turned to the west, too, for
relief from the humid heat was
scheduled to come from the same
source.
AS the heat mounted. prostra-
lions were reported and the list of
drownings, indirectly attributable
to the weather which caused gen.
eral rush to lake and seashore,
mounted steadily.
Showers were reported at Gal
weston. Sault st. Marie, Duluth and
st. Paul, although high tempera-
lures continued yesterday through
out the central valleys and upper
lake region, reaching 100 degrees
in Iowa and Nebraska. Colorado
reported cooler weather with indi-
cations existing that the cool wave
will spread rapidly eastward.
Showers were predicted for the
sweltering eastern states tonight
and resulting cooler weather was
promised for tomorrow.
Temperatures which yesterday
passed 90 degrees in parts of Penn
sylvania. New England and New
York, were expected to be general
ly surpassed today.
Cooling breezes along the North
Jersey coast gave Newark and sur
rounding towns an enviable early
record in the surrounding heat.
The temperature in Newark drop
ped below the 70 mark at o'clock
and had only risen to rs three
hours later.
New England seemed uniformly
in the grip of the heat wave, and
New York state babe fair to prove
lusty rival for high honors.
New Britain today sweltered I'M
der the rays of a merciless sun
which beat down with such force
that everyone who could escape did
so without delay. 1t was one of the
hottest days of the summer, Their
mometers on Main street at l p. m.
registering from 81 to 1o1 degrees,
and those in protected locations
showed temperatures of between 81
and 80. 1t was the hottest day SO
far this summer.
The rising of the sun brought
whitening heat that made itself felt
everywhere. 1t beat through avn
ings and parasols and softened
pavements, sending rush of bust
ness to soft drink emporiums, and
at noon hundreds of employees of the
mercantile establishments took i'm
mediate advantage of their weekly
half holiday and drove to the sea-
| shore, there to try and defeat Old
Sol by dipping into the salt water
and resting in the cooling breath of
| the sad sea waves.
So far as is known, there were no
cases of heat prostrations reported
in New Britain. The iron foundry
at the P. & F Corbin factory shut
down this afternoon because of the
heat, but the brass foundry oper-
ated. The foundries at North &
Judd, Landers, Frary & Clark, Vul-
can Iron and Malleable Iron fac
tories operated as usual, and shortly
after noon it was said the intention
was to get out the customary pro-
duction. Whether office employees
would be dismissed early was not
known.
The various swimming pools
about the city were crowded all day.
The wading pool at Walnut Hill
park was we'll patronized by small
folks, also, and Rockwell park, Lake
Compounce and other nearby re-
sorts attracted many local bathers.
New York, July 81 tP-Thunder-
showers ahead was the hope held
out to New Workers today as they
wilted before the wave OF humid
heat sweeping the eastern seaboard.
At no time during the night did
the mercury drop below 70 and in
early morning 1t started a steady
upward march which the weather
bureau indicated would continue all
day.
AS the rush for the beaches be-
gan the sweltering crowds took
what comfort they could in the
forecaster's assertion that the
: mounting heat would dry the air
, and so lower the humidity.
The heat would be broken during
, the late day or evening, the weather
} bureau believed, by thunder show
ers which would mark a shift to
I cooler weather for tomorrow.
) The mercury continued to climb
: in New York as the day wore on
Z and at o'clock daylight time) had
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