Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 22, Number 87, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 July 1901 — TEMPERATURE GOES TO 102. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

TEMPERATURE GOES TO 102.

All Records for ttae Heat in Chicago Are Shattered. Wednesday was the hottest day Chicago ever experienced. The thermometers in the Auditorium tower registered 102.1 degrees at 3 o'clock in- the afternoon. the highest previous maximum temperature having been made on July 16, 1887, when 99.8 degrees was registered, but which went into the printed record as 100 degrees. During the hottest part of the day the humidity measured only BO per cent, while at 7 o’clock it had fallen to 33 per cent. This condition probably kept a great many persons from being prostrated. One of the features of the day’s heat was the wind that blew over the baked prairies of Illinois and lowa. It started at a ten-mile gait at 7 o’clock in the morning, and the mercury began to climb the tube at the rate of 3 to 4 degrees an hour until the high point was reached at 3 o’clock. At that hour the wind was blowing at the rate of thirty miles an hour. The street thermometer registered at least 105, and gome of those which were hung where the sun had been during the morning ran up as high as 115 degrees. The lake breeze which visits Chicago like a protecting angel during hot spells played over the city, beginning at 7 o’clock at night,. sending the mercury from 96 degrees to 66 degrees. The hot wave Wednesday extended over lowa, Missouri, Nebraska, Indiana. Ohio and part of Michigan. The highest temperature recorded during the day was 104 degrees, at Dubuque, Davenport and St. Louis. It was 102 degrees at Springfield, Ill.; Omaha and Concordia. Kansas City and Des Moines recorded 100 degrees, while at North Platte and Dodge City 98 degrees was the record. It was 94 degrees at Detroit, Indianapolis, Louisville, Cairo und Nashville, 92 degrees at Cincinnati, and 90 degrees at Cleveland and Huron. It was only 84 degrees at St. Paul, Albany and Washington, and 80 degrees at New York and Philadelphia. At Buffalo it was only 78 degrees. The people of Milwaukee enjoyed a temperature of 86 degrees. At 7 o’clock at night the temperature in Chicago had dropped to 64 degrees. The coolest place on the map was at Duluth, where it was only 66 degrees during the warmest part of the day.

There Is some talk of using the rural free delivery for merchandise also. —St. Paul Pioneer Press.