Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 22, Number 95, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 August 1901 — THE HOT SPELL. [ARTICLE]

THE HOT SPELL.

Baffalo Cool *• a Cucumber While Other Cities Sweltered. During the hot spell that has been experienced throughout America the latter part of June and the early part of July, a comparison of temperatures, taking in the principal cities of the Tlaited States and Canada, is most interesting and would hardly be believed; hut the figures are authentic, being compiled by the government official of the, United States Weather Bureau. Taking the city of Buffalo, for instance —this being the PanAmerican Exposition city and the objective point of thousands- of travelers who are interested in knowing the weather conditions of that city—and comparing figures with those of eighteen other cities throughout America, the comparison is most noticeable. The summers in Buffalo pre without doubt the most perfect on the Every day there is a cooling breeze wafted over the bosom of Lake Erie that keeps the temperature down and ' tempers the humidity of the' atmosphere; it is rarely that the mercury reaches 90 degrees. During the most oppressive days of the late hot spell while the thermometer was 92 degrees in Chicago, 98 degrees in St. Louis, 92 degrees in Boston, 90 degrees iu Montreal, 94 degrees in To l ronto and 94 degrees in Detroit, the temperature of Buffalo was 82 degrees. The highest that the thermometer recorded during the week was 86 degrees, compared with a record in other cities of a temperature ranging from 96 to 104 degrees. It is, therefore, seen that anyone contemplating a trip to the Pan-American Exposition need not postpone their journey on account of the hot weather, as Buffalo is one of the coolest places on the continent and conditions will undoubtedly be maintained during the summer, judging from the records of past seasons.