PAVEMENT LIKE OVEN

Greymouth Evening Star, 24 August 1928, Page 10

PAVEMENT LIKE OVEN

EGG FRIED IN OPEN STREET.

Because a girl stuck fast in the melting asphalt of one of Chicago’s main thoroughfares, al) the traffic had to lie held up. Impatient motorists hooted in vain, and it was not until two noted football players went to the rescue of the distressed maiden,, untied her shoes, and carried her to the pavement that traffic was able to proceed.

This was one of the incidents that occurred during the sweltering heat wave which hung over the Eastern States like a. suffocating blanket, and culminated in New York’s hottest day of the year, with a mid-day temperature of 92 in the shade. Someone declared at Patterson, NewJersey, that it was hot enough to fry eggs on the pavement. A local grocer to decide the matter, took an egg from a case outside his shop, broke it over the pavement, and set it down. 1 our minutes later, by a timekeeper’s watch the grocer handed the eggs over to one of the sceptics, who pronounced it to be perfectly fried.