TALL STORY OF HEAT.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 20028, 18 August 1928, Page 2 (Supplement)

TALL STORY OF HEAT.

PAVEMENT LIKE AN OVEN.

EGG FRIED IN OPEN STREET. Because a girl stuck fast in the melting asphalt of one of Chicago's main thoroughfnres, all the traffic had to be 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, New Jersey, 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, broko it over the pavement, and set it down. Four minutes later, by a timekeeper's watch, the grocer handed the egg over to one of the sceptics, who pronounced it to be perfectly fried,-