Show LONDON HOT I WITHOUT V ICE U Un Unprecedented n pre c e den t ed Heat Wave Catches John John Bull Bull Unprepared By Or WILLIAM J BulB DmD Special Cable to 10 The Tnie Standard Standard- Standard Examiner I i LONDON July U 14 A A heat ot of a a al almost most unprecedented Intensity ad- ad accompanied ac accompanied companied by thundershowers ot of equally rare severity reduced this metropolis to a condition ot of paray- paray paralysis sis Bin this week Day by day the temperature has approximated d 90 degl dege sen BeS Ia In tho the shade Even In Now New York such raging heat leal for so prolonged n tL period would be bo exceptional but London Is entirely without the amelioration of such tropical conditions which I Ilire Iare lire are common In the United States I that no persons persona have been made mado In the conditions ot of o life to mitigate such a arrangements wear wear- wearing log ing apparel and the general scheme of life Ute arc oro not filled tilled with the In- In In Ingenuities with which Americans are familiar Ice Ico Is commodity a 1 little I used Among the tho poor and een e tIme the middle class it Is quite quito un-I un un n for tor household purposes It was quite Impossible to improvise I Ia a supply of oC Ice to meet such In an emergency a as this and seven million I Londoners ha have hao e been left to swe- swe swelter ter ten in th lr own fat tat and pray for forSo fora fora So a cool br breeze ze from tram the sea sea Americans who came oyer over on the and an disembarked t t Southampton tarried only a sh short rt tim time e In London but beat a IL hasty huty ref rea real to the watering places I |