The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1876-07-18
WHERE THE HEAT STRIKES.
ANOTHER DfY or FSWELTERINo IN
THE OYERHEirE CITY
Cb. supr,v of Ice Running short. and Deal
cr- Advancing the Price -Apprehenstoa of
mn Ice Fnminc-How Engineers and Men
from the Tropics Take the Weather.

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er- Advancing the Price Apprehension of
mn Ice Fnminc-How Engineers and Men
from the Tropics Take the weather.
Since the beginning of the intensely hot
weather the consumption OF ice has been i'm
mense, and dealers have begun 10 predict an ice
famine Hence yes erday the kDickerbocker
and Washington Ice Companies and all the
smaller companies In tho city advanced the
price, aud will supply butchers, hotels, and
restaurants at the rate OF 60 cents a hundred
pounds, and families ct IS cents.
Mr.. Robert Maclay. President OF the KDicker-
oocker and Washington Ice Companies said
yesterday, " 1t has been almost impossible to
supply the demand for several weeks. Most OF
the ioe Ia brought from the interior Of Maine,
and q great share is carried bv schooners. II
often happens that these vessels are delayed by
adverse winds, and tnen, again, two different
heets bringing cargoes. one OF which was Or
dered a week In advance OF the other, may bo'h
be driven by the same wind and come into Now
York In a bunch. This result disarranges our
calculations and puts us to great stress to meet
the demands. Tho present prices are higher
than were those OF last year, but not nearly so
high as were those OF former hot season. The
bea, thus far has besn severer and more
slant than In ten years before. 1t has been ter
rible In its effects upon the men and the horses.
We have lost many horses, and three or four
men have died by the heat. TDere Is no doubt
that there 10 plenty OF Ice In the country, hut the
great diniculty Is in getting It account of the
high freight rates."
In the window Of the engine room OF . large
factory in Prince street yesterday afternoon,
man clad only In an undershirt and trousers sat
tanning himself, white the perspiration coursed
down his face and neck in streams. ~ think
we feel IL the worst" said he 1.-THE ma sjority OF
ua epvineera work underground WHARF wa fael
ali the hoat there is, without getting any OF the
air that may be stirring. Tho temperature In
Ing the past two weeks. i often 20 aud stand
right out In the sun to get cool. But I've got
house near here. and when think how not be
Is II makes me ieel cool by comparison. He's
got big engine and boiler away down on the
way to China, and-wel. he used TO be rather
piOus, but TINS summer has given him an idea OF
the air blue around him."
Along the rivers yesterday the stevedores had
TO spell the longs horemen In rolling the csreoes
along tne broiline VIII 'rves. Even then some OF
the swelts ring hborers asked leave to 60 nome
before the days w9rk Vas nalf done. Tue hun
dreus OF noises that dragged heavy produce
wagons to meet the incoming boats from up
the river painted and drooDed thelr heads "a they
stood IN the heat, whlle their Crlvtrs and tne
boat hands tuggcd at the fruit crates ana bar
res, vet almost every horse wvro head cover
ing OF canvas or of green leaves.
"Sailors get mighty little such weather as
this" said an officer Of the foe ship Cirrolton,
lying at an East river pier "Our EN- are down
in the holds slowing iron, and they feel the neat
Intensely. I've been to Porto Rico, Cuba ali
our southern ports, and most Of the South
Amer,csn ports, out never GOT sfoui OF wealth
or that drew the strength out Of me as this does.
when we get our cargo 10 wen sail Tor San Fran
cisco, and tell you, III be glad to get under
way"
throughout the city the suns rays boat down
mercilessly all day, but their heat was tempered
by a steady soutDerly breeze that was felt In
most OF the cross streets all day. In the other
Intensely hot at O'Clock In the afternoon as on
any uSy last week
brokers deserted their offices, and lined the
shady sides OF the str cts, transacting business
as though they had been at their desks. Jay
gould NTH nye cen, ian 10 bis hand entered
ping his face and smiling pleasantly. He and
Clews. aud Pattoison ana II. N. Smith were the
Ssn,0 SaIy eonspieH0I; men n shat that TIE heat didn't
business was done. The brokers stayed near
the doors and windows, each with q fsn and
handkerchief in constant use. When the gal
iery contained a few ladies' the bows gallantIy
stirred up little mock business, just TO awe
their visitors hint OF how the real board
looked. In the hallway leading from wall
street crowd matched silver coin, Twenty
silver quarters were usually matched at once.
James whyte Dayi., the champion dancer, who
happened TO wsllz out IS the reporter was
:" never saw 1t so dun here in my life. Some OF
the boys are wearing their winter overcoais:
@ aSs %Hs'1 :@ISts %asr To
fur collars sewed on to their linen busters"
,,ed Neitned, the the police ofacsr' nor nor he heavy,
suitable cnsnge of clothes, ana they drag them
selves around under their heavy felt bats so
wearily as to excite compassion.
The cases OF death by sunstroke Yesterday
were reported as follows Timothy Cronin OF 2s
Rutgers street. RosaDna W hite Of Seventy ninth
street and Ninth avenue, Peter HeriRel Of 259
St nton street, John Goodman of 70 Columbia
street. Adam ogelman OF 437 West Forty -nrst
street, - Fallon n-in the Chambers Street Hos
pita
Inc cases Of prostrstion by heat reported yes
terdsy were James Diesseldorf Of 30 Green
Mich street. In William street-Chambers Street
HOSPITAL; Mary c llahan Of lis Mulberry street,
Jonn Hampeck OF 24l East Houston street.
John Cunningham died yesterday In the Long
Island College Hospital FROM the effects Of the
heat.
Frank Klrcher, OF S6 East ri qhth street, was
pfosirated Yesterday afternoon In Cornell's iron
foundry, at Iweny-sixth street aud Eleventh
avenue.