The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1878-07-20
HEAT ALL OVER THE LAND.
YET ANOTHER DAY or DISCOMFORT IN
THE sWELTERING CITY
Many Cases OF sunstroke. Fatal and Otherwise,
In New York and In the Dormitory Cities
suspensIon In the FaetorIes In EIIznbeth.

Suspension In the Factories In Elizabeth.
Thursdays heat laid tho foundation for
second scorching day yesterday. Brick walls
and stone pavemonts served as storehouscs Of
discomfort At o'clock yesterday morning
the mercury marked So. At o'clock in tho
moraing II stood at s0'. At 9 o'clock II marked
81 against SO on the preceding day. and at
noon the two days stood abreast at 90'. Then
tho mercury ascended to 96', at 81 o'clock
failing by only l. TO reach tho ell
max OF Thursday. At o'clock It was
92' against So on Thursday. Thus although
higher temperature was marked on Thursday.
yet tho average temperature was considerably
higher yesterday. These figures were obtained
at Hudnuts. The thermometer at the Weather
Bureau Observatory on the Equitable Building.
showed n temperature several degrees lower.
An observer OF tho weather yesterday placed
thermometer in the centre Of grass plot away
from all heat rejecting substances. but fully
exposed TO the suns rays At l11s o'clock the
mercury touched 112. Immediately aferward
n piece OF cloth was placed under tho Their
mometer to take II from direct contact with the
grass. The mercury at once rose A.. At 81
o'clock the same thermometer under like con-
ditons marked i1S'.
In Loomis's Treatise on Metcorology." it Ia
said that in Singapore. on the equator. the TOM
perature never rises above 95'. and that in Paris
and New York it has boon known to rise to l0l'
At Fort Miller. California. the thermometer
once showed a temperature Of 1917.
yesterday mornings reports showed fall In
temperature In Western cities as compared
with Thursday morning A follows: Bsmark.
Darotah. 3 degrees; Chicago. 6; Cincinnati. 8;
Detroit, p There was an Increase In tempera-
ture in the cities further East. Comfort was
found in New York Yesterday in recalling the
hotter days OF the Centennial July; on July 2.
1876 the heat was 9S degrees on the 4th, 1t was
| 9s on the sth 90 on the 9th. l0l on the 18th.
| g6 on the 18th % and on the 18th 90.
II is remarkable that at Sandy Hook yester
| day at sundown tho temperature was ~. At
Manhattan Beach at noon II was So. In cherry
street the poor women crowded tho griniy door
sills on the shady side TO breathe tho foul air ot
| the street. The doorways OF the tenement- nnd
| figures OF wretchedncss; yet the population II
women and half-nakcd children Ia the rooms
| above was not pcrceltit - lcssonci
Keepers ~ restaurants said that there was
great falling oil I'm the demand Tor meats. Tho
amount q food eaten was nYt more than oh p,r
| cont of that usually called Tor and ~ nj
varied greatly IN the direction oi vegetables
In the Stuyvcsant Laundry. on Eighth street
| have been removed, that there is "A little
through from the SSen rhSsl. tr9at d9Ss s
cumbed 10 the heat yesterday afternoon
She H"r RrqPSry SarsG for in hS SS4 @ST
| with unnagging patience. Whenever ono
had TO change her iron she, entered separate
IL,
using upon rod hot stove and took another in
is stead. This room is about ten ieet square;
a fSye e%T e 5Grass at the booR 1SRe TR
70 To- the '1 walls are ore hung newly washed
| clothes. The temperature IL about l2Q degrees.
| The ironers work by the piece. and the harder
they work tho more they make; During these
the morning until T. at night. Yesterday their
faces had been washed palo with perspiration.
aud their dresses hung limp and moist from
| their shoulders. Their eyes plainly tOll OF the
The leo cream sellers complained that II was
too hot for people TO leave their houses. The
street venders of the article, however did a
thriving business In Chatham Baxter. and
| with groups Of children who paid their pennies
for the little deli goblctfus. and ate their yell
The Eleventh Regiment Col. F. Unbckant.
went TO Crcedmool yesterday 10 shoot. but a
't ON ho e"pn paSqm Of 'S cap Ksn gree
Range Hotel therm ometer registered lo3 Do
TIE mercury ran NJ 20 H. IN tho third lass
J y men outot pa qualified. and in the second
Al noon yesterday the thermometer stood Ms
follows At the places named; Buffalo. 81 p; Chi
cago 70; Cincinnati 90; Cleveland. 50; s..
Louis, %; Indianapolis. 81; f,ttsburEh. ~
Washington. 93: Saratoga, So; ong Branch,
- Phil1lelphia, g2; Manhattan Beach s.
and II was predicted that il would be during the
day the warmcst city In the Mon. Tho Their
mometer then stood, at s.; At noon the ther-
mercury rose there in proportion to ia rise In
New York. III" tempcrature must havo been
several degrees above 100 AZ 3 - o'clock;
Last evening in this. city tho weather was
I con paratlNely cOmi ortanle.
Tho, following cases Of prostration were re-
ported:
Kate Qmpn, ased 80 Of ea cherry street sent to the
Denn. Iistes aged So 1oneshoreman Of lower
Gwenweh .ireet ,ent. '9 oh9mntr. 9mnt street Hospital
sidewalk at $50 canal street sent to Chambers street
Ro6cr Bradori aged % Of staten island sent to the
Chambers street Hospital ,,s r..o...-...
taken by friend to chambers street Hospital
e S9ai assJ ,t2. th g MS,s'nSi3n en ssSt wa
home In he afternoon he was sent to the chamber,
' Tnoms. Soian Sscd = d II Jane, street sent t,
Corn'hus Dwyer, ssed - Of go Bank street walked
James chusiq. Pole, asct 90 Of % Essex street, wa
,ken to chambers street ho'ii'" from Pier 3d. Noru
Eugene Pohul ascd a. Of 2e2 Garden street lobohcn
street Sent to ST Yince1ts Hospital He soon r,eoy
An unknown man, cyid,nily a lahorer, 9gd about 4
yea a Si I SSE STsp, Hss avenue 9 sneIns rs a an
hest He was taken 10 Roosevelt Hospital lie mAy re
rsinck Good aged 81; o(fs Wet Forty arst street
5n'sr n,i ia s, M - an en,t,rer wa, scnt in an IN
sensO condition to Bclleyue Hospital year ago he
Join Nauscr IS wa. oqnd insen,blc at Fourth stree
Mcnncl Boyle, aged "a seaman was sent to Bellevue
Michael Lcger aged o. Of Tenth street and sccon,
avenue found Wing the sidewalk in front Of 81
MARKS Church. sent 10 Bellevue Hospital
Ross Mctuire aged 80 was found unconscious at Levi
and Houston streets sent To Bellevue Hospital.
Bruce Patterson. aged % OF Fourth avenue and Twen
" tlkhth street ahorer found in cUnNulsuns II
First avenue and Twenty NTH street
John McGmn AGED ~. Of $50 East Thirty fourth street
a lahorer found mscushlc At Thirty fourth stree
and Second avenue, sent tJ Bellevue Hospital
John Mccall, aged 90 stag carpenter IN Buffalo,
y brother of Ellie Mctall the actress who committee
suicide on "Wednesday last was admitted to Bellevue
| Hospital ~
Henry OLoughnn aged % OF il4th street and Frs
avenue was found insensibo at Ninety second street
Thrd avenue. Taken home.
Harriet j Rooney aged 90, fell at Lexington avenu
and Fiiueth street Sent a. Mount sinai HOSPITAL
George Charles aged 81. Of 3al West Thirty fourt
street was sent to Roosevelt Hospital
william Brown, peddler, aged 31 died IN his home
lh1 thfyste street
whitehall street. sent To Chambers street Hospital
Mary oss aged A. Of lli last Eigh ocut stlttt died
bernard llcdiendOO aged "a, Ol go West Fy sccon
street. tel At ~ Tenth avenue Inkru home.
. An unknown man, aged 49, sent 10 Bellevue llo'
pital \ Delaney street police
John Miller Of Ei.hth avenue hnd fy nfst street Eel
at Fourteenth street aud Eighth avenue taken 10 Ney
York Hospital.
John Cienss 90 Of l3o West F0y seventh street died
Hannah ComIaHa was prOstfHitd at her home AT %
Pearl street. taken TO the Chambers Street Hospital
| Fdwnrc SchUin -. oi 81 Janc, street died.
Michael j. Tracey, clerk In MGtfrery CO.'S store a
Eleventh street Ani broadway, uled IN the evening "A
40 AZ Hudson sttcet
iu,hard Walton 80 Of Christopher street tel At FRS
avenue anl Twenty sixth street snnt 10 Bellevue Hos