New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1880-09-05
RETIRN OLE SUMNER DAYS.
A HOT DAY YESTERDAY AND ANOTHER hAffCi'
TO FolLow-GREAr HUMIDITY OF THE ATMo

TO FOILOw-GREAT HUMIDITY of HE A'"oo
pHHRE-RUSH TO THE SEASIDE.
Residents Of New-York who had hoped WIN Tue
advent of autumn To be free from any unpleasint
extremes of temperature for awhile were not graft
fed with Yesterdays weather. Its effects we're APP
parent every where. Ii took mems coats on. unDnt
toned waistcoats, hostcd sun-umbrelas kePt laoes
indoors and reduced the rate of ocomotion Tor boh
man and beast on the thOroughiares. =,
Men would meet on the street, and AFTER shakihg
hands and moppIg brows would gaze AT tss,
They had used the expression, " 1t is warm" so
often during the summer that tho remark
seemed as worn as last years hat
Around the free ice-water fountain by the post
Office, a crowd was gathered all day. Merchants
and cardrivers. boOtblacks and newsboys. elboWed
and Ostled each other In the endeayor TO proht py
the gift of the Society for the encouragement OIL
Moderation.
offices. as there scarcely any breeze, ana tne
air was laden with moisture. Clerks wrote with
their coats off and with hankderchlefs around thcir
necks TO protect their collars and they
| Der instead of July.
Cool drinks and fruits we're in great demand, and
as the latter fortunately; were very abundant ana
Many persons sought the parks but found found
little relief. except to the +O eyGd o wm,og
green leaves and lawns. Bathing received
fresh impulse and the free baths were enjoyed 10y
| a great MANY Others fed 10 the beaches, and me
trans and steamers for Coney Island ana ana
| Rockaway Beach were crowded during the
afternoon and evening. Not often nave
| appreciated than yesterday. especially by
| the people who had Just returned from the coun-
| trv and would have found the city heat and dust
uncomfortable without the brief respite OF ride to
| the shore and plunge In the sea.
| Banks stores and other places of business were
closed early in the afternoon. and the vast army on
| employers and employees made unanimous MOTION
| for the seaside. Tho cooler concert gardens ana
beer saloon had their share OF comfort Seehings ell
! gems last evening, while the PIERS alOng tne river
front were alive with the Door people OF their neigh
! bOrhocGs. , -
| ance IN tho streets during the daY, as lew people
| ventured ont unless it was necessary. Toward
| evening the viclnidos of the railroad depots ana
steamboat piers were enIlVened Nv Crows rs oi
lightly dressed people bound Tor the cooler climate
On inspecting the thermometer record Of previous
years appears that September often begins WIN
| few very warm DAYS, "a If summer had not quite
exhausted its stock Of heat and had bequeathed 1t
| to the succeeding season u,,
pharmacy shows that it reached $50 on the first
day of September last year, and 9O' on the lst OF
September. 1878. The warmest day OF sep ITEM
| her 1877 was the 18th, when the Their
mometer reached so. On the 1st of Septem-
ber 1876, and the 3d. 1873 the maximum
was 90o in each instance oeing InG ni y ,5o
record of the thermometer at Hudnut's for yosfer-
day, and the corresponding day last year;
1879 e + IS IS s. s. S. S. Sc s.;
At 10 O'Clock last evening the thermometer stood
! tenaciously at 701.
| On the roof of the Equitable Building last even
ing If was probably as cool anywhere III the CITY,
| but there was scarcely any breeze, and even the
| United States Signal Service officer admitted III
| plain language that lit was hot" ,
| The Government barometer was falling all gay
! Yesterday. There was unusual humidity In the
| atmosphere which accounted for The peculiar OPP
| pressiveness Of the heat. The indicator marked
| IOOe in the morning, which is the maximum which
| the air can hold without its beng precpitated IN
rain or formed into fog. At 10 o'clock last evening
! the humidity was 0OO.
| No storm centres we're reported throughout tue
country and rain fell only at the fol owing points
| Cincinnati, o Detroit. 4 New-Orleans 30 ana
| Nashville, i. The indications point TO another
| warm day to-day, with little chance of rain:
| The temperature at the Equitable building was
as follows: 8 a. m, 74o: II M. 500; D. M, S4o
81. m $50; p. M, 1872 Following is the maxi
mum reached at different cities throughout the
country yesterday: 90 No.,
Albany SO; Baltimore 9Oo Boston. SO; Buffalo
| TO; Cairo. $50: Cincinnati. e3oi Detroit. 81 !;
Leavenworth $780, Indianapolis So; Keokuk' So !;
| Louisville, S4o New-Orleans. So; Omaha 81 /;
Philsdel phia. 900 Pttsburg. s9o Rochester, $50 I;
| ST. Louis 500; Yankton, $50; Cheyenne, TO-; East
port Me-. the coolest place in the country yester-
| day, $50.
Margaret DAY. age thirty, was sunstTnck yester-
day al No. 545 West Fifty second-st. She was sent
TO the Roosevelt Hospital at 11:45.
| John HAY, aged forty-nine years, homeless man,
was overcome by the heat in Chatnam-st. last
night, and was taken TO the Chambers Sueet Hos
| pital.