New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1880-07-10
AGAIN IN The NINEIIES.
AHoT AND UNCOMFORTABLE DAY,

HOT AND UNCOMFORTABLE DAY,
THE MERCURY RIsING-EFFORTS TO KEEP COOL
UNIVERSAL IN THE CIIY-No PROSPECT OF
RAIN To.DAY-EFFECTs OF THE HEAT.
Could an impromptu expedition to the Polar seas
have been organized yesterday afternoon at 4 D.
M il is safe to say that the applicants for passage
fo that frgid cline would have been numbered by
thousands For the day was OppTessiycly hot
mu0Qy close and disagTeeablc. Even ones sus-
pepdels were an intOeTabio burden If he had TO
walk further than to the lce-pItcher. SO far as
could be learned, every oncsayc perhaps me com
paratively few teachers OF the art OF swimming,
suffered excessively. On Broadway The sunny side
of the street was deserted. Even in the shade little
relief was found.
was blowing gently seemed 10 have came from an
oveIhcated furnace. There was fair demand for
water and constant rush for mixed drluks, in
which water played very unimportant part In
the street there were some ludlcrOlIs SCIENCES
Every one seized with desire to SIT on the
shady side of the car only certain number COuld
be accommodated, of course and whenever anyone
on the coveted side of the car started to 20 ont,
from two to ten persons made frantic rush Tor the
vacated seat. One and half generally succeeded in
sitting down On the street men walked along car
rying their coats on their and their
hats in their hands. Curious crowds gathered around
the thermometers, and commented briefly but
vigorously on the state of the weather The Tree
water cooler on the Park Row SHE of the Post
Office was we'll patTonized by thirsty pedestrians
contribution box mas been placed near by, and an
awning has been stretched over the top.
AT $3.50 the mercury at 930 at Hudnut's-40
higher tuan III WAS III tue hsilc IlOuI Oll
The record at Hudnut's during the day was as fol-
lows; 3 a. 10, 10; Ga. H., 10; 8 a. NJ, 75O; II
m. $50; $3.50 p. m, 90; y. M, so. For the cor
responding day last year the Thermometer was
a. M, 700; a. M. IL; o. IN, 760 IL M, So;
$3.50 y. ~ S9o 6 p. IN. $50.
At the Signal Service Office the mercury at am.
stood at 72o at | m. 79o; at p. HI, 81 and
at p H., Sc. The highest point reached was
so.
For the first nine. DAYS in the month the Their
mometer at lfudnuts At $3.50 p m. has averaged a
fraction over So. Yesterday was the first day
when the mercury assembled iqto the nnetes For
the last seven days In June, however 1t averaged
over 91o at $3.50 p. M. and for the fret nine days
ID June 1879, the thermometer at $3.50 p. III. aver
aged fraction less than $40 The table Of the first
nine days of July, at $3.50 y. m. Is as follows;
July ................1 i q 3 q 8 o
1879. So. pa 9lo 9so z9o79o zoosOe IS.
New-York was not the only hot city yesterday
erday the THERMOMETERS rose steadily in most of the
cities throughout the country At the Sig
nal Service Office the gentleman III
charge said, with q Sigh as ho advanced
toward the ce-cooler. that there wasn't "a storm
centre anywhere IN the United States, The one
that wasIp Minnesota on Thursday had gone to-
ward the Northwest TO cheer the Canadians, THE
TRIBVNE reporter cross-questiQned the officer in
charge as severely as his exhaust ed condition would
permit. but he couldn't get the latter TO admit that
here was the remotest probability of rain to-day
A few cities far 10 the eastward. westward and
southwark were blessed with few drops yesterday
but tie total fall in the afternoon at seven different
places-all that were reported-was less then an
inch. The rain fall in hnndredths Of an inch as