New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1880-05-27
MIDSUMMER IN MAY.
ANOTHER DAY OF GREAT HEAT.

ANOTHER DAY OE OhEA1 HEAL
THE THERMOMETER IN THIS CITY REACHES V4' IN
TIE sHADE-sUFFERING AMONG ALL CLASSES OF
PEoPLE-EFFKCTs OF THE ToRRID TEMPERATURE
IN OTHER PARTS OF THE COUNTRY.
No relief came to hot and parched
New York yesterday. The temperature was
as high as on the preceding day. anu
much suffering was caused. The breeze, how
ever, was somewhat stronger than on tues
day, and in the evening made the burden OF the
excessive heat a little less terrible. AT
2 o'clock this morning there was no assuring
sign of a cool wave, or of rain. There were
several cases of sunstroke in and about New
York yesterday. Two fatal cases were reported
in Jersey City. The Sunday-schOol children IN
Brooklyn celebrated their anniversary day, Dut
the interest in their exercises was much impaired
by the intense heat In New-Jersey the effects
of the unreasonable temperature were es-
pecaly severe.
THE DAY IN AND ABOUT THE CITY.
now THE WEARY HOURS DRAGGED ALoNG-scENEs
IN THE PARKS AND THB sTREEIs-CAsEs OF
sUNsTROKE
The severe heat of Tuesday did not abate all
through the night and at o'lcock yesterday morn
ing the thermometer registered five degrees above
the point it reached at the Same hour on the
preceding day. The benches in many of the parks
were fully occupied Tuesday evening by persons
unable to obtain sleep in their own sitting habila-
tons. This was especially true of Washington
Square and the Battery. At the latter place hun
dreds of people lay stretched along the wall at
the waters edge or the benches. or sneaked De-
hind the bushes and reposed on the sward. inc
number of those who took their rest in the open
air last night was also large.
IL xuilf o1 NOrfinn
munty yesterday was the Broadway police squad
With becoming sense of the decorum due to their
pubic Office and with the fear of discipline before
their eyes, the patrolmen kept their coats buttOned
and suffered greatly. They complained OF their
heavy hats, and they were by no means the only
persons who suddenly came to the con-
clusion that change Of head-gear was
advisable. The matters shops in the lower part OF
the town did heavy business in Summer goods all
day. and the prOprietors of stores containing gen.
tlemen's furnishing goods could not remember to
have done so much business in one day for
years Everybody seemed intent upon purchasing
Summer underclothiDg. Those evenly balanced
and philOsophic persons that made principle
of sticking to their Winter garments until certain
0ay in midsummer had cause to rue their deterln-
nation. The wOrkmen at Burling-s slip mopped their
perspring faces with the sleeves with their thick
wOollen shirts. and found it necessary to take
many a brief respite the course OF their
toll. BY all classes the heat was severely
felt but perhaps. in noQuarter did it produce more
emphatic expressions of dissatisfaction than at the
docks of the incoming steamers. Passengers who
only two days before stood on the deck of the
vessel mufled with wraps to view the passing ice
bergs, now found themselves in the torrid zone
and the work of unstrapping their effects for tho
inspection of the Custom House officers became
doubly exasperating. The heat, however, was no
more severely felt. on the whole. than on the pre-
cedinE day, for, although the thermometer was at
a higher point during the morning, a pleasant
breeze and slightly moro humid atmosphere sub
dued its scorching effect.
The following is from the thermonetcral record
at Hudnut's pharmacy. and is a record of the heat
on May &C. for nine years past.