New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-08-06
SUFFERING WITH THE HEAT.
WHAT NETWORK ENDURED YESTERDAY.

iho 0ioN Iose yesterday morning unreIreSheu anu
poKlng It's collective head out of the window uttered
groan as it thought of its necessary pilgrimage to
the haunts of business. Few persons secured good
nights rest Thursday, but very many tossed from
sde to side in the close atmosphere listening in
terror to the terrible caterwaul of a midnight grim
akin or the small mosquitoes shrill familiar horn.
Inc SKY was overcast yesterday morning, and the
sutry air bred some delusive hopes of rain; few
drops actually made out to fall just speaking the
paving stones for minute; but before UNI
Drellas were turned to the purposes for which they
seem Tor the past month to have been made. The
neverrel ting wheel of business rolled on but it
In slack and pcrlunctory way. Those whose waist
coats were left at home, day before yesterday, did
away with collars yesterday, and some pioneers of
the fashions had already reached the coatless stage
of Development The vendors of waliing-canes are
beloved to have sold out their stock at Wholesale
ana to have Invested tho proceeds in fans, which
gave at least cent per cent profit
There is no place on Broadway which the licensed
vendors love so well as the shade of Trinity's ems
and horse-chestnut trees. The happiest member Of
the fraternity Of small traders was the Enthusiastically
habted seller of garers and shoulder braces whose
calling made knee breeches and coat an emf
nently respectable glrb 1t is very doubtful if
these money-changcrs choose the neighborhood of
Trinity on account of its sanctity, yet poor
woman who stood there with a child looked
through the iron bars witha wisful expression, as
cool ground underneath the tombstones
The Battery was sprinkled in the afternoon with
few emlGrants, who talked in the open sunlight
with labor agent from Providence, who described
the ease with which fortunes were gathered in that
attractive city In Castle Garden there good
many families bivouacking upon wheel-trucks and
bales of merchandise, the children crying and the
old people gaspng with the heat. Others seemed to
take it rs matter of course, having apparently set
their minds TO accept without grumbling whatever
fortune new world might have in store. Such
ramblers, however, Glanced to stray to
the waters edge upon the Battery
were surprised to find that at times
there was a fresh and cooling breeze blowing in
from the sea, making this by all means the most
tolerahe position that discoverable. The wind
was from the southeast in the afternoon, and the
sailing vessels, which before noon had been be-
c,almed began to move now and then like III ngs of
lIe. ne breeze was very tickle, and whenever 1t
ceased the stone paveme Is were fairly burning
Yesterday was the womeus day at the public
paths ana all were crowded Early in the morning
a steady stream of women aud girls began pouring
INTO the bathinghouses and il kept up late into the
evening. At the Battery bath companies of 800
were let IN ut once and the time of bath
ing was shortened to twenty minutes. Yes
crowds so far during the season. said the keeper of
me bath. "And they are of better class of people
nan usual. Why, we have had ladies come dressed
in silks aud satins and as good looking as those who
At the Gouverneur-st bath there were about
At II o'clock Thursday night a thonsand persons
were waiting their turn, and had to be driven off 10y
the police TO observer looking down
from the roof Of the bathing house yester-
day nothing WAS visible but mass of
swaying arms and bobbing heads. slender Girls
were crowded IN among TAT women, and old women
struggled with young, and ali were in good humor
STATISTICS OF SUFFERING.
The mercury climbed two or three degrees above
its record OF Thursday. Hndnut's thermometer
scored 90 at half-pas 3, but the Signal Service.
as usual. came out two degrees behind Though
there were some local variations tho day through
out The country was than Thurs
f D% bo1r fs S, rosy IN
O'clock h4c heat was at New-York 800;
A bid p2 5 B"l iG%sa 49, B5nrmmgton y 90
worth, Kan, oGo' Louisville % Miiwaakec, 81;
Nashville. 33D; Omaha, $50 Philadelphia, $50; |
pttsburg, 90; ST. Louis. oG5 Toledo, Ohio, 05o
1ankton, ID. T.. 90; aud Shreveport, La, 1909 |
n nitr temperatures we're Alpena. Mich, ,7lo
Orleans ~; and Eastpori, Me-, Goao. The
Central Park had fewer visitors YESTERDAY ihan |
ON any Other, day this summer. The absence of |
women and children was particularly noticeable !
The swings, the Carrousa and the goat carriages |
had few patrons, In the menagere the animals did |
having become accustomed to it. The sea lions |
seemed To be having the best time, they could |
SWIM around III the large tank whenever they chose
ne sneep lay nearly all day painting in the shade |
he Mall was almost deserted not boat was STIR |
ring on the lake.
Professor Daniel Draper was found in the Meteor |
ologcal Observatory busily experimenting notwith-
standing the fact that the instruments of his inven
t,on III the observatory were pencilhng off of
the hottest days of the season. The barometer Mt 3
p. IN. marked 29.92 inches. The sun thermometer
l4lO The hygrometer marked $40. The wind at |
- H. m was blowing from the northwest, but |
changed ITS directi n at on, and it blew III the
afternoon from the southeast. It's velocity from |
midnight To "a; III. was only 10 miles for the nine
hours; during the next hour its velocity was 40 |
miles. From 10 10 IL there was no pcrceptible
movement About o'clock light breeze, spranp
up IRON tne east men Increased until at o'clock
III was oiowlng ~ the rate of miles hour. The
temperature III the Park yesterday was as follows:
AL D 70. H., 10 at "A. nl 500 at II M $40 at 3
p. m 90. The mean temperature for August Tor |
ten years is 1880; the maximum being 90. iSo: and
the minimum 5C.72o
IN THE EXCHANGES AND wALI-srREET
The indifference To disarrangement OF dress exhb-
tied by members of the Produce Exchange was |
something remarkable. There was n "don't-care- |
how-l-look spirit manifested, and everybody ap- |
peared exhausted. Fans used vigorously. 1t |
was not uncommon to see member on the floor |
haess, coatless and collarless with his handkerchief
IN one hand mopping the pcrspiration from his face
and neck, and in many from bald head in the
other hand fan kept mp rotary motion. Stiff and |
spotcss ilnesoon became Imp and discolOred. There
were many who wound "a handkerchief loosely |
about the neck to catch the perspiraton as it rolled
down.
AT the Cotton Exchange the exhausted and |
dllapdatcd appearance of the members was like |
tha Produce Exchange. There less excitement
III the market than usual but one ESCAPED being |
saturated with perspiration No one felt In the hu-
NOR for levity, and the question occasionally put
=, Is 1t hot enough for you !" or How do you like
NOR No sooner did the gong sound for the suspension
OF business than there was a great rush for the
uiieren5 routes to Coney Island and other beaches.
oeeet broker shouted To one of his clerks yesterday
afternoon. The veteran broker was nearly in the
iui dress costume prescribed by etiouette in the
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