New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1882-07-12
MORE SCORCHING WEATHER.
MUCH SUFFERING IN THE CITY.


ever, seemed to be garing exception to this rule.
Not q person could be seen the streets
throughout the day who seemed to care
very much whether he reached his destination or
not. The same Indifference characterized the
stree,-car drivers the truckmen and the messenger
boys In fact the only thing in the city that could
be called lively was the mercury in the thermome-
ters That was very much so f; 1t was sprightly, In
fact
When the sun rose and gilcd the church spires
the buildings and pavements had not yet recovered
from the effects Of the heat of the day before
There was morning dew, and no fresh morning
breeze the air seemed dead. Hudnuts Thermometer
at o'clock recorded the fact that there were 77'
Of heat in the atmosphere. The city awoke and
prepared itself for business with anguid, despair
ing sort of air that showed plainly how well the
present hot wave had done its work in the two rst
days of its visit. When the metropolis was finally
on its feet for the day, and the tides OF life were
surging through the streets painfully and listessy
it was o'clock and the mercurial register OF tenn
perature indicated $50 BY noon 1t had reached
800. The streets downtown were crowded with
foot passengers who seemed TO go along because
they were wound up and couldn't stop.
In Wall-st. and its neghborhOod bankers and
brokers and clerks went about minus waistcoats
fans were waved frantically in the neghbor-
hood of their red, perspirng faces.
What breeze there seemed to spring up from
the pavements and burned the face like some in
fernal furnace. The street-sprinklers went about
occasionally, but it a useless labor; the stones
were so hot that they dried before the water-carts
were block away. The ewsbOys failed utterly TO
get up any excitement with their feeble cries OF
Extra! extra Goin'tO be big war Alexander
bumbardedv Even those who bought the extras
seemed to take buta langud interest IN the news;
Fifth-avc. ana its tributary streets sinmered az
day; a brOwnstOne solitude hat was a delightful
place to be far away IRON. And many jewellers III
that region seemed TO be OF that OPINION, I0T tne
houses most OF them. looked as IL they nad Oeen
Theoretically sealed for the summer while scarcely
any one could be seen out OF doors Inc cro"ueu
tenement-bOuSe districts offered strOng cohIras,
10 the fashionable paris OF tnc town women anu
girls were seen bending painfully over Their III,
paid-fOr work IN all lie windows OF the seven ahd
eight-stOry buildings. Men and boys VINO seemed
ABOUT 10 evapOratc Win neat were WoIhlhS III
the sun or IN dark, damp cellars aU all KINDS Oh
work Numberless little girls were carrying Dig
hea led babies the shaded sides OF streets rcehg
vita foul odors. while countless other babies were
yelling III the bare musty rooms IN which nVe or SIX
people lived and worked constantly. lOtal WRECKS
OF male humanity dragged themselves from beer
snOp to beeT-snOD by the score TantlhS ours stood
M tine street corners seeming to wish that merclul
providence would send dOg-catcher along TO take
them TO the pound and drown Jhem
AT $3.50 D. III. the mercury payiully skipped up 10
90 and then took It's tlme III Shdlng Dach 10 JO~,
wnere 1t stood at O'Clock. lew heavy clouds
aZilV the DfaZen-lOOhlng say dJ tlules
during the afternoon, but the htiu SHADOWS they
east Afforded DO relief from The screening neat
They seemed to have the same eHect that Il cover
has a kettle of not wafer; AT one tiln ne. d
preat black thunder cloud came looming up from
tue west, and passed over the scorched mouse
tops it squeezed Out iew drops ol nol ram tnd'
turned TO yapDr almost before reaching the ground
Then the SIM came out again hotter than ever.
there were very few people IN Central faik our
ing the day time. those VINO uu 20 IleIg lounu ~
10 be CelIIslon and snare; there wasn't a cool
snot i'm The whole place. Iney trled the Mail ana
b.istered their feet; they TOOK row Oh
the lake end will apply cold cream 10 tner noses
to-dav they went 70 the Casino 10 eaten breeze
aud were themselves caught by mall-sZel mon
soon and they tOiled to the top oil the bevdele 10
find only hot-breathed wInd ana the sigut Vi d
cIty brOlng in the sun, Wltn lts cnutch SpieS
sbrouDed i, yellow haZe that might be the FUMES
of a cooking town. Then they crepI 10 the snadIesU
monks In the hamble or sought OUT Tue most Sc
cluded ana darkest archway, ana trleu 10 recover
from their former VAIN attempts u nhu place nae
was cool. . - o.. ~ ::
the park registered 10; at O'Clock the mercury
bod risen 10 So, and at noon it was at S7o
The highest point that it reached was 9O', where 1t
stood AT D. III. In the sun the mercury rose 10
There was the usual exodus from the city to the
seaside The excursion steamers were crowded On
evrrv trip and far into the night the streets about
their landings were nlIeu VIII Clo"uS VI pooPie
coming back 10 the hot city.
The death-rate Tor the twenty-four hours ending
at noon yesterday was very hlgn me number OF
deaths reported AT the bureau VI fleel oldtlNtiCo
heing l79 to Ill for the day before. VI these, 90
were children under five years OF age, VINO died
of cholera niantum, due to the neat lhere were
81 cases of of cholera morDus.
DEATHS FROM THE HEAT.
The following rs a list OF cases OF suustr0ke which
resulted fatally on Monday and yesterday:
COOK ARruUR coored. age nine months, died at No.
W az West Tnirty- from The neat
cov'p1 STsANNA age iour months died from the heat
m at no sgrmfSH, aye three months, died at No
537 west Twenty Nth-st. from the neat. n,
nrtTy MICHAEL, age twenty eight OF No rs Tenth
ave died suddenly at his home from the elects OF
r, tno ~, srpruEN. age three months died from
H' ~. hrat at No 1 Carlislest. on Monday night.
P,ocC, ITcfA age nine monts, OF No 80 Muloerry-st
died on Monday from the effects of the heat
,, T%Ncri GEoR,;r age thirty-six, WAS overcome by
thc heat his room al No ~ I-urt-S., bIookIy
SSIRe!F age vc of No $50 West Forty
dieo On enid at no 30i West Thirty rst-st, died
MUpnoCK. CLARA, age six months died at NO. 2f6
NrppVY' MICHAEL laborer AT the National Storage
Sii, NJ work lie dled at his home afteFward
ONEIL ARTHUR age tmrty-hVe, OF NO a lVO e.
and imri-ave lie was removed to Bellevue
prYXoIps G. F. age twenty-eight. of No. 81 Jane-st,
el'' VI a child died at No 1877 Chrystiest. from
--' 80 An unknown man. about forty years old.
died from suns r. ke at No. 81 Madison'st
- a child AZ No. 2,l97 SecOndaye died from
w - a child at No. 81 Riyngtonst., died from
the heat.
THOSE WHO WERE POsTRATED.
The following cases OF prostratiOn by the heat
were reported yesterday:
RrRKr. TERESA age twenty-eight was found suffering
frnn, the heat ut TentD-ave anu Fifty-seyenth-st.
Iast evening and sent 70 Roosevelt. Hospital
t TK EDITH thirty. Of No. 7S0 ThiIdave fell in
tic from the effects OF the heat at Ihird-ave aud
FnrtK-eighth-s She tax II 10 Bellevue Hospital.
CRoNIN john, age sxtyive, o. No % Cherrys., was
overcome by the neat nj the BOwery and Bayard-st.
and WAS carried nome. - 49, ,
DAILY MARTIS age ATTY of No 225 Yves Forty sixth
ST. was taken to St.Nincent's Hospital overcome by
the heat. 80 -.
DoEGuEETY JOHN, age fifty, of No. 459 West Thirty
umth-st was FRUSTRATED BY the heat at Tenth ave.
and Foltietlst. aud taken TO Roosevelt Hospital