New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-08-21
d DAY OF OPPRESSIVE HEAT.

EAGER SEARCH FOR COOLING BREEzEs-sEvERAL
sUSsTRoKEs
The weather since last Thursday has been
in a feyerish ard unsettled mood. The temperature
seemed to be getting ready do something desperate.
and Its daily average went up quietly but steadily from
$50 to TAO Sunday. Yesterday the mask thrown
OF aud the mercury unceremoniously
bounced upward 100 higher than it had
dared to venture on the previous day.
weary sadness and profuse perspiration took pos
session Of aud beast in the ctys streets, but Joy
not felt for several weeks filed the hearts Of the inn
keeper by the sad sea waves. happy smile played
upon the features OF the emonade-an as he stirred In
the tartarc acid and the soda fountains fixed merry
all day long. The Thermometer said at q. M that the
temperature only 76o and at noon 1t persisted In
asserting that $40 the limit Of the record but
pulent men, with wastcoats and pores Wide open,
knew better, and painfully conscious that
was stirring and when the MONDAY sun looked down
upon Broadway 1t saw not one, but many scores OF
wited colars At $3.50 p. the mercury had mounted
to $50. Every who could get away from work
seemed to DO going to the neghbong beaches or to the
parks and gardens in aud around the city They
seemed TO be In hurry to get there yet they were re-
uctant to rapidly. Central Park crowded late
visited by thousands who went there TO catch
siona feeble breeze from the bazy bay When by chance
stray gust Of wind got beyond the citys waterfront
1t soon grew tired, lay down in the street and died.
Among the tenement-houses there great suffering
from the heat The streets there were deserted
middle Of the day. and the swelterng thousands abored
and drudged their hot and dismal with chance
relief In the evening they swarmsd about docsteps
Railways and filled the streets Six o'clock came
and the mercury at s6o At O'Clock 1t had fallen
to $40. but little relief from the days dis
comfort scarcely breath of air was stirring aud the
the pavements and buildings still giving OF
the heat stored up In them during the day
At the Signal Service Station the Equitable Building
It learned that the mercury In the barometer there
had fallen 90 OF an inch In tue eight hours before
marked fall nad taken place In all parts OF the
country also In Philadelphia the Thermometer regis
tered $780, rise Of Ito In twenty-four hours and IN
Pittsburg the reading s8o In all the large cities
south OF baltimore the temperature up the
ties, $40 being the highest, az Augusta. Ga
borhood there were only three cases prostraoD
the heat reported TO the police They were az follows
DooLRY JAMES age thirteen, by the heat
IN tne street and was taken to his home AZ No. 4l6
West Tnirty-second-st.
NcENEE T., was overcome by the heat In Long Island
CITY He was able TO go to his home IN New-York
after being attended to by sphysician.
MARTYR THOMAS. age thirty-eght. OF No BIZ East
Thrty-eisnth-sL. Frustrated in Fifty tnird-st
near LeIington-ave., and was taken 10 bellevue
Hospital
scHuBARDr, NICHOLAS, age thirty-eigbt, Of No. 26s
Busnwick-aVe., and was taken to st. Catherine
Hospital.
YOUNG. CHARLES age twenty-five, Of Floyd-et and
sumnerave., Brooklyn. feil "A victim 10 the intense
beat at Centralaye. ana Ivy-st, while working ID
sand bank
In the thunder storm on Sunday afternoon the rsof
a house at Irvlngton blown of. The barn OF super
visor Moses W. Taylor, OF Unonyile, town Of Mount
Pleasant, struck by lightning on Sunday evening
and was totally destroyed. There was quantity Of
hay ia IL The building valued at $780, and
IL Insured Tor $500.