New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-07-07
STILL UP IN THE NINETlES.
A PROLONGED AND SEVERE HEATED TERM.


the thermometer has shown than ninety de-
grees at 3 o'clock in the afternoon,
making one Of the most severe heated |
terms the city has experienced for
some years When once the mercury gsts well into
the ninetes little satisfaction is to be got from
qab5llng about sdegree or and just as 1t can
not IN ks much difference to veal-cutlet whether
it is cooked rare or well-done so nobody was much
consoled Yesterday by knowing that it was one
degree less hot than 1t had been the Fourth.
On the contrary. when man is hot he would
much rather know that there is some justification
for It, and t is something very like impertinence for
q mere machine like thermometer 10 go telling
honest frk that there is need to make such
fuss about the sun because it was hotter two days
ago.
According to Hudnuts thermometer there were
73o at O o'clock in the morning; 70 at o, and
81 at noon. Then by $3.50 the mercury had gone up
TO 81, where it stay ed for an hour, and then went
down with run to 80 at IN the evening The
Signal Service Station mercury 10 still 30 behind.
Hudnuts secured that lead Monday. and has
held it resoluJely ever since. But whether II was
800 or 04o it great deal too hot. and 1t this
kind of weather goes on much longer there seems
every prospect of some special police regulations
having to be enacted /" for the better ordering of
the public costume" 1t is not unlikely that q
to be fixed. and anyone detected wearing less than
the requisite number of yards Of cloth upon his per-
SON will DO mulcted in a certain number Of cooling
drinks-not TO exceed one for every member of the
police of the precinct in which the offence Is COM
mitted.
THE TENDENCY TO UyDREss.
About last Monday men took to walking with
their waistcoats unbuttoncdj on Tuesday waist
coats were discarded altogether then the license
permissible on the Fourth tempted them little
further and yesterday not few had abandoned
their collars and necktes as well as their waist
coats refused to put on CUTS, wore
their coats unbuttoned and carried their
hats IN their hands This leaves
very small margin for man to clothe himself with.
and the next things to 90 must inevitably be shirts,
and the police will regret that they did not take
action sooner. But though the economy of clothing
was great in the streets. IL looked like extraya-
| canoe compared with the inadequate costumes OF
the people who stood in the doorways and hung out
of the windows in the tenement house districts. In
| the elevated railroad too. the windows OF the
/ houses as they neeted past presented continuous
| panorama OF studies from the semi-nudo. The
| bridge was almost deserted IN the middle Of the
| day, for tho breeze mp there was almost
| As bot as the sunshine. aud the shadow af-
| for,led by cobweb of steel cables scarcely
satisfactory. The morning and evening ferries, on
| the other hand were all crowded. and the ladies'
| cabins were a-hutter with manycolored fans, and
| in the gentlomens anything was good enough to
| try 10 make a breeze with-from a straw hat TO q
walking stick. But II was q passive and hfeless
crowd, and there were no struggling and racing for
| seats
SCENES IN THE PARKS
In Central Park every scat which hid any pre-
tence TO being In tho snado occupied through
| out the whole day. aud those which stood In the
| sun looked blistcrod aud woro scorching to the
| touch Around the lake nursemaids stood In the
shelter Of the bushes and children In tho shelter
| of the uursemalds aud all looked longingly
| az tho water. One shrewd little boy even
went 40 far A. TO tumble H. and whom he pulled
OUT said aecldentj but neither the police
| man nor the nurse believed him In Washington
square there was large oro"d OF lder: tnrougHou
| hundred children aud half as many grown
mp people assembled in eIpsc'snon % q
| hearing the 9TH Regiment Band play, ano
| the POLICEMAN on duty had 10 inform every one OF
Them separately that there was not going to De any
music and 70 give eacn .hsps SEATS ane
| shade and 30 tho people consoled themselves
tting under the trees and picking OIL tnelr clothes
I'm, thongh the caterplars had the best Of IL In tbs
| Souarrs the people were reyenRed on them IN the
street Tor Il would be hard 10 eonceiyeany lot NOR
I 4
bare front OF a brick wall, with yesterdays SUI
strring at II the whole day long. or spending, ~
, time M walking up aud down an iron rallinR "hlc
was almost red hot and With nothing 10 cst Du
greon paint
RAIN LATE IN TIE EVENING.
Theoretically there was wind yesterday-ot
the official reports pretend The statement no"
: ever "A auaiinsd by the confession that tho win
was light" winch renders 1t more cred
Bile: bat those who were In IN
,treets during tho hot hours would probaoi
have been angry II any one had told them tnor
r. was wind OF any kind whatever blowing rroi
,nornlno till evening II one continuous sure &c
| Of dead stifinQ heat. All day long mo sunnRn
soal cd into the pavements and tho walls unt'i IN
stones and bricks could hold no more ad a as
| N on 10 the already surch irged Atmosphere tei
= | rb. evidence OF the intensity oil the heat Is give
in the long list OF those who were FRUSTRATED py
l. list which can scarcely fail to grow longer uay
| day unless tho temperature modefates conslheraols
Inc steady ram which set IN late last ni9nt seem
| o hold out some nope that change Is AZ hshn. n
the afternoon pcopl bad BEEN saving tnat stor'
! must come ard soon aitcr sunset Tue SKY pec W.,
dark and overcast. NOW anu again WI H. ho,szo
| aiokerod with almost continuous sheet nghthInl
Bat 1t was long time DSro'e 1 uat -,
= came q storm anu but '"' beginning WITH hgi
10 shower at hAli-past 10 and gradually oc.
s creasing into q steady pour Ny "a ', w,
= | Ernm that time onward into the morning IL WEI
an ~ ons lime so heavy to sond tho few peopl
who were in the streets rushing TO every porch =,
shelter ana then slackcning 20 give them .,nno
4 | srrnggle ON a block or two But whether tney y.
: | .a1 or not nobody was sorry that the ram IN
4 | come. A.. prookIvn poard G
caa.rvisors Yesterday QUO OF the members sat III
s nipt sleeves and tho board voted TO expend ~
o | bnad IN providing each of the thiry-two menpo'
d with u palm-ieai tan.
o LONG LIST or suSsrRoKEs.
= The following sunstrokes were reported
a~ufa .al
a SiAhA. an second-aye. aud Eig0teth'st.
Was suffering rom snnsross , aaS was ''"'
l. | ,-os r,yoruy age forty.nve, OF No. $40 Thirisi
10 xss pros rated sugar works 10 sou