New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-08-22

at No. sos Broadway and whilo waiting there he fell
The MERCURY YET ASPIRING.
DlscoMFoRTs FROM THE HEAT.

DlSCOMFORTS FROM THE HEAT.
| sUFrERINGs AND DEATH AMONG CHIDREN--A LIST
OF sUNsTRoKEs.
Yesterday was another "hottost day we have
had this year, Just as at Coney Island there are
to be seen any afternoon something over half-a-
dozen restaurants at each one Of which the best
clam-chowder on the Islandn is being sold. SO any
summer would consider itself discredited which
could not produce a good long list of hottest
days" 1t did not matter that those absurd therm-
ometers registered 80 moro Monday than they
did Yesterday The memory of Mondays sufferings
had melted during tho night and ran away III per-
spiraton. and beneath the heat of yesterdays sun
it would have been mere affectation to go on pre-
tending to be oppressed by the remnscence Of other
days
The Signal Service report for the benefit of COM
merce and agriculture" it is true gave SEQ as the
MAXIMUM reading of the day; and this may pos
sibly satisfy such abstract things commerce and
agriculture. They have neither flesh feelings;
but mere mort ais with all the frailties of fat upon
their bones and pores to their skins get small
benefit" from having their sufferings made hight
of. If commerce was made to go about In thick
tweed suit for day, OF agriculture was put into
tight trousers and q tall hat of these blazing
rooms, they would probably be discontentod with
these Equitable building fctions men them
selves. HudDuts thermometer reached 9O' at
3 p M. and though this was 80 less than at the
same bour on Monday, yet the average for the dav
was higher. This probably was because it had the
advantage of starting at 74o at 8 o'clock in the
morning whereas on Monday the mercury was
demoralized by having TO work its way mp from
600. Anyway it was a great deal too hot. and from
Central Park to the Battery, from West-st. to the
East River. every retreat which provided
modicum of shade was place to be strven for and
object OF rivalry among men. The ferries and all
the boats running to pleasure resorts were crowded
with those lucky. enough to have their day to
themselves. while the passengers on the
elevated road and in the surface cars
found il. in spite OF the alleged fresh" breeze.
intolerably hot. In of the Broadway cars d
man was so overcome by the heat that he sat In
ladys lap. and was understood to say in apology
that il was 'a'r-right." which he persisted in
murmuring till elected by the conductor. horse
one of the Beecker-st. cars was also overcome
by the heat about 1870 p. M. but not having
lady's lap handy il lay down in the road and
blocked the traffic for twenty minutes or so.
But it is IN places where it is less seen that the
greatest suffering results from the heat In the
crowded tenement-houses the everyday misery
of life is increased ten-fold. while saddest
evidence of all is given by the reports
sent in to the Coroner's Office of sudden death
among little children of the city. No less than SIX
such cases were registered yesterday. each one
brief IN itself but forming collectively the index TO
a world of suffering. OF these little victims two
were unknown children-one who died ut No. 80
Essex-st.. and one at Roosevelt Hospital. Besides
these James keegan. age two months, died at No.
All Tonth-ave; Michael Grlgane, age ten years. at
No. 10 York-st; Jacob Hopbech ut No. 600 East
Twelfth-st, and John Pfenger, seven months at No
33l West lhlrty-Dlnth-sl
Besides these deaths among the little children,
all OF which were presumably directly or Indirectly
connected with the beat. the following cases of
prostraton among adults were also reported:
FHEDKRIcKs THEODORE thirty Ave- taknn TO
bellevue Hospital late on Monday night lnscnsblr
from his home No 422 East fourteenth-st He
mad been suffering from epilepsy, and the beStaggra
waited his complaint
GELrsER, FREDERICK twenty. -four wears old. OF No
100 Chrystie-st Frustrated while at work In the
carpenter shop at No. ia East Forty-scyentii-8t.
SWEENEY, CATHARTSE ATTY years old removed
from her home at No. 3J7 Natcr-st 10 tho Chambers
Street Hospital early In the morning Sue WAS in
sensible having fallen In III account OF The heat
In her rooms
-. unknown man about thirtY-cight years
old, sent TO Bellevue Hospital by the police or
the Thirteenth Precinct at 1880 a. Ia. lie WAS lu-
sensible effects OF the neat, but policeman
who found him In the street thought the man bad
o.. His co hing showed him 70 be "A Iaoorer
--, an unknogn woman about sixty years old,
WHOSE dress indicated that sho vagfant WAS
four inseusble IN MissiOn.piaoe at 200 y. N. she
was removed 70 the New-YOrk Hospital.
-. unknOwn woman about sixty years OF age
wearing "A PLAIN dress, black straw lat aud striped
Points and was sent 10 this New York Hospital