New-York tribune., 1883-06-06
NINETY DEGREES AND FIVE SUNSTROKES.

Although the hot weather is so exhausting
70 individuals has an unquesonably eIharatng and
enyenng effect upon certain branches OF trade straw
batsf" screamed wellknown Broadway halter yester
day why we sold yesterday for the day before
and two to-day for one we sold yesterday" And IL
was in several other lines. "If had twice the number
OF hands have declared the proprietor OF large down
town hardressine and shaving saloon. "they would
have been busy every minute OF the day; why the mum.
her that came be shanpooed alone would have made
good ordinary days business" The venders OF lemon
de and oranges entertained brief visions OF amassing
colossal fortunes The tender Of muchfrequsnted bar
deeared-persprng prousely tho while In his exertions
to make other people coOthat t was harder work than
at the opening the Bridge, while the keeper OF large
shop could only parallel yesterdays consump
ton OF his quorby travelling all the way back to Dec
Grafton Day last year workmen OF every kind werc
unanimous in considering just the weather 10 sit st
and mediate in while the stared without
a wink straight up Broadway and tho white pavement
looked as II could feel tho heat
of IT, It lay thick upon the ground. and men spent
their time I'm wondering whether the other side OF the
road yould be any cooler The keepers OF the public
bahs who have had easy OF yet this year.
were busy ali day trying drive supernuous applicants
away and Of the hospitals the surgeons sat and waited
for t,e first oases OF sunstroke
On the Manhattan Beach boats there moro pas
.ancers by one third than have travelled any day
hefore ths season; but yet Coney Island slightly
croWdci for so hot day. The fortuneteling was In
mi swing aud the merry goroundsj donkeys
were there and goat carriages but there were few ysl
tors 10 ride them, and at the hottest time OF the
day when there ought TO have been crowds Of Daters
| TWO BOYS had the whole 10 themselves.
the Signal Service station I'm this city the hermo-
eter no than Slo but unfortunately the
General public could not spend the day the tops OF
| fheir houses, and lower down the heat
Accumulated until the mercury at Hudnnts stood at
0o9 al half past o'clock Reports from Philadelphia.
Plttsburg and Memphis Tenn, tell OF $40 while nj Bn
fao the mercury went up 24o in as many hours. AL
over the States the rise was pretty general
| Hundreds OF hot and thirsty people looked In vain
veserday for the fountain which last summer
stood al the south end Of the Post Office But the foun
tain was there At many Of the Crot0n water ionn
tans cup TO dInf out out OF ~ 10 DC scen hoaoJ
! the fountain VI the P0St ONCE . .
The following Of prostration by the heat we're
| reported by the police: ,- f.. ~,
EfusIxES LUDWIG cabinetmakcr. was taken from No.
l95 Chrystie-st TO Chambers Street Hosptal anu IN
two hours he died. The physicians said tlst ne was
overcome by the heat
MuRRAY PATRICK, homeless man, siIty-fve years old,
| became insensibie at Pier No. Al Norm RIVER
| REsHoiM a. OF No. 443 Avenue-A, became overheated
AT 9:4O a. m, while working at No 5OS west fOrty-
| second-st, and died In few moments.
RITZ ApOLPH, young lab0rer, OF No. oO7 Nnth-aYo,
while working In Fiftyrst-st. near broadway, was
| rendered inseDsble at lilo p. IN.
sEIGLER JACOB lab0rer whose home IL at Ninth-aye
| and Thirtcth-st., overcome at EighthraNe anu
| Northumberland -tenth-st at 10 a. IN.
dog kept ut No 245 Fourthave. went mad IRON the
affect OF the heat IL shot by Policeman George D.
| Shaw Of the Twenty-nntb Precinct.