New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1884-06-22
NINETY-SIX IN THE SHADE.
ADAY OF INToLERABLE HEAT.
LITTLE RELIEF TO BE OBTAINED ~ THIS CITY
THE RECORD or sUNsrRoKEs.

LITTLE RELIEF TO BE OBTAINED II THIS CITY
THE RECORD or sUNsTRoKEs.
These were a young mans audible murmur-
ings Yesterday: "Wam, warmer yarmest; hot, hottoo
tot hottentssimo hottentssimus we'll the rest would
not do for polite ears The young had been obliged
by memorable duty to walk down Broadway in the after
noon and trying TO reconstruct Lndley Murray to
suit the exigcncies OF the weather Along with million
other Workers he had realized the adequacy Of the
old method OF comparison. would no.more fit the
sUson than conventional profanity would he case OF the
Old farmer the taboard OF whose wagon came out wle
he was driving I'D Of apples up steep hill While lie
the young man, rot the tamcr-expermented with the
science OF language he envied the lot " the Hebrew ro
who got along comfortably in the fiery furnace He con-
tended that their stay the flames short at rate
and that the sacred story failed show they had to
stand afterward the blisterng heat Of sun which ike
than of yesterday persisted shining longer than on any
other day Of the year.
But the young man had measured the heat
by the condition Of his shirt collar and
Hudnuts thermometer. For comfort he should
have gone to the breezy heights OF the Governmental
Meteorological Bureau the top OF the Equitable Build
ing. There he would have discovered his amazement
that there actually a breeze Of measurable yigor,
and that NewYork not only not hot as the tempo
rary quarters Of shadrach Mehach and Abednego but
that t fell short little Of Boston Whether he
would have extracted any comfort OF the dscoverys
y
ton that it is hot and he glories in the most
ambitions thermometer he meets in his Journey
ipcs-urless he owps one himself which
is a tribe sluggish. Hudnuts is the popular
Thermometer because it records the degree Of heat
that the Broadway pedestrian feels 1t keeps pace with
his blood and hircoar. The amount of heat radi
aed by the sidewalks and marble walls is not barren
ldeality to him. undescrylng 81 attention, but
trcmey obvious reality. The thermometer seldom keeps
pace with hs mpauence when, yesterday, II be
gins at sunrise with about - and mounts up to go at
halfpas g. and persists in lowering that vicinity till
shutdown He lis bul. on the weather, and thinks
every quotation should be at least 100.
The cay was Of really killing TEN
pcraturr. The breeze wnich came IN
tantazine little whif- from the Bav not strong
enough % bring comfort II only increased the longing
for rrJut by the -ea-horc. I'm all parts Of the
the benches OF Battery Park The temperature a early
rr A. had icachcd So and tlcnce it continued it,
steady al vance until 9d was tou'a" at $50 Ai'r TINS
the evening had fallen ten pu,s Bat only i-ht dress
ANA inactivity mad evening end rlhle Iu tne city.
Hundreds OF people dockcd o coucy Island Ioi relief, and
the pJ5ic balla were crowded
suNSrEoKEs.
The following cas-, oi 5uu,troke were reported:
A>prU-os CHARLIE. age twcuty-ihfro' OF No l33 L!n
t,I-.;., ~wete was taken 10 Chambers street Hos
Viti suffering .IOu suns. Ioa'
ASUEft-. ,IpF. D., 90 carpenter. employed m TIE con
slrurtor of th- Er-lnjiu'- Elevator Warehouse. ~
Newark. va, overcome m the afternoon. lie was
taken u~t NIrltrIe tp''.it.
Bu-ND.Tu. EIDlsI. o. N". $50 West Thirty SiXih-st"
grated lu Brooklyn and Wd- sent 10 st Cath
rrirs'-Hu- fl-a-
Boz. GroE. D. axe fortv-.vo German. OF Now-Caauan.
Conn.,. tailor. was Frustrated at Twenty .HJhS,.
tni IIt't-svr, ana was t.l.u to Bellevue Hospital.
COOLING, IA-Q ALI. au Italian apor-r ot Ea,i one
hundred .uI-fllrternfh--t., Was overcome IN East
Oa, hIu lrtC-iud-ifil ,I--t., and removed 10 the
N.u...-l.utI street Hospital.
Df.f-~.. IIrLA fwtufy-.IX OF No. 1Gl It~' sixth
-f was taken iI1I ~ccouJ-a.c and IuITty-!ourtnSt'
al -..}J -. u. to Bellevue Hospital.
ILO-I psGF. a-c forty. wd- I'o-lfa'rl Wine Wort-
ing 81 NO -j FItye.. al 10 I ln. lie Wa sent 10
Bellevue Hospital. .
H.,cI. Io>. JpfN D., 90 forty five, employed iu the
UufrI states Government Offices at Buffalo, was
Frustrated 90 Broadway at p. ui, ana taken to the
Chambers street Hospital.
IOEIo> ions. Iauorcr. 80 il6 West Fory-hltn-st,
Wa p~o-til,rd iu lrutra,a. and taken home.
.IFNsf>G rATI. are eighteen. homeless was FOUND IN
front oI 40. 463 ID.rl-yc. ana taken TO Bellevue
Ho.ui's.
KILL. E,uA. ago fourteen employed in IIoaru'S dry
goods -t,.. 30 tuuItc"ntl-t. WIS pr,~frat.u a-" no
inc a'tr.uo ana was removed TO the Nev-lork
Hospital go
KING Jt,E, axe forty-two. an cIprcssman. OF No 81
CITY Hall place, taken 10 Chambers street Hos
SrfIIy,S JONI. onr.horcman. ~ No 81 Nonroe-st.
was .gsIrolIc front of So 20 Nr-t--t. Al I'D q. m
Tie Was sent e. tur tIa uotrs street Hospital.
Patrick I.yan, taken - the Chambers street
Hospital at noon Friday suffering from sunstroke.
died al ID later hour.