The Sunday tatler and Jersey City express. (Jersey City, N.J.) 1883-1886, 1885-07-19
ANOTHER VERY T0RRIDDAY
A PROMISE OF A COOL SUNDAY BUT
ga SCORCHING MONDAY.

Damage Done by the Heat of Yesterday
In this Notwithstanding in the
Tenement Dfstrlcts-A Short Respite.
Friday night was terror in the tene-
ment house districts of of Jersey City.
Tenants abandoned their sweltering and
cramped apartments, and spent the night
on the stoops and sidewalks, painting for
breath, or, if the river was near at hand
sought the docks to catch the river breezes.
The sun came to the scratch at Daylight,
with magnificent feryor, and kept piling
the Goals into his furnace all day. To
many the day seemed hotter even than
Friday. But the thermometer scarcely
indicated 1T.
Along the railroads yesterday and the
day before, and particularly in the vicinity
OF the great depots near the ferries, the
heat was terribly felt. The blazing rays
of the sun were reflected from the polished
rails and sandy ground, and the men were
compelled to strip almost to the skin. Not
understanding, the railroad men appear to
have passed through the fearful ordeal un-
scathed, at least no reports are made of
any of them having succumbed to the heat.
In some of the factories and in all of the
silk establishments on the Hill, where the
windows were kept closed, the heat was
sitting. Among out door workers, perhaps,
the heat was most noticsbly felt by leasons
and hod-carriers on new brick buildings.
In majority of cases the men were sslaid
off during the afternoon of the past two
days. During the past twenty -four hours
ending at midnight last night, the temper
aff1ra aa 1ad OF Ho, at&J
was as follows:
Ga. M, 80; Ga. M, SO; IL M, 80; 3 D. m,
81; p. M, Sc; p. M, 81; IL D. M. rs.
Towards midnight little breeze got
abroad aud there was promise of reason
ably cool Sunday
The record of sunstrokes is not SO long
considering the prolonged heat.
Fritz Bernheimer, of Blum street, Union
Hill, died from sunstroke at st. Marys
Hospital.
Louis Wolf q Hoboken baker, is thought
to have been fatally Frustrated.
Henry Rockford, of ITO Grand street,
Hoboken, was taken to the hospital.
A Taper. employed by the Consumers
Gas Company, was overcome on Van Horn
street and had to go to the hospital.
The American pencil factory closed.
Ihe carpenters and builders on the Ho-
boken Land q Improvement Company's
eighty Hew houses had to knock off.
New YORK, July 18.-The minimum tenn
perature recorded by the thermometer at
the Signal Service station on the roof of
the Equitable Building last night was "a
degrees. Soon after 10 o'clock a light
breeze sprang up from the west, and con-
tlnued through the night and this morning.
There was little abatement of the heat.
however, and when the sun rose it was
with every promise that the day would be
hotter than yesterday. At 7 o'clock this
morning the thermometer at the SignsI
Service station indicated 81 degrees, which
was degrees higher than at the same hour
yesterday morning. Thne sergeant in charge
said that the cool wave which he expected
here to-day had been delayed on its Jour
ney, and that it was now central in the
lower lake region. 1t is headed for Can
ada, and will probably pass mp the st.
Lawrence Valley. He held out the hope.
however, that this neighborhood would
"catch the edge of it, ? and that the wea-
Their tonight and tomorrow would be
cooler. This relief, however. will only be
temporary, as there is another warm wave
approaching from the northwest which is
billed to reach here on Monday. 1t was
hotter here to-day than in Georgia or
Florida.