Waterbury evening Democrat., 1888-06-21
I1,l I0RK'S HOTTEST DAY,
IT SIXTEEN FEARS THERE HAS BEEN
 NOTHING LIKEIT

hc Mercury Cavorts Up and Down the 2 1ls.r,noncter Between Sixty-ive nad
 Nin- n-y-four-Average for the Day 7s,s, Dr a,.o1at Fos.r Degrees Higher than Il;s 4t I enr.
 K NEW YORK, June 21.-Yesterday was the hottest Il " seen here @ early as this since ls72 All Now York wus swelterins Tho, ::.,t wave, starting in the south, hal. rolled va. the whole country this side the Missis- sippi, going as far northas St. Vinccnt, Minn., where tho temperature is sometimes 50 de- srees below zero on frosty mornings ill win Ger and as far cast ns New Haven. The hot test towns ill ;he county were New York and Cincinnati, cac!l- with temperature of 94 n the shade. .i- Chicago the thermometer s.yistercl SS q, 5. Lous. s4; st Philadelphia, B, and nt Baltimore, s6 The hot wave was i.il.e,i before 1t got to Boston, where the in- ii,,bi'ants enjoye,!a cpo:, and breezy day, with : temperature of ons. 6sdegrees.
 At the early hour of 3 o'clock in the morn ing Hudnut's thermomater was half shiver- tug at the corner oi Broadway and Ann street ;n q temperature of 65 degrees. At 6 o'clock .he thermometer registered 67 degrees; at 9 o'clock tho temperature was 75 degrees; in next three hours tho mercury bulb bounded nimbly up ten points and stopped to rest at noon nt 85 degrees. It kept on climbing sayly up the ssalo, aad q. 5 ;3S o'clock was near the top of the thcrm ometer. 1t stood at a4. By o'clock it had slid down the scale to 87.
 The whole town was broiling in the sun. It ";:s so hot that the picture of Thurman in ront of campaign snpply store is said to we taken oat q rcd bandanna and mopped '1s' face. The torrid sun poured down on half il million pco,, sH": ":ea n tho factories. A
 ,m half million TO 'st.lI in the stifling ten-
 il: houses X favored hundred thousand
 x weary trying to kccp cool in the brown
 .nc districts. .z
 l"le ice-cream saloons were crowded with 'iistomcrs, and ice-crca:n bricks went off like hot cakes. Soda fountains wore as effervcscent and Dubbling over as campaign orators. The heat in the crowded tenement house districts was intense. The geese ia Essex and Lud- low streets lay down on the pavement, too much prostratcd by the heat to stroll a5outin these picturesque thoroughfares. If they could havo spoken they would have asked for water. The thousands of men, | women and girls, crowded i'll the dingy and ill-ventilated shops of this district, where cheap clothing is made by the sweating sys- | t,m,' were tortured by the heat and lack oi air. Tho great sugar mills and hundreds oi other shops and factories were stiling. The fat woman i'll the Bowery Museum al- LaoSC Ahcltcu' oAe loSt thirty pouHuS 0uIAls the day, and had to be taken off exhibition aad sent down to Conoy Island to recuperate little party of immigrants who landed al Castle Garden from Northern Norway thought that they had got into the tropics.
 Thousands went to Coney Island and Rock | away to sit in the breeze and toss in the surf l Excursion boats up the Sound and down tho Bay were crowded with New Workers seeking l some cool retreat. Everybody was glad wher 1 night came and the cool air from tho oceaI blow over tho city. Then at least half a mil lion people gathered on tho roofs of the mYriat tenement houses under the moon and stars