Los Angeles daily herald., 1888-10-23

As contrast, on the 18th of the month
the New York World spoke of the
weather in that city and at other points
in this way:
Even the Signal Service man sue
cumbed to the heat and humidity yester-
day. He lay back in his chair gasping
for breath. His collar had melted away.
His clothes hung limp about him, a
stream of perspiration poured down his
face and his hands hung mo. ionless by
his side.
On a screen behind was written these
OF all the sad words that mortal can spell,
The saddest are these; it's hotter than -
well.
Just below in big letters was written :
Please do not say it's hot;
The man who said it last got shot.
And it was no wonder than even the
iron-bound, .rock-ribbed, cast-steel,
double-plated signal-service men were
gone, for the humidity was something
awful, and like an invisible vampire
sapped the vitality of man and beast and
made them weary of life. Everywhere
the people said so; they told it to one an
other as they hurried through the swelt-
ering streets they talked of it in the hot
restaurants where they tried to eat and
drink and forget their misery, and up in
the great high factories and workshops.
Down on the Stock Exchange the bro
kers stopped in their wild chase after
money and found the weather q univer-
sal meeting ground where bull and bear
could stand together, and the women in
wondered to each other if it would ever
be cool again.
The thermometer at the top of the
Equitable building at s O'Clock in the
morning marked n degrees. The
then was rs, and the air-belt
thick and sticky. As the day advanced
heavy clouds hung like blankets over the
earth. Men found the air sitting. 1t is
doubtful if a more distressing hour than
that between 80 and 2 80 has been ex.
perienced in this city this summer. The
air became closer and closer, and finally
the big drops OF thunder shower began
10 fall. The shower lasted about an
hour, and during that time .06 of an inch
Of water fell. After that the air percep-
tibly cooled, and at O'Clock last night
the official tube registered rs degrees. |
The air was still full of moisture from
The rain, for the humidity was 80.
While New Workers sweltered, how
ever, people at Moorhead, OAK, wore
overcoats and shivered over fires. The
was just eight degrees above
freezing point. Last night Feather
Point, on the st. Lawrence, was the
coolest place. the thermometer showing |
IS degrees. A hot wave seemed to be
sweeping along the Atlantic coast, for ali |
,he indications from Maine to Florida |
we're unusually high. The weather
mems prophecy of "cooler weather soon"
8 too vague to bring much comfort.
But while some joked and tried to
make light of the terrible oppressiy eness,
sorrow and death were borne to others |
homes on the humid atmosphere. Anna
60, of No. 1872 East Fifty |
ourth street; Daniel Shea, 4S, of No. 80 |
Baxter street; Kate McGovern, Is |
months old, of No. 5O3 West Thirty-sixth
treet. and Louisa Kurtz, 3 months old,
If No. 673 East One Hundred and Fifty
ixth street, died from the effect Of the
leat. The prostrations unattended with |
atal results were as follows:
Mary Flsherty, thirty-fve, OF No. 342
Cast Sixty-frst street, overcome at
Broadway and Park place; taken to
JIldm U6TS-bCIcet hoSpltdl.
Peter Conway, twenty four, of No. 22l |
East Thirty first street, at No. ITO Hester
street; to Chambers Hospital.
John Matchet, forty-fve, of No. 444
West Thirty-sixth street, at Tenth ave-
1ue and Twenty-second street; to New
FORK Hospital.
Hugh Tracey, sixty, of No. II Tenth |
venue, overcome at Forty-sixth street
md Ninth avenue; to Roosevelt Hos
,ital.
Mary Lally, eighteen, domestic at
he Grand Uni?n Hotel, overcome while
It work; to Bellevue. ..I
Joseph Tasker, thirty.fve, Of No. Se
cherry street, at No. 54 Wall street; to
Chambers. street Hospital.
James Mccall, thirty, of No: 500 West
rwenty-fifth street, at No. 53l West
Twentieth street; to New York Hospital.
John Barry, twenty-eight, of No. l6
Tones street, at Morton and West streets /
AIKEN home.
That our climate is better than the
oasf in Errono NAV ha aean from the |