New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1888-06-24
SUFFERING FROM THE HEAT.
THE WEATHER ALMOST UNENDURABLE
AN INTENSELY HOT DAY ENDING WITH
ppEFZE

AN INTENSELY HOT DAY ENoiN" "
BREEZE
1t was quite warm yesterday. The attention OF th0
public is particularly directed to this circumstances
lest I'm the press OF other matters 1t may have pcen
overlooked. Many people were heard 10 compisih VI
the heat going far as TO institute comparisons
in irrcvernt way between the cline OF ther pr'n
and that of their possible destination tending 70 rsso
a doubt as which place the most onjectionaoo'
Recruits for an expedition in search OF the North POLO
could have been accumulated In scores and hundreds
right along Broadway and the Bowery, upon the SOLO
condition that each man should have an iceDerg 10
bring home with him his personal properly. Ino
sentiment OF the community generally was voiced oX
the unknown but feeling poet who sang
/ long to clasp April eve and In It's embraces no
Tho brow Of o winter SKY.
1t was bakey frzzIy, stewy sort Of day. Ono
felt II cooking not to put too hnc poins
upon It, in ones own gravy II ono were being
burned so speak, spontaneously, and yet by such
slow degrees to make the process not less exaspor-
ating than painful All nature In state OF hot
ness and torpor. Everybody felt all day long as "
he were quito sufficiently done that side and would
nightly like to be turned but one had enough on
ergy to do the turning The difference between AMI
mate and inanmate nature essentially hydro
static. The glow Of the animate was moist, out 'no
glow Of the inanimate dry II any body earned
anything he earned IL in the good old Bible way, only
more So for not only his brow but everything
ese that contributed TO HIS being ala us
full share Of peIsprng. Men walked the streets and
wiped their peony faces and groaned as II they
were oppressed by some dread misfortune. Ihe
crowds thin, for those who could Afford 10 stay
at homo and spend the day between two w1ndows
clothed in their right minds, and litte else, ana as
sisted In their efforts TO keep cool with sponges ana
fans, ice, lemons and soda had evidently not vent
nh xTbn yVpr
out by necessity, and they wandered along with steps
as carefully slow and measured II 1t were pena4
offence to hurry.
COOLING MEMORIES OF THE blizzard
The days of the blizzard were recalled with fond
longing Those gifted with fanciful imaginatfous
sought to cool themselves in the precious memory OK
sxteen-foot snowdrffts and active winds OF polar
rarity. These, unhappily, were not numerous
body Of men. One never knows how prosac and
matterof-fact he must be untl he attempts 10 work
the mnd-cure uncompromisng and resoiuta
thermometer. Then he the superiority or mat
ter Ovor mind. II IS discouragng TO shut ones eyes
and think dreamily of cool sIloams shady rill and
Greenlands icy mountains and open them only to
find that ones handkerchief is wet enough to wiring,
and that tho thermometer has gone up to 93 Ia In
the shade. Not that It would have gone up much
further had It been in the sun. The one virtue OF
such day as yesterday that 1t was little hotter
in the than in the shade
popularity of the day was its intensity early IN
the morning 1t did not grow hot The scorch was
well developed at sunrise The air scarcely stirred
In the Park the birds that usually enliven the morn
ing hours with their bright MARBLES were subdued ana
silent. The leaves of bushes and trees hung still and
dry. And later when the breezes came they
hot and heavy that they were more source
of additional aflicton than of consolation or rehef
They served only to blow the dry dust OF the street
into peoples eyes, and moist, perspiring faces Upon
the brute creation the day especially severe Tho
carhorses pued and painted fearfully and were per-
mittcd during the middle of the day to walk along al
their ease regardless of schedule time In wagons
and drags few heavy loads could be seen. A touch
Of nature made horse and master kin, but even 40
Night labor the poor beasts suffered sadly
Sergeant Dunn, of the Signal Service Station,
the Equitable Building declared that a cool wave was
coming and he expected 1t to arrive to-day Ser
geant says that yesterday was the hottest June
day for seventeen years. Tho following is the tenn
perature on the corresponding day OF June since
1872 1872, 81 degrees; 1873, 81 degrees; 1874, SO
degrees; 1875, rs degrees; 1876 so degrees; 1877,
90 degrees 1875 72 degrees 1870, g. degrees 1850,
80 degrees 1881, "a degrees 1882 81 degrees 1889.
SO degrees 1884 76 degrees 1855, ~ degrees 1885,
SO degrees; 1887, go degrees. For the 22d of Juno
the highest temperature record Is 80 degrees In
1854.
Yesterday Sergeant Dunn's Thermometer at a M
registered 70 degrees and at p IN. 06.2 degrees.
Heavy thunder clouds began rising In the West
about p. M, but though they passed over the city,
travelling up the North River, only few drops Of
fell, but they left feeling Of freshness in the>
air and in their wake there followed a refreshing
breeze, TO which many lifted their hats.
The following is a table of the rise and fall Of the
tell-tale mercury in the thermometer at Hudnut's
pharmacy yesterday and on the corresponding day