Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-02-24

been ranging along at 100 degrees to 102
degrees as maximum temperature,
while at midnight the nearest approach
10 comfort has been 98 degrees. The
horses to the number of thirty day
have fallen dead in the street.
As contrast, on the 18th OF the month
the New York World spoke OF the
weather in that city and ut other points
in this way:
Evcn 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 motionless by
his side.
On screen behind was written these
words:
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 aftel
money and found the weather univer
sal meeting ground where bull and beal
could stand together, and the women il
the big tenement houses painted ane
wondered to each other if it would evel
be cool again.
The thermometer at the top of thu
Equitable building at s o'clock in tht
morning marked II degrees. Tht
humidity then was rs, and the air-bel
thick and sticky. AS the day advanced
heavy clouds hung like blankets over TIN
earth. Men found the air sitting. 1t Ii
doubtful if more distressing hour thai
that between l 80 and 2 80 has been ex
perienced in this city this summer. Th'
air became closer and closer, and finall.
the big drops of thunder shower begal
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hour, and during that time .06 OF an incl
of water fell. After that the air percep
tibly cooled, and at s O'Clock last nigh
the official tube registered 7S degrees
The air was still full of moisture from
the rain, for the humidity was 80.
While New Workers sweltered, how
lever, people at Moorhead, Dak., wor'
Iovercoats and shivered over fires. Th'
thermometer was just eight degrees abov'
freezing point. Last night Feathe
Point, on the St. Lawrence, was tn
coolest place, the thermometer shown,
4S degrees. A hot wave seemed to b.
sweeping alcng the Atlantic coast, for al
the indications from Maine to Florid
were unusually high. The weathe
mems prophecy of "cooler weather soon
is too vague to bring much comfort.
But while some joked and tried +
make light Of the terrible oppressiyeness
sorrow and death were borne to other
homes on the humid atmosphere. Ann
Fitzpatrick, 60, of No. 1872 East Fifty
fourth street; Daniel Shea, 4S, of No. 8
Baxter street; Kate McGovern, Il
months old, of No. 5O3 West Thirty-sixtl
street, and Louisa Kurtz, 8 months old
of No. 673 East One Hundred and Fifty
sixth street, died from the effect OF ih
heat. The prostrations unattended witt
fatal results were as follows:
| Mary Flaherty, thirty-fve, of No. "a
East Sixty-frst street, overcome O
Broadway and Park place; taken
Chambers-street G Hospital.
Peter Conway, twenty four, of No. %
East Thirty first street, at No. ITO Heste
street; to Chambers-street Hospital.
Il John Matchet, forty-fve, of No. A
West Thirty-sixth street, at Tenth ave
nue. and Twenty-second street; to Ne'
York Hospital.
i Hugh Tracey, sixty, OF No. II Tent
avenue, overcome at Forty-sixth stree
and Ninth avenue; to Roosevelt Hos
pital.
Mary Lally, eighteen, a domestic a
the Grand Union Hotel, overcome whil
at work; to Bellevue.
II Joseph Tasker, thirty-fve, of No. 8
Cherry street, at No. 54 Wall street;
Chambers. street Hospital.
| James Mccall, thirty, of No. SOC Wes
lTwenty-fifth street, at No. 531 Wes
Twentieth street; to New York Hospita
| John Barry, twenty.eight, of No. l
Jones street, at Morton and West streets
taken home.
1, That our climate is better than th
best in Europe may be seen from tn