Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-01-01

been ranging along at 100 degrees TO 1o2
degrees as q maximum temperature,
while at midnight the nearest approach
to comfort has been 90 degrees. Inc
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 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 motionless 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
fon- bound, rock-ribbed, cast-steel,
gone, for the humidity was something
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 a univer-
sal meeting ground where bull and bear
could stand together, and the women in
the big tenement houses painted and
wondered to each other if it would ever
be cool again.
The thermometer at the top Of the
Equitable building at O'Clock in the
morning marked II degrees. The
humidity then was 76, 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 more distressing hour than
that between l 80 and 9 80 has been ex
perienced in this city this summer. The
air became closer and closer, and finally
the big drops of a thunder shower began
to fall. The shower lasted about an
hory and during that time .06 of an inch
, of'Iy,jer fell. After that the air percep-
cooled, and at 8 O'Clock last night
the official tube registered rs degrees.
The air was still full of moisture from
the rain, for the humidity was so.
While New Workers sweltered, how
ever, people at Moorhead, Oak, wore
overcoats and shivered over fires. The
thermometer was just eight degrees above
freezing point. Last night Feather
Point, on the st. Lawrence, was the
coolest place. the thermometer showing
4S degrees. A hot wave seemed to be
sweeping along the Atlantic coast, for all
the indications from Maine to Florida
were unusually high. The weather
mems prophecy of "cooler weather soon"
is too vague to bring much comfort.
But while some joked and tried to
make light of the terrible oppressiyeness,
sorrow and death were borne to others
homes on the humid atmosphere. Anna
Fitzpatrick, 80, of No. 332 East Fifty
fourth street; Daniel Shea, 4S, of No. 80
Baxter street; Kate McGovern, Is
months old, of No. 503 West Thirty-sixth
street. and Louisa Kurtz, 3 months old,
of No. 673 East One Hundred and Fifty
sixth street, died from the effect of the
heat. The prostrations unattended with
fatal results were as follows
Mary Flaherty, thirty-five, of No. 342
East Sixty-first street, overcome at
Broadway and Park place; taken to
Chambers-street Hospital.
Peter Conway, twenty-four, of No. 221
East Thirty-frst street, at No. 40 Hester
street; to Chambers street Hospital.
John Matchet, forty-ive, of No. 444
West Thirty-sixth street, at Tenth ave-
nue. aud Twenty-second street; to New
York Hospital.
Hugh Tracey, sixty, OF No. IL Tenth
avenue, overcome at Forty-sixth street
and Ninth avenue; to Roosevelt Hos
pital.
Mary Lally, eighteen, a domestic at
the Grand Union Hotel, overcome while
at work; to Bellevue.
Joseph Tasker, thirty-fve, of No. 36
Cherry street, at No. 81 Wall street; to
Chambers street Hospital.
James Mccall, thirty, of No. SOC West
Twenty-fiith street, at No. 53l West
Twentieth street; to New York Hospital
John Barry, twenty-eight, of No. 16
Jones street, at Morton and West streets !;
taken home.
That our climate is better than the
best in Europe may be seen from the
following table:
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