The evening world., 1890-07-08
BROILING HUMAN BEINGS.
No Relief to Be Expected from
the Oppressive Heat.
Hot To-day, but II Will BE Hotter
To-Morrow.

Old Sol is rendering himself liable for ma.
licious mischief to-day.
There was a malicious look on his face
when he emerged from his bath in the east
this morning. He looked bilious and dis
agreeable. aud after dispclhng n few shad.
ows and waking up a policeman or two. he
SUM out to his coadjutants and pals, Old
Hugh Nudity and Cal ORC.
Now, then. all together"
Thetwo enemies to human comfort braced
themselves. and with n mighty twist pulled
the mercury up to 10 points at one lump.
This was at x o'clock this morning, Just as
the pretty salesRirls were alighting at the
doors Of their places OF employment, all
decked in blazers aud blouses. tennis shoes
and pretty smiles.
Old Hugh Nudity wiped about a gallon Of
Precipitation oil his complexion and taking n
hitch in his trousers gave another hoist to
things. fetching a record oe 40 degrees.
Old Sol, tho king mischief maker. dis-
couragGd a nice breeze that was coming up
the bay by heating itnp 30 that it was like a
a breath from hadcs orr blast from an East
side pie bakery and by 10. 80 had faded
down to something very like a hot wave ut
eight miles an hour, drying the preparation
on the faces of suffering New Workers. who
perambulated in wiIted shirts and profanity.
At that hour Old Sol had withered every
thing in sight with Nj degrees Of clear, una
dultered c%aloric, and was still stirring up
the fires Of his unquenchabie wrath.
July 4 was making good a long record for
heat.
The day has had an average OF ~. u de-
Rreos of heat at the hottest moment these
eighteen years, but to-day Sergt. Dunn
Eays the temperature will touch very near
that OF July X, 1887, when it reached %
degrees on the weather tower.
SerRt. Dunn seeks to console and comfort
overhcated New York by showing that some
body Olse IL suffering more condignly than
are W..
Yesterday the heat reached 1Oo degrees at
Omaha aud 100 degrees at FL Paso. Tex,
Dodge CITY, Kan, Des M,oincS. Ia. and Fort
Sill. Ind. I. while nS degrees Fahrenheit
were recorded at st. Louis aud Kansas city.
and at Milwaukee. and Chicago ~. while
even the twin ~cities-St. Paul aud Mime
apolia suffered together i'll 90 degrees Of
%caloric.
The hot wave is spreading from Nebraska
over the MisAi-sippi. Ohio and Tennes zee
south OF Maine.
At Boston this morning there was ~ de-
grceS; at Philadelphia, ~; at Chicago and
New Orleans, 80. aud at Cincinnati, ~.
LOUIS and Washington. ~ degrees, as
against our 10.
These inland towns get no breeze. no sur-
cease at night. and all last night the mcr.
curry was from "a to 30 degrees III each of
those cities.
The weather clerk for this town offers no
hope for a hctterment tomorrow. He says
We will get no shower to-day and the heat
will increase tomorrow 30 that we may touch
the championship record of the champion
July day, 90 degrees on July 81. 1874.
The heat is equally oppressive all Though
the interior of this State. Buffalo. Albany
and OSwego showing about the same record
that we have.
Down on the %psvements Of New York il IL,
OF course, more Oppressive than M III SerEt.
bnnn's sky parlor. The street thermometers
showed from 40 to ~ degrees OF heat at
noon, aud werr still rising, while there in
Absolutely no breeze at all between the ROW.
OF buildings.
The excess OF heat for the year 1890 wa.
increased again yesterday To s4G degrees
and to-day bids fair to put it up at least o
points further.
The following cases of prostration by the
heat were repOrtegI by the police up To noon: |
Edward IAgwcll, thirty-uine years old, OF
~ East Tenth street. %strlnkcn IN = Chris
TOPPER street ear. ~. Nincent's Hospital.
James froney. "a, wears. homeless. fell ON
Second avenue. Bellevue.
Michael Kelly. ~, Of 4n2 Fast Sixteenth
strGst stricken a. wTemtyiscconL street and
Edward j. Clark. thirty-fre Years old,
residence unknown, was found in front II
q Carminc street. suffering from the heat.
Niucent'I Hospital.
William Bowker, thirty-ninc years old, of
4 10 East S~evcnty-sec oWd street, prOstratcl
IN front OF, - AlGidcn lane. Chambers
lIOsritRl
Albert Cause, forty.dve years old. Of 5I5
Clinton, street. Brooklyn, overcome ut Peck
sin aud south street; Gouverneur Hospital.
Andrew WnidlnC, u German thirty-t 80
YEAR, cln, of MtdIls Ni,iagG; ! onE island
Second aNpnnp. ITA4hviprtatt Hp.pntal