New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1890-07-09
HOTTEST DAY IN YEARS.
,.orurvG LIKE IT SINCE THE CENTENNIAL
IN 1876.

IN 1876.
,,rpcr,v TOUCHED 1o1 DEGREES-MANf
pRosTRATIoNs AND suNSINohh'
n .xn HER NEIGHBoRs SUFFERED
.n,KE-wARMER WEATHER PRE-"
DICTED FOR TO-DAY.
~. bo+tost dav for fourteen years Dlew oi.,V @
r,tborino breath over the city yesterday Inv
.,;,ohpg horror Of the thermometer weh' up "
n, aoareos No specal dispensatlon suoN 90
.r.,oa the Hebrew children in the merry i"i i""'.
-. vopcbsafed the city, and direct ana I"'''"'ou
-. ,,,de the vast oven burn and gio" ot'ic"'n
~. ravs of tbe pitiless sun. No shauc ""'i"V"
comfort no place relief. WIND DN" iio"' .,0
southyyest but it was like the oiaeu iion' V"1
s,rocco from the Lybian Desert iU
vhateyer il passed over Humlu, noV' S'i'''Is, ."o
sunerheated air hung between eiie iniio' VI MS
hr;,dincs and the intensity Oh llic sun i"S'
u,as gathered up and dispersed again oy Une p"Ne-
,n.n,s as If they were lenses bnllt TOT concenuu'
;nn tho ravs There was no escape from the
bat Shaded Offices usually cool ana pieaSan''
were ovens. in which their occupants SAT WonueI
s. urben they would be thoroughly cooked
.L9o,ab and fit to be served upon the nole.
w.. no man who Yesterday experienced the heat
~ NcwYork ever despise the feelings OF a piece
Of roast beef. IN,
Tn in the breezy tower Of the Equitable Build
,,o Sicnal Service Sergeant Dunn looked down
on the sweltering city below and smiled as the
mercury there stopped when it registered 80 de-
orees The temperature of the city and the Signal
Service station on the breezy tower do not always
agree. In fact, they seldom do Yesterday was
the hottest day recorded III the Signal Service
office since 1876. In July Of that year the ner-
cury rose TO 9S on the Sth and 80 on the ''i'
The sergeant held out no hope of cooler weather
today but rather seemed inclined to the opinion
that it would be hotter!
Business was slack and carried in a desul-
tory sort of way. In some places II was entirely
discontinued in the afternoon. In crowded tene-
nent-house districts women and chlldrh Gasp'd
for air. and got only the heated breath OF The
city's b:ick and mortar desert. Everywhere was
suffering everywhere oppression, lassitude ana
enervation. 4 few weeks of such heat as was
experienced yesterday would stop the business OF
New-York and make the metropolis deserted
CITY In tropical countries greater heat IS often
experienced, but it is different KIND Oi
heat and more easily borne. II lacks the great
and oppressive humidity. more hard to stand than
the actual heat itself Yet even in those tropical
cities where the heat of yesterday Is not uncom-
mon progress and active business are impossible
There trade winds blow from the ocean and make
life bearable Here there was yesterday no
messenger OF hope or comfort from cooling waves
Only the glare and the heat. strong men falhng
here and there PROSTATE beneath the fierce neat
and the fiery breath of the south wind. From
sidewalk gratngs beneath which are the boilers
and furnaces of great business blocks, came up
hot blasts that added TO the misery Of tue un-
fortunate pedestrians.
The boats that went TO the beaches were
crowded by people seeking 10 escape the unbear-
able heat but there it was only in the waves
that they found relief. Special dispatches from
Long Branch announced the temperature there at
76 degrees, and dispatch from Manhattan Beach
gave the temperature there as 76 degrees. This
latter was the temperature in the city at O'Clock
in the morning The night before had
been hot one. and at 3 o'clock in
tie morning the thermometer at Perrys
pharmacy registered 70 degrees At o'clock it
recorded the same temperature. Then the mer-
curry began 70 rise and at o'clock it had reached
7S degrees. At noon it was up TO 50 degrees, and
at 3 80 it reached 100 degrees. But this was
mercury stood at IOl. Having reached the
point of 1Ol degrees, the mercury be-
gan to 60 down, ard at O'Clock stood at 81.
The earth began TO recover from the presence
of n sun, and the night winds blew with
freshns coolness. Still, where the winds did not
penetrate the immense heat stored up during
the day was radiated from the buildings and
payements and made things generally unconfort-
able.
After such day the little relief which the
night brought was grateful, and people went
to sleep with wishes on their lips that such
another day might be averted.
All day yesterday the ambulances were busy
carrying to the hospitals people who hal been
prostrated by the heat. The cases reported were
as follows:
{. MULLER, of No 81 Broadst., prostrated at Wall.
81. and Broadway removed 10 the Chambers Street
Hospital.
EDWARD J. CLARK. overcome in front Of No. Is Car
minest; removed ~. Vincents Hospital.
EDWARD BOGsWELL, No. los East Tcnth-st, pros
trated in Chrstopherst. car and taken to the
same hospital.
JANE FROMEY. a homeless woman, removed TO
Bellevue Hospital. from No. 500 second-ave., at
MICHAEL FULLY. Of No 422 East sixteenth st.. taken
10 the New-York Hospital suffering from heat from
Twenty ->ccOndst. and siXth-ave.
ANDREW WALKER, Of Middle Village. L. l., prostr,ted
al Secondave. and seventy nnth-st; removed TO
The Presbyterian Hospital.
hLbkRI Cru 81 Of No. 515 ClintOn-st.. removed from
old sip TO the GOuverneur Hospital suffering from
heat prOstratiOn.
WILLIAM BAKER, Of No. 4l0 East Seventy second
81, pToStrated al No. 81 Maiden Lane: sent 10
The hospital In Chambers-st.
-, =. unknown woman about twenty five wears
yiu, sunerng from sunstroke, sent 10 GOuverncur
49, hospital from No. 135 Attorney ST.
"hN HAsLAN, letter carrier of No. 20I seventh ST.,
ovsfrOnle IN the PostOce branch station at HOu stOn
au Cr'Sby sts., removed 10 St Vlncents Hospital.
|hA1kLEs ADAMS, No 240 Fast one hundred and
Sennmst prStrated In FultOnst., taken TO the
a. .hanbers street Hospital.
~1SCnhAhL MCNAMARA, age thirty-fiv no JOG
NhaIoes, pretrated at Eleventh ST. and West ST.
iasV evening taken 20 -. Vincents Hospital
AVnAs SMITH bartender. at No. lac Pearl ST., taken
sck suddenly last evening died before the arrival
an ambulance, complained Of the heat during the
uS' death believed 10 be due 10 heat.
1A1hICh GAGAN. age thrty-one laborer, Of G94
rrmstNe overcome while az work at Third ave. and
~, orN VIZ niheh ST.; taken 70 Bellevue Hospital.
~"nnLhS tih METZ age forty No SO GOerckst.. pros
,,,. eu III South-st. taken home in an ambulance.