New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1891-06-16
TIP WENT THE MERCURY.
,vsrrRDay THE HOTTEST JUNE is ON
RECORD.
..,r Vt DUNN LOOKED COOL AND SAID 1T WAS
ONLY % DEGREES, BUT STREET THEIR
MoMETERs REGISTERED 90
PRosrRATr oNs BY HEAT.


MN, Of those who yesterday toiled along New
orks sidewalks under a blazing sun VIII oe
,r,rised 10 learn. on the authority Of Sergeant
- that Yesterday was the hottest day of the
"a, and not only that, but also the hottest
oh of June known in the history of the
,onal Service Bureau Those who have enjoyed
% renial warmth of the last few days looked
n the gradual rise Of the temperature to an
verage summer warmth. They were, however,
ot prepared for the sudden increase in heat which
,ade itself felt soon after midnight on SUNDAY
nd sent the mercury bounding upward.
The warmer conditions which prevailed over
N tho Middle Atlantic States were due TO an area
high pressure just south OF NeW-lorh h'
40 m the thermometer ct the top OF the Equiu-
nle Building registered II degrees Az 8 a. hi'
4 had fallen q point TO 20 degrees ana 'nen
srted on a rapid and steady upward tour' Vno
blowing being the records up to 3:5o D. IN, :
a a. m. as degrees; noon, 50 degrees ( ''o
nm. % degrees; 80 p. m, 90 degrees
Perrv's thermometer, which at noon recolue'
hlv SO degrees, three degrees lower lhah S"e
SIGNAL Service record, and appeared 10 be nope
lesslv beaten. came up with rush In the heAV
.hrce hours. and before 80 p. m had lett Ile
official instruments far in the rear. 40 ;5V p H.
shs Thirsty souls on Park Row who looked DIT
Perry's Thermometer saw record OF SS ueer'es'
No ono eonld tell 30 what mysterious influence
was due this remarkable rise in temperature J"S0
optside Pcrry's cOol-drink establishment.
! Allowing for the diversltieS OF opinion WIN"
will exist among the thermometers on broao""S'
q is safe 10 say that he tenPeI"V"ie We"
higher than 90 degraes.
IL was hot enough 70 make existence almost uh'
,,dnrable for the dwellers in the crowded tene-
rr,nt-bouses. or for those hapless slaves of the
s+,eets the car-horses, and walking became verl-
,ohla tIrturc. A soft southcry ten-mile breeze
bo,vever tempered the heat Of the sun, While the
humidity mercifully kept down to 10 per cent
IN this circumstance is probably due the fact thaU
only a few cases of prosiration by heat were re-
norted Matthew Darcy, feeble old man, sank
down from exhaustion at Marion and spring stS'
md was taken In an ambulance 10 his home
;Ceorre Schroeder, living OF No 3l9 West SIXTY
,seventh-stA lay unconscious on the sidewalk at
Fiftb-ave and Fifty-fourth-st., and was taken to
st. Lukes Hospital .,,oh,,. .1,o
The only cool place in town was probably the
Sinna1 Service Office and the only cool man in IT
YVES Sergeant Dunn. The office is perfectly Htu-
sted for the reception Of every breath of cool air
that blows in from the bay. Inc ne en n1
in tbe street may be away up above co. an
humanity may he perspiring and groamng, Duu
Sergeant Dunn alone is placid and comlortaole
l1,ra % on record:a he said. "The nearest approach
20 eIs " was in 1887. when the maximum 81 de
erees The warmest June day during the last
twenty years was June %. 1858. when e6 degrees
was reached The people who 90 to see the SUD
urban tomorrow are likely TO remember the
weather for some time to come. 1t viii be warm
not SO warm as 1t has been to-day-out stu warm
enough to make everybody uncomfortable
There were five cases of prostration by The
heat IN Brooklyn yesterday
IN Newark at noon the mercury had climbed
IN QG degrees, and by 3 o'clock registered 9s
5esyrees at Broad and Market sts., reaching l02
In the lower part Of the city 1t was necessary
70 make frequent changes of the car and dranght
horses and a number Of persons were overcome oy
the heat.