The sun., 1891-06-17
TWAS A GLORIOUS SHOWER.
AND ITS MERITS WE'RE IMPLANTED
ny THE HEAT THAT PRECEDED III.

Part OF the Thermometers, which. As
On Monday. Indicated Greatest Heat In
front or the Soda water Fou.tains-A
Cooler vsve - Ia sight, Hut May Ne
All Day Gettinx Hereditary Persons
Frustrated By tho Heat Yesterday.
Vbsn Sergeant Dunn looked at the official
harmon eter OF the signal service at o'clock
vesterday morning he found that 1t registered
W.. At tho same time on Monday morning It
haj registered 70'. So the Sergeant thought
With GOOD reason that yesterday would be a
Juns 10 for the present generation ITO tell It's
urandchildrsn about. Fortunately the thor
mometcr did not continue 10 climb nt tho
natural rate. And whom the days record was
onally made up 1t was found that the max
imum heat from $3.50 until o'clock In the
afternoon. bad boen 9s'. as against o. for
Monday.
But %. is far and away ahead OF the record
for Juno 10. the highest heat on that day In
former years having been o. IN 1885. The
hottest day ever known In New York the on
cial thorn eter registered 100. This was on
sept T. 1881. The hottest day Of last summer
vas July 8, whom we had "a. which was tho
same temperature as Monday and one degree
higher than Yesterday. So 1t seems that tho
spmmer hos begun we'll. and that we may do
something startling in the way OF mercury
lifting befors tho season is done. Pittsburgh
and Boston were about the only cities worse
of than this ono yesterday.
Another point OF comfort yesterday was the
humidity. Monday was not only hot but sticky.
Yesterday the humidity. which was 75 per
sent. early In the mornina fell to SO at noon.
The humidity has good deal to do with the
dlscomfor, and danger OF a hot day. When the
nor cent. Of humidity is high tho air 10 SO
saturated with moisture that rerspiration
eon iux out OF ,ho rores OF the human body
q arce'y eyaporates at all The lover tho
hum dty tie moro sreedy the evaporation,
md the less of that horrible sticky sensation
which makes the slightest bit OF clothing ir-
riiating,
The official thermome eter. SO carefully shaded
frt NJ the direct rays Of tho sun. Gtves no idea
Of the real heat Of the wretched animals. hui
man and otherwise. sweltering about uron
Dery pa,en,en s, and yesterday Sergeant Dunn
thought he would see Just how much differ
snce 1t made weh'her Thermometer was
exposed 20 h. real hent or kept in the shade
At II o'clock W en- the official thermometer
registered IS. he took another thermometer
and put it in the full glare OF the sun. Whom
be put II out it stood at So. No sooner had
the rays Of the sun struck tho bright little
ball than the column OF mercury began
10 mount as though 1t were pos
sessel. The first minute 1t rose G.
aud the second minute IL jumped o. stopping
short at 100. Later in tho day an exposed
thermometer would no doubt have risen to
1Oj or 110', and that was the real heat which
the horest toilinG burghers and their wives
and Tan h'r,s had 10 endure II they went
abroad ut all. The thermometers at Psrry's
aid Hudnuts are kept from the sun. but still
managed to do much better than the official
thermometer. At Perry's tho highest heat was
ltO at 80 o'clock In the afternoon. At Hud-
nuts 1t was 90.
On Monday the hent came ss q surprise. and
cooler clothes with q ferocity which soda
water and other iced drinks ameliorated but
little. Yesterday. however. everybody road In
THE SUN that there would be a second such
day. and elaborate preparations wore made
for defence. 1t is strange that New Workers
make no endeavor to meet tropical heat with
tropical remedies. They leave waistcoats and
suspenders and high collars and stifi, steel
like shirt bosoms at homo. but they retain tho
hesvy Woollen trousers and coats, and. until
repeated headaches have warned them. they
cling to Derby and beaver hats.
Usually the parks. especially Central Park.
give q little respite to tho overheated. but this
was not the case yesterday, as the thousands
Of people who tried 1t can testify. The slight
brsezes astir only moved about big masses Of
lot air and were no cooler than the draft Of .
hast furnace, 20 the Park benches were filed
The women who went shopping endured iE
rather better than the men further down town:
60 lness about ther faces that certain cross
Ok xpression In tho eyes utterly helied. But
there were, other women who abandoned thom:
Ing ioieLea,!s.
u !he narrow strce,s Of the east side the
ca,not avoid contact with each other. and the |
ts snen,s iairiy s,zzIed. and the babies
Bcr ~ e'l ns ihe rash b. oke out on their bodies
and her irstats / mothers spanked them for |
!, PVT the Weather was nowhere much talked
an1nt s,.ndI, IN" nlowis st the thermomsters.
u with Kroans, in. which no mention Of the
Weather ,s Was made. It seems that a great
as En- ut 4non spsh the
.neh incl remarks ony Increase the general irrita-
%So hs "stsd for .s@
'hat llat liEht grey, cloud with high-rsaching
y ist'shisnts q white was climbing up out
s Ssrnasu br.sse hsd p'sss Sssn tovins i,s1sy
two,ays. soon u Ter the appearance Of this
cloud N people at battery Park noticed that
!ho freeze had II touch :of freshness In II aud
E'as no longer steady. but came In gusts. Then
A: A: susts freshness was islt further UP town.
lhe dqst. which lay thlck upon the hot streets
Anl sidewalks. was caught up and whirled
aiong BROADWAY in binding. storm. Fallen
men who peddled fruit from opsn stands
'Safa r together their wares and wheeled
In a few minutes a deep growl and a thin
lash lash came out Of the advancing CLOUD. and
lNSery6ody know that rain was at hand. And
scn Ssn tie ,S, rain game. adysnsins over he siy
'rops ', that at first dotted tho sidewalk with
,pois ,poS ~ big around a. dollar and then COW
. .aea eLnrythtng with . cool, soft. dashinR
'Pray. Umbrellas that had been used for sun
,naues came In handtly for u,e as rain she'd.
nini ,SIsii Those who had not umbrellas did not
nInt th: storm. for It liftod up the dropping
Jia'es, ~ ires9ened tho QuiveriDg. furnace-l Ike
W and nut lilo and vigor into ali living bodies.
oergsant Dunn says that to-day will be
,oAriy as hot as yesterday. but that relief
more =. WI BE- heavy showers, foiiowsd by
! 'SSSally Snl inoreasinG coolnes4 There has been
y nuge oank, as IL were, OF hot air acoumulat.
bbe be 70 the south OF us for several days. and TO
ne as north there has been great followed out
ia 'nNai The Intense heat here is caused by the
owing mog OF tho hot air from the up- piled at
noSphere to tho south toward the cooler and