The sun., 1891-06-16
A THERMOMETRIC RIVALRY.
THE EHE4rAPPAREyTLFW WAS GREATEST
IN FRONT OF THE SODA FOUNTAING

It Was the Hottest June 1S In New Yorh
for eItering Hun ndreds Seeking
the Salt Breezes on the Big Bridge.
II the poet who asked what was SO rare ss
day In juno had been In this neiRhborhood
yesterday he might have inquired what was
so well done as day In June 1t was q regu'
lar scorcher. The highest Official thermome.
trio record OF the day was 93'; but that was
away up on the Equitable building. above
the MINDLESS and dusty turmoil OF the streets
where only very few OF our citizens can gel
at one time Down on the tagging Of the side
walks and In tho yellow dust OF the streets
1t was anywhere from 95' to 100. over iron
gratings the air was visibly tremulous.
There was breeze from the south, but II
wasted the little GOODNESS 1t had on the unap.
preciative and unpeopled space above the
housetops. 1t might just rs we'll have not OK :
listed at all for the good 1t did the swelterinR
people OF the stone and brick walled valleys
below Nearly everybody Tore an air Of
81 %
IN tho crowded thoroughfares. esuecialiy
Broadway. T M wore any hat at all q on the shady
y in one hand By the rims and moppei their
dripping brows with handkerchieis as they
itI strolioI In neryelsss, played-out fashion to
The breezy balls Of the big ofIlcs buildings
cool; sunless corridors.
tains and the soda water thermometers 1t
was as NIP i and tuck nstwsen the red stisaks Of
enrly part Of the afternoon. Then the red
In pencil pointed only 10 about o. while the In;
90 ms de and .lSsneh their thirst "0'A0 II "
sibly because It may have heard q IT tSoushtless M less
person remark that Hudnut's thermometer
wastryinE to srHak the June record i went
Ss,: At the same time Hndnuts recorded 97':
that DR.. Perry's instrument had been turned
mdn f9W1rd the sSn In order to make l. beat the
some I'M IN alicious person unconnectld With his his
store had turned the big thermometer toward
the sun. but that / had been promptly turned
thsn.-an hour before the record tims-did not
The "M moss easily accessible water resort last
might Wns tho free span Of the BROOKLYN Bridge.
;;tIolied 10 breath tIs salt brces5 that came W
promena ade was crowded with mon and women
EetnrinG from work ent the G crowds at o'sloek
They We're thers ami sss nartes es and toddns
bsnet o, free free air. More than % halithe ieTe mSmbee @
Of persons on tho bridge in the evening were
Italians.
At II 80 o'clock tho crowd had thinned ont.
6%t sysry bench along the was oc-
party Of six Cinnamon. with two. Chinese
women and a Chinese baby. hold one bench.
Chief Observer Dunn holds out no hope for
the swetering town today. He said that yes
record. 1t was hottest in Pittsburgh.
These casos OF persons overcome by the heat
were reported yesterday:
Matthew Darcev 20 years old. OF 4o7 Hudson street.
George schroeder. ~ years o d. of 3is West 9Th
street At Fifth avenue and Fifty.fourth street St
Luke Hospital
Frank serlo. a barber Of Sixth avenue and
Waverley place. at Ten:h street and First ave-
nue.. st. Vinceni's Hospital.
Michael Donovan, So years old. a laborer at
Sixth ayanue and West Tenth street. st. Vim.
Emil Mousoh "a years old. German, who
worked at tailoring, complained to his wife
during tho day ana that he had p,ins IN
and and child child ct ct ' o'cIo.f 'I at 'h his JUS home ON"
az West Thlrty-eiehth street. and then went
into his bedroom. About 81 o'clock his wife
heard pistol shot but thought that it was In
the next street. Mousch was dead when an
am bulanc0 arrived.