New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1892-07-26
HOTTEST DAY THIS YEAR,
TIE MERCURY GETS TO NINETY.FOUR De
GREES
, SHOWER rRIxGs SOME REL1EF-A swELrER-

A SHOWER BRINGS SOME RELEF-A swELTER-
ING CTY GROATS UNDER ITS AFFLCIIoN.
Yesterday started out 10 be the hottest day OF
,he wear so far and succeeded, to the disgust of
every right-minded man. Now people expect il
10 be hot in 81 lI.cr, nut they do not expect il
10 Ike so "all-iircd hot" as it was yesterday, TO
repeat phrase in frequent use. One might as
well move down TO the equator and cultivate a
liking for the plain and unpretentous garb Of a
native Of the banks Of the Amazon which is q
neat piece Of burlap and a cord around the
waist as 10 try to live in New-YOrk in such
weather as yesterday Civilized clothing really
won't do on such daVs as yesterday, and cooling
drinks, even when the fragrant mint grows IN
them, are too often only provokers of wilder
heat The city scwed and perspircd and found
fault from carly morn TO dcwy eve, and then
went to bed and tried to sleep and could not. 1t
had been bad enough the day before, and the
night had been Lone of the coolest.
Mr.. Dunn had said that it would be hotter
Yesterday than it was the day before, but nobody
believed that the cruel thing was really going to
happen. 1t did, however, and happened to de-
gree which made people envy Mr.. Nanderbllts
yacht submerged in the cool waves off Monomoy
Point Everybody entitled to a vacation asked
for it right off, and those not so entitled asked
for an increase of salary.
1t was the hottest day of the season so far.
and the hottest July % on record. Really Joco~e
and nppant remarks about such weather as YES
terday's are, in a measure, out of place. for the
intense heat brought suffering to everybody and
death TO several At o'clock the thermom-
eter in the Office of the Weather Bureau on top of
the Equitable Building recorded temperature Of
Is degrees At 10 O'Clock the mercury
had risen to 81 degrees. 1t grew hot
fer and hotter, and at O'Clock the
temperature had reached "a degrees, the mar
imum for the day. OF course it was several de-
rlces hotter on the street and in the places where
men live and move and have their being. wind
blew up from the South, but it was such little
one that it did not count, and offered no palliation
OF the suffering citizens.
About 0 o'clock dense mass of clouds rolled
up from the south, looking as if 1T brought a
fierce thunderstorm The clouds did bring a thun-
dcrstorm TO Harlem and TO Brooklyn, but In The
lower part Of the city only little rain fell, and
the air was not cleared by the electric batteries
of the heavens. However, the temperature
dropped about ten degrees and life bcame lit
tie more worth living After the shower the
temperature again, getting up TO eighty-elght
degrees and it seemed hotter than before. After
sundown the mercury began to fall little at a
time but steadily, and Mr.. Dunn said 1t would
be cooler to-day.
In nearly every part Of the country 1t was hot
The heat was so intense at Burlington, \. j., that
tie factories had 10 shut down. The thermometer
there registered l05 degrees in the shade. The
Pacific Coast seemtd TO be the only place in the
country where it moderately comfortable.
The warmest day heretofore this year was on
July IA, when at o'clock p. M. tho Weather
Bureaus thermometer showed a temperature of
90 degrees The hottest July 20 for twenty-one
years before yesterday was in 1885, when the
mercury got up to 81 degrees. The humidity
yesterday averaged &c per cent.
In the thunder shower which passed over Brook
lyn the lightning struck electric light wire
in the carpenter shop of George B. Tucker NO.
1919 Putnam-avc, and set fire 10 the oil on the
machinery considerable blaze was caused, but
the damage was slight.
The heat was severely felt in Brooklyn es-
pecially in the morning hours, and all the boats
and trains going 10 the seaside were thOnged
with people fleeing from the city. Temporary
relief was afforded by the clouds and shower
oi the afternoon, but late in the day the heat
WAS oppressive. The thermometer was reported
10 register 90 degrees. Half dozen cases OF
prostraton by the heat were reported to the
pOlc., but lone of them proved fatal.