New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1892-07-27
WORSE, AND MORE OF 1T.
THE HOTTEST DAY OF THE YEAR AGAIN

A RECORD OF NINETY HIGHT DEGREES MADE
ONLY ENOUGH RAIN TO BE TAXTALizING.
The weather was at it again yesterday and a
fiery sun came up out Of the sea and burned and
scorched and made things miserable. Again in
the afternoon, the clouds came up i'll great bat
talions, with thunder nodules all over them,
promising that sweet after showers ambrosal
air" would roll from the gorgeous gloom OF
evening" But like the threatened cooling shower
of the day before, it was delueion and a thing
not to be. The clouds overshadowed the sun
for awhile and a little rain tell in big drops
The wind. which had lain dormant and supine
all the morning, stirred itself and blew with
refreshing force. Then it all passed away. The
coppery sun gared out from the coppery heavens
and heat and misery continued Somewhere there
was shower and it must have been big
one, but its cooling influences were not vouch-
safcd to New-York.
1t was the hottest day Of the year, and the
hottest July &c ever known here Misery, dis
comfort, sickness and death were in its train No
one could think who saw the dawning that such
a day was to ensue. As the sun came up out
of the waters wind, filled with all the cool
ness and freshness of 5000 miles of foam-fecked
sea, waved the trees Staten Island ard drew
up through the green walls of the Narrows Then
the breeze died away, and heat and misery
reigned
At sunrise the thermometer in the office Of the
Weather Bureau showed temperature of "A de-
grees At o'clock the mercury had climbed TO
SO degrees and from that time it kept rising, until
at 2 o'clock the thermometer registered 90 degrees
of heat. This beat the record and was powerful
hot"
This was the record Of well-behaved thermom-
etcr in breezy place, and in the shade. At the
-, MI in no
lamppost in front of the Associated Press ship
news office, at the Battery, showed temperature
Of 100 degrees. The humidity of the atmosphere
averaged IS during the day. The highest point
reached by the mercury in Perry's THERMOMETERS
down on the street was 9s degrees, and this ther-
mometer was In the shade. At 3 O'Clock in the
morning. Perry's thermometer registered IS de-
crecs at clock rs at o'clock. So; at noon. 90 ;
at 3 D. m, 9s: at $50, OIL: and at 6. 81. 1t Will
bo seen that the threatened shower did not de-
Grease the temperature materially, even II II over
spread the sky with clouds, which tempered IN a
slight degree the intense heat Of the sun
The boats which ran to the beaches went ONT
all day crowded with people who sought Deside
the sea respite from their sufferings in the city
All the public baths and the pay baths were
crowded Nearly 5000 men and boys visited the
free baths at the Battery in the course OF the DAY
T. WAS warmer in New-York yesterday than
it was in the sub-tropical cities OF Key west
and New-Orleans. The rain, which did not IAN
in the lower part of the city yesterday, uiu.
however pour down in torrents in Harlem ana
in Brooklyn, cooling the air and making NE
worth living This is just what it did the uay
before What has the lower part OF ule Guy
done that the rain should not fall upon the I'M
lust as well as in Harlem and Brooklyn?
rAIn "
dav that the suffering brokers drew up and gener-
ally signed a petition 10 the Board of Managers
asking that the Exchange should be better cooled
and aired. The petition asks that the 100 win
dow. i'm the roof be fitted with electric
fans The heat was not sufficient yester-
day. however, t. affect materially the course
Of business or to abate the interest OF the members
in the fate Of the Anti-Option bill.
Few classes of citizens are In worse position
IN the extreme hot her than the letter-car-
riers Not only do 4 have TO be out in the
sun much of the TING but they have to carry
heavy pouches of letter. which increase mi, 10
nrnstrated on such days as yesterday and Mon
day were il not for the humane action OF POST
master Van Colt in lghtenlng shelr shr.s cocs
lions thus giving the men longer time IN which
to cool off between their trips A.. -.
In the courts of General sessions .nt a moi
weather
Judge Fitzgerald to work all the harder. This
is the first that two parts o. the court nave
haon in session and each day the judges have
S Sen Sitting If az late or later titan customary in
winter. On Monday Recorder Smyth kept his
court open until o'clock, and YESTERDAY ui n
80 o'clock, when all the business had been mn,
ished Judge Fitzgerald did not adjourn Part II
Yesterday until o'clock. >, ,
Michael Torphy, forty-four years Oh, on MONDAY
night went to the roof of his house, No 411 East
T wen to sleep on account of the heat
At o'clock he rolled off and was instantly
killed . ...e.., a,.,or
inc 10 horses hitched TO stTeetcars, express vans
and heavy trucks. Scarcely strectcar line
escaped without losing one or more horses Inc
Third ave line lost no less than eleven horses
All the lines changed horses two or three times
as frequently as usual