The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1892-07-26
HERES A SCORCHBR
And the Official Weather
Prophets Hold Out
No Hope of a
Chill.
TALE OF A TIRED CAR HORSE
Ice Cream in Demand and Overcoats
a Drug in the Market
Heat Notes.
TALE OF A TIRED CAR HORSE


lieve they have reached their limit. To-
days experience shows how nmitless the
mercury's possibilities are.
Men carried their coats on their arms
today and there were more suspenders
seen than those which adorn the should
ers OF the fair sex in these days of pro-
gressive fashion.
The cars moved slower than usual, out
of mercy to the unfortunate animals that
draw them. One of these animals, doing
duty on the Montgomery street line, sue
cumbed to the SUMS rays yesterday. To-
day, he who SO often served to give others
a ride, took o ride himself. He was not
aware of it. He was dead. and Health
Department wagon was his poor chariot.
There goes the strongest possible ar
gument for trolley system In Chis city,"
remarked a citizen standing under the
awning Of the Seventh precinct station
house.
ICE IN DEMAND.
Today cooling refreshments were more
In demand than yesterday. Ice cream
formed the principal article of diet az the
various restaurants throughout the city.
In many places the supply gave out early
in the day
The unfortunate beings In charge of
soda-water stands were kept moving.
One lemon syrup young man ventured
the assertion that be thought Frick was
in any way connected with the cause of
the rise in temperature he would be
tempted to finish Berkman's job. A few
we'll chosen remarks from his employer
about attending to business" aud mot
making light of serious matters" set him
to worK polishing the marble counter
Some of the results of the heat were the
cessation OF work on the excavations for
the basement of the Fifth Precinct Sta
ton House. An ingenious device was
that used to protect the men engaged in
the work of drilling away rock for the
foundations of house to be erected on
Montgomery street, above Summit ave-
nue.. a piece of canvas was stretched
above them. Upon this was thrown some
weak mud, which was wet from time to
time.
HUMoR OF THE sCoRCHER.
One of the few pleasant points anent
the heat was the placard exposed by an
ice cream saloon near the gate of the New
York Bay Cemetery in Greenville. 1t
rested on an empty ice cream freezer and
drink and be merry" it read, and in
stead of the ordinary ending of the saw
was the Inscription, you'll be a long
time dead" Some facetious scribe had
written beneath it in lead pencil, "It's
hot. there."
The exact locality of there" is Left to
the Imagination. II is not difficult to
understand where there" is.
AMONG THE SICK.
No prostrations from the heat were re-
coraed at the City Hospital yesterday
The reason advanced by Warden Osborne
for this was that it was the first day of
the heat. The rain, too, he thought, had
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in what would have been the hottest part
OF the day.
The patients in the hospital suffered
slightly from the heat. but not to any ex-
cess. The wards of the City Hospital are
the coolest places in the city. Situated
as the building is, on the very edge of the
hilltop, it receives the full benefit of the
breeze from every direction. Yesterday
the river breeze kept it cool, holding the
mercury close to ninety degrees.
THE NEWS office was the coolest place
in the city today as we'll as yesterday.
At twelve O'Clock the thermometer regis
tered 81 degrees, or one degree higher
than yesterday at the same time. A tour
of Newark avenue showed a general ele-
store registered 90 degrees at the same
time.
Hartnett showed ninety-six degrees. AT
Jersey avenue the thermometer showed
ninety-four degrees in the shade.
| A return over the same district fifteen
| minutes later showed a gain of one de-
gree. Hertnett showing ninety-seven de-
grees and Ewing tube making it ninety
| three. The NEWS shared in the general
/ aise. 1t was ninety-three degrees under
| the cool fans.
THE OFFICIAL RECORD.
At eight O'Clock this morning the
| thermometers at the United States
1 tnr Of Fnr I,l
Building registered So degrees, against IS
| degrees at the same hour yesterday, an
| increase of degrees.
At nine o'clock the temperature was sc
| degrees, 8 degrees higher than yesterday.
| At ten o'clock the mercury had climbed
| degree further, making it 81 degrees
| against yesterdays 50 degrees.
| The heat continued all last night. AT
| one O'Clock and two o'clock this morning
| it was AZ degrees. ut three four, five and
| six O'Clock IS degrees, and at seven
o'clock 83 degrees.
| There is one crumb of comfort The
humidity is not 80 great as yesterday, but
! it is increasing steadily. There was only
| IS per cent. OF humidity at eight O'Clock
| this morning, II per cent. less than yes
| terday. At 10 o'clock there was 73 pei
| cent.
| New York occupied the enviable place
yesterday morning of being nearly the
/ COOl0SU DldCo III tA0 ullOu DLHU0S. 4n1S
morning 1t is almost the hottest.
At eight O'Clock the temperature at
Boston. Pittsburg, Chicago and St. Louis
was SO degrees; at Portland. Me-, rs de.
Rrees; at Cincinnati, 80 degrees; at New
| Orleans. "a degrees. Albany, Phiiadel
| phia and Washington were the hottest
| places today. It was "a degrees in these
cities at eight o'clock this morning.
Mr.. Dunn said this morning that he ha6
no doubt the temperature would exceed
| that of yesterday. He predicted that the
weather would be generally fair all oyel
the country, except light showers in The
| lake region.
There is only faint hope" he said
that we will have slightly cooler
weather here by tomorrow night There
is no cool wave expected, or anything OF
that kind, merely chance of a very
slight fall in temperature"
There WAS slight breeze from thu
northwest at O'clock this morning. i
changed to the south, and at 10 O'Clock
| was blowing four miles an hour. There
may be showers this afternoon anG
| evening.
The hottest July 26 on record was ii
1885, when the temperature reached 8
I degrees. The hottest day on record IL
New York is September Z, 1881. The ther
i DIED.
CASSIDY AT her residence, West Hoboken Mrs
John Cassidy, in the eighty sixth year of he