New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1892-08-10
HUMIDITY MADE 1T WORSE
HARD DAY FOR NEw-YURKERS.
AT LAST CAME A THUNDEi;SHOwER TO FlsESHEN
THE AIR AND LIFE WAS WORTH
LIVING AGAIN.


| II was not narrow and short wave either.
1t was wide and long one. At
| O'clock yesterday il was warm all over the
country. At Jupiter, Fla, the thermometer
| registered 90 degrees: at Chicago, 81 at st.
Louis, o. at Kansas City, 90; at Detroit.
/ 81; at Milwaukee, 90. and at New-York. 81.
The highest point which the mercury reached in
this city was 90 Al 0 degrees.
As the night wore on the temperature and
humidity gradually decreased until o'clock.
Then the effects of cool wave which had come
from the Lakes began to be felt. The mingling
Of the warm and the cool airs so increased the
depression In tie atmosphere -lat even breath
ing became difficulty. Heavy clouds ovcrhung
the sky, the nir had that heavy stiffness that
| always preccdes storm and those whose busi-
ness kept them in the streets scurried to their
homes or to the nearest place Of shelter in
pectation of the coming avalanche They had
not long to wait. 1t was just quarter Of II
o'clock when the first note in the
battle of the elements was sounded in
a crashing peal of thunder. The thunder peal was
followed hy binding flashes of forked lightning
which pierced tie darkness and illumincd the
streets with lurid licht Then for nearly twenty
minutes the thunder ragged and the lightning
flashed before the first big drops of rain spattered
on the pavement Inside half minute the
downfall of rain was NJ its heaviest.
The trees parched for want Of nourlshmcnt
received the shower with gratitude: the pave
ments baked with the heat and cakcd with the
dust Of many days We're covered with thin
surface Of water that flowed in small rivuets
into tho cutters and carried the accumulation Of
filth into the sewers Inside Of five minutes City
Hall Park usual impossible to the pc
destrian who too old or too fat to jump over
the running pools scattered all over the walks.
For an hour and quarter the rain poured. the
Thunder roared and the lightning flashed. and when
at II 80 p. the storm finally ceased fall
Of siXty-6ve hnndrcdths Of an inch recorded.
People who looked at the thermometer when the
storm was found that the temperature had
tumhled TO 6s degrees. Az midnight APP
preached, however, slight rise felt. and at
| ? o'clock the record WAS 73 degrees.
Tho weather began its unpleasant work be-
fore the people got up. II was fully as warm
and suhocating at a. m, as it at s o'clock.
The sun first up and burned and scorched
and made everyone miserable. Then breeze
came along from the and made things more
miserable. The reason the wind is TO be blamed
this time is because it blew much humidity
into the city A heavy fog had settled down
over the Bay, and in the early morning there was
not breath Of air stirring. But about 7 80
o'clock u siN-mic-an-hour breeze sprang up and
the clouds Of moisture carried to the heart Of
the city. This heavy humid atmosphere stuck
10 everything with which it came in contact.
High collars and shirt fronts wited before
IL. and 80 did man and beast. Only once this
year has there been more humidity in the air
than there was yesterday. That on July
?, when at s .. m there % per cent of
humidity In the atmosphere. Yesterday at the
same hour o. per cent Of humidity registered,
and although the thermometer showed that the
mercury mp 10 only - degrees. man and
beast suffered Ms il it were mp to the 90
point, when the air only contained half the
amount Of humidity of yesterday.
IN is much hotter in Jupiter. Fla, than II is
here. but do not believe that the inhabitants
thcr are half So uncomfortable we are, SAID
Mr. Dunn when -ccn in the Weather Bureau Office
on the top Of the Equitable Building Yesterday
II will bc lust as warm tomorrow il is to-day
although | do not think there will he ~ much
humidity In the air Relief may come Thursday
and il may not The hot weather is general
throughout the country that cool wave can
not he looked for AZ an enrly date. The centre
Of the hot wave is in the lower lake region and
the adjaccnt country. Lake Erie is getting its
share Of H. At o'clock this morning il six
degrees hotter there than il here In the
Ohio and Central Mississippi valley the weather
is not So warm aS in the lower lake region. but is
is warmer than it is here The humidity may not
bo great though. In the extreme Northwest
the temperature fell slightly this morning. but
there il no cool wave there and is travelling
this way. Thunder showers will occasionally re-
lcvc New-Yorkcrs during this SPELL hut the warm
mnggy weather will probably continue during the
week.
However, after the thunder shower the Weather
Eurcau people said that to-day should be cooler.
The present warm wave has returned to the
city when the physically weak and the many sick
people are not prepared To battle with il. The
eight days of burning heat which settled down
over New-lork the latter part Of last month left
ts bad effect behind. The people who wcr
lahlictel during the cight-day scige were rapidly
recovering during the cool weather which visited
New York last week but that the heat has
returned. they are returning to their beds, and
the increased death rate for the next few days
will again demonstrate the death-dcang power
u hot weather. The physicians say they dread
such seasons ms this. They are worked almost
hc yond the point OF physical endurance, and are
Obliged 10 witness excessive distress and misery.
The most ptiful suffering caused among
horses hitchcl to strect-cars, express wagons an
trucks yesterday Many horses died in the har-
ness and scores Of Others after IN harl days work
lay down IN their stalls in the stiiocating stanIes
never TO get again. 80
Nearly 5000 men and boys visited the public
baths at the Battery In the course OF the day. ana
all day long and until late in the evening the
parks and the pleasure boats were crowded with
painting crowds.
There were many cases OF prostration. but not
onc-third Of the number was reported to the
authorities. 4 majority Of the victims were from
those whose employment demand constant exposure
10 the suns rays. thong eases Of prosration were
not frequent where there had been no special
eXcrton exposure. ,
The temperature as registered at the Weather
Bureau was: Il. M, 10; p. m, 81 p m,
o2: p. M, 90: G D. m. 01 p M 80.
At Ferry's the temperature was a. IN, 20
a m m Sc 3 80 IN.