New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1892-06-14
UP GOES THE MERCURY.
IT REACHES os DEGREES IN THE STREET
THE HOTTEST JUNE 13 IN MANY YEARs-oNE
DEATH REPORTED.

THE HOTTEST JUNE ID IN MANY hE"hS-oNH
DEATH REPORTED.
That the universal tendency toward breaking
records NAV be carried too far was. shown yes
tcrday when the weather rolled up its sleeves and
started a sudden rise IN the thermometer mar
ket. The movement was a great success, ana
when Il. D Dunn, the local forecast weather oii-
cia called time lsst night and counted the ther-
momcters still left able to work, he found that
yesterday had been not only the hottest day this
year, but also the hottest June 10 in many years.
Generally, when Mr.. Dunn speaks in his own
scientific way about heat and humidity he dces it
abstractly as astronomer speaks OF the heat
on some other planet Personally, Mr.. Dunn, as
q rule, sits in his eyre famed by cool breezes
which blow through his thermometers But yes
tcrday he wrote his weather report in the sweat
Of his brow At 3 D. m. the instruments in the
Weather Bureau registered 81 degrees This was
six degrees higher than the record for June l of
this wear. which had been the hottest day of the
season. Last year on June l3 the highest tenn
perature registered on the Equitable Building was
SO degrees. But these temperatures are only
valuable for scientific calculation If the ordinary
mortal wants 10 know how hot it is, he always
censults the drugstore thermometer. According 10
Perry's thermometer yesterday the highest tenn
peraturc was 0s degrees, at 30 p. m. Ihs
altitude justified the groaning and paintings oil
perspiring humanity.
1t was n great day for excursion boats also, ana
each vessel was crowded it seercd ont into
the hot white haze that lay heavily on the rivers
and bay, and kid the sea in It's vague mystery
the Iron steamboats, and the vessels Of the liud-
son River line especially, rcapcd harvest. The
south and southwest winds did not have much
effect on the heat, which lay like heavy hand
on land and sea. 1t burned the dusty streets
till the air above the heated stones trembed.
Tho million windows Of the town rejected the
blazing sunlight like fierce flames the horses stood
with bending knees and heavy heads men dragged
themselves along slowly and unwillingly; the
celar was thing Of JOY no longer; the cum was
an abvmination; the policeman hied him to the
shade 10 sleep, perchance to dream, whence, wax
inc suddenly, he swooped upon the man laid low by
heat. and diagnosed the case with eagle eye as
one Of simple drunk"
The Weather Bureau instruments registered as
follows: S q. m, 20; noon, IS; p. m., 81;
D. m si; 8 p. m, %. The mean temperatun'
according to the Weather Bureau, was 10 degrees
Yesterday which Is 10 degrees warmer than thc
nsrmal II may be mentioned that the word
mean ~ used by the Weather Bureau slgni-
fes average" and not what one might think III
connection with weather like that of yesteriay
Perry's thermometer registered: "A. m, ~; a.
m.. 79: o a. m so; noon, 81; 80 p m, os;
9 D. m., 81; 2 p. m, s5 degrees.
In the evening a cool wind began to blow. ana
tho temperature underwent pleasant change
The moon looked large, lopsided, and extremely
sad and misanthropical
The following deaths and cases OF heat pros
trations wer reported yesterday
n Anderson No. 295 Ninth-st, Brooklyn, was
taken To Roosevelt Hospital In an unconscious con
di,ion aud died <On after his adnisdn John o,1Tl-
nell No fO7 East One-hundred and -htth-s,.; Ellen
Iisaiv no eos Nest Forty nrstst., John McAmdy,
~. Jns East sixtcth-st; Charles DOran. NO. II
uowery William Crooke No 4O3 East Eighty third.t,i
John smith, no home: Frederick smiley, No :':5 Wet
twenty unth-N william Bush, No 403 East tIgh,y.
third s. Daniel O'Connor. No. 6O2 Eleventh,ave.'
fTnnk Ially No. 6o5 Tenth ave. George Waldnck 10
927 Fast Tenth ST. Patrick Murphy, NO 4o4 East sAtl
ST. unknown woman, sent from the Chambers Terry
~ The Chambers street Hospital; unknown man, ap
parerly Hungarian sbocr, talfcn to the Mammalian
iIo.pita from Eleventh-ave. ard one hunfred ana MY
,ev~nth-St: John Trainor, No. so West Ihiry soy,
entb-st John sheridan. who drives an Ice wagon ana
liyes M No. 5O7 West NincccnthNt., was pr,Stra'N
and sent 10 the New-Iork Hospital. Joseph Icchcr,
a German, sixty four years old, who wa SuIThs
from the heat in his home at No. 81 west ihlr'N-
nnth-s tried to end his misery by hanging hiiSen.
lie vns cut down and sent To Bellevue lospi'a Il