New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1892-07-29
THE SUFFERING INCREASES.
ANOTHER DAY OF INTENSE HEAT.
.,yosr AZ FAD As on TUE:DAY-MANY CASES
OF SUNSTRoKE AND PROSTRATlON-
uoRsE: DIE BY THE SCORE


relief is promised, it is disconragingly slow in
citing here With each days prolOngation Of
tbc sitting atmosphere which New-Iork has en-
dured every day this week the list of casualties
resultins from sunstrokes and prostrations grows
larger. with increasing rapidity. The suns har-
yc,t of death has been an extensive one since last
Saturday. Bo,h man and beast have succumbcd
by the score each day. The death rate increases
a. the hot spcll' continues and unless the prom
ised cool wave reaches Ncw-York soon the mor-
talitv record for the next few days will be some
thing appalling.
Horses as we'll as human beings have been vic
fins of the suns rays. During the last seven
DAYS hundreds of horses, in Ncw-Iork alone,
have either dropped dead in the harness or have
died in their stalls after a day in the sun. The
Thrdave strcet-car line has lost scores of horses
since Monday.
Ncw-Yorl has had warmer weather than was
experienced yesterday when the sun was up
but it was hot enough for the fat man. and the
lean man. and the tall man, and the short man.
Even the women were heard to complain And
", en- the sun went down. New-Yorkers said that
the engagement had lasted long enough, and
that it was about time for icebergs Hot
weather for little while, they said, was all
right, but when it remained too long, ii became
something of stale joke
Here is the top record Of the heat during the
last few days, which has made so many people
weary: July %, 81 l.? degrees; July %, s6 -:
JULY "a, So Clio; July -, % 9-lO July 26.
s6 L.: July -, 92 1-3: July %, yesterday.
"a IL.
Mr. Dunn, the young man who builds good and
bad weather, especially bad, in a den at the top
of the Equitable Building, had the coolness to
say yesterday that it wasn't 80 hot as it had
been on some other days of this week But then
Mr.. Dunn is dafIadowndilly, which is new
form of disease. lie says it hasn't been hot in
New-York anyway. He bases this remarkable
claim on the fact that it has been hotter Ill
other places in the United States and in Quito
Quito is in Ecuador and is almost on the line
OF the equator. In further support of his as
sertions Mr.. Dunn even went so far as to de-
clare that he walked five miles yesterday without
having developed any perspiraton. lie did not
say, however, that when he was out walking he
took off his shoes, went on the TIN roof OF an
apartment house, and did not burn his feet. Nor
did he say that he had 10 put down the windows
in his house yesterday TO keep out the COLI
air. But lie might well have said all this, II he
thinks that yesterday was not warm.
When Mr. Dunn put on lILS earmufs and nit
tens yesterday morning at o'clock his old
thermometer said it cool to the extent of
81 degrees But that sort of thing did not
last long Mr.. Dunn turnd on the steam i'm
mediately, and soon the mercury wac sizzling 10
the tune of 90 degrees, and was threatening
to go higher. At 3 80 p. III. it got in lte best
licks in the office way up above the world 40
high, and registered the pleasant frigidity OF
"a $40 degrees. At this stage Of the perform
ance Mr.. Dunn may have put his feet in hot
water, and got scorchcd salt bag TO lay on
his chest 10 prevent him from freezing to death,
for this is his idea of cool weather. His barome-
ter and his thermometer, his wind meter and his
rain meter and all the other little meters up there,
except his gas meter, are conservative ana de-
hbcrate Instruments What lie really ought 10
do is TO come down from the clouds into New
York now and then and let the sun hit him.
If he would do this hc would discover that New
Workers are enduring from four to six degrees
more heat than he says they are. Up where he
sits and fans his bcardlcSs face it was sometimes
plessant Yesterday Down below in tie street
it was unbearabe.
The officers Of ice companies, the ice cream
fo~ and the seller OF cool drinks were among
the few who yesterday and the preceding SIX
days declared that the weather was delightful
The sweltering and sizzling multitude consumed
mountains of ice cream and seas of cooling drinks.
Thousands sought relief at the seaside resorts
and in the public baths. All day the public baths
were crowded
The children in the tcncment-houSc districts
were the worst sufferers, and the physicians re-
port an appalling increase in the number of cases
Of sickness among the infants.
Wednesday night was probably the worst
night for sleep since the hot weather set H.
The buildings and pavements have for days ab-
sorbed the heat, only TO give some of 1t up at
night. Last night it was equally dihcurt 70
sleep as tbe "cool wave" which Mr.. Dunn early
in The day promised did not arrive lie sald
last evening that il would not arrive nn'h 10
day and then NEWCOMERS would get only the
tail end of it, In the morning II Wac making ii
bec-iinc from the Northwest but it struck some
thing before Michigan was reached ana careehcu
10 the North -" II will frcshen the atmosphere
g in the northern PaFs q CIV will n" not
get much Of it. 1t is making Tor the oceam i
now. and will lose itself there. Inc not "peIl
is here TO stay a while longer. II may be Just a.
hot tomorrow a. to-day, as do not think the enu
of the cool wave will stay long enough 10 DO
feI1
The suffering of horses during the last few days
has been intense The death rate among the ami
mails was greater than any day this week pI.
to-day il is expected to be greater, as tie ailIaie
grow weaker every day. After hard gay l, WoIh
in the sun they are unable to eat or drhK Aoo,e m
one-third Of the hOr.es are not II conditloh 10
leave the stables hut they forced into service
just the same and drayinen are kept busy oil DAY
and night carrying away horses "hCh ave 'IOpPcu
dead In the streets.
Yesterday, with the execution IF last TUESDAY,
was the hottest day this year The humidity.
however, only reached 60. On "Wednesday IT
was 49, Here is yesterdays record of the TEN
pesturc as shown by the official instruments
a. m. 81; o a. m, SO 10 a. m. s4; II a. M, SO;
~, 81: p. H.. 90: p. m. 92 30; 3 p. m,
% 3 80 D. M % $40; p. In., 03 2-1o; p m,
90: n m 90; p. m, 50; p. m., SO;
p. m. S.
The coolest spot in the United States was
IlaNr Tlara ha flarTnamptpr rpOISfprp1
only SO degrees at a. m The hottest place at
the same hour was at Jupiter, Miss, where 1t
was 81 degrees In Chicago at "a IN. il was
~ Philadelphia, so; Boston, 50, and at Calves
ton, Tex. So
In the street, az registered at Perry's tae tenn
peraurc was: 3 n. M, -: n. ~, ~: a. m.