The evening world., 1894-06-18
BREAKS The RECORD.
This Is the Hottest June l8 We
Have Had Since 1877.
From "a at 8 A. NJ, the Mercury
Jumped 10 81 at 8 O'Clock.
Prostrations and Accidents Caused
by Old SOILS Rays.

This q the hottest June iS In New
York city since 1877. when the mercury
scored s. at the hottest part OF the day.
! To-day that mark was reached at 1870
and passed by one degree by ] o'clock.
During the noon hour the heat was
particularly intense. assisted as II was by
a heavy. humid atmosphere. Privae
thermometers In the streets were stuffed
by hundreds OF sweltering citizens and
were f1und to scale an average closely
approNimatinR 30.
THE Evening Worlds" record below
is taken from the Government instrg-
mcnt IN the Equitable building tower,
and Ia official owing to their elevated
and airy location. they nre always a
few degrees lower than those In the
| street.
On this. the anniversary day OF the
battle OF Waterloo, the mercury cut
merry didoes. Early In the morning IL
bounded up nine degrees in an hour and
fell back nearly half that many points In
the next hour.
1t was "a legress by the Government
instrument tn tn" top OF the Equitable
| Building at 8 o'clock. The observation
was taken Mt that hour. and the officer in
| charge was mazed to see the Indicator
suddenly begin n soaring career and
mount up snd up untl, as the Trinity
Church clock banged o. this devoted city
lay under blanket OF SO degrees.
1t seemed that the sunshine aloft and
the furnaces below had combined to hold
a grand tetrestal bakh. but just at the
clinPx clo"d appeared from somewhere
and the fIid In the tube began to fall.
| IL dropped rack four degrees, and at 10
o'clock rested at 70.
All this was merely n diversion n sort
OF caprictous prelude. to the business Of
/ the day. which is all to be transacted
on the top floors OF the thermometer.
| Mr.. Dunn thinks that the heat Will
score 30. Here Is what he has to say
about this hot day In general and par.
| ticular:
"A warm wave IL covering all the
country east of the southern lake
regions: There were showers last night
everywhere within that limit except
over the immediate coast. line. The
Jacksonville. Fla, two degrees warmer
than We are, whie Buffalo and Wash
ington are exactly even with us.
AT o'clock this morning the tenn
perature here registered "A; Boston and
Twh,,ahdieiphia' wnyhieIpnn' =; I, bnftaIo, cleyeland.
60; s. Louis q" p Jasfsenviic JR fHiaeaFS Fin,' 3S,
and San Francisco, 81 The hottest SPOT
was Mt Titusville, Fla, with so degrees,
and the coolest at Marquette, Mich.
II is going to get warmer here to-day
and 90 Will doubtless be reached. The
ssSweT sSy may Tbat termndte nIna WITH thunder
imminent II will be local one and
may be put OF until tonight.
'lt Is more than uncomfortable owing
to the high percentage OF humidity,
which nt o'clock scored so per cent
We have a morning breeze from the
South OF about eight miles an hour. This
is apt to veer to the West and North
west tomorrow with cooling results.
but Indications do not warrant proph-
ecy OF relief until tomorrow night. /
for some of the cool weather they are
getting about Chicago
This promises to be the hottest 18th
OF June we have had since 1877. when II
II was fine day for outing yesterday,
Just az Mr.. Dunn promised on Saturday
1t would be, II was hot in town. sure
age to get to the seashore or the coun-
try were rewarded by cool hreezes
There was uniform wind of eight
miles an hour right In town. The ther.
mometer struck Its highest altitude al SO
, degrees along about o'clock
Mayor GIlroy, who spent the day nj
|, Rocknway, said that towards evening
the sea breeze grew so fresh that ht
found more comfortable.
The following cases of prostratior
; from heat were reported to-day:
, cOLWEiL., HENRY. thlrty-seven years old, o
, S clinton street, was proHtrsted at the cornc
of Allen and Rvington streets at lis o'clock
uouverneur Hospital
GOLDhEllG. ISAAC, sixteen years old OF ls
East One Hundred and sixth street Overcome n
broadway and Leonard street: taken home.
PRICE LOUIS. thirty eight of rs Jackso
street Overcome at One Hundred and Thirtlet
street and Seventh avenue; Manhattan Hospital
ROBINSON J. X. living at the Putnam House
overcome at Twenty eighth street and broadway
Y Taken to the Putnam House,
FOWLER, HORACE. aged eighteen. colorrd
Of one Hundred and Flfy-eighth street an
81. Nicholas avenue, was overcome while a
1, work Nh one Hundred and Forty seventh street
, hotwcen Tcnth and Eleventh avenues, at noon
y Manhattan Hospital.