The sun., 1896-08-11

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some OF the careless newspapers, whose
Writer'S apparently wanted to bull tho weather
mrKet killed good many moro persons than
were reported killed in The Sun. Nearly
uerybody who died on Sunday was listed
anong the victims of the heat, whether or not
s'Ath was due to causes unconnected with the
NAther But the death list Of THE Sun was
errect, as 1t 10 to-day.
PERSONS who were not working in sunny
pAees or were not working at all. did not ap-
psciAte the fervor of the sun. That was be-
ause they were famed by what may be, with
out hyoeroole. called a breeze. There was not
Mucn heat In this breeze. As It came from the
vest where the temperature yesterday
"" trthe lower than It was here
soouts' The up-in-the-sky thermome etsr of
ns Prophet Elias ON the Manhattan Life
~Mer showed that the air was, at 3:45 P. NJ.
s0''er oy one degree than IL had been on Sun
ay' But 1t really did not feel that way in tn o
U"ef. Ihere was another reason than the
.ea'efiy !" oreeze why 1t seemed to be cooler, and
4as was the comparative lack of mois-
WIG IN the air. MIR. Dunn's psychrometer.
''u measures humidity. had taken O day
W A'er its altitudinous labor ON Sun
when It ought to have been rest
~ -. Hke good Christian instrumsnt.
.us paychrometer, which Mr.. Dunn's gay younR
suAn~ familiarly call "si." refused 70 detect
= o 'han % per cent. Of humidity In tho air at
A., Yesterday morning. Il had sweated
sneArS 10 per cent, on Sunday. Atmidday IL
uu oo per cent, and at 8 40 P. M. it couldn't
1890 out more than 80 per cent Then it was
-s .he thermometer beat by one deRree ita
h.. On sunday. Tho Thermometer was At
sns 'eenhg the influence Of tho burning walls
~. pa'e'nehts OF the world below. Naturally
eloudward. Wow nAo Fi1en
A. M y" inc streets tho temperature was just
nh"s IN some places even bit hlgher-than
MAJ. oeeh on sunday. Tho drug store instru-
t,,. 10 .scorded from 95' to 97'. and thermome-
W. '"e sun registered moro than 100.
mi, g. -, 'H'i's and diaphanous dresses were the
lhs, n0 streets; indoors 1t was anything you
the ,sm" S"u very little OF it. The contractors on
son.,.n IRON and steel buildings In course of
Avsr .Non were meroiful to their men.
N, ,,o w where In ordinary summer weather
.mons =. "'rhers may be seen climbing around
v,h '"o criss-cross beams like spiders in a
h,d o. vi" nobody to be seen. Big derricks
t.,.S 80 working. and only laborers in shell
con p"ees perspiringly pursued their toll.
COLI, a."', OF Public Works Charles II. T.
h, d.e v'aed Yesterday to give the laborers in
w,,,hs hpArtment breathing spell in torrid
Chi, ~. ne Issued this order yesterday to
and sn ukiheer Birdsall, Water Puryeyor North.
r,w ''''htendent of Streets Simpson:
prh,,I further orders the tour n, dutv y, -,
min. sh"ays will commence At A A M .nd ,sr-
WORK. n. a. d. This will constitute . full days
shady ,,ts repairs or streets will DO confined 20 the
OtAsr rrr',' VI those running north and south All
pOstDonnc Is ", excepting emergency cases, will be-
aniied on" me present The sprinkiinE OF macad.
hour OF m ',.' roads Will be omitted between the
which hn,siS surgical pavilion at Bellevue.
ner, wa, oeen closed on July for the sum
psrson' 'eopeh"t yesterday TO accommodate
,Oi tbs pFo'.rnted by the heat. All this wards
'p''Al were crowded. between ~