The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-07-13
AIR WASA SOAKED SPONGE
DRIPPED WARN WATER WHENEVER
u PLUTIUs SQUEEZED IT.

Humid Almost 10 the Point OF satur,s,,~-
Temperature Net 90 Hish-Promises 60 ne
Lower To-day, but Prophet Dunn Can Fsr.-
zee No Immediate Let-Up In the upu,a,.,.
Tho humidity yesterday reached o. DER cent,
Under the circumstances tho height of the NOR
curry wasn't DO important. You'd perspire with
the Thermometer at 90 II Gen. Humidity had
% per cont OF his strength in the 1eld. That's
what you did chiefly yesterday. When you
got homo last night, no matter II you hadn't
walked a quarter of o mile to get there. you
were in that condition that Ia best described as
sopping. You wero out Of temper, possibly;
snapped ct your wife and intimated that moth
ing in tho world would give you moro pleasure
than to spank the children II they didn't stop
their noise. You may say that this is an un.
pleasant subject to bring up and wholly un.
necessary. But the idea Is to explain matters
TO your family. They'll road this and then
they'll understand, and It's Just possible that
they may forgive you without your saying any.
thing more than that you are sorry and won't
do 1t again. You will do 1t again, Of course,
but then you'll have n clean slate to record It
on and the old record will BIO forgotten.
1t wasn't very, hot yesterday, not as hot az Il
was on.Sunday-that L. to say, the temperature
wasn't 30 high. The highest temperature re-
corded up in Farmer Dunn's cage on the roof
OF the Manhattan Life building was 7s. This
was at noon. Tho highest genuine tempera-
turo, the temperature that the people had to
stand and to swelter under, was 80. This was
at IL o'clock. That was cooler than It was
two or three days last week. But there was q
lot Of last weeks heat left In the city yester-
day. II was stored up in the pavements and in
the buildings. Anybody who was out or who
looked at tho street or at tho sides of the big
hnilninDa yyhan TIM hNy-o 4n-,n a.
noon can verify that fact. 1t had been raining
less than ten minutes when the water that fell
seemed to turn to steam, or a good imitation
OF steam. Tho downtown streets looked like
huge furnaces, out OF which smoke was rising.
One who stood In Broadway and looked toward
plain sight, could SEQ nothing but vapor that
roseshigher than the ferryhouses and obscurcd
mist at t . dista GSs.a a 4e g tse s SOmln t9 ost tS oe the 61s
buildings seemed all to be on fire. Smoke up.
peared to be coming from every, ~crevice, from
the stone and the brick itsolf.
Under these circumstances It was little won
with no home. climbed into an Ice wagon m on
Wost Forty-third street and began to aisrobe
was afro and i was the right Of ali citizens shis s't q
Keep cool until the last horn blew. Indeed,
!ho wonder was that more citizons didn't droI
into ice wagons and crawl down between the
cakes. Mrs. Murphy's feat cost her - in tho
lorkyille Court, but II a large percentage of tho
ud ioiio"Ch Y ALL VI WOulu
have boon able to convince the Judge that she
hadn't been drinking. 1t wouldn't have cost
This shower that led Ellen Murphy to 90 SIT
on q cake of ice lasted about fifteen minutes.
1t wasn't even general. for, there were some
heavy shower downtown. The heat of the
pavement was such that In the spots where tho
wh %ss r. !So, water had Fa iissS in pools nsp.
y In tho temperature. The people up in the
huiIaiass and. indoors felt g. Those who
mat arose rom them we're re- Wiling 1hnalsd TO ,i bet st tRSt
the tempcratnre had risen.
The sun blazed after the shower hotter than
onioial roof above the old mark Of Is. a second
shower came about 7:45 o'clock. 1t was harder
last go long. About the time It stopped black
clouds were seen tumbling over each other
s sa%srd he asv P Yn,s Tb in Jersey; They beaded
lightning battery with them. The battery
fifteen minutes 1t came in torrents. As a result
OF this third, shower. the temperature took
Key w SSsa0 With tRr So SH Mas the hottest place in
soSlsss: TRRe Rer@onote 4a sSoseS o MGs 5 y:
was a nne breeze here In New York, too. Ex.
eept between 10 and IL o'clock it blew from
It was cool-as cool as anything could be on a
day like yesterday, Between 10 o'clock and 10
o'clock 4 was southeast and not 80 cool; How.
the present and the future that we're most In
terested in. Farmer Dunn says that it win DO
has been, but that 1t wont feel any cooler be.
cause the humidity will still be on deck. He
&C., in t tha nesr Y ta no Pr99m1 hop Of s aRPlnsSie s9sln 1si
and there is nothing TO prevent Now Yorker,
,,PPd I'D Or collectively from hoping that
Bnowstorm next week.
There were ten prostrationsb by heat in the city.