New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-09-12
THE HOT WAVE BROKEN.
RELIEF FROM THE EXTREME WEATHER
CONDITIONS.
A HEAT RECORD BRoKEN-GREAr SUFFERING
FRIDAY NIGHT AND DURING THE DAY YES
TERDAY UNTIL THE TEMPERATURE
BEGAN r,IIIr
BEGAN TO FALL IN THE EVENING.

BEGAN TO FALL. IN THE EVENING
New-York continued to swelter yesterday. The
thermometer took good rest during the night
and at sunrise began to crawl upward again,
continuing until 1t had broken another record
at o:4o o'clock in the afternoon Yesterday was
the hottest September II on record. the official
record standing at 90 degrees. Hitherto the
record for the day had been held by September
ii. 1874. when the thermometer high
as ~. The fall in the temperature in the early
evening was extremely welcome. and the even
ing was an agreeable one.
The official forecast for to-day is: Fair, cooler
in extreme southern portion Of eastern New
York State
Friday night one long to be remembered.
Thousands of people passed a sleepless night
On their beds and thousands more did not even
try to sleep. but sought out cool places wherever
they could be found and were content to lose
sleep II they could only be comparatively COM
Portable In the more crowded sections of the
lower East Side the roofs Of houses and fire
escapes were crowded with people who passed
the night in the pale moonlight. One man who
Is easily affected by heat spent the night in
riding the cable cars up and down from the
Battery to Harlem. He said he passed charm
ing night and got some sleep into the bargain.
The coolest part Of the night was between
. and o'clock when the thermometer in the
weather tower went down to I3, but 1t never
got as cool that in the streets. ana INDOORS
the mercury frequently registered 9o degrees
and more Last evening the streets or the
East Side were thronged until late hour and
crowds of shouting children ran through the
streets in the wake Of the watering carts. tum-
bling and rolling in the water.
As on Friday the humidity percentage was
mercfully low yesterday. and there was sl9ht
breeze that tempered the pitiess rays OF the sun.
Still many street thermometers ran up as hlgh
as % and even to o. With the setting of the
sun there came perceptible relief, and the offi-
cial thermometer fell thirteen degrees from
o'clock to = o'clock A brisk twenty-six mile
breeze sprang up. and people promised them-
selves tolerable night
Tho crowds at the beaches were enormous yes
terday. and the outbound trains carried lnrois s,
of passengers The number OF prostratlons from
the heat was greater than on any day tnls year.
Commissioner Croft considered opening the o,uI-
gis pavilion at Bellevue Hospital for the recep-
tion Of cases OF inSolatlon, put II was uoNiNN" ~
wait anQb,er day.
PROsTRATIONs REPORTED.
The prostrations from heat reported yesterday
were follows:
BROWN Frank OF No 1G6 Fifteenth-st, Jersey CITY, in
West-st.; taken to Hudson street Hospital.
louis and d M9 AVE- s Sen to Flower
tai. -.
CANDY David colored. address n,'N Hnkn0wn on Se''
Line car; taken -. Nincents Hospital
DEvINE Annie living a Macomb's Dam Road ana ana
One-hundred and seventy third-s at one ~ ber
and-se seventy-third-st and Jerome cave t"M'' w '
home after being treated BY physician
DOLAN John. Of No. 739 East Elevenh-st.; taken 10
Bellevue Hospital -.
DONAHUE. Cornelius O No. 20 Cherr?s St. at NO i-s
Roosevelt-st. taken 10 the Gouverneur hospi'ai
FRAME, Max OF Hollis Long Island at No il" SiN'n-
ave: taken TO ST. Vincents Hospital
GARRY. Thomas No. 299 East Eighty -nlnth- St IN
front OF No 1882 Second-aNe.' taken 10 i'e
byterian Hospital.
HARE. John OF No. 524 West Twenty-seVeh'h-st' III
Grand-st. and the Bowery taken home.
HOPKINS, Mary A.. No. 125 West Onehundred- and
sxth-st. taken TO Bellevue.
MICHIGAN Thomas Providence. X. l.. at No. 81 Park
Row: taken Hudson Street Hospital.
OLSEN Otto. OF No. 23S Mercerst. at the broadway
Central Hotel taken to st. Vincents Hospital
ROBINSON, George stonecuer. Of NO 2ii East Forty,
fourth-st al one hirty -eighth-st. and
Railroad-ave: treated by physician and went home
ROCCO Leo, of No 1s4 Thompson-st.. at his home;
taken ST. Vincent's Hospital
SHANNON John, commission merchant In Washington
Market; treated by physician and later was able to
continue business.
SUCHFs Joseph bookkeeper. Of No PA East Fifteenth
ST. al his home: taken to Bellevue Hospital.
WICHERS Dora servant. Of No. 81 West Nnetyfourth-
ST.; taken to Harlem Hospital.