New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-09-07
COOL WAVE SURELY COMING.
MR. EMERY SAYS 1T WILL ARRIVE TO-
DAY. WITH LIGHT SHOWERS.
srFFERINGs OF xEw-YoRKERs DUE IN PART TO
A LACK OF PREPARATION FOR HOT WEATHER

srFrERINGs OF HEw-YoRKERs DUE IN PART TO
] LACK OF PREPARATION FOR HOT WEATHER
! WANTED AN AUTOMATIC PrNKAH
According 10 Ehen II. Emery the chief OF the
! local Weather Bureau relief from the heat may be
confidently expected late to-day ard early to-mor-
! row. Mr.. Emery has said something Ike this
before and his cool waves have not ma'erializsd
! This time. however. ne says that there will be no
| mistake. The fresh. cool wave is ~ such magni-
| tude that IT cannot possibly be lost before IT
| reaches the city
Everybody will hope that Mr. Emery may he
right. His announcements Of impending decreased
temperature have ieccrtiy been of somewhat the
same character MS the cries OF wolf in the fable.
But II will be -mbered that the wolf dd come
at last. II the lot weather disappears today 1t
will he POSSIBLE write "fnis" one Of the
trying ard deadly spells Of heat Of recent years.
The weather Yesterday was somewhat cooler but
New-Yorkers were suffering from tho cumulative
effects OF the previous days and there many
deaths and prostra'.
II has been pointed out in TIE Tribune before.
bur # cannot he repeated frequently. that the
American people do behave IN The summer
months with that sweet roasonablsness which.
according to foreigners Is generally apparent IN
this country. There lie no quality that visitors
admire more greatly when they come here than
what they call the adaptability Of the people.
This adaptahility is not In evidence in the summer
N"vr-Y York. for instance. usually suffers during
pert OF the year from weather which Is nearly
hot. and quite oppressive. that Of the greater
part Of Hindustan nut tho people act rs though
they s'il IN ihe countries Of their ancestors
The British in India have punltahs ard pa iamas
and pith helmets. and @ias'as in tho middle Of the
day. Let any ono walk down Broadway wearing a
solar topee and he would be nohbed. Let him
wear the other garments mentioned outside his
house and M would IN ali probability be arrested
tbe ,1,,tro ,f.. Of hcfo
world has not even invented an automatic punkah
The noisy and deceptive ectric fan is the neares,
approach 10 this article necessity OF life In Asia
evolved here But tho most remarkable crcum-
stance OF all Is that the Of ordinary fans and
sunshades is confined almost exclusively TO women.
There ought to he stand OF palm leaf fans az
every street corner. lns.ead Of which men
In the streetcars and the streets tanning them
selves with newspapers or with any other article
that comes handy. Those things are not as they
should be- and not ;he east valuable result OF the
colonization of tropical countries by Americans
may I IS hoped. be the introduction here of NOR
from the heat I'm the last few days is all proof
necessary Of the necessity for such changes
Yesterdays weather not oppressive as
tbs being the aay the Pum3y The tenn M
perature was about the same. bur the humidity
ggStS Td1To was 81 per cent per cent over nan
cooler for h o3v p nnoS ms Wbcb IS
moving rapidly from the Lower Missouri VALLEY in
a G0 MAS be Wsssrn States 0S Snd
q Lake region The highest temperature I'm New
York was s. degrees At D. IN. The forecast ~
midnight last night was: Light showers; much
cooler Thur'day."
The hot spell has produced unusual and terri
bic condition Of things In the Morgue az Bellevue
Hospital The mlXimum number OF bodies that
the Morgue can properly hold Is seventy. Yes
T. rday morning there ware ninety bodies and seN
era more bodies were brought In during the day.
Thirty bodies were taken away from the bui Dig
on sunday and eighteen on Monday. but other
bodies came IN continually. and the facilities !or
disinfectng the pace and properly caring for the
dead were altogether insufficient The result was
a condition OF things which can only be described
a terrible. Deputy Coroner Weston. who visited
the Morsue Yesterday, morning n order 70 make
until tho entire building had been washed out and
dsinfected thoroughly possible Even after
this DR.. Weston said that the state OF the Moreue
WAS a menace 20 public health and disgrace 10
the city. Bodies lying yesterday upon the
put them. The supply OF ice was also insufficient.
and the bodies which were brouSh. In yesterday
could not 10. be placed upon ice.
John Sane. the keeper OF the Morguc. said that
OF the city institutions allowed great careless
in sending bodies To- Bellevue. Often they
rived I'm "A semi-decomposed condition. The new
Morgue is SIN unfinished. though nobody az Belle.
vue can explain why II should be ready
and Ia use. Superintendent ORourke. however. as
serted last night that the present Morgue was ALI
right. There seventeen vacancies az present. he
said and to-day being burial day there wou d prob
ably be nifty vacancies. The superintendent indg.
nsnty asserted that Deputy coroner Westons
criticisms incorrect and unfounded the
Mcrgue daily carefully disinfected
Tho deaths from The heat in Manhattan and Tho
Bronx Yesterday only eight IN number.
cording 20 the police list at midnight, last night
The cases Of prostraton also showed considerable
decrease
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