New-York tribune., 1900-08-11
HOT WAVES END NOT YET.
TWO MORE DAYS OF WARM WEATHER
AT ANY RATE. AND NO CHANGE IN
SIGHT-DEATHS FROM HEAT.

The hot wave seems to lose no power as the
days il makes broiIing hot go by. Yesterday
there We're 81 degrees of heat at , o'clock in
the afternoon The official Thermometer during
the summer has had to record only one degree
more, and there is but other August 10 IN
the history Of the local weather bureau that
equals yesterday, and that day came in 1891
hen the maximum temperature was also "a
degrees.
This spell Of rainiess, drying up days IS reach
ing the extreme Of seriousness for the farmers
Reports from central and western New York
say that a third Of the apples on the
ground They are not large enough for use in
any form, and the farmers feel sure tnat if rain
does not fall in a few days their loss in apples
Will be Leaerly complete and the injury TO their
vegetables almost equally disastrous. The
Weather Bureau officials cannot ind The least
sign Of q coming shower. nor do they see any
immediate end 10 the hot wave. All the fore
casters say is that there viii be at least two
more days Of heat. In the mean time IL is any
thing TO keep cool.
Those people who make 1t their chief business
10 be comfortable, say that they cannot remem-
Der time before this when SO much thought
and ingenuity were used in diminishing the
disconforts Of the heat. They favor the shirt
waist but they say that ii Is not reform
enough. They believe more sensible dress
would be a flannel or duck coat cut close 10 the
neck in military style garment much worn IN
the East, with a soldiers collar, and the shirt
at least not in sight
Nothing but the water seems to give any COM
fort. The free baths on the Battery have long
lines of urchins before them But for many Of
the most impatient boys waiting ones turn is
too long and formal They get up little swim
ming clubs Of their own and jump in from the
basin near the police pier. Their fear that the
patrolnen will take their clothes is not so great
their desire to get into the water. Almost
every afternoon about > o'clock, when ths de-
tails OF ponce are changing and when Tor a
few minutes there IS 10 disturb them
they turn the Bowling Green Park fountain into
a swimming pool, tramDle down the howerbeds
and draw about them circles Of amused OnlOOk-
During the last few days the attempts TO find
bits Of shade have been exhaustive. Men have
been standing around in the sun waiting for
others in the shade 70 go away.
one popular place yesterday the shady
side Of monuments. Every seat on the steps Of
the pedestals away from the sun was occupied
until o'clock.
Along toward + O'Clock in the afternoon many
launches put out from the shadow of steam
yachts anchored about the Bay, and made for
Manhattan piers tC take on their owners, who
find q seat on deck beneath an awning about
the coolest spot anywhere near New-York.
The parks were crowded all day yesterday
and japlmed at night. Half the city. il seemed
spent twO-thirds Of the night there and on the
sidewalks, waiting for their rooms to lose a
little OF lIlelT weakening neat
An official Of high rank in the Army Building
said yesterday that he thought the present kind
Of weather did people good if they were not
prOstrated- 1t had the same effect, he con
tended, that some popular springs have. Every
morning he takes a warm bath he says then
drinks glass Of hot water, perspires freely,
and he is cool for the rest Of the day
Yesterday there were many prostrations and
one death directly from the heat-Mordus Des-
mann. forty years old, stableman. OF No.
269 West Tenth-st. He died at St. Vincents
Hospital
The forecast for to-day as the local Weather
Bureau gives il out is: Fair, stationary tenn
winds.