New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-08-12


have not been known in this city for several
years.
The local weather bureau predicts slight fall
In temperature to-day, but adds that the relief
Il any, will be only temporary. Fair weather
and high temperature are the prediction for to-
morrow. Although the temperature of to-day
may fall slightly, It is feared by the physicians
Of hospitals ana dispensaries that the death rate
viii increase. The cool wave reported as
lowering over the Great Lakes shows few signs
Of coming East
MANY DEATHS AND PRosTRATTONs.
Not only did the figures reached by the mer-
curry in the thermometers yesterday break all
records, but the number Of prostrations and
deaths surpassed any statistics for any previous
day this year or for any previous August II.
The hospitals and dispensaries were over
whelned with patients borne in from the streets
and many died before their bodies could be car
ried away from the hot pavements where they
fell.
DR.. a B. Cannon. superintendent Of the Belle
vue Dispensary. said that within the last four
days there had been an average OF sixty-two
child patients, ranging from five months to
two years old. They were suffering with cholera
infantum and summer complaint. The Outdoor
Poor Department has an average Of twenty-five
applications a day from mothers to take chill
dren 10 RandaITs Island. The doctors were
working overtime and were nearly worn out.
The adults that apply for treatment far in
excess Of previous records, and the average for
the last four days has been about sixty daily.
Yesterday there were 700 patients.
Untold suffering was shown in the more
densely populated districts OF the city. The con-
tinuous heat Of the last eleven days had heated
the hagstones, the streets and the walls and roof
Of the building TO such an extent that the at
mosphere was Of about the same temperature
without and within the tenement houses. Thou
sands OF families crowded to the recreation piers
and parks. but only TO obtain little, II any,
lief Thousands OF other persons rushed OF to
seaside resorts but doubtless suffered more in
the Jam and crush they encountered in the sur
face and elevated trains than the little allevia-
ton finally obtained at their destination.
DAY BREAKS WARM AND sTEAMTNG
There was every evidence OF burning hot
day, even before the sun rose Those who were
fortunate to sleep during the preceding night
woke TO find the air stagnant and sitting The
atmosphere, even in the dim light Of morning
was seen TO be filed with a whftish haze At
daybreak this haze grew derser and wrapped
itself about the tall buildings and spread itself
out over the calm surface Of the Bay like
gossamer. This humidity only resulted in Civ
ing the impression that the day had begun a
good deal hotter than the mercury registered
From O'Clock until noon the heat increased
with fearful rapidly. The few clouds which
passed across the path Of the sun in nowise
diminished the fervor of it's rays, which beat
down On the hagstones and asphalt OF the
streets and the buildings through a stearning
motionless dead air.
The great heat seemed to melt pride and
starch with one and the same blast. The man
who derided the shirt waist man as he sat the
and listened 70 a roof garden comedian now
found himself convert to that eoatess Gus
tom. The silk and parti-colored shirt waist
were accordingly found side by side on the side
walk and on the crowded car with the Iaborer's
cotton jumper.
But the man in the office appeared to suffer
more with a fan in hand and cool jug within
reach than the man in the ditch with mattocH
LABoRERs IN bitches USED TO IT
Many persons stopped to look at the gangs
OF worknen employed on the new buildings in
course OF construction downtown. The aver
age remarks were:
Poor fellows
How they must suffer-
ITO think they must work in such a sum-
But the poor fellows" worked right along.
with only an occasional mop Of the face.
These workmen don't mind the heat" said
Superintendent Clark, who has charge Of the
construction OF the new Broad-st- Exchange
building THE most Of the laborers employed
for such work are Italians and they can stand
heat like Mephisto himself Not q single la
borer employed here has complained Of the heat
or asked to be relieved. I have been in the
business since nineteen years DID, and
the only Prostrations among such Iaborers that
have known were caused more by liquor than
the sun"
How is II that men on these iron Orders
stand the heat Of the metal asked.
why, they are cool up there" was the
swer. Those fellows don't feel the heat half
so much as those working on spruce planks
making mortar. Spruce is the hottest material
70 work on there is"
Although the highest temperature was re-
corded at BIS p. m. when the mercury of the
weather bureau registered 50 Ito degrees. no
one knew it in the street. There in many places
the mercury rose as high 106 degrees. Some
declared il hotter after nightfall than at noon,
because Of the stagnancy Of the air Toward
midnight a few gusts OF wind from the south
east brought some relief 20 the crowds al the
beaches, but there seemed little change IN the
rooms Of city houses
POLICE RECORD OF DEATHS.
The deaths from heat. reported by the police,
follow:
RovsAN. Isaac Of No 80 Catharinest3 Frustrated By
n JsEseg GE as pss sod Body ' Nas sent to the
MOrgue.
.TK Levy ntty-seven years old. No, 1.24S Union
GRIFFIN Ellen forty-seven old Of No 242 East
Eighty sventh-st
z.y-T Joseph hfty-nve Old Of No - West one
LIZ =. -ffteenth-s. found dead in bed
ryrfv James ,hirty-nve years old. Of No lo3 East
- shyd-st: dled ambulance way 10 Flower
hospital
.roN-roogE Frank years old. Of No 81 East
seventy -hfth-st
PARNET Alexandra, thiEty-hve years old. cook. Of