The sun., 1901-06-29
OH MY, BUT WASN'T IT HOT?
AND THE THERMOMETER WAS No INDI-
CATION or now BADLY WE YELT.
Oar Old Erie nd Hsmidity Was Here. Too. and
Helped . Broiiing Sun to Break This
Tears Heat Record-The Mercsrys Top
Notch for the Day Was % Degrees.

Tears Heat Record-The Mercurys Top
Notch for the Day Was % Degrees.
Tho eccentricities Of June weather al
ways have been a source OF wonder. even
to prophets In breezy towers. where the
temperatures we don't swelter in are faith
fully recorded by high-grade mercurial
Thermometers Almost any man in the
street would have declared yesterday
that the air was hotter than II was the day
before But the imperturbable prophet.
In his shirt waist, said that. officially. 1t
was not quite so hot The humidity. which
got up to IS. was 81 degrees higher than
on Thursday.
reputable June day usually breathes
warmest on the thermometric bulb b.
tween 1 and O'Clock In the afternoon.
Yesterday got In its simeon puffs mt $50
p. NJ. when the sun was well on It's way
horizonward. This is an unusual per-
formance, even for June The high tenn
perature didn't last more than few min
utes and was due TO superheated air
wave from the dusty plains OF Jersey.
The breeze was sluggish from southwest
nearly all day long. At infrequent in
tervas Il attained gait Of about ten miles.
After making the record for the year. "
degrees. the mercury collapsed from its
remarkable exertion at so unusual an
hour and fell nearly eight degrees within
an hour.
What made everybody who wasn't in
a shady place in tall building think that
it was hotter than on Thursday was not
only the moisture mingled with the heat,
but the leftover caloric OF the day before,
stored in the granite walls, steel frames
and pavements of stone and brick. The
thermometers near the sidewalks, which
had recorded. according TO their respcC-
tive locations from p3 To 96 degrees on.
Thursday. indicated yesterday tempera-
lures ranging from 95 to 100 degrees. What
ever the atitudinous mercury might say,
there was no doubt about the air being
hotter in the working places than II was
on Thursday The crowded soda fOun-
tains and bars attested it, and persplrng
multtudes afoot in busy sections of the
town, moro or less undressed. made the
observer believe it il he didn't feel IL
against the opinion Of the best official mer-
curry that ever ran up "A dripping tube.
The prophecy from Washington for this
ncighbOrhood to-day gives hope Of cooler
weather, To be- preceded by thunder
showers. The breeze got around To the
south late last night and was blowing about
eighteen miles al midnight
The number Of heat prostraiions yester-
| day was greater than on any day 40 far this
summer. In all twenty eases or persons
overcome by the heat were reported by the
police. Among them was Ida Bowen Of
254 West Seventeenth street, an assistant
nurse at the New York Hospital. She was
removed to Bellevue Hospital suffering from
thermio fever. which Is the worst stage OF
heat prostratiOn.
The Bellevue people had It that she was
brought there from the New York Hos
pital At that hospital II was said that she
had not been taken 10 Bellevue from there.
man was found unconscious from the
heat AZ FOrty-tith street and Ninth avenue
last night. He was taken to Roosevelt
Hospital. He had letters in his pocket
addressed To Charles Daskell. CornhIll.
Boston"
John G.. Fleming, a newspaper man. IS
years old died of heart disease rendered
acute by the heat early yesterday morning
in the office of the American TelC phone
journal al 23 Duane street. He was about
to move to Montreal and was collecting
his papers in the office when he died. He
leaves widow and several children at
1854 Bushwck avenue, Brooklyn.
Robert III. Jones, n retired sea captain.
Is years old. while trying TO get cool on
little balcony at his home. ia West lO4th
street. early yesterday morning. do2ed Of
and fell to the sidewalk two stories below.
The fall killed him.
Mary Smith, 20 years old. servant.
died last night AT 2l7 Fast Ninsty-seventh
street. II was reported 10 the police that
her death was probably caused by the heat.
DEATHS Is BROOKLYN
John J. Ward. Is years old. of 200 Clas.on
avenue. at the BROOKLYN Hospital. Mrs.
Helen Milford. 20 years old Of co Columbia
place. Elizabeth Hepburn. 80 years old. Of
~ FOTty-urst street.
There were more than score Of heat pros
trOtiouS