New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1901-06-29
HEAT RAYS KILL THREE.
MERCURY SHOWS A TEMPERATURE OF "a
DEGREEs-HOPE FOR TO-DAY.

Three deaths were reported yesterday from
Brooklyn of persons who had been overcome
by the heat. They were:
MATCHEsKL Joseph died in the Brooklyn Hospital
Iumbus Place
WARD. j. forty-hve years old No 29s Classon-
ave Frustrated in Flushing Thursday. died in the
Brooklyn Hospital yesterday
There were seventeen prostrations from the
heat reported in Manhattan and six in Brook
lyn. which did not end fatally.
1t is just possible that to-day may offer some
relief from the oppressive heat which has been
affecting this city. Mr.. Emery. who is in charge
Of the local Weather Bureau. says there will be
rains and thunderstorms to-day and tomorrow.
The rains may lower the temperature some
what but except for the clouding of the sun
and the shutting off of its fierce rays. the con-
ditions for heat will be practically the same as
they were yesterday On Sunday. Mr.. Emery
says the weather will be cooler
Yesterday the mercury started a record
breaking trip, and failed by only narrow mar
gin The ambitious fluid persistent. and
kept trying for the high mark long after the
hour at which it usually begins to subside. Not
until $50 o'clock in the evening did it give up.
Then it showed a temperature of 81 degrees,
equalling the mark it made for itself in June,
1872. and in June 1891. but failing TO reach
the % degrees it accomplished in June 1875, or
the higher one of 96 degrees in June, 1888.
Ninetyfour degrees up on top of the tall
building where the instruments are placed.
equals about 100 degrees down in the streets
where the people walk about and do business,
and only those Who suffer know what it equals
in the crowded tenement houses The humidity
remained high all day. showing 66 degrees as
late as o'clock in the afternoon. The coolest
time OF the day. counting from midnight on
Thursday. was at o'clock in the morning.
when there were only "A degrees of heat. From
that time on TO 5:30, the increase was steady
The breeze blew from the southwest all day
| at the rate OF from six 10 twelve miles an hour
but at night increased in force until II reached
! fifteen miles an hour. This alone made sleep
| possible to many, and added materially to the
comfort of many more.
Helena, Mont was again the coolest place in
| the United States yesterday. but even there 1t
was 64 degrees in the shade, large increase
over the temperature Of the day before. Kansas
| City showed the other extreme, with an even
| 100 degrees. All over the northeastern portion
| of the country the extreme heat obtains. put II
| IS comparatively cool in the southeastern por-
| Battery Park was probably one of the coolest
| places in the city yesterday. All day long a
| refreshing breeze blew off the water making the
weather tolerable for those who were fortunate
enough to secure seats in the shade. 1t was
| hot. however, even there. and the chlldren olo
| not play about great deal
It was womens day at the public bath on the
Battery wall, and If any girl old enough to go
/ into the alone and living WITHIN a nus
| Of half mile OF the bath did not come, sne
must have been sick. At least, that was the
| impression that a stranger would receive. All
dav long a steady stream of women and chill
dren-especially the latter-wended It's way 10
| and from the bath, carrying towels ana oathlhg
| suits of more less primitiveness. 1t made no
difference TO them whether they dressed for the
| water in an old wrapper or any other garment
! that was sufficient to satisfy the matron They
enjoyed the bath, and made so much noise IN
the water that one standing outside would thlnK
| Redlam had been let loose within. some OF the
little girls carried life preservers MADE or sew
| eral pieces of cork tied TO a string.
In the evening, when the work Of the Gay was
4 over the people began to come to the PARK IN
| families There was music there. and most OF
/ the people remained until it was over Many
STAYED long after that, and some who, had they
gone home would have returned to superheated
| rooms spent the whole night in the open air
| TWO DEATHS IN WESTCHESTER COUNTY.
| The heat yesterday caused the death Of two per-
sons in Westchester County, and half dozen resi-
dents were overcome. Jacob Schlurd, well known
resident of Bronxville while picking cherries was
sunstruck and fell the ground. Mr. Schluno'
/ who was hfty-three years old. died four hours
| later Catharine Taft the hve-year-o daughter
] Mary Taft of Fourth-aVe., Mount