The sun., 1901-07-03

blizzard times and when the epizootic dis.
ease Was raging. As much as 81 was asked
yesterday morning for express service for
I which the usual price Is 40 cents
As TO DREss-ANYTHrNG WENT
People in the streets showed their suffer-
ing vastly more yesterday than on the day
before. With temperature in rooms that
went up In the nineties, or. at the best. in
the high eighties, there had been little sleep
/ TO be had and the worn and Jaded faces in
the streets showed 1t. Coats of, collars of,
even the neckbands OF shirts unbuttoned--
, these We're the prevailing styles Of mems
attire In Broadway
Shirt waists OF anything else vent
provided It had within 1t The possibility OF
| lowering to any perceptible extent the
| general record breaking average Of heat
misery.
! The men who ran the elevators in the
hotels and business buildings suffered
! greatly, as the air I'm the crowded elevators
/ was at times all but unendurable In the
big Park Row Building the management
supplied TO all the elevator men yesterday
| blue striped shirt waists and permitted them
to cast aside their uniform caps and work
| bareheaded
GREAT OUTDOOR WORK sTopPRn
Work stopped alb over the city in many
| establishments and In the subway tunnel
| it was entirely suspended from one end Of
the line Of excavation to the other.
Two OF the principal ice-cream retad
stores in this city had to turn away their
customers yesterday because their cream
| gave out shortly after o'clock.
In Brooklyn nearly one thousand OF the
4.50O employees Of the Rapid Transit Com
pany were suffering so much yesterday
morning from the effects OF the heat that
they failed to report for duty and the service
| uaa hadIvy rrinvlaA IhA
officials Of the company stopped a. con-
struction work and all outdoor work and
| work In the machine shops.
| At the navy yard the HEAT was 90 Intense
that all work except Of the most essential
kind was stopped at noon and the men were
employees had been Frustrated before
this precautionary step was taken. There
! used to be a standing order at the yard
| for the suspension OF all work in the shops
when the thermometer reached 90. 1t has
not been in force for some years, but yes
| terday's heat In a sense revived it.
At John n. Robins's shipyard and 0ther
yards along the South Brooklyn water
front. where boilermakers and shipfltters
are employed work was stopped before
. clock In the morning.
PARKS AND PIERS OPEN ALL NIGHT.
The rush out OF town yesterday was
even greater than on Monday. but. unfor-
tunately. cheap as are tho fares to many OF
the nearby resorts there are tens OF thou
For these there v nothing left but the
streets. the ferries. the recreation piers and
docks along tho waterfront.
Tho recreation piers and Central Park
were open all OF last night and thousands
OF persons did not attempt TO go TO bed.
but passed the night in them, getting such
sleep as they could on the ground and on
tho hoard hanphes
Yesterday afternoon Park Commissioner
| Clausen had issued an order to Capt. Mar
tens OF the Central Park police telling him
not TO enforce the usual orders relative
either to the care OF the Park lawns or
the closing Of the Park at night during the
hot spell.
The police interpreted this order AZ
meaning that any orderly person might
| lie down on the lawns or seats as long as
| there was no depreciation or disorder.
SO the Park was open all night to any
body who wanted 70 go in Unfortunately
the lawns wore wet from the showers
| in the early evening and the police re-
ported at late hour that they had seen
no inclination among the Parks visitors
10 lie down on the grass. In explaining
hia order Commissioner Clausen said:
We are going TO throw the parks and
tho recreation piers open 10 the people
all night long these hot days. Every we'll
behaved person who wants 10 spend the
night in the parks or on the piers viii be
allowed 10 do so. We wont let disorderly
persons or thieves In II we can help 1t,
and we will protect those who want to
sleep in the open 10 the best of our ability.
Ii will be a hard job because Of the vast
extent of the land to be. occupied. but we
will do the best We can
The Aldermen had adopted a resolu.
ton asking the Park Commissioner to open
the parks and the piers at night, but Mr..
Clausen got in ahead OF them. Police
Commissioner Murphy also gave the police
orders to look ont for the safety OF the
people. Only thirty policemen were on
duty in Central Park last night.
FEARruL RUSH ON AMBULANcEs.
Not since the terrible hot spell In the
latter part of August. '98, have the opera
tors in tho telegraph bureau at Police Head
quarters had such busy day as yester-
day Before noon there Were nearly
@ so5 calls for ambllances and more
than $50 prostrations were reported. Al
s Of clock the number OF ambulance calls
was nearly 500. Sometimes an ambulance
would start out TO answer call and como
back with three or four patients over.
come by the heat, who had been picked
up on the way back to the hospital. The
patrol wagons at all of the police stations
were pressed into services TO help the am
balances
There were many cases where the am
balances and police wagons we're all busy
st tho same time and then wagons and carts
were improvised 10 carry tho stricken
persons To the hospitals AS an example
Of the vast amount Of work the ambulance
horses had to do. this bulletin posted at
Police Headquarters about noon u an
evidence:
j. Hood Wright refuses 10 take any more ears.
Horses us,d up and uns be 10 get any more.
Supt Pickering Of the hospital said that
the hospital was not Oyer-Crowded. but
that the ambulance horses simply could
not do any more work, Two automobiles
were borrowed later and heat patients
were taken TO the hospital In wagons and
the patrol wagons.
HosPITAL RECORDS BROKEN.
Al the city hospitals yesterday the am
buance calls were Bellevue 1903; Harlem
so. Gouverneur Co. Fordham. a. In each
case record was broken. Bellevue's
biggest previous record was on one Of
the hot dats N 1896 when there were i0l
calls Fifty of the heat patients were
transferred from Bellevue 10 the hospital
on City Island. and 100 patients suffering
from minor complaints were discharged
10 make room for the new heat cases
Atmidnight there were nlnety-seven bodies
in the morRuc, the capacity OF which Ia ia.
and al that hour there were twenty more
calls for the dead wagons waiting 10 be
attended 10.
The ambulance record at the Presbyter-
ian Hospital was broken with fifty calls.
The four ambulances were on the Jump all
day and I'll night and extra horses were
hired to take The places OF those worn out