New-York tribune., 1902-07-10
SEASONS RECORD BROKEN,
YESTERDAY, WITH 81 DEGREES, THE
HOTTEST DAY
EIGHT DEATHS AND ELEVEN PROsTRA.
TIoNs REPoRTED-oUTGoING BOATS
AND TRAINS CROWDED.

TIoNs REPoRTED-oUTGoING BOATS
AND TRAINS CROWDED.
Forecast for to-day Showers and thunder.
storms, with cooler weather.
! Yesterday the hottest day of the season
The thermometer assembled to 81 degrees al
1 p. m, and remained there for one and one-half
hours. The best the official thermometer on the
Weather Bureau has been able to do heretofore
this season has been 50 degrees. Following the
muggy weather of Monday, eight deaths and
eleven prostrations from the heat were reported.
The deaths:
at No So7 vest Thirty ST employed as
steam drller on the rapid transit subway overcome
Forty-seventh-st and died before medical aid could
COFFEE, Kate. day old: died at home No. 1ei2
second St died in saloon. No 1873 FiTst-ave,
HOLMAN. Antonio Of No 434 East seventy-fourth-st.
M Esf n f 82ar; Ga ad in sa fco
No. Ga East Eighty -third-st
At hsT h No 'fS5' S5 osa
sPLAIN. Mrs. sixty years old. Of No 22s West Eish-
Unknown man. died in front Of No ITO Broadway.
On most days there are hours when one can
get a breath of cool air. but yesterday was not
one of them. The sun worked hard all day
The thermometer registered IS degrees at .
a. m. and the temperature climbed rapidly tow
ard the top of the tube all the forenoon. At
10 o'clock the temperature was Sc. and at il
o'clock 50 and at - O'Clock 80
Fortunately as the heat increased the hu-
midty decreased. From Il per cent, recorded
at a. M. it fell to 50 at 10 a. m. 1t did not
rise again until late in the afternoon There
was little breeze to make the heat more pear
able It did not exceed twelve miles an hour
nf night
fall it freshened and was blowing at the rate
of twenty miles at 10 o'clock.
Whoever could get out of the hot buildings
into the air and TO a shaded patch of grass did
So Many people visited the parks. Those IN
the crowded tenement districts easily reached
from them demonstrated their value. The Bat
terry Park was one of those most sought In the
afternoon 1t had the appearance Of nay neld
near a Fresh Air Home. The grass, which had
become longer than usual. had just been cut
1t lay thick upon the lawn. In some places IL
had been heaped up ready to be carted away.
Children tumbled all over IT, while their moth
ers sat on the ground under the branches OF the
trees and watched them. They kicked it with
their bare feet and gathered it up In their
hands and tossed it in the air. Some filled their
handkerchiefs and skirts with It 70 carry home
Men Law upon the ground and slept away the
afternoon.
1t was difficult to work and everybody was
glad when the hour arrived for leaving the
stores and offices. From that hour the trolley
cars were crowded, especially those leading to
the different shore resorts Every one was try
ing TO get out OF New-York yesterday. and no
one who did not have TO come into town Duld
be hired to do so At several hotels 1t was re-
ported that there had been no arrivals
Steamboats, and railroad trains outward bound
did rushing business. The steamboat lines TO
New England ports were taxed 10 their ca
pacity There were hundreds of people VINO
could not be accommodated by the steamboats,
The Fail River. Providence. Stonington and Nor
wich lines were hard pushed 10 make room for
their patrons. and hundreds Of persons were on
the piers in the morning clamoring for tickets:
At the offices Of the JOY Line it was said
that all the staterooms and all the tickets
which could safely be sold had been disposed or
at 10 O'Clock in the morning. The same state
of affairs was reported at the piers or the
Bridgeport New Haven and Hartford lines
The hotelkeepers at the summer resorts are
now happy In June It looked very much as
if the cool weather would prevent them
from reaping their usual harvest: 1t was
said Yesterday at the New England Resort Bu-
reau in Park Place that the bureau had never
sold so many tickets TO summer resorts as
this season. and that. while people did not start
so early as in other years, they were making
up for their Iateness by their numbers. The
hoteIkeepers were well satisfied with the