The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-07-11

Many Prostrations-One Death In New
 Haven-others Rsportsd-FactorIes CIose-cooIer To-day.
 It was blazing, blistering and breezeless day yesterday. Old Sol pat ted General Humidity on the back, said he was the sucking sockdolager of the hour-the torrid, horrid, humid boss of the ranch. ,-s. .e.- Weather Observer Tarr reported offi- cially that the mercurial column in the thermometer danced serenely at 94 during the afternoon and endeavored to do the high fling at 95 but failed dismal ly. This. however, was the record for three years. But mercury or no mer- cury. thermometer or not, it was hot, and no indicator was necessary for the ordinary man. a .z The entire plant of the Winchester Repeating Arms company shut down at noon. The officials took this precaution as many Of the girls employed there were overcome in the morning and as there was much greater intensity of heat at noon the entire plant was or. dered closed The works will start up again to-day.
 The molders around town found their work too much in this sort of weather and great many of them stayed away from work. At Sargent & Co.'s shops all the brass and iron holders were all lowed to 90 home at 9 o'clock in the morning because of the fearful heat in the foundries ss=
 The Bradley plant of the National Folding Box and Paper company was closed down in the forenoon, and one room in the Congress avenue plant of | the concern. in which hundred girls
 were at work. was also closed. Scovilrs camera factory on Day street also closed at noon.
 The only relief New Haveners had
 from the heat was to resort to the troll
 ley cars and fly to the beaches. The cars were all loaded to overflow l ing and the. trolley riding in the even- ling was very heavy. Never before, per haps, has New Haven appreciated its trolley cars as much as at this time. On the streets all day the heat was
 stifling. Thermometers in the sun
 ranged between 110 and 115. and at 96 | in the shade.
 The highest July record here hitherto
 was 97 for July 3. 1928.
 The record for New Haven's hottest
 day was 100. made in September, some
 years ago.
 I A delegation oe carriers in the post
 office waited upon Postmaster Howarth Il yesterday morning and asked for the lomission of the noon delivery. The l postmaster cheerfully granted t.e re- l quest of the carriers. It is Postmaster
 Howarth's s intention during the heated l term to omit the noon delivery on days
 when the weather is excessively warm. No serious inconvenience results by dropping the noon delivery at this time
 of the year.
 More than the usual days mortuary
 record prevailed at the New Haven hos pital. The cause was undoubtedly the extreme heat of the last few days. l One patient. whose life hangs in the
 balance. was taken to the hospital on
 Thursday. suffering from sunstroke. He lis Charles M. Mason of 105 Lafayette
 street, seventy years old. He may sur vive.
 Patrick sullivan. forty-five years Of age. teamster. was overcome by the
 heat on Wednesday and died at the
 hospital Thursday. The sunstroke was
 complicated with other troubles. Dennis Sullivan, a middle aged man,
 while shoveling coal into the house at I S20 Whitney avenue, yesterday after Inoon was overcome by the heat and was taken to Grace hospitalin critical con dition. He resides at the corner of East
 and Collis streets and was employed by
 MT. Gilbert, the coal man. It was stat
 ed at the hospital last evening that MT. Sullivan was not expected to live.
 At 5:a0 a most welcome sunshower tended to dispel the humidity from the
 atmosphere. and at o'clock the ther-
 rnometer fell to 79, making a drop of IS degrees. Light showers are expected
 early this morning, and it is prognosti-
 cated thatit will be cooler to-day.