The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-07-20
HEAT BREAKS AT ITS WORST.
GRADUAL RETURN TO MODERATE
WEATHER LOOKED ron. VI
"A Deaths Occurred Yesterday and 1853
ProstratiOns-COo Night Breezes Fob
low q burst Of Th,nderst0rms All
Around This Corner OF tho Continent,


low q burst Of Th,nderstorms All
Around This Corner OF tho Continent,
The hot weather did its worst yesterday
at causing prostrations and deaths and y
gradual moderation is now expected. The
Official thermometer, twenty-one stories
above the surface Of Broadway, got up to
"a degrees at o'clock yesterday afternoon.
That was the best that it could do from q
meteorologist's point Of view, and the worst
from that of folks who are compelled to
breathe to live. Other Thermometers moro
intimately associated with human habita.
tons and pursuits indicated higher figures.
~ DEATHS AND 1853 PBosTRATIoNs.
There were more heat prostrations than
on any preceding day. The police reported
llQ in Manhattan and The Bronx up to
II P. M, and 20 deaths, mostly of childreny
caused by the heat. The Brooklyn police
reported 20 deaths from the heat and IS
prostrations, a total for New York and
Kings of 1853 prostratons and AZ deaths.
The hospitals in Manhattan sent out,
ambulances in response to 268 calls. OF,
these, Bellevue had 49, Harlem A. Hudson
street, 80; Roosevelt, "a; Presbyterian, 23;s
ID,
York, Is. There were $50 ambulance calls
in Brooklyn.
STORM BRINGS RELIEF.
Relief came from a slatecolored cloud
that began frowning over the hills Of New.
Jersey ten minutes before 8 O'Clock. 1t
was not an old fashioned summer storm
with electrical etchings. The lightning
and thunder were not worthy Of New
Jersey. 1t was just q simple thunder squat,
and in its passage across the middle Oh
the city it dripped in its ten minutes ex-
istence 13 of an inch Of rain and few vivid
flashes OF lightning.
The effect on the trees and the grass OF.
all parks was magical. The trees had been
dropping in the moistureless and dusty air,
and looked as hot and forlorn as palms in
the tropic sand. When the storm turned the
hose on them under the pressure of forty
emerald and futtered joyously. The storm
did not extend it's liquid influence to the sea-
side parts OF the city or to Harlem, but
the GOODNESS it dragged in with 1t helped
to send down the mercury at many places
that did not get wet, including Coney Island.
COOLING OFF ALL NIGHT.
Hereabout the temperature dropped
nineteen degrees, or down to IA degrees.
The wind blew five minutes from north
west then shifted to southwest and final8
got back to the west, where it had been
all day At 4 o'clock the mercury, which
started up again almost as swiftly as it
had fallen, got back to 90 degrees. This
was not 80 hot by six degrees as it was on
at the same hour.
The wind at 4:3O o'clock was blowing out
Of the west at the rate of about rs miles
and accommodating GOODNESS that soon
started the mercury down anew. Evidently
there had been many other showers west
and northwest Of the city and the breeze
was bringing in some OF the aerial refreshp
nent. At 9 o'clock the breeze had died
DOWN to q mere zephyr and was coming
out OF the northwest, and while it could not
be called cool it seemed so by comparison
with the hot air of the early afternoon. .
Folks in the street took off their hats and
actually referred to the breeze as very cool. :,
The temperature really was IS degrees,
which was not 80 warm as the temperature
at the same hour the night before by eight
degrees.
WHOLE CHAIN OF THUNDERsToRMs.
The wind shifted in less than an hour
TO the west and finally to the south, whence
Il was blowing about seven miles at 10
o'clock last night. 1t had got back to a
westerly quarter a little later and may 60
TO the northwest. An examination OF
Local Forecaster Emery's map, after he
mad filled it with figures Of all the local
Forecasters on the cont nent, showed that (
The GOODNESS was caused by a series OF
that extended as far south
as the District Of Columbia and as far west
Is northern Ohio. The thunderstornSj
we're created by the invasion of the heated
territory Of swirls from the low pressure
working down from the northeast. The
was low all over New England.
The low area appears to be drifting OUT
. sea in southeasterly direction, and as
t passes this latitude it will probably drag
down lower temperatures astern Of 1t.
The hottest place along the Atlantic
,oast at o'clock last night was Atlantic
.ity with the mercury at 80 degrees. Else
y here thunder showers in the afternoon
,ent the temperature down q bit. Phila.I
ielphia, with u degrees at 8 p. NJ, was IL
degrees cooler than on the night before;
Albany was IL degrees lower and Pitts
,urg, with the thermometer record
ng 10, had lost 10 degrees. Before the
appeared the maximum
were: At Philadelphia, %
legrees; Atlantic City, 9e degrees; Provi-
ienoe, 90 de- rees, and Boston, o. degrees.
Washington's experts predict fresh
winds for to-day and tomorrow,
With thunderstorms and showers to-day
md cooler weather. A gradual return to
temperatures is likely unless the
ow area develops more energy and hur-
les things up
BAIL WILL BE TAKEN AT NIGHT.
To afford relief to such prisoners az may
,e confined in the various precinct station
HOUSES at night Charles G. F. Wahle, presi-
lent of the Board Of City Magistrates,
las appointed volunteer committee con-
listing of the president of the board and
Magistrates Finn. Moss, Steinert and Cram
o take bail at night. Magistrate Crane with
,e found at his house. ls9 West 10th street,
md will take bail for prisoners in the pre-
incts that report to the Harlem and Nor
isania courts