New-York tribune., 1905-07-21
CITY SIGHS WITH RELIEF.
THE HOT SPELL OYER.
Deaths and Prostrations Fall Of
PARKS Still CrozCded.

| The comfortable summer temperature WHICH
came to the city after the thunder shower on
wednesday afternoon will remain to-day and
Saturday. according to the report OF the
Weather Bureau. The highest point that the
thermometer reached yesterday was ss degrees
at 2 o'clock. and at o'clock it had fallen to %
degrees Even at o'clock the humidity was
only &c.
The ambulance and hospital attendants en-
| joyed the respite quite much as any other
class of citizens Scores OF patients who nad
been .prostrated by the heat left the hospitals
yesterday, but stln the wards were reported
generally overcrowded. Less than one hun
dred prostrations were reported for yesterday,
while the deaths In New-York numbered
twenty-eight- The hospital authorities say that
these deaths and prostrations in many instances
were the results OF the intense heat Of Few
days ago. and that great reduction in tempera-
ture will save many lives. Many working men
and women of the congested districts had be-
come utterly exhausted through lack Of proper
rest at night.
The effect of the hot weather became appar-
ent In the swelling of the criminal and insane
records in the last three four days. In Belle
vue the surgeons report that more persons were
examined as to their sanity in the hottest three
days Just past than on any other three days IN
the history of the hospital The police court
cases.
A case of insanity. apparently from the pro-
longed heat appeared yesterday at Houston-sr-
and the Bowery. A policeman found Charles
Berlein, who has been living at the Eureka
Hotel, in the Bowery, haranguing a crowd IN
incoherent terms. The policeman decided tnaI
the man was demented and sent him 70 BsiieVue.
A great decrease in the excursion trafnc was
noticeable on all the car and steamboat nneS
yesterday, and the men at the SODA water I0un
tains breathed easier. Nowhere was the fal In
temperature more welcome than on the East
Side The entire city, In fact, seehled 10 Oo
heaving immense sighs OF relief all day long
John j. Pallas the Commissioner or the Farh
Department, has estimated that 2S4oo0 men,
women and children took advantage OF his or
der throwing open every foot Of space In the
sixty-six parks in the boroughs OF Manhattan
and Richmond and slept there on Wednesday
night. These figures do not include thousands
who Ioupged about the public greens or TOOK
quiet siestas under the bushes or within reacn
Of the cooling river breezes in the daylight
Were these included, 1t would undoubtedly ac-
cordng to park officials reach up TO hve hun
dred thousand. The parks were again crowded
last night They will continue free to the pub
lie for the present. Mr.. Pallas believes that
this will save many lives
Perhaps the most extensive equipment OF
park sleeper was one that appeared in Central
Park on the West Side Here on previous nights
the mosquitoes had made sleep almost out OF
the question. Last night one man went
equipped not only with netting to ward on the
pests but also with screen. behind which he
disrobsd and got into his pajamas.
DEATHS.
MANHATTAN AND THE BRONX.
BOYLE. owen. forty; at home No. $50 West soth-st-
BRANCH. Roselin. nine; died at her homs No. 4i4
cAPALINI JOsephy. of No. 10 sa1tsrst; died IN Hud-
cRoGAN Mary A. 1--WE months old; found dead in bed at
her home No 74O Greenwich-st
ParSSi No P'ias g e@foi oh'' ' nome
HAMII. George. sevsnty-six; died at home. No l1s
JANscH Richard. forty-eight No. 80 East 14sth-
NASE Gsd aIssy at saa dS5y Of East
KIRBY. Johanna. forty. No. Hamilton-st.; died
HgeH o5n5 Tho%s gsss s .S.a No as waav
s6s Eass 5shs IRisPh hY'"o died at A0" No
M d9d ssRs 81 vHss@s g5.p2 E2 ''' Thompson
Unidenthed man. a laborer about thiEty-hvs years
s5th-5t; taken to Belle1uo Hospital wh:ra % hs
BROOKLYN
ANDERSON Charles. f0rty-eisht, No. sT1 ad-avs.:
BENsEN. Louise. seven months. No. los wyokon-.t;
CARROLL. Charles. hfty-sx. No. 50 Bo1-st; died at
finsHat died at home aS months OF NO. 4'S Hop
GALES. Patrick hfty No. IS South 5th-st: disd at
HAVEN Arnold. forty-thrss. No. as South sd-st; died
HAYIK. John. thirty-six No. 11s Ksnt-avs: died at
JACKSON Mrs. forty. No. rs Henry-sti died at home
MILCHNER, Elizabeth, year. OF No. Bancroft
Place: died
REED. William E.. four months. No s54 Balro-st;
died home. -
REsosKY Frank thirty-eght No, s5s oakIand-st
RYGERD Frederick. thirty-oue No. 2.1s4 Fulton-st.
died at home '
Floyd-st died at home.
SHEEHAN, John,
died at home.
vALBRIDGE. Anna. ssventy-fvs No 15s sd-ava.
disd at home
QUEENS.
bETTINGEtt, Carl twenty-nne No
wsy-ave. Long Island City: died in St Johns Hos
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