The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-07-18
HOTTEST DAY YET; MERCUR196
STOOD AT 90 AFTER SUNSET AND
WILL BE HIGH TO-DAY.
New York for Once Almost as Hot rs
Phlladelp hia- Air Dry, Breeze stifr. but
Warm-subway Cooler This Time Than
street Level Passport, Me-, Was Cool.

warm-subway Cooler This Time Than
street Passport, Me-, Was Cool.
It was a blistering day, the hottest OF
fine summer by five degrees, and although
the breeze sometimes sent the bunting
eying out to horizontal, having force OF
twenty-six miles, there was no relief In It,
II came out Of the arid west and was like
a blast from furnace At times there
was hardly enough moisture in the air
10 induce perspiration. Blowing across
asphal,ed places the breeze acquired more
heat and made Thermometers that 1t smote
rise like the red liquid in an elevator in
dicatur
Some Of the more ardent thermometers
that faced the sun got up to 104 degrees.
The actual temperature as measured on
ton of the American Surety Building,
where Forecaster Emery translates aerial
meanings, was 95 degrees at 4 o'clock P. NJ,
and then the breeze was at top notch. There
was one town hotter than New York, and
that was Philadelphia, the hottest on the
continent not even excepting the very
warmest places down among the orange
groves and alligators. Philadelphia had
% degrees.
coastwise part OF New York. all over New
Jersey, part of Pennsylvania and most OF
Connecticut. Down at Atlantic City the
temperature was only one degree less than
II was here, and the westerly breeze, being
ofshore, made the city by the sea seem as
If it had been moved out Nevada Desert
way,
The heat here hung on even after the sun
went down, and at O'Clock last night the
thermometer, even on the cool official tower,
marked 90 degrees. Nearly everywhere
else where it had been intensely hot in the
day the temperature at night was at sitting
figures
There was one oasis in the dusty desert
OF torridity and that was PASSPORT, Me-,
where last night folks were sleeping
under blankets with the mercury down
to 50 degrees. Even Chicago, which had
a maximum OF "a degrees in the after
moor, was comfortable last night with "a
degrees. The tumble of twenty degrees
was due to the wind shifting from the hot
quarter and coming of the watery back
yard Of the town.
Forecaster Emery sat last night out
on the breezy roof OF his observatory, with
as little on as the law allows, and declared
that the breeze was deception and snare,
as there was nothing in 1t but heat for a
long stretch OF parched territory extend
ing as far cs Nebraska. These were some
of the figures he reeled of from Geographic
reports that perspiring messenger boys
delivered to him at five minute intervals
Davenport, Ia, o. degrees; Omaha, "a
degrees; Milwaukee, "a degrees; Kansas
City, o. degrees; Cincinnati "a degrees;
Scranton, % degrees; North Platte, "a
degrees.
To the southward-that is, below Wash
ngton it was not SO warm as it was In the
West and hereabouts. There was nothing
en- the weather map last night to show that
the alutudinous figures Of yesterday were
going be less lofty to-day Conditions at
sea may give rise to change. but there are
no weather stations on the deep to tell us,
The barometric records on the map in
dicated no disturbance that will be likely
to break up the hot wave. Washington
last night reinforced the opinion Of the
local prophets by predicting continued
high temperature to-day and tomorrow
and light to west to southwest winds.
Winds from these points are likely to be
just as hot as they were yesterday. and
maybe a little hotter.
For The first time since the hot weather
came, the subway yesterday was cool
compared to the surface. There wasn't
much air moving about the platforms,
except on the few stations That have been
fitted with electric fans, but they were far
more comfortable than the street level was.
in the trains there was plenty of air. Once
they were in motion there was continual
hot nlauSinp and ayhlla-
rating to the passengers because it was so
unexpected All the car doors, front and
rear, are kept open, and the rear doors OF
the last cars on both the local and express
trains have been kept open, letting the air
gush through the entire train. This creates
draft, but it Ia cooling.
On days OF high temperature the EN-
ployees OF the subway say traffic falls oil
considerably. Traffic seemed to be lighter
yesterday than on any hot day we have had
so far. Heretofore the subway on warm
days has not been cooler than above ground
but yesterday was an exception, and the
fault finders of the heat in the subway
will have to admit it,
Twenty nine heat prostrations were re-
ported by the police in Manhattan and The
Bronx. with seven in Brooklyn. One deatt
from the heat was reported in Manhattan
and one In Brooklyn The latter was the
case Of man who died in a Flushing ave
nue. car crossing the Bridge.
Thousands of Italians who live in Frot
Hollow, at 149th street, slept in the streets
last night most of them bringing mattresses
and blankets, and few even beds. Ih'
police had to drive them of the streets
frequently to make passage room TO-
vehicles as well q, for foot travellers. Nea
the Jerome Park reservoir, where there II
another colony Of Italians. the conditions
were much the same, many OF them takini
their beds over to the park and sleeping
there Trolley car riding was a poPula
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