New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-07-11
HOPE OF RELIEF TO-DAY
Moderation Over Mississippi
River Said To Be Hurrying
Eastward TO Succor
Seaboard.
SUMMERS HOTTEST DAY AND
ITS RESULTS.

Eeat New York sweltere6 Yesterday as
= has not sUeltered before this year.
and when at last night settled over the
city the metropolis crawled away to its
fire escapes. roofs, beaches, parks or
ether places which gave promise OF re-
lief and tried 10 go to sleep. with the
knowledge that it had passed through
he hottest day Of the year The ther-
raometer registered 80 degrees at 1920
7. n passing the record mark held
Jointly by June % and July g
Showers predicted by the Weather
Bureau for to-day promise somewhat
cooler weather. = moderation in tenn
ps-ature was felt yesterday over the
Mississippi River, and the local Weather
Bureaus forecast last night was optimis-
nc n the view that this moderation
would journey eastward and bring relief
70 New York and the other suffering
cities OF the Atlantic seaboard.
The humidity yesterday was even
more active than on Saturday. when it
bolstered up the temperature at the
zine that the litter faltered and gave
some signs Of retreating from the IN
comfortable position it had occupied.
Al s o'clock last night the humidity was
= degrees. as compared with 90 degrees
81 the same hour on Saturday night
JuIy 10 Far Above Average.
Yesterdays showing marked it as an
exceptional July 10. Last year the
average temperature for the day was IS
degrees. the average for the last thirty
three years is -; yesterday the average
vas 81
While the mercury was ploughing its
ruthless way TO its record mark wave
q death and suffering was following IN
its wake Nine deaths from the heat
were recorded in the metropolitan dis
1rict. one man committed suicide and the
number OF prostrations ran into the
scores There were three deaths in Man
haitian, three in Brooklyn. two IN queens
and one in Jersey City
Hannah Hogan. sixty-fve years oio-
q No. 90 Cherry street was found dead
in front of Nc $50 Water street DR.
Brown. OF Hudson Street Hospital, SAID
that the heat was the cause. Michael
Moran of No. 433 East nth street, died
IN his home and an unidentified man
u-as found IN front O. No 692 E1ghth
avenue and Dr.. Wilhelm Of Flower
Eospital. rassed the judgment that
added another victime to heats relent-
less rsvages-
Three Brooklyn Deaths
F-oox3vrl's toll included Patrick Leavy.
Of sd street and Avenue I. Rachel Sell
herg. Of No. Jos Ames street, and Nellie
Bove-s. Of No. 265 Hoyt street Both
women we're overcome in their MONIES
lste Yesterday afternoon and died before
the arrival of a physician LeaVy was
removed from Avenue 1 and Gravesend
avenue TO Kings County Hospital yester-
d.. -oorning and died two hours later
Two unknown victims were claimed by
The scorching heat that lowered over
Long Island City The first was touno al
The Proa duav dock in Astoria where ne
had gone for relief The other sought
relief in z match OF woods near Harms
and Van Alst avenues. His body was
discovered by several boys who were
hunting for a baseball that had been
hated into the woods
Jersey Cit>-'s enc fatal prostratlon was
that of Henry Merkel, Of No "a "a
street AIerkel was overcome at Jersey
avenue and LIST street, while on his way
70 church. He was seen TO stagger ana
drop n the street. and was carried IN
Ger IN awning 10 await the arrival OF an
ambulance from the City Hospital In
he race between the ambulance ana
Death the latter won, and the body was
taken 70 & rnorg1e instead of to the hos
pitaL
Suicide a. Eighty Years OF Age
The suicide Of James Clench, eighty
Years Old. Of No. 74s Marcy avenue,
Brooklyn. was attributed 20 his suffer
iags from the heat He had been af-
ficted with pleurisy and stomach dis
ease and during the last few days, wheh
Tie not wave Of a week ago returned
with increased force, he had complained
bitterly Yesterday afternoon he went
mo the bathroom Of his home and in
nailed gas. He was formerly dyer IN
he Williamsburg section and retired
several years ago after making large
sun Of money from MS business
There were eleven prostrations IN
brooklyn that got on the police and hos
htal records Of that borough. There
We're more than that in Manhattan ano
ne Bronx, and I'll sorts of frenzied acts
Performed By persons who fell into the
clutches Of the police were attributed 10
tie heat.
antonio Ferria, 3 driver in the Street
'eening Department walked up 10 Cap
an Tappan as the latter stood IN the
NORWAY Of the Morrisania station yes
'iaay morning and asked If he might
eve drink of water. AS the captain
"a him to go into the back room. where
'e cooler was, he noticed that the man
ace was inhamed and that he seemed 10
suffering intensely from the neat
.ne Italian received further directions
ION Patrolnaen wilkerrnan, Neumllier'
Nsfty and Moran, who were seated
s'olnd 2 table.
Rumpus in Station House.
Walking TO the cooler. Ferria broke
~e eggs into the drinking cup ana