New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-07-03
CITY SWELTERS ALL DAY
Scores Collapse as Humidity
Saps Strength of All.
PARKS CROWDED AT NIGHT
Thrown Open to Sufferers, Who
Embrace Chance to Sleep
in Open Air.

New York suffered more from the heat
and the humidity yesterday than on any
other day this summer The mercury in
the Thermometer attained TO the mark of
So degrees at 4 O'Clock, two degrees lower
than the record made last month, but
the great increase in the humidity, which
at the worst was 81, made up for that.
The last two days of continued hot
weather, with the steaming air, caused
many to imagine that it was the hottest
day of the year.
Although only one death was recorded
up to midnight, it was thought this num-
Der would be greatly increased should
the heat continue, as is likely. Accord
ing to physicians the limit of endurance
is near The humidity was at its high
est point at 8 o'clock in the morning,
but Throughout the day and night it
never w gvered greatly, and it was its
perseverance that caused the misery of
those who were forced TO remain in the
city.
Threescore & rcome.
The continued high humidity caused
damp oven, and in spite of the fact that
at times a slight breeze from the water
was waited through the streets the
closeness of the atmosphere made its
cooling properties negative. Although
the thermometer has risen to greater
heights this summer than yesterday, it
seemed that the suffering from the life
less air was greater than at any time
this season. More than threescore per
sons were overcome by the heat in Man
haitian and Brooklyn. and fully one-half
Of these prostratiOns occurred while the
victims were in their homes, out of the
rays of the sun.
Men and women were not the only Suf-
ferers from the heat, for in many streets
little groups of sympathizers could be
seen gathered about stricken horse.
The Society for the Prevention of
Cruelty to Animals did its utmost to re
lieve the dumb brutes, and its agents
were stationed at many points through
out the city armed with buckets of
water and lengths of hose. AS fast as
horse showed signs of weakening under
the terrific glow from the pavements he
was taken in hand by the society's men
and doused with streams of water from
the hose. In spite of these precautions
MANY abandoned wagons lined the
streets. marking the spot where horse
nature could ST nd no more and had
succumbed.
Rush to Seashore.
Early in the day the march TO the
sea began. Trolley and elevated, auto
mobile and carriage. tunnel and boat.
all carried their thousands. The very
fact of keeping in swift motion seemed
+o take from the heat its greatest sting,
and many spent the greater part OF the
day and night in this ceaseless hunt for
relief
The majority of those travellers to
cooler cIimes made the ocean their OBJ
iective point, and the waters about New
York were dotted with the heads of
those who wallowed in the green shades
of the sea To others, less fortunate
the limit of their enjoyment was to sit
in the front Of trolley and elevated cars
and expose themselves to every breeze
that blew. Men and women fought for
these vantage points of air and COM
narrative surcease from the stlfiing at
mospheric conditions. From sun-up TIL
sunset the great trek kept in steady file.
and bv nightfall New York and It's en-
virons had lost many thousands IN pop
ulation. for the time at least
The parks, from the Battery to The
on