New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-07-04
THOUSANDS FLEE FROM
C|TY'S HUMID HEAT
Record Crowds Pack Themselves
Into Seagoing Craft of
Every Kind.
an0. 600 ON CONEY'S STRAND
Although a Number of Prostra-
.ions Were Treated at the
Hospitals There Was
No Fatal Case.

.-sv Workers departing for any old
-,lace that gave promise of offering re-
Tief from the almost intolerable weather
,-o,di-ions that have existed for several
ssre continued Yesterday. and Broad
and other usually busy thorough
..res resemble the main street Of q
-1Au England metropolis on q circus day
Fewer persons passed through the
<a+es OF Central Park than on any
-,lzzssn+ sunday in recent years. The
cater front was lined with people. the
,onzesred portions being the points
--bere railroad ferries depart and steam
SIS leave for Long Island and New Jer-
sev resorts
Probably for the reason that there
we're fewer residents Of the city at home
than on previous days Of the heated
farm. there were fewer prostrations re-
rerted 10 the hospitals and the police
YESTERDAY The one thing that seemed
70 animate all who could do so was 10
md relief neutrality-suspicious..
The highest temperature recorded at
The local bureau Yesterday was Sc de-
Erees. 81 Il o'clock in the morning. The
lowest was at O'Clock. when the tenn
Ton. New Orleans and ST. Louis. usually
among the leaders il high temperatures.
we're CT least 10 degrees cooler
Some signs Of cooler weather were in
ctcated in The official forecast. which
Irophssies thunder showers and west
u-inds today There was an east wind
.or several hours yesterday. but no rain.
The largest crowd that has ever left
the Battery for z DAYS outing went
down 10 the sea in ships from there yes
terdav \ conservative estimate shows
that 81 least tWenty-four thousand per
sons were huddled together on the
steamboats, Of an excursion feet that has
been begging for trade during disap-
rointing summer The excessive humid
AZ and the long struggle Of FIVE days
drove The suffering raerrymakers TO the
water
Bill" Quigley. the Battery boatman.
as hardly able to take bralth yester-
Ezv He was waiting over in the Battery
basin for word from the mistbound
steamship Maracas, which he had con-
t-aCred 70 assist into her dock Quigley
-as surrounded By the mob and rather
than force his way through il he got into
Rs Whitehall and rowed around the en-
tznEuert 10 the Ship News Office.
The boatnan had been on the Battery
vail since early morning and he knew
what was going on. Quigley knows the
excursion boats He has chartered few
q them as Z matter Of speculation from
the 10 tine for excursions 70 the yacht
races. and he knows q thing or two
about steamboat capacity"
@Bnl~ ouigey Astounded.
Lord CT the Heavens" said 'Bfll'
yesterday Man and boy have I been
re-e on this wall for twenty-five years,
s-d never have I seen such z mob as
--err ont YESTERDAY The boats to As
bury Park. the Highlands and Rocka =
~ have been carrying people away for
three days noHr. and more viii 90 to-
/ ~ro--ov- The whole bunch will want TO
Uone hack 70 the city late tomorrow
night and how are the excursion boats
gong 70 bring back in four hours e
crowd that has been streaming down
there for three days? They have just
Is much chance as johnson viii have Of
licking JEFF tomorrow"
r
BATTERY yesterday went away filled TO
Is capacity There would have been
cspacirv and then some If it had not been
.c- The eagle eyes and. determined atti-
-rde II The customs inspectors under the
direction q Alexander McKeon. the
I,epu-- Surveyor assigned by the Treas
~ Department 20 prevent overcrowd-
i-E
IRE demand for water transportation
yesterday exceeded the supply by about
ten thousand persons. Mothers carrying
.-sznts and holding nervously TO the
hands q srraggling three and four year
DDS. tried conclusions with the mob z
hundred deep once in the crush there
vas 10 turning back. Frequently the
Esrgplznk was hauled in before the
family party got aboard, and they were
forced 10 wait there for the next boat or
give ID the effort. The fishing boats did
I --g business.
TIE Taurus took Z bout 100 the
Mount Desert 900 and the Angler 500
-Four Glen Island boats took about 1000,
four Pa1ter Line boats, 800; the boats
. Fockauay. :. 200. the Keansburg ex-
curslon boat. 1900, and the William
Store for Midland Beach, about lao"
The Glen Island boats were filed at the
star and few were able 70 stop for
more passengers az East 31st street
Those who could not go elsewhere be-
cause Cf the crowds went 10 the STATUE
! # Liberty. Il is estimated that the H.
lie craft which runs there carried aDouI
200 persons. The Grand RepuDlie
took her capacity of about 1000 pas
serge-s and there was little space on
Ter decks 70 move about.
From sunrise until long after dark lhe
svlft municipal ferryboats did a laAo
Office business. The money taken IN yes
terday on the run between the Battery
snd Staten Island should give Comn1ls-
sioner Tomkins e little lift in his effort
u overcome the annual deficit OF the
tltr's ferry service.
sighLeers with more brains tlan
none patronized the municipal Doats'
anc Jared better than those who sought
the szTdine packed high priced excursion
teet TIE ride TO ST. George and back
a. % kncts is q mighty cool ride for ten
fenrz he hoefS z