New-York tribune., 1910-06-24
HEAT GROWS WORSE:
EIGHT MORE DEATHS
Thermometer Passes Highest
Mark of Year and Goes
to 81 Degrees.
RUSH OUTDOORS FOR RELIEF
Hospitals Overworked with
Prostration Cases - Coney
Island Beaches Crowded
Through the Night.

AS though in an effort to test to the limit
| the powers of New Yorkers to withstand
oppressive heat and humidity, the ther-
mometer yesterday climbed up the bulb
| until 81 degrees of heat were recorded,
marking the hottest day of the present
year. The heat was only one of the in
! conveniences which people living in the
city had to contend with, for they found
more cruel and pernicious enemy In the
great humidity, which Ieaped to the high
point of II degrees, at o'clock in the
morning This increase in humidity
caused the city to resemble a huge Turk
ish bath. and the dense clinging damp
ness hung over everybody like a pail
In addition to being severe, the heat
hold, as though 1oath to let CO. Those
who could slipped out of the baked
streets and houses and made their way
to the parks. the beaches and any spot
which held forth hope of cooler con-
ditions. The outpouring from the city
continued until well into the night and
the streets resounded with the tramp of
the oppressed
Eight more deaths were marked up TO
the heat yesterday, some of the victims
being overcome while walking on the
streets and others while at their homes.
The dead:
BELOW. Patrick J., fifty years old. of Meri-
Newark died IN St Barnabas's Hospital.
Eek John H. of Indianapolis. visiting at No.
111s Broad street, Newark; died at his home.
HARTMANN. Dorothy E. one year old. of No.
81 Ridgewood avenue, Newark died at her
IIFKowITZ. Mrs. -, sixty-ive years old, OF
No 132 East 1oeth street reported by Dr..
Sobel. Of No. 20 East 18TH street
LPsCHITz, Herbert. six weeks old. of No 40
Essex street, reported by father, Sanhel.
KRUPINSKI Helen. two months old, Of No. Il
Van Beuren street. Newark; died at her
RYAN. Roger. forty years old, Of Passaic
street. Passaic; fell in path OF Erie train at
heat, and was killed
SERGEANT. George w. sixty-three years DID,
of No 1905 Flathush avenue, Brooklyn;
overcome at the top Of the stairs at his
home and fell 70 the bottom, where he died
Every hospital In the city was kept
come by the heat, and no reliable esti-
mate of those treated by the ambulance
surgeons could be gathered. It is known
however, that the number registered at
the different hospitals far exceeded fifty,
while many more were treated by their
family physicians and remained at home
Rush to coney Island.
The oppressive heat Of yesterday
which invaded the dingy tenement homes
of the East Side drove about fifteen
thousand dweIlers in that section to the
Coney Island beaches for relief last night.
From early evening until late at night
every arriving trolley car and ele-
waited train had it's parties of overheated
fathers mothers and children, who
passed by the gIittering street and park
shows and made straight for the beaches,
where they found ample accommoda-
tions.
Once on the beaches the family parties
settled down for the night to seek sleep
near the GOODNESS of the ocean Reme1n-
bering nights in the past when the beach
sIeepers have been disturbed by rowing
gangs of rowdies, Captain Calvin, IL.
command of the Coney Island police. last
night sent twenty-five patrolmen to
watch over the sleepers-
AS an eastbound car Of the Sea Gate
line was running past 26th street and
Surf avenue last night Mrs. Fannie
Francis, twenty-eight, of West I'd
street and Surf avenue, was Frustrated
bv the. heat and fell from the moving
oar to the roadway. DR.. Noble, called
from the Coney Island Hospital, found
that Mrs. Francis had suffered severe
head injury and took her to the hospital.
The following table gives an idea OF
tho manner in which the heat and hu-
,,,fditv varied between 10 a m. and s
o. m. yesterday:
Tcmperature.-0
Wednesday. Humidity