New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-07-04

crOWded tenement houses, "hcie SO'
terday every door and window was
opened and every obstruction to every
smallest opening was removed that any
tiny breeze that CHANGED to stray
through the narrow streets might nhu
it's way unhampered into the dark anc
stuffy rooms.
And even with ventilation what reilei
could there be for those crowded TO-
eether by the thousands in single city
block when 5000 feet up In the air IL
was hardly cooler than on the surface
% the earth. Harry Atwood went tH'ee
thousand feet straight up yesterday
and out over the Statue of Liberty ana
The Buttermilk Channel. Surely there
must be ventilation In a gossamer aero
plane three thousand feet up. II there
Is ventilation anywhere But When Al
wood came down he was red faced ana
perspiring and hopping the steaming
drops from his face.
"Cool," he said mo. It's hotter ZIP
there, If anything"
During the day there was no relief for
those in the tenement house districts
"a. children sought the streets in little
or nothing, and when they were driven
back by the police for something more
modest. If not more slightly, they merely
waited until the blushing cop had
turned the corner to issue forth again
i'm piece torn from mothers discarded
apron The parks baked under the sun
and their denizens broiled on the grid
irons OF the benches.
Seek Relief in Parks.
But when night came with its slight
alienation from the heat the parks were
sought with a rush by all those who had
toiled through the day or who had mere
.ly sought from minute to minute
cooler spot where there was none cooler
than another.
All the East Side parks were crowded,
while as many as could sought Battery
Park in the hope that they might well
come a breath from the ocean. Early In
the evening there was mad cat scare
there, and hundreds sleeping on the
ground sought hurried escape from the
little animal racing for life from a squad
Of police armed with nightsticks and
revolvers. Escape. however. was not for
the cat, which after overturnng a dozen
or more dishes i'm lunchroom was cor
nered and beaten to death by three
policemen.
Riverside Drive was thronged with
men and women and children from the
Upper West Side many of whom carried
pillows with them. They had hoped for
cool airs from Jersey, but they had not
counted on the man-eating Jersey mos
quito that came with the breeze The
police did not interfere with any Of
those who sought the grass in the Drive.
but the mosquitoes did the work that the
police did not attempt and most f
those who had hoped for a night of com
parative comfort on the grass by the
river were soon forced to return home
by the Jersey pests.
Central Park was the one place wEcr
blade of grass was more valued thar.
human comfort. From all parts OF the
city, East Side and West Side. Central
Park was sought, and everywhere
through the park the police were busy
keeping people off the grass. Sweating
and miserable, those who had hoped for
rest and comfort wandered along the
walks or sat on the hard benches. hut
the moment one of them stretched out
under a tree a policeman was on hand
with his nightstick and the order TO
keep off the grass
Commissioner Evasive on Question.
Park Commissioner Slower was asked
earlier in the day If the people were to
he allowed to sleep all night in the parks
as they had been permitted to do in
other hot spells. He replied cvasively
that the people had not yet asked for
the permission and recalled the ten "hor-
rid men who were arrested on Saturday
night in Bryant Park and the two men
who were arrested on Sunday in City
Hall Park. The Commissioner thought It
would destroy 30 per cent Of the parks
beauty TO allow the people free use of
them
Through all the metropolitan district
there was the same suffering from the
heat. Newark recorded temperatures of
1O3 and 100. while Paterson went we'll
over 100 and Camden reached l03. The
Weather Bureau strangely recorded that
in the eastern SECTION OF the country
Georgia, Florida and South Carolina were
the only states that did not have abnor-
al farpperatnrec