The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1912-07-09
1925 HOTTEST TIED;
MAY Be WORSE TO-DAY
Mercury Was at % at 2 O'clock
Yesterday. Equalling
June %.
NINE WERE FRUSTRATED
Humidity Went Down and Rose
Again-Samc Day Last
Year Was Cooler.

Any one you met on the street yesterday
told yol right away that the thermometer
had gone higher than any day this year.
but Weather Forecaster Scarr. high up in
his cool offices atop the Whitehall Build
ing. said no records for heat we're broken
He pointed ont that the mercury had
climbed to % degrees at o'clock in the
afternoon. but a lot Of folks groaning
through the heat have forgotten that it
touched exactly the same mark on June 20
Washington esid last night that il
would he hotter here to-day. Forecaster
Scarr said the same thing yesterday
afternoon after careful perusal Of his
curlicue maps He added that whopping
thunderstorm might cool the air. other
wise he looks to see several days like
Yesterday.
1t was coolest a, O'Clock yesterday
morning when early risers walked around
in 20 degrees. but it kept right on getting
hotter. jumping to 81 degrees at 10 o clock.
to 81 at II. to 81 at noon. to sl al o o'clock,
until finally il got to the limit at o clock.
The humidity. which usually lowers a.
the heat goes up. was IS at O'Clock and
ran down 10 3, AT !? in the afternoon
At O'Clock. just a Won were getting
ready TO climb aboard the suburban train.
it had gone up to ~ with temperature
around IN. 80 you can show this to your
wife IA an excuse for any possible irrita-
bilty on yo,.r part when you got home.
II was surprise to those who remember
the hot spell along this time last year to
find that on July 3. 1911. the highest tenn
perature was but Il degrees and the low
est was g..
One comforting feature is that it's hot
all over the country except far up in the
Northwest. New England the st. Law
renee Valley. New Jersey and Pennsyl-
vania are getting it the same as We are.
From MIR. Scars windows one could
look down upon the cool abiding place
Of the happest thing in New York. In
the green depths OF his pool in the
Aquarium there plunged with contented
sighs the California seahon. while mothers
with pale children tugging at them looked
on enviouely. Every now and then the
big black hulk would rear up and hop
across the board above the tank and the
lion would lie scratching his back in an
excess Of luxury.
While no deaths directly attributed 10
the heat were reported to Police Head
quarters Yesterday there were nine pros
traiions:
BACON. WILLIAM, 80 years. ~ s,snvix
Ho'cl. overcome a; his home. taken 20
Bellevue Hospital
CoNrANNo. SALVATORE, SIS y"s-,
driver. Of 27s Eas; i5:d street. al 500 Jack.
son avenue. taken home.
DALEY. FREDERICK. "a years driver Of
+cs W.s' Foriy-n,n'h sweet. al q Twelfth
avenue; 20 Flower Hospital
MAYER, ALFRED. rs years foreman
Street Cleaning Department. Of c?s Eas,
Seventy-fourth stree. a. Thirty-hfth stree;
and Park avenue; - bellevue
McCARRlCK. THOMAS. rs years; a. For
ty.sixih street and Eighth avenue. TO Flower
Hospital
West Tventy-n!n;h street. AT Thirty-e!Ghth
p!'al
MORTON. VIOLET. 10 years. Of :o& Firs,
avenue. a, home. TO Bellevue Hospital.
ROBINSON. GEORGE 10 years. driver. Of
3i2 South Lexington avenue. white Plains.
at II, West Thir,ieth street: to Bellevue
Hospital
Man of so years. feet S Inches. 100
pounds. dark gray hair, at II water street.
L, Hudson street Hospital
LOCKWOOD. EDWARD. is years. elevator
runner. OF is Claremont avenue; In front Of
200 Audubon avenue, taken 10 Washington
Heights Hospital
Some idea OF the difference between
atmospheric conditions that prevailed
last week and during the corresponding
week in 1911 may be cleaned from the
weekly statement issued by the Depart
ment of Health. According 10 that re-
port there were 200 deaths due TO SUN
stroke alone in the sweltering seven days
ending July last year. whereas there
was only one death ascribable to the
eams cause last week. The mortality
from diarrhPal diseases was almost
an per cent. higher last year than for the
week ended last Saturday.