Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-08-10
THE TEMPERATURE


With the temperature soaring well
over the 80 degree mark and the
humidity very high, Newark and
environs sweltered today as they had
not before this summer.
The present heat wave started Sat
urday morning and kept up with I'M
abated fierceness all day yesterday
and at noon today was at Its height,
although a breeze that sprung up
about 10 o'clock relieved the situation
somewhat.
Heat prostrations were reported in
all parts of the city, one of them re-
sulting fatally. This was In the case
of Harry Hula, forty-one years old,
257 Sherman avenue.
Hula attended q wedding party at
the home of Andrew Polenitza, 219
F'relinghuysen avenue, last night, and
was one of the gayest of the merry
makers in dancing the Polish dances
that are always the feature of such a
festivity.
Just after dancing with the bride
Hula staggered and fell to the floor
He was carried to the open air and
every effort made to revive him, but
he died before the City Hospital am
bulance, which was summoned at
once, reached him. County Physician
William II. Mckenzie viewed the
body and pronounced death due to
heat prostration.
Two prostrations were reported to
the police up to noon today. a police
man being the victim in one instance
He is Joseph Oxner, attached to the
Sixth precinct, who was stricken
while on duty at Bergen street and
Clinton avenue. He was taken to
his home, 725 South Eighteenth street,
by fellow policemen. His condition is
not serious.
James Clifford, seventy-four years
old, of AZ Lille street, was the other
victim. He collapsed at South Orange
avenue and Jones street early this
morning and was unconscious when
the City Hospital ambulance. reached
him. At the hospital 1t was said that
his condition was serious.
James Burke, twenty-seven years
old, of 1879 New York avenue, dropped
with the heat at Bowery and Free
man streets, this afternoon. Burke
is a teamRter. He was loading his
wagon when he was stricken and
toppled over. He was removed to
thorities say his condition is not
serious.
While at work at noon today, Will
lam Schick, seventy years old, of 21S
Sullivan avenue, dropped with the
heat Schick is employed by the e.
A. Whitehouse Manufacturing Com
pany, A Elm street. He was re-
moved to the City Hospital. His con-
dition is not serious, the doctors say.
The other prostration reported yes
terday was that of George Moran,
B.. ~ e,&r
who collapsed at his home last night.
He was removed to the City Hos
pital in the Third precinct ambulance.
His condition IS not serious.
Last night was the hottest night
of the year to date, and at no time
did the temperature fall below ~
degrees. 1t stood at that figure from
to o'clock, and then commenced
to rapidly mount upward. At 8
o'clock it had reached SO degrees and
an hour later topped the 80 mark.
The highest temperature reached
yesterday was SO degrees, that figure
being touched at o'clock in the aft
ernoon. For two hours the mercury
stood at that mark and then slowly
dropped back to 80 degrees at O'Clock
last night The humidity all day yes
terday was very high and this made
the heat seem all the more intense.
While yesterday was hot, 1t was not
the hottest August weather that New
ark has experienced, for last year on
August IL, the temperature reached
81 degrees and in 1911 on August II,
the mercury registered 96 degrees. In
1912 on August 13, the SO degree mark
was reached, that also being the high
figure for yesterday.
The city parks were crowded all day,
while the street cars running to the
suburban territory carried big loads.
The boats and trains running to the
seashore resorts were also filed to
capacity on every trip, but there was
little relief to be gained at the shore
points, as it was just as warm there.
But there is relief in sight,
for the weather man today
promised that 1t would be
cooler tomorrow. It is also expected
that local thunder showers late this
afternoon or this evening will cool off
the atmosphere and cause drop in
temperature that will make life
worth living. But the relief is ex-
pected to be short-lived, for reports
from the Washington weather bu-
reau are to the effect that near Medi-
cine Hat, Northwest Territory, where
the blizzards start in the winter time
and where the hot weather is cooked
up at this time of the year, there is
another heat wave on its way that
will hit this section about Wednes-