New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-07-19
Thousands Flee Sizzling
City as Mercury Passes
Eighty Mark.
SIX FRUSTRATED
IN TORRID STREETS
Two Hurt by Falls in Quest OF
Air-Father Dives All Night
for Sons Body.

The weather man said yesterday
that New York was not suffering from
the heat as much as in the hot wave
of the two days before. Three hum
dred thousand sweltering inhabitants
of the five boroughs gathered at Coney
Island to dispute him. Other thous-
ands braved the trip in packed sub
way, elevated and surface cars to
Brighton, Manhattan, South, Midland
and all other beaches to give the lie
to the official statistics
While every one in the city was either
mopping his brow or wringing out his
handkerchief, the list of heat casualties
mounted to four deaths, six prostra-
lions. at least two serious falls and
many minor injuries. Besides this, two
persons became temporarily insane
from the heat, and six drownings were
traceable to the terrific power of the
July sun.
Thousands at Beaches.
As the mercury crept from 90 degrees
at 6 o'clock in the morning past 70 at
Q o'clock and into the eighties by noon,
the lines in front of the lighthouses
steadily grew. , ,Lu
Even before the municipal oath
houses at Coney Island opened for the
dav the lines in front of them wound
for more than mile along the beach;
A group OF forty or more rowdles, urea
of waiting in the line that seemed new
er to move tried to reach the winco"
by straight buck. small riot was
in full swing in no time.
The pollce were on the lookout FOR
such disorder and little swinging OF
clubs and few arrests had the rot
ers willing to listen to reason.
The Police and Park Department Of
fcials united yesterday to keep the
beaches tidy. They threatened with
arrest anyone VINO forgot to collect the
miscellaneous egg shells and paper
napkins which marked the remnants
Of shore dinner.
Bathhouse proprietors at South and
Midland beaches yielded basely to the
lure of lucre. Two by four rooms that
on ordinary Sunday afternoons rent
for 25 cents brought anywhere from
81 to SO yesterday. Some of the man
ayers made a fiat rate of 81 TO all.
but put three or four persons in each
room. The crowds started long before
noon, and by night the owners began
reckoning receipts for the day that Will
offset the poor season to date.
The small boy was in evidence every
where. At Coney he was willing to
stand in line in the blazing sun for
hours at stretch, reserving a place
while the more affluent bathers waited
on the shady side of the nearest bar.
More thar fifty running on the beaches
were treated by ambulance surgeons
for cuts on their feet.
Charles Goeller, a retired lawyer, his
Heart weakened by the heat yesterday
afternoon, fell three steps from the
porch of his house. at 103 East Tenth
Street, and was killed.
Mr. Goeller was a brother-in-law Of
Justice Dugro, Of the Supreme Court.
He was born in New York, and after an
early education in the public schools
was graduated from New York Univer-
sity. He was later admitted to the bar
ard practised law here for forty years,
retiring about ten years ago. He leaves
a wife.
After swim in Cauterskill Creek,
near Catskill, n. Y, yesterday after
noon, Horace Comstock, of Jersey City,
climbed into a rowboat with his bride
of a week. A moment later he lay
dead at her feet, killed by heat
Eleven-year-old Gilbert Friedman re-
turned from the country to spend Sun
day with his parents at 20 West 1l8th
Street. He was sitting on the window
sill to get breath OF air when he fell
to the street and was instantly killed.
John Amato, five years old, fell from
the third story fire escape in the rear
of his home, at 233 East Seventy-third
Street, yesterday afternoon while in
search of fresh air Dr. Berber took
him to Reception Hospital with a pos
sible fracture of the skull.
William Rugowitz, of lis Avenue f,
Bayonne, n. j., collapsed from the heat
while walking on Broadway, in that