New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-07-20
HEAT KILISEIGHT;
MAN STEALS AUTO
IN QUEST OF AIR
Fan Dies at Polo Grounds
and English Manu-
facturer at AStOr.
THIRTY FRUSTRATED
AND TWO DROWNED
Nude Boys Along Jersey Shore
Keep Trenton Police and
Courts Busy.

Eight deaths in New York yester-
day resulted from the heat Ambu-
lance surgeons attended about thirty
cases Of heat prostration. Boys fro
licking in sthe waters about Manhattan
came near drowning. Long Island had
one drowning, and there was another
in Newton, n. J. Hoboken policemen
ran out Of summonses trying TO en-
force the law requiring bathers to
clothe themselves, and in Westchester
County a man stole an automobile to
get cool. The highest the mercury got,
according to the weather man, was sS.
The dead are:
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dead In bed
SrUILANEY. John. no hOmsy found al carrs1
Street and the Gowsnus Canal. Brooklyn
GREEN. Mra Charlotte. Iii3 Rcck.vU Road.
OLons Park. Queens; overcome al her homo
Mr.. Wildt, director Of Il. Il Wildt
Ltd, of Leicester. England. had been
at the Hotel Aston for eight months.
His firm manufactures turbines and
knitting machines. He was found dead
in his bed. DR.. S. s. Burt said his
death was due to the heat and fatty
degeneration Of the heart.
Michael Kalepka. q farmland en-
ployed on the estate Of Harry Payne
Whitney, was drowned while swim
ming in Success Lake. near the estate
of William K. Vanderbilt, jr.. at Lake
Vile, Long Island. His body was re-
covered.
While bathing in a creek near New
ton, N. j., Jacob Paddock. who could
not swim. slipped from rock into
deep water. He drowned while his
father, Sidney Paddock. was seeking to
reach him with branches torn from
a tree.
Abraham Hirschfeld, nine years old,
fell into the East River at Third
Street, and was rescued by Jacob
Dorsch and Martin Klein, deckhands
on a lumber schooner. Alexandra Mil
ljer. fifteen years old, became exhaust
ed while swimming in Flushing Bay,
near Corona. Emma Day, a year
younger, brought her to shore uncon-
scious. Miss Miller was taken to
Flushing Hospital. Both girls live in
Flushing.
Hoboken policemen hustled from
spot to spot along the waterfront, serv-
ing summonses on unclad youngsters
who splashed in the Hudson. 1t took
some hustling, for the boys delighted
TO swim to the next pier when uni
form appeared.
BY keeping a close watch on every
little heap of clothing, the policemen
managed to serve a hundred or so
papers. Thirty sleek-haired youngsters
were arraigned before Recorder Car
ston. The recorders lips automatically
framed "Fined ST." but he thought II
over and revoked all the fines.
William Johnson, of Boutonville
Westchester County, strolled along
yesterday hopping his brow. His eye
fell on a touring car. The car was
empty. He jumped into the automo-
bile and pulled a handle. 1t was a
highly successful pull, and the car
moved off.
George Coopernail, OF Bedford
emerged from a grocery store in Bou-
tonville ten minutes after content
ment overlook Mr.. Johnson. Mr.. Coop
email was cool, and his thoughts were
pleasant. He glanced at the spot where
he had left his automobile, and under
went an immediate change. He became
hot and his thoughts were most I'M
pleasant. The car was gone. He Dor
rowed another and gave chase, over
taking Mr.. Johnson at Long Ridge
Conn. Mr.. Johnson declared he took
the car TO cool off. He was arrested
and held for examination as to his
sanity.
The hottest moment of the day was
at 8 o'clock, when it was S8. From
noon until o'clock the mercury never
got below 81. Then it descended to s2
which it had last seen at IL a. m.