The sun., 1917-08-01
Scores Overcome as Tem-
perature Reaches SO on
Hottest July 81.
NO RELIEF IN SIGHT
Mercury Highest at 5 P. NJ;
Brooklyn Has 225 Am
bulance Calls.

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The crest Of a phenomenal hot wave
that has halted the Industries Of sew
eral States and probably taken a larger
toll in human life than any other July
visitation reached the Atlantic coast
yesterday Unlike the normal torrid vis-
Itor. II attained It's scorching record of
IS degrees late in the afternoon, at pre-
eisely 5 o'clock, and thereafter. until
aearly midnight, did not go below the
debltatlng mark OF 30. This was the
aerial record, made by the official mer-
curial finger Ala feet above sea level
other thermometers closer to the regions
wherein plain folk Of the city walk about
and do their duties marked 100 degrees
and more.
Taken by averages yesterday was
next to the hottest day in the history of
the Weather Bureau, established forty
seven years ago. The hottest average for
a day was on July 2, 1901. But 9s
made July 81 the hottest on record.
There were other cities somewhat
warmer than New York. notably Phil
adelphla, with the lofty temperature of
lO2, and Washington. with 100. Sea-
side places suffered with interior towns
because what breezes there were, and
they we're mostly mild. were offshore
Atlantic City held first place with 100 in
the shade.
Plants Are shut Down.
Manufacturing plants in this State.
Pennsylvania, Connecticut and Msssa-
chusetts shut down part of the day be-
cause OF the intensity OF the heat. The
big plant of the National Conduit and
Cable Company at Hastings-on-the-
Hudson. with 5000 employees. closed for
the day at noon after several OF the
young women had tainted. William H.
Lewis, vice7president and superlntend-
ent OF the plant, was prostrated by the
heat.
In Orange, Ulster and adjoining coun-
ties in this State work was suspended on
many farms and In several factories.
Uncle Sans soldiers took a day OF
from drilling in most OF the forts in the
hot belt.
The day in the city was worse than
any recorded In the newspapers and by
the police slips in many years. The
mortality from the heat in Manhattan,
Brooklyn, The Bronx and the other
boroughs may not be known definitely
until to-day. Twenty Ave deaths attrib-
uted directly to heat were reported up
to midnight.
The vitality OF workers in all the
boroughs had been sapped by preceding
hot days and the breezeless torridity of last
night affected hundreds. Many of these
were not so seriously overcome as to
require medical help, but more than fifty
were Frustrated and taken to hospital
after o'clock and thirty-three before
that hour This was in Manhattan
alone In Brooklyn 100 prostrations
were reported.
Tae Dead.
ALToMARE, MARINE 10. of. $40 Eas,
Thirty-third street. died at her home.
BlAlSE. MISS LENA, IS. found In apart
ment at SO Manhattan street; died In
knlckerbocker Hospital.
EuRChENDING; JOHN. 4G, 2t3 Floyd
street Brooklyn. overcome on Hamburg
,6,.sy,r, 9yenHe and died in German Hospital
hfth' street, iceman, overcome at East
River and sixty-second street and dieG
in Flower Hospital.
CHICK, LOUIS. SO. overcome while work
ing on barge at foot of East seventy
sixth street. fell into river and wal
CLARKE, WILLIAM, s5. no address, over;
come on Grafton avenue, Newark. and
rGkd died In the CITY Hospital ., .,.nn.
Third avenue and died in City Hospital
EsTOsITQ, THOMAS, %. l65 Twentietf
lvr and died in Norwegian Hospital.
FEDORA. JOSEPH, S2 OF as Fvanlklir
ytttFteset' street Trenton; n J.; died az home; pwc,
street, laborer. overcome In a saloon or
West Eighty-sixth street and died in th'
Hudson street hospital
street, engineer. died in the Central New
Jersey Railroad house at Jersey CITY:
HOPKINS, JOHN. q, address and oceu
Hrst street and died In Bellevue.
JOlTHE. GoDFRIED. 81, ~ Monmouth
sCSs sTs G wGf S.G H Esssrk c
KEPPY DR.. FREDERICK a.. 6S. 81 Han
COCK street. Brooklyn, dentisti drGppe'
KRoTKo! GUsrAv. go, Of 80 urssOri
MsI s'Irsst Jersey Gity ded a.h At home sar.., Ter
,,sey City. died in an Ambulance:
MCCARTHY, MRS ANNA. 81. ilb Bukai,
avenue. Brooklyn, stricken at home anc
died half hour later in the swedish Hos
hoRlARTY, JEREMIAH, So. died Will
sitting on bench in Hamilton Park Jer
NAGgENHEIMER, JOHN. IS, addres
and occupation unknown, stricken Will
r,rk a. work IN College Point and died 1t
NoyKA, JOHN. 80. 41a East Fifty; eight
sEreet died on Jackson avenue near tn
PEACOCK PATRIcK, so. ssI Eighth ave
nue., fireman died at his home.
QUINN, PATRICK, So, 46s Ninth avenue
R6asRf R65Tassa N roof e reslsdsnee and was KILLED
Iersey city, stricken at home and die.
n the Jersey City Hospital ambulance
eAhlNA, MISS IDA bor i224 Forfeit
a. 4Sl9 Fourteenth avenue and died II
yGnI2TTG%ssgian HosPttal,, n... ,.,
pike, staten Island iaborer, died at pie
IN Tompkinsville. staten Island.
Brooklyn Record Broken.
Brooklyn broke her record for ambu
lance calls, which was .178 on July
1915, creating new one OF 225 Cone!
island, which Capt. Byron Sackett say
had the biggest multitude ever seei
.nefe on week day. some 100000, ha'
70 ask Brooklyn TO help her out In TAX
f ing care Of heat cases. The Jewish Hos
p'al lent an ambulance. There wa
only one death, that of an unidentihe'
woman at Coney. Among the mel
Frustrated we're ten soldiers of the Mint
S1ast Artillery on farewell outinI
before EoIng to Fort Hancock, Tn
men iell from the ranks while march
"g 200 strong In Surf avenue.
Inc nine drawbridges over the Har
em River we're affected 80 seriously b
"e heat that II was necessary 10 waite
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