New-York tribune., 1917-07-31
East Side Gasps as Mercury
Reaches 100 Mark; No
Relief in Sight
Heat Causes Accidents
Hospitals Crowded by Pros
trated; Man Goes Insane
and Dies in Cell

The hottest July 30 in the history OF
the local Weather Bureau visited this
CITY Yesterday and caused the death OF
two persons and the prostration OF
more than a score.
Isidore Goldman, nine years old, OF
5S3 East Eleventh Street, was playing
AZ an East Tenth Street dock when he
became dizzy, fell into the water and
was swept away by the tide. His body
was not recovered.
John Barry, thirty-hve years DID, OF
20 Mulberry Street, died in st. Johns
Hospital, Yonkers, having been placed
in a padded celi after a scuffle with
patrolman during which he broke sew
eral fingers.
Thermometer at 100
The temperature at one time reached
100 on the city's thermometers. AT
o,clock II was Sc and the humidity b9.
Al II o'clock last Fridays record, the
seasons previous high mark was
coualled wnen the mercury climbed 70
90 while the humidity dropped to 5i.
The climax of the days heat wave came
at about $3.50, when the 100 mark was
reached.
rhe Weather Bureau announces thaC
no relief is in sight. The East SIDE
was the district that particularly SUI;
fered. Thousands of men, women anu anu
children sought the parks ana iiterang
gasped for breath. The streets were
almost deserted about mid-atteTnooh.
Large crowds were attracted py the
mounting Of the mercury in giant thei-
mometers that line the city mai man
thoroughfares. AT the PuiltzeT puiiu
ing the mercury was still at " at
o'clock. and seemed reluctant TO recede;
in spite of a gentle breeze that nad
sprune IN from the direction OF the
Hudson River. One at Fifth Avenue
and Thirty-third Street actually stooo
at the 100 mark for nearly an hour'
Heat Causes Accidents
The heat was the direct cause OF sew
eral accidents. While working on the
new elevated structure at Fulton shu
Washington streets, Jamaica, YESTERDAY
afternoon, James A. hannon' OF 200
Seventeenth Avenue
dizzy from the heat and fell 10 Lne
..ronnd. a distance of thirty feet. lie
Was taken to St. Mary's Hospital, SUI
fering from a fractured rib.
Patrolman Bernard J. Malloy, nifty
five wears old, attached TO the Clinton
Street station, was overcome by the
heat while on his post, and after being
attended at his precinct was sent home.
BENJAMIN Whitney, seventy-elght years
old. of 564 First Avenue, Long Island
City. was overcome by heat while at
work. His condition was critical.
Among the prostrations reported were
the following: Charles Hartman, thlr-
ty-two years old, taken from his home
25 South Street, to the Volunteer Hos
pital; Francis Kobelmad, nineteen years
old, of 220 Madison Street, taken from
his home TO Bellevue Hospital; Mary
Glib, ffty-hve, of 161 West l29th Street,
taken to Harlem Hospital; Dora Wilson,
thirty-fve, of 122 Waverly Street, and
Peter johnson, thirty-four, OF 307 West
Sixty-eighth Street, taken TO Knicker-
booker Hospital; Joseph Smith, fifty
four, Of 440 West Fifty-third Street,
and Mary 0'Connor, twenty-eight, OF
1897 Amsterdam Avenue, taken to Poly-
clinic Hospital.
Others Overcome
Others who were overcome by the
heat and received hospital treatmen mt
were Marion Sacker, nineteen, Of lS2
Henry Street; Peter Quincy, thirty
three, of l42 East 123d Street; Anna
Haas, whose address was given as
Barnes Avenue, The Bronx; David Ko'
vim, thirty-two, Of 433 Wyona Street
BROOKLYN; Joseph Levine, Of 81 Essex
Street; Kynoch Youngson, 81 st. Felix
Street, Brooklyn; Nicholas German
sixty-fve, of $50 East Ninth Street;
Edward Olsen, twenty-five, of 143G
Longfellow Avenue, The Bronx; Mich
ael Rozzola, of Sc Van Cortlandt Park
Avenue; Frank Kelly, Of Mount Square
Road, Yonkers; Mary Mamatanio, OF
2l7 Hester Street; Edna Hansted, OF
S27 West 135th Street; Egbert War,
ritsn, Of 207 West l3lst Street, and
Helen Asker, seventeen, of 2S Wash.
burton Avenue, Yonkers.