New-York tribune., 1918-07-24
Mercury Climbs to 80 and
Many Prostrations Are
Reported
No Relief Is in Sight
Thunder Showers Possible To-
day, Weather Observer
Predicts
No relief in sight!

mo TelIeI In sight!
AS New York tossed and turned in
stuffy apartment bedrooms, on fire
escapes, roofs and in every available
parkway last night, that was the re-
morseless word given out by the
weather man when, at IL o'clock, he
at length shut up shop on the third
consecutive day of record breaking,
metropolitan heat.
Thunder showers perhaps, he said,
may bring temporary mitigations to-
day, but if anything in the shape of
permanent relief is in sight it has not
yet made itself felt upon the instru-
ments at his Office.
Meanwhile, six more names were
added to the death toll
AT the Loose Wiles factory, in Long
Island City, Morris Schenchen, fifty
year-old window cleaner, was over
come while at work and he fell five
stories to the pavement. His skull
was fractured and he died in the am
bulance on the way to ST. Johns Hos
ptal.
Crazed by the Heat
A fall-or, rather, a jump-also ac-
counted for the death of Mrs Martha
Michacls, of o1 Lafayette Avenue,
Brooklyn. Mrs. Michaols, who was
fcrty-iive years old, had been suffering
intensely from the heat all Sunday and
Monday. Yesterday she became COM
rlo+ a1,7 nro,od -, I Io,,oJ fro,,. .1,o wiz,
dow of her third story room. Death
was instantaneous.
John Gallagher, sixteen months old,
CT 1877 Dikoman Street. and Baby Mus
hacker, q siX-weeks-old infant, of 227
Anslie Street, who had not yet had
time to acquire q first name, were vic
tins of the heat in Brooklyn. Another
brooklyn resident to succunb was Mrs.
Margaret Shellenberg, siXty-four, of 391
Grand Street.
James II. Self. scvente -year-old
youth, Of 81 Liberty Avenue, was an in
direct victim Of the heat. Monday he
vent swimming at Coney Island to es-
cape tlie heat and ventured too far out
yesterday his body was washed ashore,
and later identified at the Kings County
Moreue by his brother.
A narrow escape from death occurred
when three -year-old Ethel Rotael. of
228 Pulaski Street, Brooklyn, fell off
fire escape where she was trying to
cool herself. She suffered only minor
decorations Of the scalp.
Prostrations Were Numerous
Throughout the day prostrations
were numerous. BEGINNING in the
early hours of the morning, when Act
ing Battalion Chief Joseph H. White
was overcome while fighting a fire on
East Eightysixth Street, they con-
tinued more or less regularly until
after sundown. Altogether nearly a
score of cases were reported.
Officially, and strictly according to
the statistics, there was not 80 much
cause for complaint as on the day pre-
! vious. To be sure the day did set a
new high torridity mark among re-
corded July 23s The loftiest altitude
previously attained by the mercury on
that date was 90 degrees, which was
achieved back in 1901. Yesterday this
mark was advanced by two degrees,
reached at 4 2. NJ. and tenaciously
maintained till 6. This fell two degrees
short of the record breaking 94 set up
on Monday.
For & few scorching seconds at 4:15
yesterday did again touch the "a mark
But it was only for few seconds. and
! the weather man affirms that it would
be showing undue partiality to ac-
cept this as an authentic days achieve
nent. Officially 92 is the number.
The trjfling difference, however, was
more than made up for by the humid
ty. AS early as 10 O'Clock in the
morning old General Humidity had
brought up reinforcements to the tune
of 55-which is considerable tune, take
it from any one in the five boroughs
yesterday. Later in the day he with
drew his forces somewhat, but it was
an entirely orderly retreat that, accord
ing to every communique inflicted ter
rife punishment on the helpless civil
ian population in the course of its
progress.
Light winds, increasing somewhat as
the day wora on. palliated the situation
so far as they could, but that wasn't
much.
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