The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1918-08-08

passing by.
Daylight Saving Adds TO Misery,
The daylight savers inadvertently
added to the worries Of the kickers last
night. as well as Tuesday evening. In
former summers, the city diners cav the
mercury drop somewhat as the dinner
hour approached. and the commuters Of
! the old days knew there would be a letup
In the mosquito attack somewhere
around p. NJ. But last night there was
next to no lull as Bertha announced,
Dinner is served." and at o'clock the
mosquitoes were still filling the dead air
with their buzzing.
why isn't there letup at this time
Of night?" snapped city and committing
folks. quite forgetting that although
| their clocks said they were dining at 7
the sun was still insisting that II was
only In the evening /: and when o'clock
came around the mosquito knew only too
dosgoned well that II was really only 8
1 o'clock.
All day long the hospital ambulances
Changed through the streets and the white
| clad hospital men were still pegglng
| away at heat cases at midnight and
| thereafter. As darkness settled over the
heavily In motionless suffocatins blan-
| bet over all the metropolitan district, the
| names OF more who had succumbed to
the heat were added to the two deaths
| reported earlier in the day.
Three Deaths Reported,
Lena Rixzo, Sc years old. died Of the
heat In her fiat at 1879 Madison street to-
ward the end OF the afternoon. A three
year-old baby Elizabeth FORTS, died OF
heat prostration about the same time at
TOT East Twelfth street. Louis Miltzer
died In Gouverneur Hospital. There
wasn't a hospital the length or breadth
of the city that did not contain heat
cases. the prostrations running into the
dozens as the night went on.
Policemen in the pink OF condition
were-not immune, one OF the first of the
force to drop temporarily out of active
duty being Patrolman William Barry,
| "a. 262 West 1874 street. who was over
come while on duty at Lenox avenue and
125th street After being attended by
an ambulance surgeon from the Harlem
Hospital. Patrolman Barry stutdly took
up his duties again out In the broilng
sun.
In and around the Traffic Court It was
learned the traffic cops had decided to
ask Commissioner Enrisht to let the
traffic men have half an hour of on the
hot days a practice In vogue during
former police administrations. Tho
strain of standing on the oozing asphalt
from morning until evening entities
them. the traffic men think. to at least
the half hour they used to get for
cooling of purposes.
Also the traffic men think the Commits
sioner ought to let them dispense with
their gloves while the equator Is central
over the greater city-which was also a
privilege granted by preceding police
regimes.
Trolley Rails slippery.
Heat and humidity did not content
themselves merely with prostratine
policemen and citizens. The hot wave was
held directly responsible also for ~arious
mishaps which ordinarily are due to
other causes. The collision OF two troll
ley cars at Vanderbilt and DeKalb
avenues. Brooklyn. for instance, causing
slight injuries to seven passengers, was
blamed by street car officials to the fact
that the great heat had rendered the
rails too greasy" or slippery. for the
wheels to get a proper grip. A dog In
Brooklyn. crazed by the heat. bit boy
children who had discarded shoes and
stockings and had cut their feet on
glass.
Whatever the shortage OF white paper
elsewhere, there was no scarcity of II
in tho city parks and on the beaches
Newspapers, II was found as early as
Tuesday formed excellent preventatives
OF grass stains. with the result that Bat
terry Park and every other stretch of
municipal sod was covered last night
with a semi-white blanket. which was
the only thing approachin a semblance
OF snow this side OF Old Doc Cooks fur
thest north.
The further development OF the hot
wave spoke Jim Scarf yesterday after
noon officially-after his unofficial, Gee,
but this Is a hummer ,''-"carried the
area within which the temperature ex-
ceeded 100 degrees eastward across the
Atlantic States to within a few miles of
the coast. Yesterday the maximum
temperature at Detroit, Toledo. I'ailadel-
phia. Harrisburg and Pittsburg reached
lO4 degrees. At Baltimore. Washington
and Richmond it reached 1O6. and read
ings nearly as high were reported gem
orally in Pennsylvania, Maryland. Vir-
ginia. Michigan, Ohio. Indiana, Ken
lucky, Illinois. Iowa and Missouri.
MOuefute NOFth PIaln0.
in the northern plains States the
heat has moderated considerably. Show
ers have occurred in portions Of New
England, the northern lake region, upper
Mississippi valley, middle Gulf States,
middle Rocky Mountain sections and
Southern plateau region.
Thunder occurred in this vicinity last
night but no rain Is reported. The heat
will continue to be excessive during the
next thirty -eix hours, but with some
prospect of abatement by Thursday
night. Winds will continue moderate.
variable to southeriy."
Meantime Mayor Hylan was sending
out the following letter to his president
Of the Park Board:
The sufferings OF the people of this
city. especially the poor peaple, due to
the intense heat wave now prevailing,
warrant any alienation which the NIL
nicipal authorities can give. l there
fore direct that the Park Board pcirit
the inhabitants OF this city, who hEd
IN our parks comfort and relief from
the oppressive heat, to sleep In the city
parks until the present heat wave is
over. subject to the supervision of the
police and park authorities"
But all the time Jim and the Mayor
were addressing the people all the citi-
zenry that possibly could escape were
most rudely walking out on Jim and
Hizzoner. They were walking SO fast
that by nightfall Coney Island decided
to break record also by announcing
tsat crowd estimated at 800, 900 men,
women and children were crowding the
waterfront at the risk of causing all the
island to tip southwark into the ocean.