New-York tribune., 1919-07-07
Thunder and Rain
Bring Relief to
Parched New York
Mercury Goes to 83, but
Quickly Drops to Is When
2O-Mile Breeze, Moisture
Laden, Strikes the City

The Weather Bureau man, out of
the goodness Of his weather-beaten
heart, sent thunder showers late yes-
terday. afternoon and under their at
tack the sizzling heat wave that had
been sitting the city's populace for
the last few days was effectually dis
persed.
Albeit the thunders and showers
were of only small size, the accom-
panying cooling breezes brought graft
tying relief to the suffering millions
and shot the temperature down from
the SO degrees of the preceding day to
70. The light, lazy seven-mile breeze
OF the morning hours became a cooling
twenty-mile trotter at p. m. The
t;eorologlcal expert says that the
will continue for several days.
Before the relief arrived however,
one fatality was reported as the result
OF the heat Spinaso Santo, twenty
three years old, of Bowers Street,
Jersey City, unnerved by the hot spell
leaped from the cliffs at Franklin
Street and Mountain Road at O'Clock
in the morning, fracturing his skull
he is not expected to recover.
Highest Point 83 Degrees
The official thermometer reached it's
highest point yesterday at 3 o'clock,
when it touched 83 degrees. 1t showed
fair promise at o'clock in the morn
ing by recording a temperature of Is,
but 1t apparently decided to do little
climbing. going to 83 degrees at 10
o'clock, dropping to 80 at /, and then
going back to SO again at p. m.,
where it remained for an hour.
At o'clock the sky began to cloud
and the mercury dropped to so. The
air was moving along at the slovenly
rate of only six or seven miles an
hour. At o'clock few drops of water
arrived and the air took on a delight
full fanlike gait Of twenty miles Tho
sultriness disappeared as if by magic
s o'clock that it was 76 degrees cool.
At o'clock the thermometer had
dropped another notch.
The heavy rain started holiday
makers for home several hours before
the transit lines were preared to take
care of them. The result was tre-
mendous congestion on cars and boats
and at terminals. At Coney Island,
where it was estimated 25O.OOO per-
sons spent the day, the rush for trains
at the approach of the storm caused
the Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company,
tor the first time in its history, to stop
the sale of tickets because of the
heavy demand.
The Manhattan end of the Brooklyn
Bridge became jammed. The Staten
Island ferry house was in the same
fix, boat after boat arriving crowded
with passengers from the beaches.
Railroad stations were equally
crowded. 1t was estimated that $4,000
persons arrived at the Pennsylvania
Station between p. m. and q. m
The Hudson Terminal Station like
wise was thronged. Both there and at
the Pennsylvania Station the situation
was somewhat relieved by the under
ground passageways leading to the
subways, which enabled large part
OF the returning vacationists to con-
tinue their homeward journeys in
spite of the weather.
The weather man said he derived
much pleasure from scanning the table
of comparison between the varying tenn
peratures of yesterday and the day be-
fore, which he gave out as follows:
Yesterday. July 5.