Humidity, High Temperature and Misery ahead. People across the River flock to Central Park in search of air. Animals in the Zoo affected by the heat.

Yesterday was the hottest July 10 on record since 1880. On that day the thermometer registered 91 degrees. Yesterday at 10:30 o'clock in the morning Farmer Dunn had chalked up 90 degrees as the top figure for the day. The mercury hovered around the 86 mark for a time and at 1 o'clock it had crawled up to 87. From that point it kept slipping down until at 9 o'clock last night Mr. Dunn's record was 74. Humidity didn't play so important a part in the misery of mankind as it has done. At 8 o'clock in the morning it was 78 and at 8 o'clock at night it had climbed up to 81.

Man and beast suffered greatly and with the assurance from the local weather bureau that today would be a record breaker for heat, humidity and general distress there is precious little hope of relief ahead.

The list of prostrations in Brooklyn for the day is as follows:

William Hollbush, aged 38 years, of 185 Wyckoff avenue, prostrated while at work on a new school building in the Twenty-ninth Ward. He was taken home.

Hugh McGovern, aged 28 years, of 176 Bedford avenue, was prostrated while at work on freight cars at the foot of North Eighth street. He was removed to his residence.

Thomas Liddon, aged 36 years, whose home is on Palmetto street, was overcome while at work on a gas main on Maspeth avenue. He was taken to St. Catharine's Hospital.

Patrick Holland, a baker, 39 years old, of 227 Fulton street, was prostrated at the corner of Myrtle avenue and Oxford street. He was removed to the Homeopathic Hospital.

Humanity Suffers In New York

When the temperature got fairly to work in New York yesterday humanity suffered. Prostrations piled up rapidly and the ambulance service of the hospitals was taxed to its utmost.

Perhaps Central Park was not really the coolest place in the metropolis, but at least forty thousand perspiring human beings thought it was. Although the walks were almost as hot as the sidewalks of the city, yet wherever there was a breeze to be found there could also be found at least two score of people.

Acting under the instructions given verbally to Captain Collins the park police did not prevent any one from encroaching upon the grass and as a result all the shady places were occupied during the day. There was not a single case of prostration in Central Park yesterday. Even the policemen sought refuge from the broiling sun and they could be found only where there was shade.

At 4 o'clock the Mall was crowded, fully 10,000 people gathering around the music stand waiting for the regular Saturday afternoon concert by the Seventh Regiment band. Seats were at a premium an hour before the first number of the programmed was begun. The walks in the immediate vicinity of the stand were jammed with humanity. During the concert a gentle breeze brought comfort to the crowd.

The animals in the menagerie felt the heat severely and Superintendent Smith and his assistants were on the alert for any trouble among the pets of the zoo. About the only residents of the zoo who were at home in the prevailing temperature were the hippos and the alligator family. Caliph and Miss Murphy and the two young ones just reveled in the rays of the midday sun and Superintendent Smith watched them contentedly from his window in the arsenal. While the weather was most severe the keepers let out the water in the hippopotami tank to clean it and the family basked in the sunshine with the alligators.

Five gangs of workmen were put to work on Friday night to flush the streets in the crowded tenement districts of the city. The number was increased last night and nearly all the asphalted streets in the crowded east side were thoroughly flushed, from the Bowery to the East River. The work was done under the direction of Water Purveyor Barney. The flushing of the streets cools the atmosphere and gives the people living in these districts cool, fresh air in the evenings.

The corrected list of prostrations in New York City during the day is as follows:

Gus Hart, 43 years old, of Germantown, Pa., was overcome by heat at the corner of Nassau and Spruce streets and taken to the Hudson Street Hospital.

William Watts, 24 years old, of 345 East One Hundred and Eighteenth street, a clerk, in the Street Cleaning Department, was overcome in the department stables at 200 East Sixty-fifth street and was taken to the Presbyterian Hospital.

John Kehoe, 45 years old, of 612 Second avenue, was overcome at Riverside Park and Seventy-second street and taken to the Presbyterian Hospital.

Thomas McNally, 30 years old, of East Twenty-third street, was overcome by heat and alcoholism at 77 Warren street and taken to the Hudson Street Hospital.

Sarah Knight, 27 years old, of 193 Seventh avenue, Brooklyn, was overcome at 38 Thomas street and taken to the Hudson Street Hospital.

Michael Maloney, 30 years old, of 744 Greenwich street, was overcome in the hallway of 40 Marion street and taken home.

William Sullivan, 53 years old, of 56 Duane street, was overcome at Barclay and Washington streets and taken to the Hudson Street Hospital.

Peter Graf, 55 years old, of Scranton, pa., was overcome at Chambers and Church streets and refused aid. He started for his home.

Julia Miller, 35 years old, of One Hundred and Ninety-first street and Amsterdam avenue, overcome by heat in front of her home; she refused to go to a hospital and was cared for at home.

Ella Chapman of 68 West Tenth street was overcome in front of 2 East Seventeenth street; attended by an ambulance surgeon and taken to her home.

William Palmer, 39 years old, of 45 West Fifty-seventh street, and a member of Company G, Twenty-second Regiment, was overcome near and treated in Bellevue Hospital.

Jacob Beeler, 40 years old, of 619 East Ninth street, was overcome at 303 First avenue and taken to Bellevue Hospital.

Henry C. Odell, 25 years old, of 152 West One Hundred and Twenty-ninth street, was overcome by the heat last night at Audubon and Bathgate avenues. He was attended by an ambulance surgeon of the Fordham Hospital, after which he left for home.

Mary Wilkins, 78 years old, of 15 James street, was overcome by the heat in front of 356 Pearl street. She was removed to the Hudson Street Hospital.

Henry D. Stohn, 24 years old, whose residence is unknown, was overcome by the heat at 127 Alexander avenue. He was taken to the Harlem Hospital.

Anne Charles, 55 years old, a homeless woman, was found suffering from the heat last night at Fifty-eighth street and Ninth avenue. She was removed to the Roosevelt Hospital.

John L. Brown, 34 years old, of 109 Wayne street, Jersey City, was overcome by the heat at Bleecker and Cornelia streets. He was taken to the St. Vincent's Hospital.

An unknown man, about 30 years of age, with dark hair, blue eyes, a dark mustache and wearing a dark suit of clothes and a black derby hat, was found suffering from the heat last night at One Hundred and Twenty-ninth street and Third avenue. From papers in his pockets he is supposed to be F. Strede of 1,056 Avenue A. He was removed to the Harlem Hospital.