The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1872-06-30
Where to Find Summer Recreation
The SeashOre and the Mountain.

The ScashOre and the Mountain.
During the present season Of the suns fiery
radiance, when all nature trembles under its
power and everybody is seeking escape from
ordinary scenes and business, it becomes q
question Of the utmost moment where to find
the greatest relief from the summer heats and
diseases. The common answer of Newport,
Long Branch, Cape May or some of the popu-
lar resorts is unsatisfactory to the large
masses Of people, who cannot afford such
luxurious relaxation and it is not altogether
certain that the most popular retreats are
always the most beneficial and salubrious.
Without undertaking to draw comparisons
between rival places of summer residence, it
may be Of great interest to the readers of the
HERALD to indicate generally the principal
facts that bear upon choice of such situa-
tons. The overworked man Of business in all
parts of this country needs not only rest
but renovation in u pure and unadulterated
atmosphere. The purity of the Dir he
is to breathe is, perhaps, more important than
GOODNESS, which is usually the first condition
demanded. But the question of what is
chemically q pure atmosphere is hard to
decide. In this country very few experiments
have been made to test the air Of different
localities. The English experiments show that
the purest atmosphere is on the islands and
coasts of Great Britain that lie to the wind
ward. Analysis of the rain water establishes
the remarkable fact that solid bodies and or
ganic substances populate the aerial masses
everywhere, and it is only matter Of the
maximum and minimum of such impurities the
health seeker is called to consider. In the
experiments to which we allude the rain which
falls at valentia, Ireland, and in the Hebrides,
may be regarded as the least adulterated, and
contains little else than beautiful crystals Of
common salt, while at Newcastle-on-Tyne, on
the east coast, within five miles of the German
Ocean and other places similarly situated, the
absence of such crystals has been ascertained
and the presence of sulphate of soda. The Man.
chester rain is full of the oxide of iron, dust,
coal ashes and organic matters, and in London,
Paris and some of the German cities, the SINH
lar deleterious constituents of the air have
been found alarmingly abundant. There can
be no doubt that the greatest care should be
taken to avoid breathing such air as this
which, though, SO far as we know, not yet
discovered, exists in fearful quantities in most
of our manufacturing and thickly-settled towns.
In 1909 q celebrated physician Moscah,
made experiments on the air of hospitals sus-
pending over the beds of several patients
spherical vessels full of iced water and care
| fully collected the dew and water condensed
on the external surface, which soon putrefed,
as animal substances do and gave residue
of analogous matter. 1t has been found that
similar collections, on TASKS filled with ice,
suspended over the rice plantations of
Tuscany yielded what was OF first APP
parently limped water; but it soon putrefied
and deposited flakes of nitrogenized or
ganic matter. 1t has been very clearly proved
that such aerial poisons diminish as we pass
from the centre to the envrons Of our large
towns and cities, and, usually, as we approach
the windward seacoasts Of country, and also
as we ascend above the sea level-a fact which
is accounted for by the gravitating properties
4 Of such floating matter in the air. In the
United States the prevailing winds of the sum
mer are southwesterly, and they bring the salt
air Of the tropical Gulf and spread it over the
higher portions of the Southern States and the
mountainous regions of the Middle States. II
is obvious that the Immediate proximitv Of De