The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1872-07-02
The City in a General Broil
Yesterday.
HOW THE PEOPLE BORE 1T.
Moro SunStFOkes in the Streets and More
Deaths from the Heat.
Ninety-nine Degrees In
the Shade.

The heated term still continues with undated
nerceness, and the suffering city still continues to
xroan under the powerful pressure. Idly, indeed,
are the prophets occupied when they undertake to
measure the endurance and the immensely Of the
GOD Of day, and still more funny are the plantive
c0mplainings Of the malcontents when they snarl
Ut the fry ana wipe away at the melting. 1t were
"a sensible to bay at the moon or to command the
sea to cease advancing as to think Of securing In
demnity from
THE SOLAR SENTENCE
when the time has come for it. SO, since there Is
no use In 'bucking against o stone WALL" the
wisest thing to be done Is to get as much In the
shade as possible, and neither hurt head or make
warmer blood by nonsenscal and unavailing spite
fulness. These words Of sententOus meaning are
called for by the silly behavior Of numbers Of people
who seem to think it is unreasonable that should
have hot weather, and that fOrs00th, because
they do not like to be in a state Of perspiration,
therefore the sun is acting in manner to be de-
spised. 1t is In the opinion OF every philosopher,
all for the best that nature should be unimpeded in
her operations andsthat the celestial bodies especi
ally should in no way be interfered with by poor
mundane intellects, and this opinion seems to have
great force in it, At all events things had best be
looked at Just as they are.
At three O'Clock yesterday morning the ther-
m0meter stood at 80 degrees in the shade; at six
O'CLOCK " degrees; AT nine O'CLOCK at ~ degrees,
at noon ut 95 degrees; at three O'Clock p. NJ at 80
Degrees at six O'Clock p. M. at "a degrees; an
hour later OF 9e degrees, and at nine O'Clock
at 81 degrees. Take 1t all in all that wasn't
very bad 1t was rather generous Of the lumi-
nary to '1et up' O little at six o'clock in
the morning, this being q kindness especially in
tended, no doubt, to the working classes, to give
them little bit OF courage and allow them to eat
their breakfast. The lazy louts male and female,
who loaf In bed at ordinary times until nine or ten
O'Clock must have had q precious time of
1t yesterday morning, and all right-minded
people would be sorry, OF course, to learn
that the fies were troublesome or the mosquitoes
hungry. 81 the stores the bosses spent the day in
looking out into the streets, seemingly thinking Of
nothing, but really thinking thoughts that could
not be expressed in public without losing caste
among religious acquaintances. The clerks and
assistants were In regard to their judgment on the
weather,
''sIx OF ONE AND HALF A DOZEN OF ANOTHER"
for ON very hot days there is very little business
done; and they think no doubt, that 1t is a bit Of
genuine aristocracy to abandon themselves the
boss being powerless, to loahng. As for the
lady clerks in the stores, the sweet
creatures, they look many times more in
teresting on roasting day than on any other;
for, firstly, they can't help laughing; secondly,
there is an ad H6itum game of everlasting"
played with conversation cards; thirdly, it is so
hot they do all sorts Of things to their gew-gaws
and imprOvise SO many methods of keeping them
selves cool that 1t is study to look on and
be enlightened. In the city cars and the "buses'
there was the usual amount OF desperate resolution
to get cool 1t ia not such easy matter to reduce
ones self in short time from $50 degrees Fahren-
melt TO about seventy degrees; 1t requires pretty
POCKET HANDKERCHIEF AND MIND
ertion to do the wping and the mapping necessary
Ior tne OCCASION In the case of men the difficulty Is
80 ss esM sy n sna Of Inc
and by good .resolute drying afterward of the
breast, neck and around the shoulders,
on the principle of 'Het her rip" and
fight it out with the Of fan, and the grim salts
than masculinity But leaving that question so,
another is here suggested and 1t Is as to whether
allowed to on very hot days Any one
unfortunate enough to be obliged to look at
In car on a hot day, and who suffers from nervous
disease, viii readily appreciate this point. The
with which the eyes Of these people dart looks upon
the poor mild people, their fellow travellers, can
only be- explained by the horrible suspicion that
that you are going to laugh at them. And never
was suspicion more unfounded. Really, for the
most part the audience on such occasions as these
Is composed of few poor
LACKADAIsICAL SPECIMENS OF HUMANITY,
whose shirts are stuck to their backs whose panta-
looms are glued to their legs, and who thor
oughly disguised with heaven and earth as not
10 care one lOta whether, the Iat people burst
not. In the lager beer saloons there is some
evidence OF comfort and proper appreciation Of
the true state OF affairs Lager and weiss, as ev-
erybody knows, are deiciOusly cooling beverages,
and to tell the truth our German fellow citizens
know how to get In the air If there is any posi-
bty to do So If there is any air outside to come
in. Put our German fellow citizens of the gentler
sex are sometimes addicted to what French women,
emoonpoint, and these good ladies are really an
enigma sne Subject &c how p 1Cn % n
lad "a NJ
the further table; handsome faced, but
awfully fat lady; she takes her lager Elm for Elm
with her male acquaintances she has her couple OF
words in for every masculine one, and she Is just
cool as cucumber all the time; she can trip up
she looks as pleasantly at you as If you were not
brolng all OVER tell her that 1t Is very hot and she
will tell you that that lager IL icec0ld. Such con-
duct Is aggravating to the feelings on hot day.
But
FAT DuTCHMAN
Is rather different animal. He is as lazy as O
huge porpus iattened up for killing, and his alb
doininal establishment is never disturbed for
day as Yesterday, Is provocative of anger,
SEPARATION to refrain from lotng him, just to make
him mad. On the ferries everything was
aery uo Lovely es He cool an coming
qusite relief to the poor sun-brolled
pedestrian. Many people during the day snatched
half an hour nom their business and took ride,
like schoolboys, for the fun of getting the air. The
getting OF the air these days, though, is very
Cumucisouc opcIuttOH, requiring
DODGlNG CAPABILITIES
OF no mean order, and an amount of common sense
mingled with experience not often found separate.
But the most extraordinary sights yesterday were
to be SEEM of course along the streets, where poor
humanity was rising In bisters and red spots and
foaming with pefspiratiOn against the cruel sun.
There might be seen men toterng from the cOntlnu-
GUS exhaustion OF their bodies, strong men In mind
anu purpose, while little shop o. your thumbs' Of
IeOws whose presence Is not big enough for notice
except they were right straight before you cOnsti-
tuteu themselves ''cOck OF the walk and were as
!rlsky as lancy terriers trying to bark. Popderous
ladies' mot rom the lager beer gardcns) walked
along the burning sidewalks evidently in deep
misery on account of the heat compelled at times
to seek temporary refuge in some soda-water