Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1876-07-20
Our RadIx Letter.
Street SleepeFs-Jtatters at PhiIa-
Notwithstanding the City
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New YORK, July II. 1876.
To the Editor of the Observer:
The fearful heat continues,
though somewhat modified by the
two heavy showers of few days
since, End the interchange OF cleo
trical compliments by the clouds
aud earth on those occasions.
The thunder and lightning of
Tuesday night were as severe as
possible, the fluid striking in a
dozen different Ilaces in the city
and immediate ueighborhood.
TIE suGerirgs Of the inmates
of the crowded tenement streets
have been terrible for these two
weeks. No one WHO has Lever
traversed Baxter aud the ADJ tcent
streets on the Est side Of town
can form any idea of how human
beings are packed in the four and
! five story sardine boxes that line
those narrow passage ways. The
uncleanness and consequent stencil
are sitting even the poor wretcheS
who have hardly ever breathed
anv different air. During these
hot nights it has been physical
impossibility for them to sleep III
doors, and thus all the sidewalks,
docks and open places have been
nightly covered with the sleeping
forms Of all ages and sexes, some
on bed tlcks, some on blankets
and many more on the hard pave
ment. Uuder ordinary circum-
stances tits would not be tolera-
ted by the policemen, but IN the
present exceptional time the lat
| ter refrain from disturbing the
Isleepers, picking their way among
the PROSTATE bodies "s they go up
and down their beats.
All the parks are transformed
into dornitories for the time be
ing. Central Park, Madison aud
/ Union Squares and the Battery
are nightly sought by thousands
of sufocated sufferers, whose mar
row quarters indoors are simply
unbearable. Taking it all in all
we unanimously are in favor OF
petiiioning Gen. Mayer for a
northeast snOwstorm.
It is about time that something
happened for our relief as the
mortality from sunstroke was be-
coming alarming among both men
and animals. Not less than 400
persons hav. died frem the heat
thus far, and the number may
largely exceed that figure. On
the street car lines most OF the
horses that are not absolutely
sick are SO exhausted rs to be
hardly fit for use. and all sorts
of expedientS have 10 be resorted
to in order to keep them up. One
of the largest iiues has set a steam
engine to blowing cool air
through its stables, thus keeping
up a constant draught, which HUI
name course proves TO be also a
measure of economy, the horses
thus refreshed doing their work
much better and more easily than
others.
PHILADELPHIA, July 10.
I have no desire to alarm any
one, bat | mast inform your read
crs that Philadelphia is becoming
Japanese. | am not prepared 10
assert that the change will he
radical and complete that our
eyes will grow slantindiclllar, our
hair gets braided and coiled, and
ourappafel becomes semi feminine,
but | do maintain that we have
taken the first step in that dlrec-
ton by adopting the most dis
tinctive national emblem, namely,
the frn. So universal has been
this adoption that you can't find
a solitary person Of any age or
condition who doesn't present the
appearance Of a one-armed wind.
mill. 1t is curious sight to see
the different styles of men so at
1.-THE fat man in his agony put,
ting so much muscle into the OPP
Grafton as to generate more heat
than be dispels, the subdued
rough striving vainly to cool his
bullet head aud big red neck, and
the newsboys highly delighted
with their new acquisition. Even
the despised tramp manages to
get hold of one of the numerous
advertising fans which are freely
distributed about the exhibition
grounds, and beguiles the tedium
Of his slow and dignified march
around town by agitating the at
mosphere about his grimy and un'
shaven visage. | expect to see
the whole lot practicing on paper
butterflies before long.
} Well. if we had to change tC