Bradford opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1874-1881, 1876-08-12
OUR NEW YORK LETTER,

OUR NEW YORK LETTER.
The Weather-The Chinese In New York
-Dssoiation OF the City-Chiidren's
Summer Hospttai-hustness'
the WEATHER
which Is the most important matter about
New York, Just now, has moderated
slightly, and II Is once more possible To
sleep. Nevertheless 1t Is Us yet too hot
for either comfort or health. The heated
term has been the most terrible ever
known, and has swelled the mortuary
list to degree that Is absolutely fright
full, Children have persisted by the thou
sands. and almost IN equally large num-
than torrid heat, One woman In Baxter
street has assisted in preparing ia chill
dren for burial, And let me say right
here that there has been scarcely an in
stance of n death from among the ranks
OF the temperate. The men who have
avoided the use ofalcoholic drinks, when
sun struck almost invariably recovered,
and when recovered We're rs good rs
new. But when whisky or beer drink
or went down il was generally down for
good, and is a matter of fact that the
drinking classes were an hundred fold
more liable to be struck than the tenn
peratc. The temperance people NAV
make what use of this they please, but
all the city physicians will vouch for its
truth.
curSAMrS
are invading New York in LARGE mum.
bers. There are now 5000 here, and
with them their opium dens and loss
houses. They are Just rs filthy, Just rs
industrious and just MS harmless hero rs
IN San francisco, ana follow the same
occupations. They wash, make cigars.
and keep street stands, pay their debts,
save some money and gamble and smoke
the best OF their earnings away. They
inhabit Baxter street, here Us every
where else, selecting MS Their headqnar-
tiers the most lilthy ana squaiid sections
OF the city' ihey nave only one joss
mousse as yet'thoush announcer one OF larger
dimensions ana more aristocratic IN styie
is IN contemplation, Inc number Is III.
creasihg very rapiuiy' ana rs thc srea.
colony IN san FRANCISCO IS sehuing OH
colohies Eastward an inc tihic, IL u very
propaole that IN Jew years thc TERRI
tory IN ana apouS baStcr street VIII DE
very iike DuPoh stpeet IN San francisco,
ana tnat III new iork inc relisloh Oh
C tyo anu .he ohlnese ..c"'rc "ilu
Chihese "inuseiien,s ana customs VIII
nave estap''Sn"' themselves hrm,E IN
New DIX. Wcll' let them come; lhey
arc harhlicss. INDUSTRIOUS anu honest
people, Who WIN WORK anu never want
oliice' lhcre Is soii'e coii''o't III u'a''
THE cHILpRENs SUMNER HOSPITAL
Among the charities which bencvo-
lent ingenuity is continually devising,
the Summer Hospital for Children de-
serves free hanocd support. The en-
cursions OF 81. JOHNS Guild floating
hospital boat, which takes hundreds of
river daily for pure air, has made Il
difference at once in the ueau-rate among
children. But ten hours week pfWhole-
some living out of the sinking dcas the
poor call home, is enough to keep life in
them, but hardly enough to make sound
children of them. The plan was devised
of a temporary hospital or rather home,
in one of the healthiest places on the
river, where sick children could be sent
for fortnight at u time, in the danger
Gus part of the season. The charity is
not an eXtravagant one. The buildings
are of the plainest, arrest description,
the food in the country Is fresh and cheap,
and the cost of the whole affair is deci-
dedly less than that of the steamboat en-
cursions. The poorest woman in the
city can have her sick child sent there
and act the besD care taken Of ii for
weeks, without dollars expense to her
self. In this fearful season, while the
children of well-to-do people are dying
like sheep, it is great mercy that such
saving help is extended to those who
else had no choice but 10 see their cove
tously-lOyed children slcken and die
without the least alleviot'an OF their sui
feflhSs.
nEsoLATioN
The city is almost abandoned. The
rich fed from the terrible heat to their
villas at Newport, and to the cool shades
OF Saratoga; those in moderate circum-
stances are at the thousand and one sea-
side places, and up in the mountains.
the artists and Bohemians are up North
where they can keep cool, and live very
cheaply, and only the poor, and the I'M
fortunate business men who cannot get
away, are in the city. The theatres are
closed, as are all places of amusement,
the stores are empty, and the hotels are
like Saharas in their stiffness. The only
trade there is comes from the Centen-
and forward through the city, and they
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