Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1876-07-31
THE CENTENNIAL.
PHILADELPHIA, July %.

1uio Oit1 hao haOuAoA(J SO'SASA sun
mers than New York and thus while its
present-climate is ultra tropical there
is not as much notice taken of it as in
Gotham. The mercury has several times
reached 1865 in the shade and worse
figures yet have been limited at. At the
grounds regular hospital has been es-
tabllshed, with large medical depart
ment and here have been treated as
many as 100 cases a day. nine-tenths
being persons Frustrated by the heat
Still the attendance does not fall off as
might be expected, the daily average of
admissions ranging about 100000 ;
nearly one third of these are dead-heads
though, so. the receipts don't get over
$4,000 very often. AS this amount
comes in fifty cent coins and stamps,
whole, there are from eighteen to twenty
thousand of these articles to be counted
every evening This seems like quite
an undertaking till one thinks of the
corresponding work at the mint where
they make and handle five times that
number of pieces per day The other
minis having been closed for repairs
last month the one here has had to do
double duty ever since, which, in such
weather has been tremendous strain.
Since the middle of June the heat
inside the mint walls has been intense,
owing to the large number of furnaces
required. In the meters department
the heat has ranged from 100 to 1907
with an occasional dash up to l450. Ia
the rolling room of the coinage depart
ment, the thermometer has ruled
100, and in the whitening room from
1l0e to 1902. Experienced men are
demanded, and as substitution is impos-
sible, they have to remain at their hot
post from morning till night. Strong
armed men frequently topple over at
their work, and all 60 home in state
of complete exhaustion. Thus far there
has been no case of serious prostration
and the operative officers do not antici.
pate any interruption from the heat
Most of the men have been in service
from fifteen to forty-fve years, and they
say that this is the hottest time in tn,
history of the Mint.
But to return to the Centennial gates
Here is were the tribulation of the sight
seers commence. Very many of the rura
visitors have dreadful time getting
through their heads that they can't G
through the exhibitors or compliments
ry gates, and are-often inclined to argu
the point with the long suffering officials
who, having finally convinced them c
the justice of their position must fgf
the battle over again, when the SAN
rustics, having been steered into th
proper entrance, reach the turnstile wit
currency or bills of all denomination
excepting the prescribed fifty cent pric
and present them for change with Il
) most confident air imaginable. Anotht
}. and sometimes longer argument ensu
!, here, IN the course of which 10Th parti,
: get mad while the hot, impatient CROW
behind presses up closer with frequel
n calls to "move on up front" Throug
e this mass the offenders have to fig
y their way back to the change Office, VIII,
n having at last gone through with .;
), this dOggoned redtape" they pass sui
d lily inside.
Of Occasionally still more serious dificU
l. ties present themselves in the shape
D. fat people who can't get through I
Is narrow turnstiies. 1t is almost as mu
or of a job to get such a person thrOu
er the fence as to get an act through CC
IN gress a member of the Commission |
81 to be summoned, who receives the apI
it cant's money, gives a special order
have one of the wagon gates opened
id admit the heavy weight and then hal
i'd the money to an attendant who g
lr- through the turnstlle to register the
Int mission, drops the money in the box /;
lge comes out by regular exit. 1t SEE
ex- rather ridiculous, but all this has
he to be gone through with on several oc
20, ions.
ncy And to-day | am good deal like
SO. of the fat men. I've got as far as
OF turnstile, but can't get any further.
TO believe, under the pressure, | "
yer trouble them to send for Cemmissio
ven It's too hot, and we will give the in
unit a vacation till next week. RADI,
s to 49,
- CUsTER.-Many people have the
that Custer was a rough, swagger
swearing, drunken trooper. He was