Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1882-08-04
go IN THE SHADE,
TROPICAL TENPERATURET THAT PUT
TRADE AT A STANDSTILL. II

The Death Rate Up to High Figures, and
Sunstrokes Reported by Dozens The
Man Who Does Not Talk About the
Weather.
N. 7. P.p.Ss
Ninety nine. And. ninety mine in
the mid ifle OH deep box covered on
three 3s ith the top board
projeeS&9 MOD ee.rest Of the box,
the bulb and the mefctry without a
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year, and ioubly trying because so
many hot days had gone before it, and
done their most and worst to weaken
every living thing that felt it. For
tunately there was dryness about it,
though it left none where perspira-
ton could drive it away, or liquid re-
freshment could offset it.
| Third avenue seemed deserted at 3
clock in the afternoon. Two of the
four Bowery museums were closed,
and SO were nine in every ten of the
oyster saloons, and on the doors of all
were the words, "To reopen Sept. L."
Very few sorts of goods were selling
well. Cold boiled meats, tongues,
sausages, and picked knuckles and
pigs feet were in great demand at the
German butcher shops. Fruit, grain,
bread, and canned goods went off we'll
from the groceries. The bakers never
did better in any weather anywhere.
Soda water kept the drug clerks busy.
Lager beer ran in cascades, rolling
down the sides of glasses, stopping
on the polished bars and dripping on
the rails over the floors. A cigar
dealer said that hot weather creates
the greatest demand in the year for
smoking goods of all kinds. He could
not explain it. He knew everybody
thought it was the other way. All he
knew was that it was so every year.
One tin pail in every twenty that
flashed in the sunlight between tene-
mcnt door and the entrance of a store
on the avenue was filled with ice
cream, in which there was rushing
trade. The other nineteen returned
with beer. The restaurants were for
bidding. The hunger that prompted
a visit to them by anything else than
the flies had TO be very sharp and
strong. There were few people on
the hot, gray sidewalks, and few vehi-
cles except the horse cars in the road
way. Policemen stood in doorwavs
and on the shady side of the street;
men, women and children hung out of
the upper windows trying to imagine
a breeze. The open cars were crowded
and tired mothers with pink Tipped,
painting children were conspicuous
among the passengers. When the
horses ran the breeze came, and when
they stopped it stopped. The bakers,
shoemakers, upholsterers, tinkers,
laundrymen, and cooks came up from
the cellars and sat on top steps, all
looking worn and hollowed-eyed and
ht t.
All except one, a barber in Fourth
avenue not far from the Cooper Union,
and he was cool, dry and bright-eyed,
with only an intimation of beer in his
breath and an occasional inartistic slap
from his lather brush to show that,
however he tried to hide it, the weather
bothered him trifle.
"Dot vos funny guntry," said he,
referring to the United States. "Der
beeple are crazy about der vedder. l |
dink 1t don't vos more as dree weeks
ago ven effery von of my gustimers
no comes in init his hads his pockets
in, butiing and plowing, und he says,
'Py, chiminy! Chake, vot's der meter
py der veddcr? Itpin gold like Grist-
mas der whole year round, und man
has got ter spend all he can save py-
ing ofercoats and dings. l dink ii it
keeps on long vile dis vii bin der end
py der verdi Der parber py der
next shair--you know der feller-hc's
all der dime funny like a monkey nit
his chokes and humbucks-he got
oA puAy CHohe Dy Won OF
dem kickers. | CRIED NIT laughing.
He says to dem fellcrs: Maybe YOU
peter go und make someding out Nv
Sullivan der prize fighter, amt It?
He'll make you CRY your face round
der nndder side uf your mout.'
''Nell, now, shoost look at der bee
pie. Dey are all CRAZY bout der heat.
BY, krashus, Chake,' dem say to me,
'vo der tevil's up py der vedder? Has
der sun pought house by Harlem fer
der summer? Do you dink if der sun
vent out und fell in der ocean der city
wood git cool in den years? Hurry
up, right away; shafe me vonce ofer
und let me dake der next shtean boat
py Goney Island Py hockey, dct
parber py der next shair he dold me
der peeble all been going to strike for
more money on account dey put all
der wages in lager beer. Dot vos
choke he made up for fun. But der