Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1882-06-17
MANHAT ?ANISMS.
JUNE DULLsEss-FsB EARLY DEPARTURE
PROM TOWN.
Waiting for the Crops-warm weather
Amusements-Rich New Workers.
Vanderbilt-o6dsa and Ends.
New YoRk, june 9, 1852.

NEW YORK, June 9, 1882.
Summer has come this year, according TO
the almanac, beginning as it ought to do
in June, instead Of in May, as is its wont
in this vicinity. 1t has been, thus far,
very comfortable season, the mercury not
having risen above So, with cool mornings
and evenings. But the temperature is
steadily rising; it will not be long before
the thermometer viii be ranging daily from
70' to 90 and upwards, and such of us as
remain in town will be declaring that so
hot season was never before known in
New York. Despite the moderate weather,
there has not been for years such a
sUMMERIsH APPEARANCE IN THINGS
So early in June. Half the persons one
knows seem to have gone away-either to
Europe or the country. Any number of
residences in Fifth, Madison and Park
avenues, and in the fashionable blocks of
the cross streets, are closed, not few
having the doors and windows boarded up;
and the servants left behind are receiving
COIlpAul NitcE QbIh III buc Dabcilcut dLcdS
or on the front stoops. Some parts of the
modish quarter are nearly deserted, and
those still occupied look dull and forlorn.
Neither the drawing rooms nor the upper
rooms are lighted, because nobody expects
visitors after the end of May, and pfepara-
tions for early departure are active in tie
rear of the house. The streets, thronged
as they may still seem to stranger, have
lost their crowded aspect-ln August dull.
ness has settled upon them. The restless,
rapid, Manhattanese movement has meas
urably :abated; the hurry and drive of
commercial centers is but seldom visible.
The average citizen appears to be taking
things leisurely, which is not his wont.
Business, both retail and wholesale, is
rather sluggish. The region around Han
over square and the Produce Exchange,
Broadway, Fourteenth street and Sixth
avenue has a somewhat sleepy air. Even
the Stock Exchange, ordinarily roaring and
busting, irrespective of season, is quiet
the army Of brokers and spectators smoke
and yawn and complain, and complain and
smoke and yswn, the whole day through.
Wall street has been dull for eight months,
but never so dull as during the last few
weeks. On some recent days, the entire
sales have not reached l50. 900 shares-not
much more than third of what they
usually are. The very best stocks, and reg.
ularly dividend paying securities, effected
by the general list are quoted from 5 TO 10
per cent. below their real worth. All ar
tempss to operate for rise come 70 Deught.
The market may move upward In the
morning, but it declines in the afternoon.
There may be an advance at the close,
though there is lack of sustainment at
the opening the next day. The bulls have
been for months and continue to be
IN THE DoLEFUL DUMPS.
The bears have it all their own way.
sseWhat is the matter with everything p"
asked disheartened bull the other day.
!" Ordinarily any shrewd man who knows
the street can make few hundred dollars
before dinner any day. But now it's
blank hard for the sharpest of us to pay
current expenses In Broad street. l never
knew such time. It's enough to make
fellow feel that the bottoms fallen out OF
New York" The matter is, as every body
ought 20 know, the uncertainty Of the
crops. Ga this subject, reading the news
papers is of small advantage. They fur
nish plenty of information, but of con-
Trajectory character. One reads in the
morning journals that cotton is very seri-
ously damaged, and in the evening jour.
nails that the damage is slight. One dis
patch tells you that wheat has sustained
irreparable injury another that the crop
will be fully an average. An excellent
authority assures the public that corn
will not yield more than 60 to 20 per cent.
of last years yield; another authority, also
excellent, asseverates that corn has been
hurt very little. The crops of the country
have been ruined and prosperous, since the
last of April, at least twenty times. Just
now they are being saved once more by
the warm, favorable weather but to-mor-
row they may be well nigh destroyed
again. If it should be ascertained that the
crops would be fine, stocks would go up,
and the bears would go down. Business,
wholesale and retail, would revive the
high price of meats, household products
and other necessaries would decline; the
labor troubles would be settled the me-
tropolis would be busy again. for she
naturally reflects the Republic at large.
We see how closely the whole people are
united when the condition of the crops of
the country affect the common laborer as
well as the millionaire, the petty trades
man along with the princely merchant.
One of the unmistakable signs Of the sea.
son is
SUMMER THEATRIGALS.
Wallack's and the Madison Square are
the sole houses where the regular season
has not ended. But the other houses are
open and presenting extraordinary attrac.
tions, designed mainly for the allurement
of country folk. New Workers. seldom at
tend the theater after the middle of May !;