The Baltimore County union., 1883-06-16
Correspondence Baitinore County Caion.
LETTER FROM WASHINGTON.
wAsulyo1ov. d. O.. june gth.

wAsHISGroS, ID. e., June 9th, lssJ.
Editors rnion In response 20 your request
for occasional letter, will drop you few lines
Of just what may occur TO my mind and may be
interesting, hope, to your readers, without any
effort at thinking, as the weather is entirely too
hot for the exercise Of the latter.
We are passing through our second spell Of hot
weather for the season-the 6rst little more than
q week ago-and now the thermometer is up In
the eighties and nineties again. Though this Is
a most beautiful city, with young trees and some.
times large ones-giying very good shade lining
both sides OF ts avenues, the heat 10 greatly In
tensihed on its streets by the hot rays Of the
beaming down on the epavements-mostly concrete
and they In turn radiatng the heat like hot
stove beneath the feet. Norris an umbrella sun
shade any protection from this, rs Il Is from be.
meath instead Of above. Then, too. the brick
walls and tin aud slate roofs Of the houses seem
also 10 paTtake Of this quality Of absorbing the
suns heat and again radiating IL, which latter,
however, they refrain from doing until about bed.
time nj night, and then iuekiess arc tho inmates
who do not occupy rooms with south fronts"
from whence only arc the prevailing summer
breezes, because they are sure 60 suffer from the
heat beyond the possibility Of obtaining any sleep
or rest nearly the whole night through. and con.
sequently will end themselves uninvigoratcd for
the next days suaerings and labors.
II is In consequence Of this that there Is always
Q great demand for houses with south fronts,
which always command the highest prices. The
city, laid out, believe, about prior to the year
1900, was laid out symmetrealiy aud by compass,
and all the streets run exactly east aud west or
north and south, except the avenues, which arc
named after the several States Of the Union, and
therefore the SUM- with It's hottest rays, has clear
sweep at them, as II swings over by the south from
east 60 west. Also, differently from Baltimore
whose streets are not run east and west or north
and south exactly-the streets. and especially the
avenues, are very wide, exposing very large sur
face TO the sun. The houses always standing
back rod or so FROM the payemsnts, with nearly
always grassy park and sometimes beautiful
flower plots in front Of them, we never have what
are called the "shady side" Of streets except the
comparatively little shade from the young and
growing trees along the edges Of the side. walks
Consequently sometimes doubt whether pedes
tfisns sufer nearly so much from the heat In the
narrow streets Of baltimore, when the sun IL
shining, as they do here In our broad and open
streets, where the air has much better opportu-
mites for circulating In the form Of wind and
| breeIes.
| Tho manner In which the excessive heat Affects
the Government eisrks--and apparently they con-
| stituto preponderanec Of the population here,
swarming nearly all the streets at the hour flour
o'clock for closing tho deDarments like bees from
| bee-hivcs--is quite manifest, As they, males and
females, pile into the street cars, drawn by jaded
broken down, over.worked horses, to avoid walk
ing TO their domieiles or boarding houses-few
have "hotses," the city being = honey-eOmb Of
boarding houses or places for "lodgers"-of drag
themselves along the streets wearied and almost
worn out and overcome. The mon mostly carry
their hats In their hands. " they have umbrellas
or there Is shade, and mOpping their perspiring
heads-some Of them have bald heads like yosr
corrcspondent-and faces with their handker-
chiefs. And the ladies-well, they all carry par
asols and wear hats. bangs, frisses, &c. but all
look worn and jaded alike, aud one would think
that some Of them, at least, would resign TO get 10
some cooler cline where Il would not DO "so hot
walking home" But they won't-none except
few from the Patent 0aiee, who have learned 10
be expert patent lawyers while In the Government
service, or some equally expert In hsw 10 manip.
ula,e and collect revenue claims against the Gov
srnment fron the Internal Revenue once, like
ex.Commissioner Raam.
More anon, OccAsiOxAL.