New-York tribune., 1883-06-17
THE EXODUS From TIE CITY.
rHY EFFCTs OF THE HEAT or LAST wEEK-BUSY
SCENES AT DgPoIs. wHARYES AND FERRIES.

rHY TFFCTs OF THE HEAT or LAST wEEK-BUSY
SCENES AT DgPoTs. wHARvEs AND FERSIEs
Tbonch the public is always slow to believe
that summer hand, yet when the Thermometer has
spent nearly week In nckerng about the eighties ana
niuete, IL Is absurd ignore is approach any longer
and the last days have succeeded In proving 10 the
most obstinate that the almanac right that the month
OF June has really arrived and with II the adysabiy Of
escaping from the city quickly possible II would
perhaps be rash conclude that the temperature Is
nut up thing and tina; the ferry and railroad companies
are directly responsible for the rise In the mercury but
II certain that they profit so largely by the change as
almost 10 Justify some slight suspicious that the assist
ants at Hudnuts and the Signal Service Station are in she
,terests OF one or other OF depots The annual
din. does not usually begin until week 10 later than
this but the public has decided that is FAR too hot To
trouble about such little cOnyenionalues aud with the
mercury at tdoes not doo puueiiousy up
ON the order OF ong but the best thing to atonce.
even at the risk OF offending the days
tho bcaps OF baggage yng in front Of the GRIND Central
n,uot have been growing larger blocking up the door
ays and tte1 ing the sidewalks every trunk asumbhg
block TO grpwn-up people, aud the whole mere lAby
rnh and ambuscade for small children 10 get lost in
And the solid red and white boxes studded with black
clasps and nails and the huge pormancaus have sub
tantal family appearance that speaks OF the deliberate
n,ovo Of hole households and the casual Hittings
~ evcryday passengers. Day by day work of the
nocemen in the has grown harder ms the mum
her OF hopeless people who want to get 10 absurd places
~ impo,sibe trains gets daily larger Every afternoon
the waitng-rOom crowded aud shows one continual
atter OF fans and newspapers and the baggage is
"A very Baalbec OF ruin and confusion. Tue ears ana
hacks are sharing In the good fortune Of the companies,
and keen disgorgng lnstamcnts Of passengers laden
with white paper parcels containing the lesser ar
iclcs Of household furniture Even tho parcels are
anred by the hot weather and cannot keep their wrap
uers properly closed but abont, rs we're with their
...g. ..If ttyI.ftf ff,taI
II ia observable that the do most OF the carrying
work for the men are already burlencd their cigars
and walking canes and one small bag Is much
man so numbered can manage. The mTldle-szed pack
ages are therefore all carried by their wives, while the
largest OF all allotted to the smallest available child
The hacbIncn in high spirits with the sudden in
crease OF patronage for opens unlimited prospects OF
cooling drinks aud such disspalons rs ind favor with
hackmen But not so the porters. Ihey Ought TO re
oic i'm their employers prosperity, hut somehow they
are not eated by ii at all The hot weather las melted
all their generous senhents 80 te; onry ysnseres
ths baggage and seeming monsrOusy busy wping their
foreheads and swearing when discovered III helr hdhS
PROM Twenty-thlrd-st all down west-st. along the
line OF piers the sudden migration has caused unusual ac
Western Railroad and tho pier Of the Norwich Line
are nhnormay busy aud crowded. ana again aud again
be same scenes repeated The truckmen about the
nIer of the Peoples Line for Albany do thriving trade
sbe saysI 10 the discontinue OF the women and
the terror OF the children going by the boats.
an outside the Terry Of tho Pennsy Railroad at
Drsbros.es-st. an artist mig 4 have found any
time i'm the afternoons Of last week re Kaleidoscope
effects In struggling men, swinging straw hats and
brand new baggage. From this point downward at GER
tain hours every day the roadway Is nothing but quad
rnple line Of slowly moving yehcles; past the Ncwburg
pier No 35. aud the Stoningt0n line for Boston and
Providence where the neayy freight traffic Is always
sufcently dense, dispr0pOrtonate Infusion of hacks
and carriages aud express wagons piled mp with whole
Pantheons OF household goods. makes the crush sti
denser so thnt the hot and dusty waytarers get frantic
and hotter and dusty In their endeayors to force
their through to the boats which threatening
start without them. At Murray-st the passengers by
the Fall River Line have heen having eV EN- harder time
OF H. for here the awnings the stores grow fire.
uuent and under them tho iders most do cOngrcgRe,
making n difficult season OF probation before the FROM
ised land OF Newport aud Boston can be reached. OPP
pDste the HObOken Ferry, from Barclay-s onward the
awnings get still more plentiful and the difficulties OF the
passengers greater for the market IL filled with flowers
and fruits the cOmpanonship OF which makes the place
seem cooler and the OF lemons Strawberries and
pneappes, OF verbenas peunius and geraniums hangs
heavy on the air.
AT Cortlandt-st. where the Pennsylvania and Ontario
and Western Railroads have their depos the Is the
same and at the ferry IN FultOn-st. and the Long
Island Ferry at Thirty-fourth ST., sudden rush has
given the ticket clerks and p0rters much work
they care 10 think Of; while outside Gibbs and uows
continual tide OF and women and wagons and horses,
aud Il Is characteristic OF them both that the do
oil the shouting and complaining though the horses have
the harder work.