Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1883-06-27
CINCINNATI GENIUS As A SUNNI Elk
RESORT.

The hand of genius can accomplish many
things, but in the way of working wonders
there is genius connected with the Cincin-
natl Commercial Gasette, whose productions
out-wouder all that has been accounted won
derful. Those who know Cincinnati we'll
are aware that, with its many attractions
and neighboring beauties Of hill and valley,
it has the disadvantage Of being a very fur
mace in hot weather. The hills that sur
round it both on the Ohio and Kentucky side
of the river, and which form one of its
principal attractions, when summer comes
shield streets and dwellings from the cool
ing breeze. The city lies at the bottom OF
shallow bowl, of which the hills form the
rim, and there it lies under the hot sun, reek
ing and sweltering SIS the heat is reflected
from the hill-sides upon its scorching roofs.
Indeed, the concsvity in which Cincinnati
lies greatly resembles that by @hich, at a late
European exposition, the sums rays
were SO collected as to heat 10 steam
the water of an upright boiler
from the power of which a printing press was
run. This makes Cincinnati in hot weather
furnace by day, but by night it is the oven
heated by the furnace. Oh, these nights Of
misery! No air to breathe, and the painting
sufferer lies unable to sleep and gets up with
and oppressiveness only those know who
have experienced them. Yet this spot, this
concave receptacle OF the sums concentrated
rays revsrberated from walls and and hill
sides The more than genius of the Commercial
Gazette, over the space of one column aud
half in that paper, prints up as a most be-
witching, soul entrancing summer resort
He invites the unwary stranger, in the char
acter Of a summer visitor, to come and
stretch himself there as ST. Lawrence
stretched himself on the martyriziug grid
iron. One would cay "the power of genius
can no further CO." bat il can in the Cincin-
natl Commercial Gazette, and it does. Every
body has heard Of the smoke of Cincinnati,
how it dims the light of heaven, and how tie
SCOT from it, falling, except in color, like the
soft snow, blacks the faces of native and Wis
itor, and discolors the ligh.-tinted garments
of all in somber apparel, but in the hands of
the genius of the Commercial Gazette this
smoke, 10 try to defend from which commits
sioHs, have been Appointed and inventive
power stretched to the utmost-this wheezy,
rushing, all-prevailing, condensed breath of
the great enemy of mems ssuls, ia held us
by the Commercial Gazette's head genius as a
gossamer shroui, fairy vspor of resplendent
loneliness. Here is what he says in his own
glowing words: THE glare Of the summer
sun, which in the common watering places,
even far to the North, is unmitigated, is here
modified by blue-gray hsze which hangs
like kindly veil over the city. Nowhere
are the sunsets 70 beautiful, because nowhere
else can the naked eye look them in the face
as il can through this delicate haze" How
transceudentally ethereall Cinciunati's
grimy, sooty, choking, binding, murky
smoke "blue-gray haze" a "kindly veil"
delicate haze" Seeker after a summer
resort, go to Cincinnati in the dog-days, if
you will, but whatever you may miss in her
of call your fancy" and the hand Of genius
"painted her." call at the Commercial GozeHe
Office and you will never fail to find 8 heaven
born genius there with "eyes in fine fr my
rolling"