The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-05-17
This paper Is Democratic IN principles
and is Independent in its Vteoos on all
local questions.
Two Views of summer.

We may as we'll make up u minds
to it, the summer is upon us.
Good bye to the balmy zephyrs OF
springtime. Good bye to the bracing
evening airs; good bye to the temper
ate MONDAY brightness; good bye to
the apple blossoms, the budding of
the trees, the rich soft green of the
new grass.
Let us all buy light ties, look up
our old straw hats and white vests,
and calculate the chances of our
tailors confiding to us for the next
three months the trusteeship of light
weight suits of comfortable serge or
dazzling mohair.
Welcome to the season of Manhat-
tan Beach and Long Branch; of the
Water Gap and the mountains;
OF tennis and cricket; of white
wings and flashing paddles. Truly it
is hard to be sorry for the bracing
season that has passed when we look
ahead over the giddy whirl of enjoy
ment that the coming one presents.
Yes, that is the way the summer
looks to some of us-to those who are
blessed with money-or cheek.
But how does the summer prospect
strike our fellow citizens of Cannon
town. What are the pleasures it
offers them?
Superheated rooms filled with the
vapor of soapsuds; poisonous effiuvia
from the malarial meadows vile
stenches from the reeking streets.
How do the mothers of our tene-
ment district view the coming of the
season of cholera infantum, of malaria,
of deadly heat exhaustion killing off
the little ones like a plague?
Think of the lives of these poor
people, you fortunate possessors of
good houses and sufficient incomes.
Think of the diminished work of the
mother - who is so often the
breadwinner because you take
your frills and tiounces to
be laundried in the country. Think
of the daughters out of work because
your houses are closed for the
summer. Think of the hot,
sitting rooms, the worn, cry
ing children, the unreasonable
and unhealthy food; the ~heartbreak-
ing daily prospect of squalid, neglected
streets, and dilapitated tenements.
Think of the relief the evening
brings--a half hour on the roof or a
stroll to the nearest dock.
This is the time for the charitable
to wake up. In a little while you
will have gone to the seashore or the
mountains and you will find it
hard to realize that it is hot
in Jersey City. So wake up now. Do
something for the poor. Organize ex-
cursions, and summer retreats, and
house to house medical inspections.
Do all you'can. 1t is impossible to
do enough. If every man, woman and
child in the community who has a
mite of time or money to a
should contribute it; there would still
be thousands of needy unfortunates
who would remain without relief.
But begin early, and some good
may be done.
THE report from London that Queen
Victoria does not want the lord lieu
tenancy of Ireland abolished because
she desires to give the place to a rela-
ton must make President Harrison
and Baby Mckee smile.
THERE seems to be a disposition in
New York to breathe more freely since
the Republican legislature has gone
home. Before adjournment it sowed
the seed of another investigation by
passing an appropriation bill for an
other Capitol steal
THE Jersey City ball tossers are
doing valiant work in upholding the
claim OF their home city to be the
metropolis of New Jersey. They now
lead in the race for the penant of the
ST. = -.