Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-07-05
MURRAY'S MUSINGS.
The Hard Work Involved in Seeking
Pleasure-Sleep Of Night Workers and
Stock Exchange Men = Cupid's Hot

Stock Exchange Men = Cupid's Hot
Weather Retreats-Gotham Stories.
rFRoM STAFF CORRESPONDENCE
NEW YORK, July 3-The popular idea Of
enjoyment and keeping cool is to do some
thing. just as long as that something is
not associated with the regular daily routine
of business life it comes under. the general
head of pleasure. With the mercury up
among the nineties this idea of keeping cool
and enjoyment not infrequently results in
about the hottest and hardest days work
that could be cut out for an able bodied
man. That is probably why abundant leis-
ure breaks people down in early life. There
are thousands-tens of fthousands-ofp people,
male and female, in a big city bustling
around these hot days and sweltering nights.
hunting for what they call cool enjoyment.
A sensible man was strolling down Broad
way in the early dusk thinking "what fools
these mortals be-" Arrayed in a flannel
shirt and the lightest possible coat and the
widest possible straw hat and russell shoes,
he was picture of summer comfort, an ex-
ponent of common horse sense. He spoke to
numerous perspiring acqnaintances on the
Rialto and gently but firmly repelled all in
himself with beer in hot weather is an idiot, !"
he solfloquized In this philosophical mood
he was accosted by two pretty girls OF his
acquaintance.,one vivaci0us typewriter
been pounding machine all day, the other
the rehearsal boards, and now, arrayed in
the bewitching style of summer costume, the
modestly seductive art of which Is known
only to pretty typewriters and ladies of the
chorus, they were sauntering forth in the
cool of the evening. "To Tony Pastors"
they said" ,, o,o.u
Poor things! They called that enjoyment.
He discoursed with much eloquence on the
subject of quietness in hot weather as they
neared Fourteenth street. And the pretty
and said dear me, isn't he lazy! No, he
wouldn't go in-not for a So note. But he
would give them glass of beer before they
entered the theater. So they went around
the corner to q nice place; but they found it
was Billy McGlory's and they fed in panic:
After they had calmed down on a couple OF
beers in a large German hall, the girls, with
cluded their philosopher and friend was
right-it was too warm to go to a theater.
"Lets get on an open Third avenue car"
said the chorus girl. '1t's too hot under q
roof"
'I know nice cool garden with fountain
and music on West. Forty-seventh street."
said the typewriter.
we Will connect the Third avenue scheme
with the Forty-seventh street scheme" said
They did. They boarded one of those
peculiar open cars in which passengers sit
the wire netting, removed their hats and en-
joyed the delicious evening breeze, and said
what sensible suggestion this was. They
got of at Forty-seventh and walked over to
the West Side, crossing the railroad by an
immense bridge, and arrived at the "nice,
cool garden" in dripping Of perspiration.
There they found the beer not to their taste,
the singing execrable and the air sultry from
glaring gas. The place was crowded.
"The coolest place these summer nights"
declared the pretty typewriter, els in Har-
lem I'M They have such lovely air.
torted the philosopher, "for this is suffo-
eating"
at would be cool on the train, anyhow"
suggested the chorus girl. "Let US put the
train and Harlem together"
So they ambled up the stairs at Fiftieth
street and started for the coolest place."
the philosopher himself being heated up.
took just one hour to get to One Hundred
and Fifty-ffth street.. 1t was big, local
storm. The rain had been pouring down
and the parks and gardens were empty and
nearest grand pavilion there were three
men, band of music, a bedraggled singer
and a waiter. The waiter was worked for
bee beer and sandwiches. vic This was too, too stupid d
bracing, and the philosopher with his two
pretty girls climbed down the elevated pavil-
ion and climbed upon another good deal
higher short distance away. He sat down
in wet chair on the deserted balcony,
ordered three "steins". and vowed it was
glorious. 1t was the first m0ment he had
met his jolly companions. The suggestion,
therefore, that it was time to go home broke
coldly on his ear 1t was midnight.
"Look here-I have to work tomorrow"
Il don't" replied the philosopher.
"I'm sleepy" said the chorus girl.
"I,m not" ehimed the philosopher: And
with big e." he said. 1--WE have been
hunting for 1t all the evening and have at
last found it, and now you want to go homel
and the united efforts of the two pretty
women to get him away. from the spot And
it was halfpast one in the morning when the
had worked and three again
their respective couches. They are but
conscious samples of the summer enjoyment
hunting lot.
Even Seamen Get Seasick.
"SEAFARINe men often suffer from seasick-
ness" said retired navy officer. 81 used to
have a touch of it every voyage. Not the
and sometimes deathly ill
ness of the landsmen, but decidedly uncom-
Portable, nevertheless. 1t usually lasted q
day with me-sometimes only few hours.
1t would repeat itself as soon as we left next
port The only time I ever missed il was
when we were chasing a Confederate block
ade runner. I got SO excited that forgot
all about it. Curiously enough, when the
excitement was all over felt a tinge Of it as
usual
"It is the bilious temperament. I've been
80 humiliated over it that I could shed
tears. No, wouldn't dare go off the coast
fishing, because know "a be sick; There
though the best precaution against a vio-
lent attack is to go without eating or drink
ing on the day you sail Most people invite
seasickness by overlooking the stomach
with their friends just before sailing"
Not Used to Big Buildings.
THE big office buildings down town are
quite frequently the scene of humorous
episodes The other day citizen of West
ern Pennsylvania stepped into the main
entrance of Aldrich court and asked man
in uniform for the proprietor"
"W-h-at?'' inquired the sub-assistant
81 want to see the proprietor" said the
stalwart Pennsylvania.
"The proprietor of what2"
''The placemthis building-the man who |
occupies it, This is ,45 Broadway" \
''There are 500 men who occupy this build |
ing" said the young man in uniform.
SWell, II want to see-here it is" pulling |
a slip of newspaper from his pocketbook, Il |
want to see the man who put this piece in |
The paper"
It was the advertisement of q tenant ON |
the ninth floor. The man was promptly |
sent up. |
Cupid on the Bridges.
TIE front stoop offers the customary facil- !
ties for courtship and among the young
people of Brooklyn the front stoop is pop
1lar summer institution. The Brooklyn |
Bridge is bridge of sighs. 1t is the high |
bridges over the Central tracks in upper |
New York, however, that are most ardently |
worked for this purpose, and Chauncey
Depew possesses the entire sympathy of the |
young people of that neighborhood. An |
evening stroll that takes the observer over
one of these bridges will show dozens of |