Evening journal., 1892-08-09
ANOTHER HEATED TERM
The Second Warm Wave of
the Season Visits Here.
ALL HEAVY DRINKS ABANDONED

NhAt AfAAiA' y A'A'f''f
The mercary Dubbed up serenely again |
this morning and not stopped on its |
grand rush for the top of the thermom |
eter at an early hour this afternoon |
It started at so degrees at day break this
morning and continued in its up
ward course until o'clock this |
afternoon. All of the breeze of yester-
day had gone and for three hours the
atmosphere was close and the suns rays
were coming down upon the streets bak-
ing the earth and causing the bricks and
payements TO become as hot as the out
side of an oven.
The hottest part of the day was about
. o'clock this afternoon and the Their
mometer was the highest at
that time. The worlSmen employed in
paving West Fourth street felt
the heat much and had TO stop work fire.
quently TO rest in the shade.
There was a light breeze going in the
Eighth street and West End parks
and many weary women with children
sought refuge from the heat in these
The following is the record Of the Their
mometer at different parts Of the day.
Baynard's. Belts. Beetem's
3 "a. m.............. 50 Digs 50 Digs. 81 Digs
2 D. m.,............ rs Digs. "a Digs. "a dgs
With the advent of this second
heated term, the demand for ice,
soft drinks, ice cream and frozen
refreshments increases and the ice
men are compelled TO do double duty
Every milk shake or mineral
water establishment in the city is now
kept busy day and night, and usual
coffee and tea, served in a
boiling hot state at the dinner and sup
per tables, have been neglected and the
glass of ice tea or the historic lemonade
take their places
In comparing the number of deaths
during the hot spell with those of pre-
vious hot spells in 1872, 1878, and 1881
the physicians of the New York
City Board of Health give a great
deal of the credit for the reduc-
tiOn in the number of deaths from
sunstroxe and heat to the improvement
i'm the drinking habits of the people
They say that it used TO be common for
men TO drink hard liquor right along
during the heat of the summer, but now
the mass of New Workers abstain almost
entirely from the stronger alcoholic bev-
erages when the thermometer is over
ninety. Il used to be that large pro.
portion of the men who were brought TO
the hospitals Frustrated from heat or
sunstroke were also more or less intoxi-
Gated, a complication that made their
cases great deal worse.
1T has been noticeable,this summer that
the number of drunken men in the
streets and in the squares" says the New
York Sun lis not so large even as at
other times of the year, and il does not
compare with the experience of previous
hot spells In only small proportion
of cases have the hospital surgeons found
the effects of the heat complicated with
drunkenness. The majority of the cases
have been of men at work where they
were exposed to the direct rays Of the
sun or who were in a weakened condition
Of body.
Lighter Beverages did il.
This favorable change is to a great
extent due to the alteration of the char
acter Of the modern saloon and the great
increase in the use of soft drinks Il
requires no special license TO open place
TO sell soda water, mineral waters, and
cigars, and the cost of soda water
stand and its supplies is so small that
almost aevery drug store, candy shop,
small grocery shop and similar places
have made one a part of their plant A
walk through the tenement house dis
trict of the east side shows that for
blocks along the principal streets there
are more soda water stands than saloons
Competition has brought the price of
soda water down to two and three cents
and the stands have as many customers
as some of the saloons with their FIVE
cent beer.
No More Cocktails and Cobblers.
ut may be TO satisfy the demands Of
their customers and to prevent the soft
stuff places from drawing away their
trade that { he saloon-keepcrs are going
into the selling of mild drinks a great
deal more than they used TO- Instead of
the signs containing a long list of mixed
drinks which, during former hot spells,
the saloon keepers would hang out of
their places 10 attract customers, they
now advertise various kinds OF light
beers and of soft-stuif That time may
come when the saloon-keepers following
the examples of the drug shop men, who
run little bar in the back room and a
big soda water fountain in the front
room, will put up soda water fountains
next the cigar stand, at which their
customers can get drinks with any per
centage of alcohol that they wish.
Profit in This summers Drinks.
The old summer mixed drink trade has
almost died out The artist bartenders
of former days, who would get up mys-
teriously favored compositions which
tasted so cool that a man was inclined TO
keep on taking them TO prevent the in
creased hot feeling if he did not, have
given place TO men who simply draw
liquids and put them on the bar. The
mixed drinks used this summer are
usually Rhine wine and seltzer, vichy
and milk cheap wine and chopped ice in
tumbler, and lemonade with dash of
whiskey or gin to flavor il.
One powerful motive in inducing saloon
keepers TO help along the tendency TO
drink soft stuff is the profit there is in
it. The usual charge for sarsaparilla
lemonade, root beer, ginger ale, vichy
and milk and other drinks without any
alcohol at all in them, is 10 or IS cents
when they are handed over the bar
Soda water does not cost any more than
the poorest beer, and it can be made
more cheaply than the good beer Il is
little more difficult TO handle and bar
tender can more quickly learn TO draw
soda water well than 20 draw beer skill
fully. saloon keeper does not follow
| his business because he would rather sell