The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1892-07-30
A Chicago Summer Day.

A Chicago Summer Day.
We take from the Inter- Ocean this descrip-
ton OF what was going on in the Lake Mich
igan summer resort on Tuesday last:
through tho day the eongs Of the hurryns patrol
wagons sounded through the streets In many in.
stances tho braz.n ringing wass death knel When the
officers arrived the place of CALI rigid form on tho
sid. walk. surrounded by frightened spectators. an.
rounced that some poor victim was beyond human aid.
at was day Of terror.
"ons could no. a small group gathered ezctedly
at some street corner but he feared that its centre was
the PROSTATE form fellow being passing to the
treat hereafter.
ony too frequently tho fear was verified. The mum.
Der from sunstroks yesterday without prec
edent in Chicago.
THE heat during the afternoon was almost unbeara-
bio 1t Nigh. be fol, In thick. warm. ponderous gusts
a. II It was the breath OF deahdeang sirocco There
was danger in being abroad"
To add to tho comfort OF the day. the
celebrated Mr.. YERKEs's cable system broke
down. or course there was scarcity OF
water. In some parts OF the city persons
who had not been thoughtful enough to fill
their boilers or bath tubs the night before.
were unable to wash their hands and faces
on Tuesday morning. To be sure washing
is n labor lost In Chicago.
The water wouldn't run in tho upper
stories. Tho Chicago water being what 1t
ls. perhaps the city Is most hcnlthful when
the ordinary water famine Ia greatest
Our usually clipper contemporary. the
Chicago NeTs- Record. wilted and wept, and
confessed that foul drinking water and
unsanitary surroundings sap the strength
OF the people" And speaking of Chicago's
foul drinking water and unsunitary sur
| roundings. persons who have not taken out
life insurance policy. yet intend to take
| in the Fair, may be interested in this little
excerpt from tho same journal:
"Ths typhoid fever patients are dying at tho hos,
pnl at the steady rate OF 1--WE day AMI this may con.
tinue for time there 100 under treat
ment and coming each day. Every bed In the
Institution taken yesterday. The typhoid victims
dead body barely reaches the before his cot is
in readiness for new patient. The physicians at the
hospital expect this long the weather
and the water supply remain they are at present.
And then tho Ncns reporter. with
chucklo that seems absolutely horrible
under the circumstances. adds that "the
new morgue beat the record yesterday"
1t is not often that n Chicago smell so
towers over that conglomerate and cosmo-
poitan stencil which is Chicago that any
body in the town can detect the individual
ty. and reproach the prominence Of that
malodor. But even through the reek and
fume of Tuesday. tho Chicago Times COM
planned OF the practice Of dumping gar
bage in the Twcnty-sxth ward" and de-
clared that Tho district is made offensive
to eye and nostril. and cannot but become
menace to health
| We have often wondered where the Chi
cago people went during the riots OF the
| mercury. Eggs boil as soon as dropped
into the lake on such days as Tuesday. yet
itseems that tho people go to tho shores
OF the lake, and some innocents from parts
of the haysecds even go down upon that
mephitic mere in excursion steamers: but
| the Chicago newspapers frankly admit that
it was just rs hot there as anywhere else in
the city. The poor unfortunates who
thronged to tho lake went there
not for GOODNESS. but to watch the
sky and wait and hope for rain. This is
really one Of the most touching incidents
which we have heard Of From A. NJ. I'M
til midnight the water will not run in their
houses. and when it does they drink it ut
their peril So they go to the shores OF
Lake Michigan and strain their eyes for
the opening OF tho windows OF heaven. and
II a few drops fall on their baked lips and
cracking heads. they are happier than they
are used to being. 1t didn't rain on Tues
day. We are sorry to say. and tho thirsty
multitude waited in vain. But what OF 1t
1.-THE wretch. condemned with life to part
| Still still. on hope relies"
Chicago has hope and tho most hopeless
hope must be swecter than her sewage
tainted drinking water. undrlnkable, un-
speal1able. deadly. She hopes for rain, and
. tries to close her ears to the lugubrious
changing OF the ambulance bells. And one
other hope she has. She gets up early in
the hope that little water for domestic
use may be had: but cries the Chicago
Tribune very mournfully. 1.-The unusual
early demand rendered the small early sup.
ply unworthy Of consideration" How
would sitting up all night do The small
and early water parties are clearly failure
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