The daily morning journal and courier., 1894-07-27
DURING MIDSUMMER HEAT.
LIFE IN NEW HAVEN AND HOW THE
 ISrESsE HEAT IS BORNE.

ISrESsE HEAT IS BORNE.
 The Various Ways That People Seek Rec
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 The midsummer heat and dullness may now sc said to bs at its height. The chief aim and object of people Is to keep cool, and all who own cottages or are able to spend the summer at some one of the big summer hotels have left the city. and are now enjoying either the whirl of fashionable life at Saratoga or some of the New Jersey shore re- sorts. or passing the days in quiet and coolness in cottage by the sea. One policeman says that on his beat alone there are eighty-two vacant houses whose occupants are away for inc sum mer. Those who are not able to leave the city for the summer take advantage of the numerous excursions which go to various points of interest on the Sound, while large crowds daily go to Pico and Pcwson Parks. or enjoy the sea breeXes at Sayin Rock cr Wood mont 'kc larer place having just re. centiy become easy of access by the building of the new railroad.
 It Is safe to estimate. however, that some seventy-five thousand rcople are still left in the city. who will stay by the stuff" and keep the wheels of the municipality in motion until those more fortunate shall have returned in the fall to take up their accustomed tasks. But notwithstanding all the migratious to neighboring hamlets. Chapel and Church streets at any hour of the af- ternoon, and until ten o'clock In tie evening, are crowded with people, some glad to escape even for time from the heat of indoors. and others on business bound.
 The general verdict on the weather yesterday, as on several previous occa- sions this summer, was that the day was scorcher. True, the weather re- ports say that the thermometer has stood higher by several degrees at diff ferent times this summer. but people noticed the heat more on account of the excessive humidity.
 Be this as 1t may, many people yester- day said they had not been affected as much by the heat before this sea- son. People of all classes and condi- tions come on the street dressed in only the lightest and coolest clothing. But hot as the weather may get, and in or{ nf ha nhcnrvor'c sive humidity, New Haven Is lucky in one particular, and that is its situation on the Sound and its abundance of shade trees. There is scarcely an hour of the day in which there is not pleas ant breeze blowing in from the water. So that it is safe to say that New Ha- veners do not appreciate what people in some inland towns have to suffer where there is scarcely 8 breath of afr stirring on hot summer days.
 New Haven, too, is fortunate in hav- ing so many pleasant parks, summer resorts and places of interest Lear by, to which access Is made most easy by the electric and horse railway systems. Besides the shore resorts above alluded to, East and, West Rock Parks afford most excellent places to spend sum- mers afternoon, while in the cool of the evening many elegant 'equirages are seen passing over lhe English and Farnam drives on East Rock, or slowly winding up the new drive to Judges Cave on West Rock.
 There are number ot places in New Haven where ale and beer is sold. The places do a hustling business during these hot days. They are patroniZed by all sorts of people. from the rich man, who drinks his cooling draught from thin and aristocratic glass tum- bler at "Heub's'' or Traeger's, to the Italian who has dressed six hundred bricks under the broiling sun at the rate of seventy-Gve cents per thousand, being content tn earn simply his beer, bread and tobacco, and eagerly swal- lows his liquil refreshment from a deep schooner holding pint, at some 3s1 sums eul uI uooeIs HlIIp 'lou these men seem to get as much enjoy ment out of their three cents worth of beer as many others do from more ex- pensive beverages. With some of these fellows there are two things which have great weight in buying glass of beer, viz: the length, depth and thick ness of the schooners and the amount and variety of free lunch. For many may not know that many men out of work, with no money and with nothing to do but 'kill time," seldom eat at any other counter but that of the free lunch" in the saloon.
 With many of the tonier saloons the hot weather makes no difference, ard the same sized glass is presented to the customers both winter and summer. When one gets out into the manufac- turing portions of the city, glass hold ing fully pint of beer is sold for five cents, and in some places for less, while at one place schooner" holding fully . quart of beer is given. The Germans, of course, are the greatest beer drink CTS, and any society that is running a picnic or "fest" during these hot days derives lucrative income from the beer sold. One German said that at crowded picnic, fully one hundred and n<4.x ~.locoac oF hoov. ooy,11 he x7 7,,o 1ry,,