Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1894-07-24
OUR NEW YORK LETTER.
New York, July 18th, "a.


off from far Western mail. | have
been working assiduously to keep
down panic threatened by the nom
arrival of the APPEAL. | know not
when this letter may reach you, but
| desire that upon receipt of it you
forward copies of your publication at
once, as | cannot keep the mob in
check mnch longer.
| trust that my enforced silence
has not reduced your subscription
list over three or four thousand a
day, but, as the fault is not mine,
you must sue the roads or the strik-
ers if your loss has been over a hun
dred thousand.
The daily press here subsisted on
Che strike, and tried hard to make it
local sensation for some time. We
were threatened with every conceiv-
able evil from starvation to invasion.
Everything was going to be cut off
excepting air " hich we get from the
Atlantic. The great dailIes got out
extras at all hours of the day and
night, raking III coppers at great
rate, even the newsboys caught the
notion and charged cents for papers
which had price one cent printed
right on their very headlines. The
people forget everything else, except
ing the intolerable heat of this place.
Business, however, went on. Every
body hustled around, everybody
kept on eating although the
supply was daily cut off by the
press and excepting 70 mail, there
were no apparent chan ges.
This town has been desererd by
all who could get away. There are
no people here except myself and a
million other fellow sufferers who are
too proud to desert the works when
we are most needed. | have heard
that Newport, Long Branch, Sarato-
ga, etc, are crowded with those who
seek to daily with cooling breezes
and ocean ripples, but | have not
.aken time to investigate the report,
Lie was happy here once, but now
Ward McAllister has gone to Europe
and some of us pine away each day,
Those of us who do not pine, get
prostated by the sun or struck by
l prefer to pine-it isn't
so harsh or sudden.
The Zirn mine Is doing we'll this
season. The two past weeks the
mine has yielded $500 and Zirn ex-
poets to double the amount this
week. Mr.. Otto Schultz and Mr..
Zirn are to be congratulated. on their
Speaking of lightning reminds me
of an obituary. Jones said: "A
man stepped to his back door and the
lightning struck him on his bald
head. Smith said: WAS that be-
cause death loves a shining mark"
jones said: mo; it was because
Nature abhors a vacuum" Moral
Go to Steinmetzs drug store for his
new hair restorer.
People here who Try to sleep, hold
a cake of ice in one hand and fan
in the other. | said try to sleep"
you notice, The only comfortable
thing in town is dead lobster,
frozen in an artificial iceberg, Ice
bergs are said to attain great height
in the Polar seas, but you ought to
see how high they come here. A
party of economists have gone to the
Arctic regions to save money.
The working Italians and other
people of their ilk have shed many
garments and are doing their best to
keep cool. Their children seem to
endure the atmosphere very welt.
They are all barefooted and bare
armed, their dresses being especially
designed for torrid days. The styles
adopted are said to be daily hints
from Paris, clipped from the Herald,
but some CT us don't believe it.
One of the seasons delicasies is
sliced watermelon Oh ice at one cent
a slice. The slices are sold by enter
prising Dagos who have the art of
carving down very fine. The slices
are really just thin veneerings,
through which one could almost read
a paper. by cutting melon thus
iudiciously~it may be made to reach
many people, ana, at the copper per
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