The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1896-05-26


hour last evening the same instrument
showed 81 degrees. Ali day the soda
| fountains did a big business in ice cream
| soda and phosphates and the saloon men
| did a thriving trade in lager. The ice
man was not much In evidence. He Is
| yet young he had placed his product
| whore 1t would do the most good-and
! wisely, for thousands smacked lips over
| cooling drinks yesterday.
Yes, 1t was hot. But that means that
! 1t was hot only for Los Angeles, and
IA hot wave anywhere east of the Rock
| les, the torridity experienced was but
comparative and tolerable
Why, said an eastern man-for there
are a number of him left-it's hot; of
course 1t Is, but myths is nothing!
Now, Chicago is as free from intolerabiy
hot weather as any place east, and yet
let the thermometer there show 80 or 50
degrees and every one Is wilted. st.
Louis is more so; so is Cincinnati. In
New York SO or So degrees Is enough
to make life a burden, and in Boston
the same degree of heat empties the
town of all who can get away, but here
well, we experience a little discom-
fort. perhaps. A stand-hp collar grows
weary of its job; a face gets trifle
flushed; a handkerchief is pressed into
duty as a mop for the gathering per-
spiration, and that is about all. This
weather means just little physical dis
comfort, and that only. Go east for n
month or so and you sons of the golden
west will learn to appreciate one of your
greatest attractions-your incompar-
able weather. You'll Join me in n
punch?
The weather man is having his first
inning this summer. and says we will
have to stand another day of 1t. at least.
STRAWS SHOW THE WIND
This is worse than the day we
dumped the colonel" remarked Walter
f. Parker, between the sips of a mint
julip.
Yes, and worse than it was when
Theodore Bauer secured his Horseshoe
saloon license while 1 was east last
year" chimed In the mayor, who was
drinking lemonade.
1t reminds me of the time when as a.
boy l bathed In the East river back in
New York" remarked Col. Freeman G.
iced. between sips of Reisling punch.
ITS fearful, this weather, and IL 1T
keeps up until then I'm out of it for
mayor In December" whispered Coun-
Gilman +. $. Munson, breathing heavily
INTO the gauzy meshes of a milk punch.
Here, too" softly gurgled Council
man NJ. p Snyder through ginger ale
straw which he was utilizing as a tele-
phone.
Ditto" remarked Councilmen Pes
sell and Kingery, who We're saving
wood.
Fiji 'em up again. Mr. Barkeep," said
the crowd many time.
And he did.
The hottest day I ever felt" was
Sheriff Burrs perspiring comment
reminds me of San Fernando, only
the breeze Is missing
TOO hot to even express an opinion
everybody ought to go to the seashore
and shut up shop" was Under Sheriff
Clements opinion.
"Mucho caliente." was all that Super
visor James Hanley had to remark in
that choice Spanish for which he is
famous, as he kept his palmleaf indus
triously waving
1t hard on us people with whiskers.
but then" the balance of the sentence
was lost as Supervisor Hay rushed off
To find some place where the breezes
We're blowing.
Too hot to talk; the warmest ever
saw; can't even think" and Assistant
city Attorney Williams dropped into a
chair to recuperate
'oh. for stein" was the pious ciacu-
alton of Deputy District Attorney Nc
Comas, as he made for the elevator, pre-
sumahly To gather in refreshment
Lost on the Streets
A lost girl named Cora Glazier was
found by Sergt. Morton of the police