Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1900-07-28

These personages Immediately went to the
right people," with the result that this
police captain was notified by the bosses
that he was a whole lot too observant to
successfully stick at the head of the Coney
Island police. Last week he was sum-
marly relieved of the command down
there. and buried at one of the farm
precincts over on Staten Island. a captain
was installed in his place who publicly
boosted not Ions ago, when the evil doings
In mis- Brooklyn precinct were pointed out
to him by committee OF citizens. that
"he was blind in one eye and couldn't see
much out OF the other one
No matter how torrid Sunday during
a hot spell may be. the New Yorker who Is
capable of discriminating in these matters
prefers to remain tightly shut Ut in his
house or his room to mixing in with the
hordes who frantically strive to reach the
resorts on the day of rest. An excursion
on the average New York steamboat on
Sunday is an affair TO remember, and
therefore to shun. through life 1t is a
saturnal!a of the very lowest, beeriest or
der. The trolley cars are impossible on
the resorts. An eight-by-ten room right
under tin roof. with temperature Of 100
and incalculable humidity, Were better than
to attempt any of these means of escape
on Sunday in New York.
This fact has led to the re-establishment
of very old form of Sunday passing
namely, the family picnic. The best people
in town among the stay-at-homes are now
enjoying their family picnics on Sunday.
They take their lunch baskets along seek
shaded spots up in Westchester county
generally near the sound-and get twenty
times the pleasure out OF that method OF
putting in the day that they possibly could
extract from a wild scramble toward one of
the jammed and disorderly beach resorts.
Cooled by Liquid Air.
The rathskellar a European institution,
which, however singularly enough, took
root in the large cities of the west in this
country long before 1t got foothold in
New York IS coming in for a good deal of
the hot weather patronage of New Workers
of both sexes. There are many Of them.
ornately and often garishly fitted up, over
here now, and when the mercury is boiling
in the bulb on a torrid night ii is hard to
get seat at the tables. Many of these
newly started rathskelldrs are cooled by
liquid air. One feels positively chilled after
sitting in one of them for half an hour or
so, but upon emerging into the sultry heat
the conclusion is quickly reached that the
game isn't worth the candle, for the heat
then seems intolerable. If one could go
about wrapped in nimbus of liquid air
all the time II would be all right, but under
present conditions the places cooled by
liquid air are 10 be stunned on account of
the after effects.
The suicide records in New York city
during prolonged spell of hot weather are
always prOdigiously fattened. All sorts and
conditions of men and women kill them
selves for reasons not obvious. but solely
according to the medical mems view OF the
matter, because of the heat and humidity.
The humidity, 1t seems, has more to do
with the depressed state Of mind of the
would-be suicides than the heat. The cor
oner states that about sixty per cent of the
men and women who killed themselves in
New York last week seemed to be in such
circumstances, and surrounded by such in
fiuences. that they had no occasion whatso-
ever to make away with themselves and
be unhesitatingly advances heat depres
sion" as the only possible reason why these
morbid persons decided to try another
world. Many of the suicides. in fact. left
notes simpy stating that they were tired
of life
Nor could any reasonable man or woman
who was compelled to spend all of last
week in New York particularly blame them
for being tired Of life" C L. C