New-York tribune., 1900-07-22
HOT WEATHER ENTERPRISE.
DEVICES OF STREET MERCHANTS AND
OTHERS TO ATTRACT PATRONAGE.

DEVICES OF STREET MERCHANTS AND
OTHERS TO ATTRACT PATRONAGE.
The warm wave of last week, while it had a
depressing influence stimulated some people in
their efforts to catch the precious penny. A
bootblack near the Grand Central Station who
has already become conspicuous in his line of
business because of his enterprise in placing
electric lights over his street chairs for use at
night and awnings for the comfort of his patrons
during the hot day hours, had an electric fan
mounted near his row of chairs last week and
announced to his regular customers that his
was the first outdoor electric fan lin the boot
black business in New-York- TT costs $12 for
the machine" ne said, and about s. month
to maka de wind but we gotta to have
fypaper pedler whose commercial territory
includes GTand-st. and the tenement house dis
trict near that thoroughfare attracted much
attention by his peculiar makeup on Wednes-
day, when all New-York sweltered and when the
festive tenement house fly did it's share toward
making life a burden. He wore high silk hat
covered with fypaper to which thousands of the
insects had been attracted. and his basket, which
he carried on one arm, was also decorated with
streamers of well covered hypaper On his back
he carried a pIacard rudely Iettered: There's
sCme flies me-
The man who sells from a BOwery stand q
pale yellow fluid which smells like bad hairoil
and is known orange lemonade did a land
office business during the hot SPELL but he was
evidently not a friend of Mayor Van Wyck
his partners in the cooling business, for he sup
piled the place of the rapidly vanishing ice with
chunks of glass which looked the part, if
they had no cooling effect on the beverage.
There was probably no warmer place in all
New-York at o'clock on Tuesday and Wednes-
day than the waiting room of the New-York.
Ne Railroad n
Central Station. The newsboys on the street
made the best of the situation, and some of them
disposed Of many fans. one little wag yelled:
You'll roast in dere-dey won't let yer out till
yer dead-take fan along" and many passen-
gers did.
A with hose became a successful COM
petitor for first place in the esteem of a lot OF
children in one of the upper East Side streets,
The hOkey pOkey had established his head
quarters opposite stable and the children were
hockng around him anxious to give up their
money, when man who had been washing
carriage turned the water on the group of chill
dren. They seemed to enjoy the impromptu
shower bath; other children who saw the per-
fCrmance from distance joined the crowd and
Eot their share of the water, and in the excite
ment the hokey pokey man moved away dis
gusted.
The ice-cream sandwich man, who sells quat-
ter inch layers of alleged ice-cream between tiny
slabs of water waters, did big business during
the hot spell. His field of operation within
the district inhabited by the Russians and his
pushcart was elahorately decorated with signs
in Hebrew characters. He made the sandwiches
quickly in a tin mould, and was kept busy
that he could not make change, but insisted on
receiving the actual price for each ice-cream
sandwich-one cent.