News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1901-07-17
QUAKER CITY OUIRKS.


general Philadelphia passed through |
a terrible ten days seige ofhot wealth
er embracing the last three days of
June and the first week of July. For |
that time the average temperature |
was slightly above 90, and 1902 in
the shade was the highest. Within
one week there were close to twelve
hundred heat prostrations in the
city, which did not result in death.
Within that one week there occurred
eight hundred and fifty seven deaths,
about two hundred and fifty being
from heat stroke direct. The numer-
GUS hospitals we're rushed and crowd
ed, while ambulance and police pa
troll crews were much over-worked.
The Pennsylvania Hospital, which
has some lawn space, set up tents on
the grounds, attached hose, with lawn
sprinkler nozzle, to the ridge pole of
the tent allowing q constant shower
over the sides. Cots with rubber
blankets and quantities of ice were
made ready inside the tents. This
and other hospitals have very success
fully used new treatment for prostra-
tion by heat, which consists of iniec
ting about a quart of salt water into
the veins of the victim. 1t may well
be noted that the city's official tenn
perature, high as it has been, was not
up to the heat of the street, where
sweltering humanity passed in the in
tensifed heat by way OF radiation
from the walks and pavements. The
official thermometer is in the shade
up about two hundred feet from the
level in the government building,
where radiated heat does not effect
and where air is on the move. Fully
one thousand horses were knocked
out by the heat and this, in spite of
the fact that the great bulk of horses
seen on the street this summer are
wearing straw hats of the style COM
monty worn by sea bathers, with the
addition or subtraction Of holes for
the ears.
Coming as it did in the midst of the
excessive heat, the glorious Fourth
was the most quiet yet seen here and
yet young and old America celebrat-
ed as is evidenced by the fact that
nearly two hundred accident cases
were treated at the hospital on that
day. Unless lock jaw gets inits deadly
work there were no fatal cases. l had
the somewhat doubtful pleasure, on
account of the boiling sun, of stand
ing leaning against old Independent
Hall itself, seemingly the very birth
place of this day we celebrate, and
listening to an grafton by His Excel
ency WI Ting Fang, China's minister
at Washington, who is scholar and
a gentleman, in spite of some of the
kickers who howled themselves hoarse
over the inviting of such dreadful
barbarian to deliver Philadelphia's
Fourth of July grafton. That he is
a better student of American history
than many of us was plain to be seen.
No doubtmuch of this city corrupt
jobbery and it's street franchise grab
has come to your eye through the
public print. Letme tell you it is not
exaggerated. A most unusual steal
has just been consumated in the
hastily legislated-midnightly sane
toned by the Governor, wildly rushed
by select and common councils and
again midnightly sanctioned by the
Mayor of street railway franchises
free, unquestioned, unconditional
and almost unknown to the gang OF
corrupt politicians holding down
every place under the city admins
tration. and ofwhom the mayor him
self is the chief. Not a dollar in
money, not a yard of street paving,
not safe guard OF any sort comes
to the city in return for this, although
Mr.. John Wanamaker has twice of
fered to pay the city of Philadelphia
$2,5O0,OOO, 1.-TWO million five hun
dred thousand dollars) and pay the
grabbers an additional $500,000 for
their plumber. His offer was a bona
fde one and he deposited ten per cent
OF the total amount as a guarantee
OF good faith. No acceptance of the Of
fer has been forthcoming and itlooks
decidedly as though the gang" had
been put in "hole," for it is evident
enough that thsy consider their steal
worth more than three millions to
the city and to themselves whereas it
all came to them without the expendi-
ture OF a penny outside of the
doodle" it took to grease the way
through state and city legislation.
But all this and the turning down of
an honest, fearless District Attorney
who was a dangerous thorn in the
side of the machine" and the install
ing of new, unknown and untried
candidate In his stead, accompanied
by the bare.faced declaration, openly
made, that eve must have a District
Attorney whom we can control, has
aroused the better element in the Re-
publican party in Philadelphia as
never before. A great mass meeting
has been held toprotect against such
lniquity, and to organize for cam
paign to the death against jobbery
and robbery carried on under the
guise of the regular organization
the stalwart Republican etc., or in
other words, by the rule and over
rule spirit of political knavery, the
soul and essence of "Quayism. This
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