Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1901-08-08
HORRORS OF TORRID HEAT.
How the Poor Suffer From a Hot
Wave in a Great City.
The Scorching Rays Of Old Sol During
the Day Comfortless Couches ut
Night - Sleep Sought on Roofs
and in the Streets.

Summer and the torment of unendura bio
heat have both come to the dwellers IN the
tenements of New York. Many bestow
pity upon those whom fortune ubligos 10
face the rigors of winter i'm the slums,
but the hardships of cold are as nothing
to the horrors of midsummer heat, says
the Brooklyn Eagle. 1t is always posi-
BILE to get warm. 1t is frequently mpossi-
hle to become cool, and. Tor the tenement
jewellers at least, it is absolutely hopeless
to try to attain to either continued cool
ness or to that amount of comfort Whi h
will permit sleep.
Ask one of those who spend their ives in
the crowded east side streets of New York
which is the harder to bear summer or
winter? However AFFECT may he the poV-
-LuAuI oul p9uonsoub uosL7d oQl 10 APO
liable response Will be that the winter is
preferred to the summer Crowdiug in
cold weather may produce smallpox as
we'll as warmth, but even that alternative
is preferred to the season winch makes #
each tenement a house of torment, OF
every fctid room chamber of slceulCss
horror.
Kipling writing of the city of calcutta
during the time of neat, called it The CITY
of Dreadful Night" lie drew tho hor ors
Of night in that city as he alone can, but,
even the Sufferings of those in the midst
those of tho LOST Iorfon who livo-r>ist-in
the double-decker teucmcnts of Greater
New York.
Is it to he wondered that the man who
has suout his dav Under those conditions 10
unable To suuport the sufrering- thai h, at.
crowded quarters and insufficient Vcutilu-
ton force upon him at night? Screens are
scarce and mosquitoes are many ON the
East side. In the open air there is mo- pro-
tection from, mo i1-oct nlao,o Iut n If
has to be endured tro tarement noonI,
prcfcr to suffrr urior tho .l,, r,tror thon
Under the rouf What tho nlfn house ions
of india are to the unoplo of ufnd,,stan
tho balconies Of the ron fire escnpcs are
In those who live an fin. i,nst sijo Tho
family whose rooms lool; ont an the fire cs
cane is ou,tod MS hirbcr unto,vn 0at
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