Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-04-26
WINTER AND SUMMER
New York Enjoys No Spring
or Fall.
CHANGES ARE SUDDEN
GREAT CONTRAST BETWEEN
THERE AND THIS CITY.
Press Agent Gulls the Public About
an Alleged Washington
Society Girl.
CHANGES ARE SUDDEN


Society Girl.
Special Correspondence Of The Evening Star.
NEW YORK. April "a. IoJ2.
| New York is a city of Two consecutive
seasons, winter and summer. There is lit
| tie or no autumn here. and no spring worth
mentioning. In New York winter pops
| right into the lap of summer, like a rough
and-tumble boy hopping into the lap of his
| nursemad, and summer gives way to winter
with so little protest as to make the d.
| viding line almost inappreciable. If tangible
at all There is no graceful gliding and
| dovetailing of seasons such as makes the
climate of Washington genial and low
able. Right now, while the trees of Wash
| ington are virtually in their full yerdure,
the Towering shrubs all in blossom. the
fruit trees in the back yards blooming and
the lilacs just on the point of shedding
| their fragrance, there is scarcely sign Of
| spring in New York Men are going about
| shtvering in their heavy winter overcoats
| and women haven't even thought of dis
| carding their furs. The man In New York
with the light top coat looks as If he were
| perishing from the raw, penetrating winds
at this season. when the men down In
| Washington are bringing out their light
| spring suits and beginning to figure on neg
| lige shirts. belts and that sort Of gear. Ii
| is common enough to see ulsters on the
| streets of New York right up to the 10Th OF
| May.
Last spring II rained steadily In and
| around New York for all Of six weeks. and
! during the month Of April there were, all
| told. only thirty-four hours of sunshine
| There has been a suffciency of sunshine
| during this passing April but il has been
| of that pale, wan. cherries sort to which
| winter, and the winds have been OF dis
| heartening. marrow-chilling kind. The sap
has scarcely yet begun to rise in the trees
| in the parks of New York. and only the
| early willows have thus far put forth few
faint signs of verdure.
Cherries Central Park.
A view Of Central Park from one of the
| L trains makes one think of the middle OF
! winter out around Chevy Chase way-and
the exiled Washngtonan can imagine the
| fragrances OF the lusty spring out around
| Chevy Case way today. The verdure and
blossoming begin to show over here all in
| one day. in a characteristic hurry, as II
| Nature herself had in somewise adopted
! the hustling. reckless habit of the people
| of the town. From a day of chill, drear
| rawness. day blown upon by searching
| winds that seem to have descended straight
| from Labrador. comes, almost as an In
| variable rule, a sizzling summer day to
| New York. upon which men and women
| are Frustrated upon the streets and horses
totter along as II every step might be their
| last. The worst spell of heat experienced
| in New York last year followed right upon
| the heels of the long. dreary period of in
| cessant rains. and it is a literal fact that
| outcasts were found dying In the streets
| from exposure to the cold while others
! were picked up sunstruCk. all within the
| space of single week.
| When summer Is through with its fell
work in New York-and let mott the home
| staying Washingtonian imagine for soli-
tary instant that 1t isn't just hot in
New York during the summer 1t is In
the capital-winter is right behind to push
| her over the verge. There are rarely any
of those fine. blue-hazy. mellow. blood
! warming days of autumn such make
| Washington the most dangerously lovely
! spot in America when summer has depart
| ed. In New York one takes off his serge
suit and dons his heavy overcoat and does
| the same in a hurry If he has any whole
| some fear of pneumonia and kindred ills.
| Summer doesn't stop to make her adieus
| to this population. She simply picks up
| her doll-rags and runs away, to put IL.
thus piling the suffering to the already
| heat-weakened poor who haven't had the
| forethought. not TO speak of the means. to
| prepare for the sudden arrival of raw
| weather
The Season for Ice.
In New York the folks all begin to take
ice on the one day and they cease taking it
likewise all In one day. They never have
to put finger to lip and cogitate as to when
to begin taking it or when to leave off TAX
| ing 1t.
| ! was talking a day or ago with a
| New York congressman who had Just drop
ped over here from Washington.
How does it look down there in the lit
tie old town. the congressman was asked
| How does 1t look?' he repeated draw
ing his heavy overcoat collar up around his
ears and shivering In the cold blast of the
station Say. did you ever see that
| f1owery picture of Alma Tadema's repre-
| sentng a garden on the Mediterranean with
| a lot of loosely ROBBED young girls scattered
| around in it? Well that's the way Wash
ington looks right now-br-r-r-r!-and I'm
| going to be right back there drinking it in
tomorrow morning If live that long"
| Most Of the great merchants of New York
unhesitatingly declare that for many years
spring clothing and millinery for the local
| trade. and many Of the great department
stores make the straight jump from the
! display of the fag-end of winter goods to
| their exhibition Of summer materials. CIV
| ing the essentially spring raiment the COM
plete go-bY.
Alleged Washington Society Girls.
Most of those famous ana brilliant So
ciety women belonging to the oldest and
most venerated families of the District of
Columbia" about whom so much was pub
lished in the New York papers at the out
| set of the theatrical season, when they
came over here. singly and in pairs and
! Joined the various sextets and octets of the
| extravaganza companies, have contrived to
| keep their personalities in the public eve,
| with the aid Of adroit press agents but
| one of these young women from Washing
ton rather overdid the thing the other day
| When this young woman arrived here and,
| on the strength Of q doll-like countenance
eontrived to break into one of the picture
| HATED punches OF fashy-looking young
! persons performing at one OF the extrava-
| ganza theaters. her press agent exploited
her wit and tact as one of the reigning
bellies of the innermost set of Washington
| society,"" mentioned her grandfather as be-
Ing the boon companion Of Henry Clay,
| Daniel Webster and other eminent states
| men of a past generation" and In general
gave the New York newspaper reading pub
| lie, always very gullible. the impression
| that the young woman was leaving riches
and luxury behind her, and all Of the mem
bers Of the diplomatic corps In despair. in
adopting the stage as a professionalism
I is to say. in doing few inconseuuentiaI
| dance steps and in affecting the baby stare
| as applied to the hairless individuals ogiing
| in the front row OF the orchestra
| MI