Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1903-07-15
A MOUNTAIN BLESSING.

A MOUNTAIN BLESSING.
The East is again writhing under
merciless heat, with dozens Of deaths
and prostrations reported daily. PEG
pie who live in the inter mountain
country have no adequate conception
Of what the awful hot spell means
in . large eastern city, especially one
Of the inland cities. Here IL Salt Lake.
no matter how warm it may become
during the day, the nights are almost
invariably comfortably cool. enabling
tired body to become refreshed for
the next days work. But in the east,
when the nights are but q shade cool
er than the days, the conditions are
incomparably worse. There are no can
yons there to go to for a few hours
or days, no snow-caped mountains to
cool the torrid breezes, and suffering
humanity-esp especially among the poor
er classes in the great cities-can do
nothing but endure it and pray for
drop in the temperature. On the sea
coast the majority of the people can
occasionally get to the water side to
enjoy the refreshing sea breeze for a
time, but in inland cities such as st.
Louis, Cincinnati and Pittsburg, this
is an impossibility and the people
there are forced to bear it as best
they can. Too often the greatest suf-
ferers, the poor, are unable to afford
the luxury of an occasional lump of
ice, and sickness and death as re-
suit are natural consequences.
People who have lived all their
lives in the shadows of these glorious
mountains cannot understand what a
hot day in the east means Here we
have what we call hot days, but they
are matters of trifling discomfort COM
pared with the actual suffering and
misery caused by hot day in lower
attitudes. The moist STICKY" heat.
with it's attendant skin affections,
which proves positive torture to cas-
tern people, is unknown here. Even
on our hottest days one can, by seek
ing shade, be fairly comfortable with
out resorting to artificial means of
keeping cool, but during the "hot
SPELL" in the east comfort is absolute
~ out of the question. In this rich and
poor suffer alike. but the rich are able
in many ways to mitigate their trou-
bles, either by leaving for the noun
tains or seashore or by artificial COO
ing devices. 1t is the poor, the tene
ment house contingent. that gets the
brunt of it. All who can do so seek the
fousetc > a: n:.ht, not always to sleeI
for utter exhaustion is unnecessary
to sleeE under the circumstances-bu
in order to get theeffect of any coolins
breeze that may be stirring. There ::
no room on the house tops for al
and the others seek the streetS-me1
women and children, reduced to ;
common level by suffering-to draw
what comfort they can from the stones
which too often are not cooled firm tn,
intense heat of one day before anOthe
blazing sun beats down upon them
But hOusetop or street is preferably
to a crowded house, which, during tn
hot SPELL" proves veritable ful
mace, and there the long night is pass
ed with groans, gasps, and occasiona
snatches of sleep. The next day an
the next night are merely repetition
of the previous ones, and so it goe
until the "hot spell passes.
Here in the mountains we have, fo
tunately, but little poverty; scarcel
any tenements and sweltering night
are unknown The terrible moist hes
which saps the energy of resident
of the east is never felt here. F'rol
this city ricn and poor alike can reac
a snow capped peak or a cooling sa
naming at home can be assured th'
with the going down of the sun wi
come q refreshing GOODNESS that wi
last we'll into the morning. Of IL
many blessings we have in the mou
tain country probably the one lea
appreciated by those who have live
here longest, but yet one of the gres
est of them all, is that there is
-hot SPELL here-Salt Lake Heral
!NIinlll!IlllIlY
Can See Sacramento.
An old fisherman at TahOeknOwn
Boyle, made the interesting disco
cry recently that from the peak 1u
hack Of Tahoe City and but q she
distance, the city Of Sacramento q
b sesn and the Capitol building easi
Recognized.
4 6aN haD ben CT 10 the pol
and naDeo sleW - os1giastr.