Evening star., 1904-03-11
NEW WORKERS REJOICE.
First Spring Day Awakens Gladness
and Brings Many Outdoors.


CANT you hear dat SCUM -?
Sing low. ma money,
Grass is on de groun'.
Sing low, ma honey,
Spring times done come roun,
Sing low ma honey. sing low
New York saw it's first day when spring
seemed more than far-off possibility-de-
voutly hoped for, but almost too entranc-
ing to be more than pleasant dream or
misty recollection of happier seasons, says
dispatch from New York.
AS If fearful that the sun spots, or what
ever may be responsible for the almost In
tolerable weather which has been meted
out for the last four months, were merely
tantalizing New York citizens with a sug-
gestion of happier things, all classes OF
society Tuesday morning, while the sun
at last deigned to smile upon them with a
warmth which by comparison with its half
hearted efforts of the recent past was al
most tropical, hastened out of doors to
take full advantage Of what might be but a
fieeting pleasure.
Fifth avenue all the morning and most OF
the afternoon was crowded with fashion,
able equipages as it has not been in long
time
l The sidewalks likewise held a crowd of
men and women, many of the latter IN
spring toilets, all of whom had caught the
spirit of the bright sunshine and smiled
and chatted gayly with their companions.
In the park the drives were the scene of
an almost continuous line of carriages, and
Riverside Drive began to assume it's spring
appearance. In the public squares, on the
lower east side as well as in the heart OF
the city, seats on the benches were at a
premium, and where the children were al
lowed to do so they rOmped and played
about with a joyousness which even the
memory of the extreme cold, the fogs and
dreary drzzles which have for so long
kept them most of the time indoors could
not dampen.
But best of all is the promise of the
weather forecasters that the brilliant sun
shine of Tuesday morning need not neces-
sarily be treasured up as grateful respite
from what New Workers have had to be-
come more or less accustomed to-
The men who have for so long been safe
in predicting either cold fog rain be-
lieved last night that they We're equally Sc
cure in forecasting more sunshine, not only
for today. but even extended their glad It'd
ings to tomorrow.
In fact, the forecasters are willing at
last to admit that winter, while even yet
capable of making himself disliked, is on
his last legs. They see the old man totter-
ing away from spring, but he will be likely
to several times throw back glance which
will send chill down the back. Each ef-
fort however, is likely to be weaker than
its predecessor, and a few weeks more will
see the end of the dreary season.
More helpful than all the medicines in the
city, according to phys Clans was yester-
days warm Sunsnlne, following the neaVy
rain of the day before. Not only We're the
streets given such a washing as they have
not had in months, but the air itself was
cleared of countless disease germs.
Physicians believe that yesterday, in
fact, will mark the end of what has been a
veritable epidemic of grip and pneumonia,
which has brought the death rate up far
above its average for a dozen years, and
from now on the number of cases of these
maladies is expected to decline rapidly.
During the week Just ended 1880 persons
died in Manhattan and the Bronx, and OF
this number 400 owed their death to pneu-
monia in some of its forms.
The death rate was 24.46 for each 1.UOU,