The San Francisco call., 1904-07-24
GOOD WEATHER
At ST. LOUIS
Climate at the Exposition
City Is Not So Disagreeable
as 1t Is Represented
BUGS IN RICH VARIETY
Visitors Interested in the
Industrial Lectures Given
on California by Erwin
BY Paul Edwards.

ST. LOUIS, July 23.-The influx of
people from California and neighbor-
ing states is Iessening somewhat as
the weather grows warmer. The
greatest tide of travel from there will
probably set in in September and con-
tinue through the three closing
months of the exposition, when the
weather is said to be very fine in st.
Louis and the Middle West generally.
The greatest number Of visitors to the
exposition are now coming frcm the
Middle Western and Southern States.
The people of New York and Chicago,
where the patrol wagons and ambu-
lances keep up constant clatter in
response to heat prostration calls,
where dozens of stricken people die
daily in the hospitals and the poorer
classes hang out of tenement win
dows by their toes and sleep on fire
escapes to get little fresh air, are
keeping away from st. Louis, where
heat prostration is practically un-
known, because 1T is too awfully hot
down there" other cities on the At
lantic seaboard, where the heat is just
as bad as in New York and Chicago,
are wailing for it to get cooler in st.
Louis.
ST. LOUIS HEAT NOT BAD.
The thermometer here has not gone
above go this summer. The st. Louis
people admit that this is an unusual
condition at this season of the year.
Strangely enough, they are better sat
isfied when the mercury has its eye
on the hundred mark than when it is
below 90, for under the latter condi-
ton humidity prevails. When the
thermometer is higher the mugginess
is not so noticeable. 1t is when the
thermometer runs from S3 to 81,
which reads nicely out in California
and brings suggestion of pleasurabIe
existence with it, that the California
visitors suffer and wonder whatever
induced them to leave home. They
get a Hammam at that temperature.
It's fine for the complexion, but II
breeds profanity.
Californians and other far Westerners
coming here now will need some little
time to get acquainted with the various
kinds of bugs-fortunately all large and
! therefore easily watched-that make ST
Louis their home at this season of the
year. Once the acquaintance is formed
the visitor feels at his ease, for the
bugs are a sociable lot and without
guile. They don't pick out ones neck
as a promenade any more than any
| other place. 1t only seems so. A Cali
! fornia woman when she first reaches
up and finds one of these leviathans OF
the chronological world crawling about
her shoulders usually tries to jumI
through a car window; but she gets
used TO them, like everybody else, and
like others, finds herself trying to de-
termine how many varieties there are
LAST EXHIBITS ARRIVE.
The last carload of exhibits for the
San Francisco building has arrived and
the installation work, under the super
vision Of George P. Wilcomb, custodian
of the building, is nearly finished The
upper floor Of the building, which has
been practically empty, now contains a
handsome display that will add to the
pleasure of visitors and do credit to
San Francisco.
The representatives of the various
exposition have promised Captain Har-
ris, in charge of the Kings County dis
play, that they will send home for Ian
tern slides of typical farming scenes
in their localities to be used in the
stereopticon lectures he has offered to
give free Of charge at the California
building during the rest of the fair. He
will be enabled when these slides come
to give lectures covering the State from
end to end and showing it's resources
and fertility. Properly colored slides
show up scenes of orchard, garden and
field in an impressive manner.
ERWIN'S FINE LECTURES.
]. w. Erwin gave what is known as
his Irrigation Lecture" to a crowd at
the San Francisco building the other
day. The various pictures showing the
rich fruitfuIness of the soil-golden
oranges and flaming grapes being
thrust right into the faces of the spec
tators. with an invitation to take all
they wanted-were greeted with "Ohs!'
and "Ahsv' and one man among the
spectators exclaimed at the close of the
series of pictures. Il move we all go to
California" to which a lady replied, Il
move, any way. that we all want to &c
there"
Erwin is trying to arrange to give
two free lectures a week in some Of the
larger churches downtown.