The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1909-06-29

Who is the hottest, the young woman
who tolls ali day or er the hot mangler in
a steaming laundry. the engineer Of P. j.
Moran's steam roller, the colored gen
tleman who spreads the hot asphalt, the
alien who dumps The molten Stag from
the fiery. copper furnaces-0- the tourist
who wanders about in the sun, seeing
Salt Lake?
With such weather as this Of which
Salt Lake has been Obsessed the last
day or two, it is a safe bet that any one
OF them is hot enough. With such
weather and such occupations prevalent
it is small wonder if skepticism in
creases and if the hereafter, pictured as
the place OF torment, becomes a retrig-
orator car in comparison.
Wandering forth beneath a blazing
sun yesterday afternoon went The Her
aid expedition To find the tOrridest trOp-
ic in the city On the expedition bore
the humid. oppressive heat Of the steam
ing workrOoms Of hot laundries, the in
tense warmth of the newly made Main
street the sitting, blazing heat of the
redhOt Stag pot, and the uncomfortable,
peevish atmosphere of the passing tour
lists.
Getting USED 70 "
Hida Youngquist wiped the perspira-
ton from her eyes with the back Of an
arm blood-red from the heat as she
sorted out a bunch of flats" table
cloths, napkins, and such, to run
through the heated rollers of the man
sler. with her free hand. Through the
pouring streams Of perspiratiOn her
eyes still twinkled brightly.
ITS not so hot when you get used to
it, If you just don't think about it be-
ing so hct you don't feel it so bad. To
an outsider it seems as if we would melt,
but we seldom think about it. Anyway,
it's better than being out under the hot
sun all day. If the machinery weren't
running and there were more ventilation
it would really be quite cool here. Your
collar is willing, mister, This IS good
weather for the laundries."
Whistles to Keep Cool.
On Main street John Sawyer was
actually whistling. Few would deny his
right to whistle, were it not for the fact
that il seemed so ridiculous that any
one who was as uncomfortable as he
he must certainly be should pretend he
was happy by Whistling all of the time.
Sawyer, mounted on a steam roller
named Progress" was Waiting to and
fro. up and down Main street. over hot
asphalt that fairly Tadiated bhsteTs.
of course. il is hot work" said he,
as he surveyed critically a sizzling
swath he had left in his wake through
the hot black asphalt. But there's one
thing about it, its outside work. never
could understand how any one could live
cooped up in one of those office build
ings this hot weather. 1t certainly must
be awful. Don't stand there, your feet
viii be burned by that asphalt
when did you get out of Jail. Allen %
This 10 a negro who was engaged i'm the
delightful occupation of shoveling the
heated asphalt about on the new Main
street.
Just yesterday" said Allen. who has
always insisted on each individual
drunk that he was Governor Allen OF
Louisiana. Mistah officer" and 1 was
suah glad to get away It certainly
makes me happy niggah to get out in
the cool again" He was moving his
feet TO keep the leather from catching
on fire, The tOrrid expedition retreated.
At the SHELTERS.
Yesterdays maximum temperature
was 81 degrees Fahrenheit in the open.
What it was i'm a laundry or close 10 the
heated asphalt is only conjecural Cop
ger fuses at 1000 degrees. At the Amer
lean Smelling & Refining cOmpany's
plant at Murray. 50 men, mostly Aus
TRANS, work shifts Of eight hours keep
ing four blast furnaces TO some point
hotter than 1000 degrees Fahrenheit
They are the charge floor men. and
they work in sweat-absOrbing flanneIs
i'm an atmosphere. the tempera ture of
which is somewhat less than that of the
furnaces which they feed The fianneis,