Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-07-16
"Also Warm in New York."
Says Clarence Cullen

| the plant of a celebrated wholesale fur
rier to watch the fur buyers from all
over the country do their buying
| This was still worse. far worse. First
/ visited the department where men 81
| FUR coats were on sale. This is the
height OF the fur-buying season at the
wholesale marts, and eight or ten young
| men were being used as clothes horses
| for the buyers-that is, they tried on the
fur coats.
Really. Ii was uncanny. 1t was hard to
breathe under the most favorable cir
cumStances and with the least possible
allotment of clothing covering ones per-
son. how those young male persons con-
| trived to get their breath and keep them
| selves absolutely from melting in their
| tracks while they eXerted themselves con-
stantly in switching from one eighteen
pound fur coat to another twenty five
pound one baff1ed and still battles me.
Sometimes they'd have to keep coat on
| Tor ten or fifteen minutes while bunch
OF buyers, sitting. back on comfortable
chairs in the wake of the electric fans.
discussed the points of the coat and made
| up their minds whether they wanted to
BUY any of that pattern or not.
Then 1.-The man" took me to the wom-
ems department. where nearly a dozen
beauteous young lady persons were try
ing on fur garments. This was distress
ing. A male can view If not with de-
light, at least with equanimity. the heat
sufferings of another male. but it is dis
NAL to view any kind of sufferings that
have to be endured by beauteous young
lady persons. And they looked as If they
were suffering. I was surprised at the
callousness of the buyers in indifferently
allowing the models to parade back and
forth on a carpeted space. sometimes for
five or ten minutes at a stretch, wearing
the heavy fur garments, the very sight of
which. in such weather. is enough to
make one long for a sight of SpitZbergen.
The girls hair which had begun at the
outset Of their labors by being nice and
wavy, hung in wet WispS over their fore
heads and at the back Of their necks and
they looked drippy and dismal when they
removed the magnificent fur garments
and pumped into chairs for rest of
fur cloaks. The girls get IS day for
this work, but should appraise it as be-
ing worth about $50. If not $500, day.
Then, a little later in the afternoon
the temperature mounting all the time.
went, in company with the inventor Of
the Comparative Method of Keeping Cool.
to a sweatshop in Delaney street 1t is a
sweatshop where mems pants are manu-
featured. The main room of this sweat
shop is sixty feet long by thirty-eight
feet wide. damned In this space were ex-
actly 143 girls and men engaged in fash
Joining mems pants at electric sewing
machines; all working if pursued. none
Of them taking the time to even lift their
heads from their machines. all of them
earning a mere subsisting pittance. The
temperature of the room. with the win
dows wide, was 96. The smell Of the dye
stuffs in the cloth from which the pants
were being made was intolerably stuffy
and depressing.
I found that evening very cool at home
True. the temperature remained up
around the boiling point. But had only
to ponder some Of thu things 1 had seen
that day to experience an agreeable Ice
landic feeling. The comparative method |
OF keeping cool Is success. 1t can be