Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-05-13
CULLEN TELLS OF THE HOT PLACES

American cities. I've spent about twenty
years trying to verify this, without the
least success. I've lived in Chicago. De-
troit. Cleveland. all lake cities, and I've
those places as ever 1 did when I could
nave tossed ships biscuit over the
gun1 and hit the equator smack-dab in
the middle of the forehead.
positively fendish. They get the blister
ing winds right Off the prairies there. and
1T is no uncommon thing for those Ameri-
can simoons-they are nothing else. bar
ring the desert end Of ito last for many
days on end. There is sort of estab-
lished fiction in Chicago that no matter
how hot the day Is the night is bound to
be cool. 1t is fiction. pure and simple.
This Is not to say that there are no cool
nights following blistering days in Chi
cago; but certainly that is not the rule.
few years ago spent the major part
Of summer in Detroit l suppose it,
should be the natural and normal thing
for one to boot for the town in which he
was born: and the undersigned was born
in Detroit. But I'd be going Munchausen
several better il I tried to get away with
the statement that Detroit is sure
enough cool town in summer The sum-
the first Id passed in the town since
childhood. and it was by no means an I'M
usually hot summer. But l certainly did
find it just as parching summer as the
parchineest summer / ever put in in
Washington. Despite Detroit's fine posi-
ton right alongside all of that beautiful,
clear lake water, the heat that l found
there was a dead, inland. land-locked
sort that gave me positive choking SEN
sation all OF the time the extreme heat
endured.
And all over Michigan. right out on the
open lakes. l found the same sort of in
tense heat during considerable part Of
that summer. The Detroit newspaper to
which l was attached sent me on q very
agreeable cruise on yacht up the lakes.
Often / found 1t hotter on the deck of
that yacht, under awnings, than I'd ever
found the deck OF a ship ploughing the
sultriest seas of the tropics. One place
that We made on that cruise l remem-
Der in particular for its heat. 1t was a
beautiful resort on Lake Huron. situated
at the very end Of the so-cclled thumb
of Michigan. called Point AUX Barques.
We went ashore there for three or four
days. because tsee:ng how good confess
sion * for the salt thers wrs 3 gentle
man from st. Louis there by the name
Of Cabanne, whose fame IS mixer of
mint luisps had ever tncn penetrated to
every corner OF tn eartn. The surf Of
Lake, Huron slapped thu pictured rocks
able-scunding slapfuiness: hut The heat OF
the place was all but into!erab;e. True,
the Joy and Elory ard ccolth Of the
Cabsnpe :;ieEa diG an, riiarate, mitigate
and assUa se. t. q caTtan extent, ice
vicious heat o. tfe ts.utiiul little resort;
but. ali ting s4,,ia / found it puzzling
thing to reject that g. one OF the most
northerly points IN tho United States 1t
should be So infer. ally hot, and with all
Of that Geld lake water washing the
shores OF the resort, too.
Did you ever have to wait for train
connections at the Broad street station
in Philadelphia in midsummer? Be
cause II you did, l think you will in
stantly agree with my out-and-out as
sertion that the Broad street station in
Philadelphia is the very hottest railroad
station In all America: and the Broad
street station represents only very
small acreage in Philadelphia. than which
there simply Is no hotter city in the
United States when the dog days heat
really does get busy. Yet one could very
easily derive the impression. II he didn't
know differently, from reading the Phila-
delphia newspapers. that Philadelphia is
q sure-enough summer resort. So far as
I have been able to gather. this idea Is
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