Year: 1874

The tickle " bleak WINDS OF March SHOW
more constancy in coming and staying with us
than any other weather has done since Au-
tumn But in spite of the shivering mornings
and dusty moons i'll town, and the long list OF
wrecks along the coast, preparations for the
Summer exodus are already actively going on
among both kOtel-keeper5 and their h0ped-for
guests. The great barn-like structures into
which every midsummer, as of old into the
castle of Giant Despair, hapless travellers are
taken in and robbed of their money, also
starved, begin to put on their new coats of
paint and whitewash, and to open their many
windows and stare shamelessy as ever at
mountain peak or sea, as though vauntlng
their greed and internal miseries.


As long as it was the correct thing among
fashionable people to crowd these caTavanserles,
their extortion or discomfort matered little !;
they we're sure to be filed to Ovcrllowing.
But they are no longer the resort of molds
of any grade of fashion A year or two ago,
the idea crept into the brains of a few leaders
of the ton that people of real culture and re-
fincment Stunned these haunts of well-dressed
mobs, and if they could not afford a country
seat of their own. a house at Newport or island
in the lakes were in the habit of folding their
waterproofs and OvercOats and stealing as noise
iessly as the Arabs away to some unknown
haunt, by mountain or coast, for a few weeks
of absolute rest and enjoyment. Our fashion
able leaders took the hint The bulk of the
crowd followed hence last year at the high
priced hotels but few victims came to fee the
insOlent walters to bring their scant morsels
of ill-cooIed food, for which they were charged
as though they had been eating in besieged
Paris. Farm houses overhowed, from the pine
woods of Maine to the answering pines of
Carolina townspeople entered and possessed
the secret places of the land as the locusts in
Egypt all the hidden romance of gorge and
glen was trampled out by Broadway boots ;
the Whit of the everlasting Havana cigar made
stale and commonplace the does covert in
the AdirOndacks and the caIOns Of the Colo
RADIO. This year, in anticipation of a second
fashionable tidal wave Of the same kind in
July, artists and men who really need rest for
brain and body are making ready to fltn
almost as early as the swallows. Columbus in
sight of land was not more eager than they
in the prospect of new camping ground,
where they can raid, mmolested, for game or
fish, or that intangible necessity-material.
Our only concern with this hegira, is to ask
what provision has New-IOrk made for the
thousands of sick and dying children that are
left in her poorer quarters during the Sum-
mer7 Charity has been sorely needed this
Winter and it has been lavishly applied; not
always with discretion perhaps, but assuredly
with good will. Why do we SO persistently
button up our pockets with the coming
on of Spring. No suffering of adults from
cold or hunger in Winter can sur
pass the mortal pain and need of chill
dren under the inexorable heat and foul
air of the town in July and August. Witness
the death rates during that time, which in one
week year before last were greater by one
third than they had been since New-York was
city. IL is useless to make any appeal in
this cause during the Summer, when the
majority Of those willing to move and aid in
the matter are absent. We make it now, and
urge that something be done at once Neigh
boring cities find it an easy and cheap relief
to fill cottage after cottage at Cape May or
Atlantic City with the little suffering children
and their nurses. A permanent hospital would
serve the purpose better, but if that cannot
be done let US have the cottages.