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Show He.it ami Grimo Seem to Have an Affinity for Each Other-Crimes of the Heated Term. JULY IS A LAWLESS MONTH. Some Famous Eiots That Have Occurred Iu Midsummer-A Scene During Dur-ing Draft Eiots. T-y o r weather aud crime I There really seems, at lirs thought, unreason why tlio H I two should bo coupled. Tito S degree of culoric. n indi-H indi-H I rated by the innocent look-B look-B 0 ing thermometer, serins to H H have nothing to do with t ho domination of man over bis moral mmre. 'J'o suppose that man is inllttuncrd to ei'iino bv tint fact that the weather is twenty inArers higher than would bo really eoinfotablo is to suppose him r poor creature, indeed, but that is the fact. At least the Kilico say so, nmt slailsiics gay no. Anil perhaps the si roup st conttr-nintlon conttr-nintlon of it. may lie found by recalling the fact that nearly all the riot that have din- however, it ml appoint! Frederick TA11-madgoehief TA11-madgoehief of police, and he apwnlily or-Kar.Uat or-Kar.Uat foreoof some tw?nty-Uve volunteer volun-teer a special pollownon. lie hud need of thorn. The old force was o!T Ui'ty and a famous riot promptly began. be-gan. It w between the liowrery Bor and the Dead Itaubit. The latter gang Inhabited Mullssrrv Bend. and were considered con-sidered by the Bowery Hoys inferiors, principally ttecsuse of thetr habitat, which wi'.s then us it is now a specially unsavory ncigbburhocd. The Kivefolota wirethen cloe by. Thera km the bilteriwt fcelinc; 1 it ween tha two gjo.gs, and individual fights were of frequent, orrnrrenco even small bttlbut when the pollen went off dill each side beptm deliberate preparation prepa-ration to destroy the other. Ilnyard street was rhoaen a a hnttla ground, and t wo barricade of wagon were thrown up about two hundred fet apart, Udiind which the two gang stationed themselves with rillns and began tiring. NotbinK niom than the rivalry lietween Uie gangs and a natural love of fighting apiiears to hare heen the cause of the out-break, out-break, but it w an a serious one and lasted three day, t'ue day thirteen men were, killed by the bullet and nut one of them was a member of either gang. tlu the third dav the Ikiwer? hoys secured from aome quarter a howit jer, which they loaded with grapeand pntnn a feed wagon, which was started fur their tiarrirado. They were going to blow the other KW out of existence. It happened that the Seventh regiment was on it way to a Fourth of July celo-bratlou celo-bratlou when Chief Tallmadge called on the colonel for aid, and bo tuai-Jied bia men liehilid the police force of twenty-five, tl.nt, Mfuri.Ml in riiofiiee the howitzer. It wan found in Chatham aquam and rapt ured after a iliU mruxKle. "d lh rlot w"" aiieedily broken up, more by the moral font of the. predem of the seventh than by the strength of the police. The OraiiKH riot Is to well remembered to lussl divcripiton now. H ocrum-d kit July. The Tompkins equar riot did not, but they were not real rlola. Inasmuch as t he rlt iietia did not tlulit, nor offer to. They assembled In public nieetiiiK. and thcpollce. HtUuked them. There, wa no fighting beyond tho throwing of few brick by the ruen w ho were running to escape from the terrible night at irks of the police. All this dura not how that hot weather produce riots, certainly. Kverr one of these disturbances, and ninny other that might lie mentioned, had their origin In aomethiiig entirely dllTerent from tba weather and entirely independent of It. Tbo connection Is nevertheleaa a direct one. it Is very aeldom that a man commits suicide sui-cide or assaults or kill nuolber because it I hot. Yet t ho fact remain t hat aeeaulU, aulciiles rnd murder are all far more fre. cpient. In summer tbnti in winter In New York city, and there, is a reaaou for It. To understand tbl reason fully you mint risit the tenement house region of tho rity on a very hot day or night. There llva the poor-llie isiorly fed, poorly housed, j poorly educated (us a rule) and least nv sponsible member of the community. ! Hints, assaults and murder are not com-i com-i nion iiiiiong the more fortunate Ntopla, who have at least nil their moderate da- THK WIDE AWAKK KIOl. graced New York in the course of the laat half century or so have occurred in July. This ba even come to 1 called tho mouth of riot Imcause of this rurii.u fact. The great parade of tho striking cloak-makers cloak-makers tho other day was entirely a peaceable peace-able demonstration. Not a blow was struck in the courso of it all excepting by ono foolish park policeman, who became excited ex-cited wit liinit cause possibly on account of tho heatanil by a woman whom it is ..liiiUnl,tnr,,lltl.inlVlLM.ril.V. llllt IsUlOlt on the curb Willi Inspector Williams t ho famous ('apt. Williams of former times and bo said: "Seo how narrow the margin is lietween peace and disorder. Those men are desperate; they say they are all hungry, and more than nil, they are hot. If one mull should spring out im a leader and propose some net of violence we'd have to jump In and club them, for they would do whatever bo suggested." The iuss'tor spoke calmly enough. Ho bus learned to keep bis old time Ilerserker rages in check. Hut I hiivo repeatedly sisui him before he learned that lesson, and I looked al. him keculy and Imagined I saw a dilation of Ills eye that told how little irksome such duly would Is'. Ho is n born fighter and he wan standing in the sun. The Hint Abolition riots, so railed (I he Abolitionist being tho ones attaeked), im-rurred im-rurred lis a result, of a l''ourth of July meeting ill this city in l'l. Tho bitterness bitter-ness of political feeling continued from that time until after the war. and all hough lighting was Infrequent it did occur from iinie to time. It. was, If lam not mlslak i Iho campaign of ISW Hint tho "Wide Awakes" organized, and In that Hummer there wero several small riots In New York. It was necessary, so tho polirosa) now, for a man to go armed If he wore n I Wide Awako hat and uniform. I tif course all thes'i sinnll MilitieI riot T.cre insignificant compared with the great draft riots of July, lw-l. That was the most ierriblu municipal disturliiuieo that ever occurred In an American city. Kor three week tho entire police force and nil tbo militia that were not at the sent of war were fighting night mid day against such i a mob as has seldom Is i n seen. Private houses, wero plundered, men mostly lie- j groes were hung to lainpiHiet 'ny bun- (HtAMIE WOTS. Sire gratified. Among the poor there) I an amount of physical filtering from tlm heat that is enough to make n sni lit savage. No ordinary man can be r peeled to wo bis wife and children aleeping. a I have many times e-ti thru sleep, on the utonrn of tbo siilowalks or the burn rf of the tenement house and preserve his amiability. amiabil-ity. Hi Irritation at their and hi own physical disromfort I likely Vi assume a spirit of rueeiittneiit against Ihoeo wh'i r more fortunate. This feeling Is likely to be aggravated by eon versat Ion w ltbotlns h badly off s he, and still further by Joining tlnoii In I ha only luxury wit hin the poor losa'a rea h-beer. h-beer. Drink affects men more quickly In hot weather t ban in cold. 11 iiie 'U -tiou of ss iil excitement Iss under discussion discus-sion at such a time and It leatoloeo bow a riot I more enaily st irrl up I luui It would be In the winter. Tbls is not theorizing. theo-rizing. It I a fact. Tho well U do know oothingof tbo suffering of the poor Iu July until they go to the poor man' home and sen for thcmsHve. Aside from this qm-allon of rrimo a afTw-ted directly by tb beat of auiuiiirr 111 ' a great city, there is a dlreet tm lo th I eommunlt v from the heat that I not easily dreds, tho colonel of a regiment was ktlb'd ul the head of bis command, and business was generally suseiided all over the city, for the reason that It. was not wife logo about tho street even in broad daylight. It, was estimated that over 3,Ot persona were, killed, in the city in those three, weeks, but the exact uumlsrwas never known Kor months even for two or three year afterward- it. was no uncommon thing for the police to find in the shanties of tbo aquntterson uptown lots elegant fundi lire, . costly lares, and even Jewelry of tho most , expensive kinds. They wero the booty of j the riots. , ; Jlut Is-fore thl a remarkable not had occurred iu July. H was in l.-7, ami tho ! opportunity for tho riot came out of tho disbanding of the old police force the leather Heads, as they were railed, berailso if the stiff leather hats they wore, like flrsv figured lip, but which i very great. .Meo ! cannot work In summer a they do in winter, win-ter, and bnailiea i interrupted to a greater extent than is generally realist. K-w person appreciate how slight a cause may I Increase, tbo friction of tha great m bin we call commerce, and how greatly that friction may delay lt working. A si. k horse, a sun stno k lal.rer, an overworked and wilted messenger, a lar clerk or any other un of tho direct results "f hot weotio r may interfere with an enterprise of great important, aad audi tlitntt do, every summer, and every specially hot day 1b summer, delay operation tosiu h nn extent ex-tent that they are counted on a rgular luctdenta of Inwiiiew. Daviu A, Cf nn. H-KNK DIKING DIMM P.IOTS. men. The IcgUleiure bail p-d a bill creating a pfb commission which was to comn.-l the Metpipoiiiau of Ne York and Brooklyn, t'bief Matsell am. Mayor Fernando Wood r-fuw-t to recog. ' nil the comininwon. and the old pola-a force to a man declined to eon.ll tbeui-aelve tbeui-aelve as they negbt bave dune, In the nw oriiouization. Tbe euin-cueooo |