Show I The New York Tribune contemplatIng contemplat-Ing the hot spell compares tho New I I York of today with old Rome I says I I I I Cicero and Virgil and Horace and nil their compatriots cast a little light raiment over their shoulders in hot weather and it floated in graceful t waves Their garments were sleeveless sleeve-less and without starch They wore no collars around their necks no bands upon their wrists no stockings and no I I hat and no close hoes Their sandals I wero open < all thc winds that blew and then In ccstacy the Tribune says I And Ihlnk of the Roman baths No other I city over known was an lavishly supplied with opportunities for bathing Those old Romans wore not BO slow I Their water supply novor ran short and their ficquo duct commissioners never dallied with any Ramnpo schemes to despoIl tho city I treasury and even tho most populous of the tenement district of the Eternal City I In tho time of Augustus and of the later Caesura there was all the water on tap at all i times which man woman or child could desire And that Is all true but that was after Rome had been a great city for six hundred years Give Now York a couple of hundred years more time I But there Is one thing New York ought to do right away There Is I nothing GO good for people in hot weather aa salt water bathing and I somewhere in the midst of New York there ought to be n square set aside I excavated cemented and through the heated term it should be kept full with sea water pumped In from some I i pure point In the bay where the hosts 0 people could bathe as much ao they I pleased If New York keeps on building I build-ing high buildings It will pretty nearly near-ly I take fire and burn up by and by I by spontaneous combustion so hot and crowded will it be and such hosts will I be there I |