Show w Gossip About Chicago Cit Correspond entCause of Laz Idle Chatter by Oar Windy City for Po Offln IsKhaki Summer Uniforms OfficialsKhaki iness Among City Icm licePostal Clerks Join Labor Union laz has been discovered CHICAGO The lazy germ microbe that has filled the Insidious o erect The and laziness for lot these city hall with languor Ini for Us credit and the I 1111111 ars Is now known Claify chief deputy discos helonBS to Thomas inspector of the city sanitary r lt recently day Alone and single hnndel one Intrepid Inspector Invaded I the dark recesses the NIII black ruin that houses under the of the dungeon HlI er ofll Dunne and the numerous other city Maun dials and amid curtains t cobwebs poisonous nauseating smells he made his ills gasei I and 11 f corery After an honr spent In this region ho staggered ofllce the fourth floor whore ROW I Into his on smelling salts and other restoratives were applied ap-plied Ind the Inspector was finally able fo gas he had experienced Ho i had out the horrors teath In many forms down in the dingy Jaced that the city hall should bo convinced dark cellar and came back flrmlj vacated at once thick darkness of cer Inspector i Claff relates I that after penetrating the th big low cellar he encountered poisonous gases that came lain 11I11ts of use ling from tud emanated smells near shVxIntliiK him Hml odos and nauseating IIme mr II these dangers anti In a holes He vas almost overpowered by sewer open mmllhlolCt when and was made boecipunt of hearty coiwrntulattons by his companions he had told or the perils he marl encountered ° lIt nWoraCtave l to discover For lIIany years the people of Chicago have been endeavoring of the city officials who have offices the cause or the torpidity and llstlessncss In the building It has been u notorious fact that as soon as a man began to work for ho city his active habits left him at onco Where he had formerly step he soon ° began to drag his feet as walked with a brisk and sprightly altlrllrsprllghntlI nstl bls began to lag and drag though he was shod with lead and all his movements lllto a clock that Is about run down And so things Wed on for yens and the day finally arrived when Inspector I In-spector Claffy descended l toO the bowels of the earth and came back with the lazy germ In m his m possession SUFFERING IN THE GHETTO DISTRICT While the recent humid spell caused more p or less suffering throughout the entire city over in the crowded Ghetto district on tho Westside 1h West-side tho agony was most intense Afetr n hot and sweltering day In that district the night conies on torrid and almost unbearable The whole region appears to be one huge steamroom in a Turkish bath Not a breath of i air fans the locality The atmosphere is thick 1 G and hot and heavy The little frame buildings have absorbed the rays of the sun all day long and at night they seem to radiate this pentup torridity like so many ovens The streets and alleys are like avenues leading to bake ovens Night In that huddled community Is different from night in another portion of the city It is bad enough over near the lake front where a wayward breeze once In awhile creeps across the sluggish waters and affords a moment si relief It Is hard enough to bear in comfortable flats with baths and all the comforts com-forts of modern life but down there where baths are a luxury and where tho people are packed In like sardines it is a thousand times worse Words fall to describe the conditions in tho ghetto on a humid summer night It is almost al-most beyond the imagination to conceive of the suffering and the misery of that place Old and young the tiny infant of a few weeks and old people In their dotage are all In the grasp of tho heat which seems to be a monster endeavoring to deprive these people of breath Itself It seems to have a hand on every throat and to be tightening Its hold on every pair of lungs It Is utterly Impossible for these people to sleep within doors They would suffocate and so they seek relief from their hot and stuffy abodes out under the night sky They overflow to the sidewalks the roofs and fire escapes es-capes They Ho In picturesque attitudes In doorways on stairways and on the earth In alleys Children curl themselves up like kittens and sleep along the sidewalks Groups of men and women nod and nap In tho doorways of stores and up on the flat loots of frame stores It Is almost Impossible to step without treading on sleeping persons after midnight has passed BUYERS CROWDING THE CITY yasona too Within the last few weeks Chicago bas S = Aa > sf reached a stage In wholesale commercial activ HOTEL X < rfJA ity that has carried Its trade to a higher point than it has ever reached before Thousands of buyers from the smaller cities and towns are thronging to the city by tho trainload Never 4 before in the history of the city have such a vast number of retail men come from remote points in the south and southwest This steady Influx of buyers will In all probability keep up until the middle of October hV Several causes are ascribed for the unprecedented unpre-cedented rush of country and small city store keepers to Chicago Railroads entering the city have been making special rates all summer long I People can come from New a r Orleans Vlcksburc 1 and Mobile and return for an unheardof rate of r 15 Retail dealers living along the Missouri river were given a rate of eight dollars for the round trill Equally as low faros were made to other points but the feature of the railroads inauguration was that a whole summer stopover maIn was allowed Railways have also been advertising Chicago as tine greatest summer resort The Commercial association has cooperated with the roads In this The result is that not only do the buyers combine bSlneas with pi ensure on their annual trIll but they have almost unanimously them wives and families with thorn brought Tho manager of a large wholesale house stated that tho stn amount this rear would exceed tho best prevlousr seasoned by at least bought one fifth AI hough dry goods purchased predominate buying Is by this line I no means confined to Every conceivable article of merchandise Is finding a market among tho thousands of merchants of the south POSTAL CLERKS FORM UNION Representatives of post office clerks In six of the principal cities of the west met in con ventlon hero tho other III rgrrgi day are formed a national o union under the auspices of the American Fed d mHpns oration of Labor The organization which will Knkll wn BB the National Federation of Post Ofllco Clerks Is the first national labor Post America to be composed exclusively of govern ment employes Delegates attended the convention from Chi i cago Milwaukee Louisville Nashville Salt ill e City and San Francisco The post office clerks In St Louis Cincinnati Indianapolis and several other cities are neatly to join the movement n aB soon as the organization Is fairly started All of the branches that sent delegates to the con vontion arc now chartered by the American Fed oration of Labor as local unions and the went to start the national has the move approval of Samuel Gompers and his The order Issued by President colleagues on the executlo colmc II hlbited government employs from Roosevelt three years ago In which ho pro legislation In Iletlllo 11 I ng congress eg their behalf COIi8rc88 or asking for oxcei any through tine Is largely responsible for the organnizatinn regular heads of tlepartmerts occasions has Iresideut I n eXIIIssed the opInIon Hoosevelt all several that to join labor unions and In his last government employes have a right tldn among them annual uressago ho encouraged organlzll KHAKI UNIFORMS FOR THE POLICE t r The discomfort i UI tho a n rorms recent now hot In use endured owing by to policemen tine heavy during blue uso probahl will befor0 another Bu ho relieved who is contemnfathiB comes by Chief Collins forms for contemplatlllg the adoption of khaki unl summer CJilof Colll Hias nlear In tho ° ICO department has material for SSI1n sought 11 light diwblo tlon uSe and after an exarlna r kfrl a number of samples ho I khaki is tho Ideal 1 fabric declares that tine 11 t During tine the recent Invasion of Chicago b I tlho regular IIflny troops the chIef ag by itaphressed by the coolness was much M the and wearing al z khaki = uniform thoe = material I also has the Worn by time Soldirs I This than the blue club nowvan ago of being cheaper by the pollee department now in use and al its adoption 0rable saving In tine would 1 man a consiti clothing g bills of tine otllcers police and firemen and has found Ysl uthern cities tho khaki Is been satisfactorytin b USt o I utter khaki by ctory vhenel war department was seeking a suitable malt r > ln ovory way When tho In the material for nnlfortnnna tropics experiments ml Jnlform for tinesoldlors wero tried with tho i soldIers khaki was found runny different the most serviceable fabrics but tho |