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Escaping the Heat of the Cities

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Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Jul 28, 1909

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 36, No. 29.

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Escaping the Heat of the Cities

The suffering from heat in the great cities of the East has been at times intense. People have slept on platforms of fire-escapes, on the roofs of buildings, in the city hall colonnade, on the beach. Barefooted boys and girls wade in the water when the streets are flushed, and follow the ice wagons, while the horses are sprayed. O why do not many of these victims of misery get out into God's free country?