The New York herald., 1872-09-09
AT FAR ROCKAWAY.
The Sports and Diversions Of the Great Celtic
Watering Place-The Beauties Of the Ball
rooms and the Charities Of tho Visit
ors-Sunday on tho Sandy
Beach-A Grand Finish to
Glorious Season.

1ne se6bOu lS IdSI coming 10 d ClObe ~ hOCkdW&y
beach, The sudden return of the not weather on
Saturday sent thousands of perspiring people 70
the Rockaway sands, and the trains yesterday
morning from Hunters Point carried great crowd
of our citizens, who frantically desired to paddle
In the surf at their favOrite watering place.
Rockaway Is chiefly frequented by our Celtic fel-
low citizens for surf bathing; and those who visit
this charming place on Sunday and chance to take
stroll on the smooth hard sand, will be certain to
hear the different and diverse dialects of the thirty
two counties OF Ireland. In particular the we'll
known counties Of Cork, Kerry, Longford,
Cavan, Monaghan and Tpperary are wen
represented in the masses OF men and
women who frequent the beach. At the United
States Hotel the Cork and Kerry people swarm by
the hundred, and the mellInuous br0gue Of Cavan
and Loneford is best heard at Casey's Pavilion and
the Coleman House. One would think from the
sort of drinking that is done at the hotels Rock
away that the majority OF the visitors belonged to
the "Straight-out Bourbon party, which lately as
sembled by delegates at Louisville.
The humor Of Rockaway is grotesque and has
fine Doric flavor. man little under the in
fuence of the jolly god Bacchus Ia said to be stab
bed" A stranger at Rockaway while listening to
this seaside argot would imagine that murders
were of common occurrence, but the fact is that
there Is no spot more harmless than this strip Of
sea beach which Is known as the "Irish Newport"
And kocRaway Is ,Ss rtuons onae
1Ourishes IN all his glory, Rockaway scorns the
presence Of gambler or any other pernictous per
sons given to games OF chance. Were one OF these
gentry to get up his 'little game" on the beach,
he would be knocked down by sledge-hammer fists
whose bubblng frOth he might founder and amuso
himself BY looking for his monte cards until he lost
And Rockaway is q charitable watering place.
perhaps the most charitable watering place in the
Union. Hundreds Of cergymen visit this cool.
n fn hni
nocks in the city. II church is to be built 1000
Is fashionable resort where the visitors are 30
open handed, and where so readv response 10
The The hops at RocSaway, id Which generally take
p place on Saturday evenings, are OF the most re-
so 10 y wish sp sss
OF Terpsichore indulge in some Of the most extra
ordinary physical gymnastics. It Is an old
gallant cavalier ever deigns to walk through
auadrille or slide through polka: ..,. There
programmes at hockaway, On Long Islands sea
grt shore. 1t is real downright hard work
s aa as Gy sssry forth hup %
the wild rains of the Hibernian jig. One
wona tn D., mss the Jig to be
| at the Olympic games, were an observer to
scrutnize the hops at Far Rockaway. And then the
in may groups, are not to be excsllcd for the
| graces OF their personal appearance from Nahant
TO Tie StOrmy chesapeake. At kOckaWay JnlS
season the county Clare girls have carried or the
palm for beauty and irrepressibe grace OF the
| Spirit,elle kind
The bathing here Is of the rocking good
natured sort. 1t is q common occurrence to see
stalwart Cet, with his entire family. his wife and
twelve rosy, healthy children, all plungng into the
water at the same time. The blue blood OF Ireland
may be found largely represented at Far Rocka-
| way, and the "Watch on the Rhine" is an undscov-
| cred symphony there as yet. Occasionally Hebrew
| or Teut0nic face may be discovered, its owner
| wandering about as Livingstone wanders by the
| shore OF Tanganyika, seeking for q sympathetic
| heart to console him. The fun grows fast and
| furious towards evening, and RocKaway, when the
lamps begin to twinkle bears strong resemblance
to Bray, the famous Irish watering place, or that
other well-known resort Kilkee, OF which the bard
has sung so sweetly:-
Kilkee, you are great by the ocean,
In the land OF the West-county Clare,
With the best of fine attn and dhrnkin, -
The strand Is the finest, for certain,
That ever mine eyes did behold,
With boxes for ladies while bathing.
| In casa that the day might be cod.
+ But as we said before, the season is drawing to
| close at Far Rockaway, and ere the rasset
leaves OF October begin to fall this beautiful beach
will be left to the lonely roar OF the breakers and
| the wild shrieks OF the sea fowl But Spring will
| come again, and the heated period of 1873 will find
the bathing boxes as full as ever and the hotels
nowing with the beverages that cheer but do not
| inebriate.