The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1873-07-28

A Sunday Excursion to the Kingdom Of Sand and
Clams-sport at Celtic Watering Place
The Lovers Walk on the Beach
Hotel Life and How to Wait for
Dinner at Rockaway.


Dinner at Rockaway.
Far Rockaway is one Of the places to which exc
cursionists from New York in great numbers pay
their respects ON every succeeding sunday.
Rockaway has many natural advantages, ana
among them are magnificent beach and splendid
SURF In which thousands to be seen plunging
and splasning like water dogs every day Of the
week. There are two ways OF reaching
Rockaway Beach-namely, by the Long
Island Railroad from Hunters Point. and
by the South Side Railroad. The fare is fifty cents
each way, and the time in going is about an hour
and a quarter-a distance oil twenty miles. Rock
away is the Irish Newport par excellence, and ID
frequented nearly altogether by our citizens ol
Irish birth or descent. The Germans who visit
Rockaway generally travel by the southside Rail-
road, while the Long Island road is patronized by
the Hlbernian people. They all have q
STURDY, SOLID AND SUBSTANTIAL BoURGEoIsIE LOOK.
The Irish citizen takes mis- wife and children with
him. and 1t is noticeable fact that Rockaway, OF
all the suburban watering places contiguous to-
New York city, is not frequented by the ''soiled
dOves,' who frequent to a greater or lesser ex-'
tent the watering places OF more pretentiOus
fame or notoriety. Neither Is the three-card
monte man or the plausible thimble rigger
to be found welcome at ROckaway. These latter
individuals, when they have attempted visit to
hilarious but rlotous Rockaway have met with
such rough treatment that they found 1t necessary
to bid the Mlesian seaside resort an eternal adeus
But for wild, uprOarious fun ROckaway has not its
equal this side of the county Cork.
HOSTS OF PRETTY GIRLS
may be found at Rockaway and the dancing seen
here is Of unusually athletic description. There
are hops every Saturday night at the Coleman
House, and the band always earns its money in
furnishing Celtic music to the dancers. Then the
accommodations are reasonable, SIS week being
the maximum rate for board, with q
good clean room and pure saline air.
The thrty-two counties OF Ireland are all
OF July never enters into the calculations OF q
Rockaway hdbitue to interfere with his meat or
drink. But IL must be said that patience Is neces-
sary to the procuring OF dinner at a Rockaway
hotel Your waiter Is OF the free and easy kind at
Rockaway. and IL is at least fifteen minutes before
hard to find that after you have given him an order
Tor
ROAST BEEF AND POTATOES
cussing with Mrs. Murphy at the next table the
measles during the coaing Fail, or Whether the
polto crop VIII be successful IN the county Kerry
r Ssa In as sae wSea you wa Gr the
cold and the gravy has become mass
Of dry grease With all these drawbacks,
however, Rockaway has Its charms, Tor here
you will find Irish hospitality IN its best FORM and
no one has ever had to complain that he walked
100 feet at Rockaway without being asked II he had.
mouth on him. But then the horrors of rainy
Sunday at RocKaway, such as Yesterday proved,
are something that might paralyze the brain OF the
most matter-of-fact person. the streets are fun
of ponds OF water and swimming is preferable IN
its byways to pedestrian effort. To sit on hotel
balcony and contemplate the contour OF bad
cigar Is
ONE OF THE CHIEF ENJoyMENTs
at Rockaway a rainy Sunday; you may 20
down to the beach. with the certainty of coming
back in the fashion OF drowned rat and tempest
OF hatred in your heart for all seaside localities
after hall an hours tramp on the sand, in which
you sink at every step to The ankles. Then you
can get clans IN any shape, or you may partake Of
the blushng but indie indigestible LOBSTER washed
down by the fiery and frOlicsome Bourbon whiskey
for at ROckaway Bourbon is staple and has Its
admirers among the young men, There are two
parties at Neutrality-suspicious. who believe appejack
to be conducive TO morality and the opposition,
who think that Bourbon is the panacea for all
There is, aside from all these hard, practical at
tributes OF Rockaway life, poetlcal, sentimental
and r0seate view OF nature on the beach on sum-
mer's night.
THE LARGE HEARTED YOUNG MAN.
fresh from the cOoped-up brick and mortar OF New
York, who believes that dish OF corned beef and
cabbage is at once antique, unique and sublime in
By beach at niSntia with pretty S s,r looking
out to sea and its stately ships, and wishing that
such an Eden Sa might last with the
spent in loves young dream are never to be
forgotten and not even the shrek Of the far-on
locomotive can dispel the glamour of that picture
which Is rising from the moonlight and lies spread
out before their eyes.
FAIR AND BEAUTIFUL
as that which the soul Of the poet saw and Of
which his muse sang
Beauteous is it in the night and calm along the
Rhine,
And like molten silver shines the hight that sleeps
wave and vine;
But a stately figure standeth on the silent hill alone.
Like the phantom OF a monarch looking vainy for hs
thronel
Excursionists like these, and there are many
such to Rockaway Beach, may be said to thor
oughly enjoy themselves, and none who have ever
stroled on the glorious beach under such circum-
stances regret visit to the seagirt Shore
for love Is most delicious when "lstening to the
breakers roar.n