The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1877-08-27
C0NEl ISLAND FESTIVITIES.
r,tE GEEfTEST ny IT THE GREifE"f
or rHh 81 isiDE RESORTS


,,u societies aud "a Hand OF finy fece''
II has become tn" fashion TO make a granu
,our on sunday. starting from tue l"" 81
Twenty- fourth street. or I'll" loot ~ l"'"S
a,cond street. North river. where all the eA'ur-
sion steamers land. ihrn'r d'Wh NV r'V''
..ross ,b, hrnnd ba,. past the forts. and out to
avn landing at the cNtrrw" 'nl ~ 'oh'y ISL
AMI Thrr. is a. nature makes II. the beach
shifting With every storm. the sand hlllr NJ
,ered by every blust.fin. WIND. After bath
from the Norton hou- -. the tourist can walk or
,id,.,n one " the eat 'mpor,1cd Stages along
,h.n,,ch dotted at Intervals 10y various kinds
NJ hotels. little and great. honest and disrcpu'-
ohl,. mere resting places and prctcntious ho-
I, Z. with restaurants and stables. This brihss
ann Ia the busy centre. where life in its gaycst
o.,,ct moves ~ in whirl from noon I'll inc
Al, parture of the latest trains. hat Is mhde
other nt the Atlantic. Cables Nand"rNecr =
the buckingham or Thompson's where ~
c,od "A dinner can be- ha ~ in any OF our New
y,rk restaurants Thc prices vary. At the
Nnnhatt an nd complaint IL made OF the cost
but that il accounted for by the unexpected
ru-h and the lack of preparation. all of which
will doubtless hc rrmedicd next season.
Dinner done. the visitor has the concoursc.
with H. c,aseirs- roll OF carriage wheels; the
A1uarium. which Is n combination OF avary
,n,nageric. and restaurant: the Marioncttcs
Punch and Judy. the luggicrs. tho negro min
strcis. the no-lcggcd soldier and his hurdy-
rurdv. the young Christians. with their books
and stories. and last. hut by no means least. the
ihroc-eard monte men. who rlude the vigilance
Of the police and prey on guilcless youths. and
make living from the smartncss Of bigger
fools. who think to cheat them at their own
game II would be impossible to exaggerate
thu sights Of this part of the island on a busy
Sunday such H. yesterday BY the three roads
all pushed by an excess Of travel. heavily laden
trains are constantly arriving and continue
ou-y pouring their rivers Of life into the
flood of existence already heated 10y excitement
and the contact of thousands. Along the line Of
hotels tens OF thousands Of restless Americans
walk and walk. and smoke and smoke. Every
restaurant is thronged every piazza Is crowded.
The dancing platforms shake with the heavy
tread of the Jubilant steppcrs. Laughter and
song burden the air. There would scem,to be
No such thing AS trouble in the world If it We're
not Tor the no-leggcd soldier. and even he
proudlycxhih,s his dcformity. and unhlushi ing
ly passes around has hat iOr the pence of the
charitable
Tired Of this. the visitor goes TO the beach.
u Is but step from Cables 10 the area known
n Baurrs Atlantic Gard, Imagine Gilmore =
Garden floOrcd over. In the centre II a larg,'
music stand On one sid. "a bar. 300 feet long
on the other IA beer counter. THIS vast pavil-
Ion accommodates from 6.UOJ to 10000 every
Sunday. All the Germans ~ there, Every D..
body walks through II IN route 10 the central
part II the beach. The beach itself IL "A picture.
aul the sea. rolling in from the heart OF the
ocean. black with heads. and all alive with
shouting. rovsterng hdthrrs. durkers. and
sports. IL another picture. For every thousand
IN the water there are ten thousand ON the
Shore. There seems to be- "A las nation IN the
sight. The mutt nude stand look burn in
tn sun and wait till the VIII site calls them TO
III IRAN.
AMI thence along a rluge Oi sand clear To- the
haa h. which. 10y u broad wooden road. Leads W
!. the Manhattan Beach Hotel. There one can
find a specimen II every species. IL lie the place
for fish, flesh. and fowl such trnmping was
never heard. No one is quiet. The few thou
sands who lind chairs are hut patch 10 the
vast throng which. like tide. Gibbs and flows
oil day long. There Is NO such thing as rest
there. II l. TN" best place IN the world for cNer,
Cir. Ii Ii til. worst IN the world for quiet and
peace. By cars and boat back again. up the
bay, up the river past the shluting forts, past
o. bathing boys pas, the fishing men, along
the ends OF piers. where the poor OF New 81 X
find fresh air from the sal; water back Ia the
d0'k from which the other boat started III the
early morning. such a tour, or rather d,luur
W., made hy many thousands from New YORK.
y.~t, riay. though the vast majority preferred
T. hay excursion tickets down and back rs
tNnlr One of the several routes, which are nov
81 familiar aH Broadway TO the readers @! III
sr>.
Yesterdays out 81 town rush was grcnt1i
ihan that of any other day TINS year. Ih'
h't prompted II. ana the i1r'ihoush Of th'
providers oi public rouV"yanr"- mad" Il posi-
lI.. bu three routes hoais ran every hour On
tit..tr lines extra trans Wert put IN and every
truu Wa Enlightened. II II never safe 10 ~tt
that any special number of p"r- In- were W any
tir.lil- point. IN Ia" absence 81 data. hut good
-.- Insist that There were IN COMFY Island
aNh- from sixty 20 seventy Thousand prnll"
A. the horton rui oi the sand the crush WIS
n'orrab.". l'r,qu.r~d al ile good nature of
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