, 1877-08-05

! head; rUpe-untylnr anu 6tsct't3 3Ll-Hlslasil
| jusglcrs, who will eat hammers Or do ulMos
| ANYTHING requested after they have collected
}lulf-doIiar from the crowd; all sorts of absur
performances hold the boards, or tile bcac
rather.
Concy Island knows no Sunday laws or IT
strictions+ Poilce trouo'c not the inl'abtant
| thereof, whether they fight Or keep the {H.act
Beer flows Us freely Us though New York ha
never indulgetl in liquor law, willie all Kind
Of spirits are to te obtained with equal read
ness. Iilliard-roOms do Il rushing business. II
short. there is much more of everything Goin:
/ on on Sunday than at any other time, becaus
the number of people is more than twice 4
| great. The four chief a2nusemcnts with th
general n,ob appear to be bathing, drinking un
| limited lager, throwing base-bals at ~oode1i
ing cans from the wagons wcl. urc SO arranget
| as to give one the idea That they have just beer
| driven up 1rutn some calu~tepot under the SC;
| with their fresh load.
| THE RIVALRY AMONG THE SALOONS
is simply intense. Happily it is not 50 danger
| Gus as that between Two OF tie lAiiroad line:
| whose trucks cross, aud whosc engineers tau
their trains together last Sunday BECAUSE each
{ was determined to pass the crossin. first. Ung
saloon sets lipa minstrel show Cotton save thu
| mark j. with Iour performers all.l q piano. II
| thc saluop-keepcr next door lad any sense, lie
might have come into good custom from those
who wers: only too glad To escape the musical
agonics Of the other place. But no, he must
| uttGS 20 i1uu SCCu[E i cDlIit1auN lIlu
worse, II possible: and now neither keeper
makes much: snre two such combinations of
talent within twenty yards Ut each other over
come even the man with no car at all for har-
mony. ughcr-cass saloons show the same
rivalry in their bauds Or orchestras. The music
at the Atlantic Garden is fair aud more than fair
If you heir 1t from the distant beach YOU sit
idIing in the sand aud waiting fur the moon.
who keeps rather late hours even for goddess,
to rise from her couch in the sea-. II tho flirting
oju is fncf5
Branch, there is vastly more of it. And If any
one cannot sec wl1crc's the 'ar1n in it. let him
look around the misses. Talk Of the stolen
glances reflected from glasses Of spring water,
or achieved in the ballroom or on Broadway,
these go for nothing Ill comparison.
FILTRATION Is INDIGENOUS
to the sea-shore. it rides in on the exEilarating
hrccze and c1ngs TO the victim liscth hne sand
which the ConeY island towels arc warranted
not to remove. Au English poet trieu It anu
t,ei'oL1 the result:
In tie stoamlng to be roaming, where the crested
waves are fnuming,
And the sily merl'aidcus combing locks that nipple
to their feet;
Where tile goam'ns is never made the ghost Of
all enteayor
To discorer-bu1 whatever the hour, it would be
sweet.
Sweet to roam beneath shady clid, Of course,
with st'ule Young laIy,
l4alasc, Ac:era, lIAldec, or Elaine. or Mary Ann;
Love, you dear elusivc dream you'll Hcry urar
your victims deem you,
When. heard ouly hy the scamcn, thcy tall all the
stuff one can.
If you hold that poets are unnecessarily
susceptible and unqucst.onally unreliable, test
ing or hv n,nnni;u,,f SA~ ''~~AA
T,hrre arf M hlnffs tn c;vn concv Island
variety hnt tho hrsrn ;s r9..aItont 80 h;nsr
t,rrnnses. There is no d.nuert1,s nnlrrto,y
and the small number Of accidents which han--
pen is wonder when the t}lroucs OF lathcrs Is
considered. It is not at nil uncommon fur
from 20 100 to 10, 600 people TO visit The shore
on Sunday, and the majority of these take to
the water There are batninr i,ouscs without
end, though not many really desirable ones.
Suits can lie had for q quarter. and in some
parts Of fhc west end for a dime. The b,tlino- |
fI1onse nronr;ctors arc the men who rcan tIc
profits. Most of them refuse 10 become re-
for yaluaulcs cycn if these are left in
their charee. and the
cAsEs ar RonnEpY Anr x1.NEnous
Last week \ .Jcwess lost RI. 5fX} wnrtl, of din
p,ont1s which she lid for safrtr in hcr 3ress
nd orher heavy ifssoe rnra rcnortsl ~,
met either ,1r,m;s;t vainoblas at +te fo1.,s ~
..eTa tha,a IN tnur,, ,,;'I ie+ta. ..'''ti.,, =.
r,,c;, ,MrsuaI ,'st :; n1t ~ .1,a ,,,n.t;ae 20
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49,. e ~ 1 tht, 49, ,in,., ~ ] ~ ieu eaple,
:aFe on the TWO uays nave excepted, Is bY the
These buats are tn he ,voidcd SATURDAYS |
md Sun]nys }nth ;,erousn t1,ar ara
,,frnn;zcd IL the worst ,].ss.s and LIo,or.a
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