New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1878-07-29
SUNDAY AT CONEY ISLAND.

BRIGUToN BEACH, July 2S.-COney Island
was general resort to-day the immense crowds OF Wis
iors as they surged along the beach resembling the
throngs which frequented tue great Centennial EXposi
ton The pleasantcst part Of todays ys is the universal
contentment among hotel proprieiors-all Of them de
eIarng It TO be decidedly the best paying OF the
SON one OF them said that there were moro Iaylng
visitors than he had before I'm years The dag
was ushered In by a stroug southwest wind
which made the island very agreeable. Through
ont the day there has been good surf.
The strong breeze tempered the heat Of the aud
made the weather agreeable. At o'clock the tempeTa-
ture was 1872 and at p II had fallen to 100 After
the sun went the breeze increased somewhat ami
at 10 O'Clock the air cool enough Tor light wrap
pings The crowd the island, which was vsriousy
estimated at between 10000 and 10000, began to thin
out about o'clock, and by ii o'clock there were very
few transient visitors here.
The hotels full of regular boarders every room
being taken and cots being called into reputation At
the Manhattan Beach Hotel $50 cots put up last
night and NIL day the has been gwen, No
rooms" Tue been crowded all day on the Man
haitian Beach Railway, the afternoon trains from New
York by way OF Bay Ridge being composed OF seventeen
crogded cars. The new Marine Railway, which starts
from the Manhattan Beach bathing pavilion and
oneandahaf miles to the east end OF the island, was
literally patronzed tO-day-the principal induoement
being an odfashiOned cambake" at the new pavilion
Al the Hotel Brighton there has been large throng
all 1ay--th0 nrst tram ONer Tue
Coney Island Road, which arrived nc $3.50 this morning.
brought one hundred and City vsitors-most OF
whom carried lunch-baskets, and the crowds kept
inereasing until late in the afternoon, every train
being made up OF The Brighton Hotel was
full on Saturday and only guests who have
previously engaged beng received Lastnght
abont ninety cots were occupied, the Railways and
parors being turned into sleeping apartments Among
the guests to-day Observation-Disclosures General
Typer. who dined with Receiver sharp OF the Long
Island Railroad, Mr.. Gaut son OF the Postmaster OF
Montreal Francis skddy Of New-fork, Collector
Merritt and family Register j. w. Little the Rev DIT
Farley OF BROOKLYN, ex-Mayof Wickham, ana Gepefal
panisi Butferhed. The recent hot wave 81 81 Louis
drove several OF the leading families East-lnany
Of whom are at this hoclamOng them The VIE OF e1
Mayor Britain who IL the guest OF waiter kAle, heI
son-n-law 81 d. Chpley, Samuel Cupples and family
Mrs Nesl1t, and W. II. Gregg aud famiiy; Iweny
Thousand Is given the number OF people VINO visited
tho Brighton Beach. , -, ..A .,
Al Cables there has been unusual heavy rlsh OF
Aitors to-day the clerks claiming that TINS ana uy "a
we're the two heaviest days they nave known m nfe
years The trains over the Prospect Fark ana Coney
island Road arrived every twelve minutes during lne
afternoou nd IL seniOicialy announced thht over
los trains OF from three TO five cars each were run pc
fween 4 A. ~ and IL D. m. The rooms are all taken TO-
night aud eighty cots will be occupied -, =, -,
Thc members OF the Peninsular CRICKET CluD, OF DC
t,oit Visited Coney Island this afternoon iakng IA
nnT OF sea air preparatory 70 the match Win inc d.