The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1879-04-14
CHANGES ON c0NEY ISLAND.
Work on the New Pier 10 he BeRun To-day
New Hotel and n New RniIroad.

The New York and Coney Island Steam
boat and Pier Company will set 15O men Mt
work this morningto build their projected 900
feet pier into the ocean. not far from the Pros
poet Park and Coney Island Railroad depot. aud
Just opposite tho big unused structure which
WINS formerly on one Of the wings OF the Cen
tennial building In Philadelphia and which
will be used this summer as the depot OF tho
New York and Sea Beach Railroad. Some OF
the machinery for constructing the pior was
taken to the beach on Saturday. Like the Long
Branch pier. II will be built on hollow iron piles
which will sink OF their own weight, tho sand
and water being pumped up through them from
the bottom, They will be embedded in tho sand
eighteen feet. Tho structure is TO bo 100 feet
wide. and two stories high. Tho east line Of
the pier will be a few feet west OF projection OF
the west line Of what was known last year rs the
Atlantic Garden. This large pavilion like place
OF entertainment has changed its name and
character during the winter. 1t Is now called
tho West Brighton Beach Hotel. second story
has been added in which are now exhibited
eighty furnished rooms. and the piazza has
been wdened to n depth OF 1856 feet in front and
OF ninety feet on the enst side.
Tho new rnilroud New York and Sea Beach,
vii nave lis starting point at the foot Of Thirty
tfth street. South Brooklyn. This is point on
the shore OF Gowanus Bay near which BROOKLYN
yachts have been accustomed 10 rendezvous
Work on the uncompletcd pnrt OF this line will
begin next Thursday, md IL will be finished bo-
peted from Coney Isnnd TO wer's Hill.
Two hundred and llfty men aro employed on
the extension OF the Prospect Park and Coney
Island Railroad. which is 70 run from Cables
Murray'sl The road will run behind most OF
the intervening small hotels on the beach, but
In front OF the Centennial building. and di-
EresctlY over ne site Of the building used by the
Culver has bought tho Buckingham Hotel. Just
east OF tho depot and the Children's Aid So
ciety will use II.
Ing Of nm east wing on tho Brighton Beach
Hotel. Mr.. Bresln will open the lower part OF
the hotel tbHrs and restHuran) about tho mid
haitian Beach Hotel about the same time, Eli
oft Brothers n Co. of New York are building Il
variety theatre in tho rear OF the buckingham.
in which the first performance is to be given
about the 25th Of June.
William Engerman has secured ten years
lease from the Commissioners OF Common
Lands OF the town of Gravcsend Of ten lots at
tho east end OF tho Boulevard. adjoining the
which he will erect additions to his pavilliOns
The Rod Hussar Band Of Hamburg. which
came 70 this country last fall To- give concerts.
Will play this summer at the West Brighton
Beach Hotel. Neuendorf will play az the
Brighton Beach Hotel. Downing at Cables and
Gilmore at Manhattan Beach.
The trains on two Of the Coney Island rail-
roads Yesterday afternoon ran hourly One
which started from the Prospect Park depot at
O'Clock carried eighty nine passengors TO the
island, ten OF whom were women Most OF
men who had been coaxed out OF their houses
by the warm noon sun. AT O'Clock bleak
wind blew in from the sea. and the one or two
hundred persons who had been visible here
and there about the village OF hotels and pavil-
ions hurried to the depot or clustered about
the Few bars that were found open.