The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1879-08-23

- DOW q great watering place 10 ittcit. OF
all comfortable places il IL the most CON-
Portable during The hot months. 1t lies on a
splendid bay, and two great rivers sweep around
il. There is much ignorance ia the matter Of
summer resorts. People exchange large comfor-
table houses in the city, with abundance OF room.
and constant supplies OF pure water, for small
i'll furnished quarters in country houees.
destitute OF bath tubs. As FOR food every first
class hotel within two hundred miles Is supplied
with meats from the city markets. From these
markets 20 out the best varieties Of fruit and
vegetables. 1t is the fashion, however, TO 40 out
of town during the months Of July and August.
A few years hence there will be q great change In
the manner of spending vacation. Dsrins the be.
months people will stay in the city. In Sspten-
Der and October they will seek the country
In the growth of this city two OF The most
important factors are rapid transit 70 Coney
Island. or rapid transit nothing definitely can
DOW be said excepting that il he a "monstrous
convenience II will ultimately give erenf
valae to real estate in certain parts OF the CITY.
Every speculator is trying TO find the locality.
In the great struggle for commercial supremacy
ii has an important bearing. The cost Of land.
OF rental, has been so high, il gave other cities
some advantage in cheapening manufacturing.
Now rapid transit brings in cheap land. and
makes cheap rents. The great need 10 Cor well
built comfortable houses. which will rent for
$500 per year. We shall soon have then. II
is strange TO hear a New Yorker talk about
Coney Island. He regards il as a discovery.
- h1haNJ go ~ NtaN 8Ah4 1tAADH ANIMN ~
wart the ocean, and eternally pounded BY ito
long surges, the rowdies and blackguards OF thu
city have met and bowled and fought. Aner
one of their picnics, you might 20 about with q
basket and gil il with noses bitten OF, ned care
without owners, articles mislaid in the gentle
sport of the bruisers. The only redeomine
feature was that the grim old ocean annually
disposed OF a lot Of the drunken wretchcs by
drowning them. So Coney Island was a by word.
In the twinkling Of an eye all is changed. The
trouble has been, that between the city and the
Island there was no rapid transit. One line was
opened, and then another. To-day there are six
rival lines, capable Of handling with ease n hun
dred thousand people. The important fact Ia.
that it makes New York a great watering place.
a matter OF no small moment 10 summing up her
social, and commercial advantages. The CITY
merchant, or the country merchant abiding here
for the purchase of goods, may leave business at
5 p. NJ, run down to Coney Island, spend an
hour on the great broad sand beach, take his
dinner, and return to his home or his hotel at q
p. NJ, and the trip il especially pleasant whe,
made by water only. Long Branch, and the
Jersey coast for twenty miles will hold their
OVID. But the visitor in that direction must re-
main all night. Coney Island does not interfere
with home comfort. You take your seat on the
steamer, face the fresh breeze for half an hour.
read the evening paper, and return to your own
home, at any hour you please. OF course 90
pleasure resorts, these places are fine. But az
great comfortable sanatariums for New York and
Brooklyn, they are of tho utmost Importance.
The face that 20 900 people can most convenient
ly wash themselves every day in the Atlantic
ocean, bear strongly On the standard OF health.
IL means that in the course Of time, the average
health. and physical tone OF these city people
will be higher than in the inland cities.
Strangers are astonished at the great resources
OF this city, In the way Of Summer resorts. Be-
sides the ocean frontage. there is q vast tract of
mountainous country, which is perfectly available.
Three hours easy travel by rail, take you to the
Catskills, the Shandakin and the Delaware ranges.
You can find hundreds ofhotels and boarding houses
at 1900 feet elevation above tide water. The views
are exquisite, for there is a rare combination OF
mountain, valley and river. The farm houses are
turned into Summer boarding places, and new
hotels are being built on the prominent poinss.
Excellent board can be had at FIVE dollars per
week. An excursion ticket from this city to the
heart OF the Catskills, going and returning, a dis
lance OF ninety miles, cost 81. so. You may
leave your hotel, situated on some spot, where
the views are as fine as mountain views need be-,
in the morning, transact business in the city aud
be at home to tea. These advantages. like those of
the sea will have some day a marked effect on the
physical condition OF our people.
Better than all else is the work that
sweet charity is now doing here. In the old
fashioned il-ventilated tenement houses, thou
sands of sick women and weak children
are grooming in the sitting air. or one thing
they were always sure, OF their heritage Of sorrow.
To be sure, on Sundays. the little wretchcs were
gathered in, and told sweet stories OF good chill
dreD. AS for the rest, they were allowed TO fall
back into the reeking dens. Now come those who
believe, " the deed is better than the creed = and
take the weary mothers, and these sad eyed chill
dren out Of mans dominion into Gods dominion,
the pure wide air. The st. Johns Guild and the
Fresh Air Fund of the Evening Post are working
on the theory that healthy bodies are better Ct
ted to hold healthy souls, than sickly bodies are.
The manager of the Post Fund visits the farm
es and residents along the lines Of raiIway running
out of the city, and pcrsuades each family to take
from one to i've OF these poor children fs two
weeks. On the day appointed the manager
starts from the city with perhaps a hundred OF
these children. They are washed up and Clearly
clad, In the first instance. As the towns are reach
ed, the children are distributed. After q two
weeks scamper along the streams, and through
the orchards, they are returned to their homes.
Others take their places or elsewhere. Hundreds
of children are now entertained in this way.
There is only one complaint. These little half
starved beggars get into the country farmhousesand
brag of their city homes. They speak Of the great
tenement houses and make comparisons with the
little country houses. The manager has announc-
ed In the papers, that allowances must be made
for them that without exception they are miser-
ably poor. This is a little affair in human ma
ture, and, after all, not so very singular. This
form of charity is regarded with much favor BY
that large class OF business men who are rather
mistrustful of religious charities. The money
comes in freely. 1 have seen, in a stock brokers'
the hat passed around by scme one, with
this remark, " boys, we understand this sort Of
and | have seen the hat full of bills.
Fifty years ago. children were operated upon by
up their little souls first, without q
of the body. Now we are getting their
bodies in training, with very definite and mani
Improvement Of the soul. Even good DIR.
Prime of the Observer, has been taking a new
view of the situation, and while be has not lost
faith in the good old catecbism. is quite willing
to allow the religious influence OF pure air, and
cold water.
l cannot close without referring to the spIen-
work done, and being done, in the charita-
line by women of wealth aud high social
here. After great effort, a law was
passed creating the State Charities Aid Society.
Its members have no right to interfere in the adj
ninistration of affairs, but they have a right to