Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1879-07-11

RADIx OUT OF TowN-LIrE AT CoNEY ISLAND
FIREWORKS ON THE FoUBTH-THE NEW PIER
A MONEY MAKING NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
TRANSACTIONS IN TOWN.

FIREWORKS ON THE FoUBTH-THE NEW PIER
A MONEY MAKING ENTERPR1sE-MoNEY
TRANSACTIONS IN TOWN.
New YoRK, July 9TH, 1879.
The season at the seaside resorts opens
this week. Large crowds have been making
daily visits to Long Branch, Coney Island,
Rockaway, etc, for several weeks, but the
ball does not fairly get to rolling before the
first of July. BY the time the GLORIOUS
Fourth arrives the entire city, and all the
towns in its vicinity, pour their inhabitants
out into the popular resorts Cars and steam
boats are crowded to surocaton, perspiring
multitudes rush nervously about in search of
rest and recreaton and by nightfall on the
Fourth, the great majority of excursionsts
are limp and exhausted. The man who has
the best of it Mt such a time, is the one who
remains quietly at home on the Fourth of
July, and who reads his paper smokes his
segar, drinks his julcp and eats his dinner in
comfortable manner while the rest of crea-
ton are tearing about in vain cndeavor to
have good time OF all the places in the
world to see life in turmoil, commend me
to Coney Island, from the West end fire.
quented by the commoner and rougher ele-
ment of our city population to the East end,
which is the resort of responsibility, shoddy,
vice, in fact every phase of life that can be
imagined. Coney Island, until about three
years ago, had very bad name. Decent
people would not go there. 1t was almost
entirely given over to the depraved 1t could
only be reached by an unpleasant railway
journey, with frequent changes from horse
cars, or by boats packed with vicious men
and women, who made things lively for the
company until they dispersed at the beach
The Island was celebrated then for three
things, three-card-monte men, roast CLAIMS
and surf bathing. The center and the east
ern end of the Island was dreary stretch of
sand that was little frequented. During the
Centennial summer a noted New York res
tdurdteUr opened hotel at the center of the
Island, and a sufficient distance from the old
establishments to give it an air of respecta-
bility. His object was to provide hotel
that would not only satisfy the wants of ex-
cursionsts but would afford attractions to
people who wished to pay something more
than passing visit to Coney Island beach.
which is noted ms being one of the finest in
the world
Cables was successful, and his example was
Immediately followed by other enterprsing
parties who formed company and pur-
chased large tract of sand, upon which they
erected the Manhattan Beach Hotel Two
lines of railroad were built to connect this
hotel with New York. Manhattan Beach was
Immediately followed by Brighton Beach and
its hotel, situated little east of Cables.
Then the eyes of the inhabitants of New
York and the surrounding country were
opened to the fact that close beside them was
a splendid seaside resort that could be com
fortably reached in about one hour and thir-
ty minutes, at an expense of fifty cents in
Guiding the return trip. People did not fully
appreciate the new order of things until last
summer. Then they went to the extreme, as
Americans generally do. They made con.
tinual rush for Coney Island, depriving them
selves of sleep and comfort to accomplish
their aim. They neglected business to get to
Coney Island, and were pleased with the
feather and tickled with the straw of Coney
Island in every way, shape and manner
suppose / shall do as every one else does to-
day that's, go to Manhattan Beach to see the
:. n''"oi -, anu 'ne oie o"iiooh' eat uihher
'hH' VIII eoS' nearly twice as much AZ at any
first-cass restaurant in town hear Levy
twang his little horn, Che twangs his Tyre on
ly when he is talking y take dip in ''old
Oceans saline spray" as Tooker would call it
III ni' lSNiou'h MGR ADVERTISEMENTS ana
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anu '"Aes III from sfuo TO S"o" day 1t Is
run "' " u"iiy cost Oh e"o' ana S2o'oOo were
upon nS construction ana equip
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"o''' ~ 'n' o'n'r ny TINS ro"u Is Just hHlt
minute o"' ''S B,'"t "u''h'aBe Is mat II has
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'"''loh a.. inc iSinnu 'o-niBut VIII DC The hre-
"oiAs Inc Pyrotechnic uiapmy' rs the
man thu' sets the fireworks on Is fond OF
Gaming IL, Will De the hrSt OF series OF week
y oAniul''ons 70 "o gwen through the season.
D"ioS ram, ryro'eenh'S' 10 the Alexandra
-, "i"''' Lonuon' mas u'en engage 10 direct
'le eh'erl"'hiientS' mere Is 10 be an iiin-
minated in'aue we" Oh the Mahha'tan Beach
iio'eI WIN ,no "oruS, success 10 Mahhat-
."n be"ch' inns design Delng 40 feet IN
length and 90 IN width. Then there will be
a representation of Niagara Falls by stream
OF golden fire, the entire design being 60 feet
high and 20 feet wide There will be fiery
fountain, IN which streams of molten gold
SILVER will be thrown up toa height of 40 feet,