The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1879-08-04
OUT OF TOWN.
Where New yOrk'S Perspiring Thou
sands Spent Sunday.
COMFY ISLAND OyERCR0WDED.
A Cool Evening After Day Of
Tordd Heat


1t has been written many times that "the multi
tude on Coney Island yesterday exceeded that OF any
day this and it may safely be written again
The excessive heat OF Friday and the terrible torture
OF Saturday sent every who could afford the time
and the money out OF town. The consequence was
that there not bedroom left i'll any OF the
Coney Island hotels, big or little the dining
rooms were utilized for ertmpore sleeping apart
ments and cots were put up in barrooms
and billiard saloons. When the torrid heats of
Sunday drove the multitudes from New York and
Brooklyn, packing the hotels, thronging the pavii-
ions, blackening the beach and raising conundrums
as to the strength of the iron pier itself. HERALD
reporters were put upon the track and their stories
tell of discomfort heat. overcrowding and discour
agement The boats to Nortons Point were
crowded all day long They deliver passengers
on Norton's dock. from which by two roads the
throngs 60 either to Norton's pavilion and bath
ing establishment or by Culver's jolly little rail
way to the Sea Beach Palace the Pier, Bauer sand
Cables AS the HERALD has heretofore shown this
is the horn OF the island, the end where Nature
regns supreme where the sandhills erect their
wind swept fronts as they did hundred years ago,
and children dig and play and up to their
hearts content. 1t is understood that friends of
ator Norton contemplate changing all this. Instead
of untrammeled and uncultivated nature. fash
hotel hundred cottages. to be leased by the season.
and all the appurtenances of first class watering
place to be erected and offered to the public in
the ensuing season. There will soon be but little
left of Coney Island 1t AS il u.s. there is but
little to remind of its barren waste, limited
accommo dations and millions of mosquitoes in
years gone by.
TIE BUSY WEST BRIGHTON.
West Brighton q busy place all day yesterday.
There centred the Sea Beach Palace with its vast
amplitude of piazza and huge feeding arrangements;
Feltmans old time pavilion, the great iron Pier,
now of the chief attractions of the island Paul
Bauer's immense hotel with it's mammoth COW
and innumerabe side shows; the Observatory with
its extortionate charge of fifteen for
ride to the top; Cables celebrated hotel. where the
tuneful Arbucixle charms the with exquisite
music; the Carrousel the Aquarium. Vanderveer's
and the Oceanic Everybody and everything there
is the perpetual go. Like tigers cage the
people walk and walk continually. Now and then
they stop long enough to take a clam and gulp
down glass of beer, but occasional stoppages don't
count for like the guards at Waterloo. they areup
again and at it.
From West Brighton to Brighton Beach is a short
and pleasant drive over an asphalt roadway, fast
ing to decay There it is that competition proves
itself the life trade and and then threatens
be the death of traders. There regular and ir-
regular omnibuses and hacks that charge five cents
for each passenger, and the strife between
tween rival runners on the Albany boats
The heat all the island excessive all day
long Perhaps the hottest place OF all was the drive
between Vanderveer's and the Hotel Brighton, ON
which the hot sun beat fercey from ten till five
o'clock. The asphalt was like rcd hot stove and
reflected the heat so that it was terrible
for the horses and torture to passengers.
| The Hotel Brighton turned away more than two
hundred and fifty applicants for before twelve
! o'clock. Superintendent Darwin says that all the
early trains rain are packed sUsrS6ody thinking that the
room; but they were all disappointed. The lodging
accommodations OF the hotel are prepared for tour
hundred and fifty to five hundred people. IL they
could find room for double that number the place
would be none too large The fact is noticeable
in all the regular hotels and will lead to greatly
larged facilities next season. On the piazza very
early in the morning were noticed General Arson
Stager ana family, General McCook. General Merritt.
General Curtis. Genera James Jourdan. Henry q.
Murphy and large number of politicians. 1t was
known that Secretary John. sherman was
expected during the day. and General Curtis
and others hand anxious to meet
nse twelve. ana dnsS & oeSeh
party of personal and political friends. He was
rcIaxaton which his vacation grants. In the
afternoon and evening Liberau and the regular
band gave dengnnui concerts nee, which We're lis
tending the introduction of sacred numbers on the
Sunday Ssng Is worthy OF mention t"r
| of thought suggested to Liberati few
weeks since to give an occasional sacred
slant recognition and success that he had medley
OF the more poplar hymn tunes arranged, beginning
|
.'The Doxoogy. So popular has the selection be-
come that the audience gathers by thousands in
net strikes in Praise Him from whom all bless
ings fow." they join in thunderous unison and with
tremendous effect.
At Manhattan Beach Mr.. Burnap welcomed another
great and pcrspiring throng. II his hotel were
twice big IL could easily be flied. As it Ii. it is
running over with patronage. GIlmores Band and
Levys cornet are great attractions. and immense
throngs avail themselves of the bathing establish
ment which Is in many essentials the best on the
island. There. however. az everywhere else.
the great question and problem OF the day is, Whit
is to be done apout drainage and sewage? At very
low estimate 100000 people visit Coney Island
every week. Some railroad men insist that 500 900
would be more correct estimate. For the physical
accommodation of these visitors it is obvious that
some preparation should be made, and thus far it
has been most difficult to accomplish it. 1t is clear
that tons Of garbage, refuse. broken victuais
and equally patent that in some unequiyo
cally healthful mode all other kinds of waste
stanty. The danger resulting from a neglect of
this branch of the islands hygiene cannot be over
! estimated. The germs OF disease IL stored IN the
hotels buried in the mountaineering sand, must
at some time develop and work ruin among the
people. The two large hotels run the waste
the creek in and the bay in the other.
the theory being that the tide carries it of during
might properly be termed bazaar, II IL
centre for nearly all the side shows the
island, soil pipes convey the wastarc To huge
oblong iron tank under the pavilion floor. IL
looks like boiler and is Theoretically sealed.
! Late at night steam IL lOfCcu INTO the thnk,
aud the contents liquicd aud driven through
pipes far ont into the ocean. That these expceniIs
are temporary on. must be evident, for the popula-
ton OF tine island is growing every year ana prop
orty holders near Shccpshead BAY are not likely
consent further dctrnlcnt to their fortunes. The
dead hsh and dead crabs tell "a story that carries "A
warning TO human creatures. and suggest the tate
| that may some time ovurtake them. Colonel Ircs
/ lin regards 1t the problem which capital
lists must The Brighton aud Manhit-
tan people have invested millions of dollars
in their respective enterprises. aud 10 is not
likely they Will neglect the important feature longer
than they help. The garbage question was
moro easily disposed of. Farmers send their wagons
every morning before daylight and the rcfuse
| away. paying largely for the privilege No
plant has yet been made about that and IL il not
probable there will be. great is taken hide
the process from the eyes and and of the
people in the hotels.
About five O'Clock yesterday afternoon q huge dark
| cloud alpCarcu the ocean horizon. Gradually IL