New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1879-06-21
LOCAL MISCELLANY.
THE COMFY ISLAND SEASON.

SCENES AND PREPARATIONS AT THE VARIOUS
REACHES OF THE GREAT RFsoRT.
Culver,s beach road from Norton's Dock to West
brighton is now in perfect working order. and has
already become popular route to Coney Island.
1t gives sail of forty-fve minutes and railway
trip of only ten minutes along hitherto untraveled
part of the island. II did good business yesterday
and is likely to be the ruin Of Norton Murrays
Pavilion at the West End Nine-tenths of those
who went to Norton's Dock by the Rosesae ana
Sylvan Dell yesterday took the train for West
Brighton direct. The greatest crowd was at the
last named point The route is the shortest aud
most pleasant one for New-YoIkers to the Prospect
Park races, which begin to-day
Anew attraction at West Brighton is mechani-
cal COW from which milk is drawn at cents
glass but the animal is such dirty-looking beast
ms to disgust instead of attract customers In quest
of a temperate fluid.
The new pier is now nearly completed Next week
will give sufficient time to put the buildings in
order for the reception Of guests. The pier Will be
one of the most attractive spots at West Brighton as
promenade but IT is still question whether or
not boats will ever be able TO land there even in the
peasantest weather.
The GOODNESS of the weather at the beach still
keeps visitors in any great numbers away AT the
Brighton and Manhattan Beach Hotels single
page of the registers sutiCed TO contain the names
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places looked deserted, and Eugeman's Pavilion
at Brighton actually was. This place mas
been so surrounded with small ana vnl-
Gar side-shows of indifferent character
as TO become rather repulsve. The worst feature
about il is that IL in some degree 10 affect the
character of the Hotel Brighton itself and give the
latter the appearance of being the NOISY place whcu
81 not aud which II specially desires not TO be.
Mr.. Engeman Is building q Tace-eourse near mis-
pavilion, aud Is shortly to have races, bus RS lew
owners of valuable horses will ever consent to
stable or run their ANIMALS in such close proximity
to the Seash0re and in the salty breezes when
there 1t may be safely anticipated that the races
will he of cheap and spawned sort. The new music
stand of such novel construction as to he something
of an eyesOTe Is nearly completed. NeuenuOrHs
Philharmonic Band will not occupy 1t until July L,
At Manhattan Beach nearly everything Is In
forward state Of preparation; Inc new music sIan,
sacrificed to supposed utility, will be occupied LOT
the first time to-day by GllmOre's Band and Levy,
the coInet player VINO m s ta in Gong
about gruntng and complaining about the sur
rOuudings. The clearinghouse are now cOmplSle,
and ready for warmer weather ana any NUMBER
of guests. The inclOsure for bathers is
now so complete that pubhc batmng may
he said To he reduced absolutely to eXclusiyeness.
This bathing pavilion, the largest IN the world. Is IN
itself curiosity worth q trip to Manhattan Beach
to see The captive balloon will not be ready Tor
aScensiOns for fortnight yet. Six hundred feet
east of the Grand Pavihon--the picnic ground OF
Manhattan Beach-the London Pyrotechnic Com
pany is building an lnclosure 400 feet square, III
which il is proposed TO give, beginning july ~ a
series of displays of fire works on scale OF magnl-
ticence unknown in America. THIS company, of
which James Pain is the head, is the one which
for many years has been giving the remarkable
exhibitions of fire works at the Crystal and Alex
audria Palaces at London. Many of the pieces to
be displayed are $50 feet In length and reproduce
in various cOiOred lights some of the most Telnarka-
bic scenes of late years. Among others which Mr..
Pain has brought over from the Alexandria f9iaGe,
are the Marriage of the Princess Louise and the
Marquis of LOrne,' the "Debarkation of the Duke
of Edinburgh at Gravesend," and several OF the
Royal Yacht Squadron regattas. other designs,
peculiarly American, and patriotic as an English
man can make them, are also Iii preparation,
The arrangements Tor transportation TO
Manhattan Beach are now nearly perfect. One can
buy at any Elevated Railway station an excursion
ticket to the Beach, good both ways on the ele-
allnost.any minute from q. M to s p. III. at West
Twenty-second-st., Leroy-st Pier n. r., and
PIER l f r., for Bay Ridge and thence by double
track road, in elegant open cars, to Manhattan
Beach. The company has introduced new fea-
ture this seasOn-the Woodruff palace cars, one of
which is attached to each train. 1t is an innOva-
tiOn which Will soon be abandoned. The cars are
narrow, close and uncomfortable. The
charges are the nearest approach to swindle
which the Manhattan Beach Company has per
utted on its lines or its beach. The palace cars
on the Bay Ridge line run only about one-sIxth the
distance for which the company transports Its pas
ser gers for 45 cents yet every deluded person who
takes seat in one of them is charged 20 cents ex-
fra. A charge of 10 cents would be an imposition.
In the warm weather these cars will doubtless be
avoided from choice. but they ought to be from the
natural wish TO discourage extOrtlon on q line
where such pains have heretofore been taken to
avoid any thing looking like unfair treatment OF the
general pubic.