New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1880-08-14
SUMMER LEISURE.
CROWDS AT COMFY ISLAND.

CROWDS AT COMFY ISLAND.
MANY PERSONS TURNiD AWAY FROM HE HOTELS
A GREAT THRoNG OF Transient VISITORS
THOUSANDS OF BATHERs.
The various lines OF communication with
Coney Island were wen patronized rday The new
route OF the NewYork and breh on Beach Railway
Company did large and encouraging business. The
cars line. running from Locust Grove 10 Brighton
are Of attractive pattern, and comphmented by
the patrons OF the road.
4 ine surf was running yesterday, and there were
many pathers from Norton's Point TO the East
End. The number Of persons who use the bathlng pa
vions Manhattan Beach is very great. and issteady
iDcreasn tho advances. Yesterday the
throrg WIS perhaps little greater than the average
Thousands Of swimmers. from timd. shrinking guls'
who cung tenaciousy to the safety lines TO strong men
who seemed or the skill Of Boyton and WebD,
plunged freely into the surf which is pure Jus now AT
least The vigorous warfare by Mr.. COrbm and In
specior Hopkins against Illegal dumping has resulted III
securing on Manhattan Beach immunity from the gar
b1ge that formerly polluted iis waters. -, ,ooo, q,
There tBc display of fireworks on me oeach ~
Hotel Brighton last evening. THIS evening the AieXan
dra Fireworks Company VIII give their weekly eAhlDF
ton at the Manhattan Beach fine programme Is
promised including the pieces that have heretofore Oee
popu ar ,, ,,, .
until the flags dropped lazy upon their masts ana te
became smooth that scarcely ripple broke liS
glisteniug surface. FaGs and iced drinks came quchiy
into requisiton and tor time The coo ness OF the sea
shore seemed TO have departed An evening bTeeSc
came stealing the waters. however ana the
agile mercury which had risen to 500, retired in con
fusion TO 4 nu3h lower round Of the ladder. -
The hotels al Coney island are st 0vercrowdcd The
chet duty OF the clerks appears 10 be To repeat the
storcotyped expression, " No rooms. Sir unless you
have engaged them by telegraph" Occasionally they
words OF nsOiatiOn To the diSappOiuic MP
plcants by iel,lng OF the that have within the
past lew hours been rcpulscd III Ike manner AT even
| ing countless throng OF passengers crushed ana
crowded INTO the drpDIs and through the gatcways
taxing the Of the roads to their utmost ENta
trans every few minutes on some OF ne roads
during the entire evening. ana even these Win IOH
| 10 ten each were conultty Hlitd
Among arrivals AT The hotels yesterday wer9 the
osnta' H2cl-Iosenh Hunt oysrwiW1ms s Gn "a 2
| Watts, Liverpool, England; G. W. Van Court Mt Yer
non, 4 y; ". II. Merrill, Boston: ". II. Red, Brook
Ign; James . and Miss CARR r Gardiner, H. r. Cory
ham Ritter, james d. Hiobs and WIFE. ;. NJ Elliott and
| Vrrdeibnrg Rochester J. NJ. G. Bartholomew and fam
ily Orange, y. j.; j: W Hampton PhIaoeiphia A. r.
Wermorc aud family. :. a. ilsey and wife, New YORK;
| Manhattan Beach Hotei.-George W. K'binson and
son and wlf4 Boston; ID. c. Hon ton, Milwaukee,
| NJ wnelan aud wife. syracuse. n. ri I. W Matthew's
| WIN r. Mcmillan and family. salem, Mass; II. Brooke
and wife, Philadelphia; spooner and family. Bridge
| Stevens, Germantown. Penn; George W. Sknner,
Denver. Col; d. 4 skinner 7yr1cIsr n y; D. ", Nor
Col; J. G. VI. Krhlor and wlir. kenosla. Wis; George
f. Dodge. W haairoIck ana wilc Lewis D4N lson Hnu
wlc. New YORK: a NJ Quarter and family. Louisville,
X; f. + McElwcU. t. :. n; t. p. CasSell and Wife,
H. i Mclean ana WIFE, J. ". Pen n anu h. d. Casseii
Hotel B,Tgst9n-J. L. wicnabcr. Cincinnati, Ohio
| Mrs DR. j. B Johnson, ST. Louis H. W. Is shop, wife
aud son. chicago b. Dmmmopd and WI. New Jersey
r. C. search and family Pniad phla; Misses ate ana
Annie f chcnor Mr.. g. sjcIue. MIS-, Emily sterling,
bridgeport, Conn; A.Wrl Baltimore W. ~ Nin Auden
aud wifi, BroOKlyn; VI. Hr-hler and wife, POt-ylie,
! Penn; ". w. Aver ard J. VI. Lent. Boston, W 1.
| Hodges and wife. Windsor, Conn T. :. Vanderbilt and
family. Norwak. Conn; ". Lyons and SON Plii-hnrg
senator j. +. Jonas New rlcarsi the Hon L. q wash
ington Washington d. G.; " ". Dib1e, Orange. y. j.;
Il. C. and ] stewar' Elston Penn; t4e Hon Sampei :
{. and wife. II. Schals ami wife, william y Poud ana
wife. I. o. BuilocS and wife. Peter tiii-ry and VIE,
Simon Stevens, Henry VI. Bruce, NeW-loik.