The daily gazette., 1880-07-10
From the N. Y. Star, ,July4.
The Long Island Coast.
CONEY ISLAND AND ITS I'M
MENSE HOTELS. sh
THE THREE GREAT CARAvANsARIEs
OF THE CONTINUOUS CITY BY THE
SEA-HoW TO GET THERE.

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and The new hotel at Long Beach. J.
The greatest of all these hotels is The
new hotel at Rockaway Beach, thirteen
miles In straight line from New York,
This hotel is said to have been built
with Western money. Mr.. John "A.
Rice, from the fremont House in Chi
caso, is the manager. The new Rock,
away hotel is l, lS0 feet lons-as long as
the main buildi G at the Centennial EA-
hibition. 1t is iour times as large as
Madison Square Garden. 1t Is as lol Q
as seventy Fifth avenue houses. IL " III
accommodate permanently 1000 people,
and give entertainment temporarily 10
10000 visitors. The building is six stdr-
les high from base to summit, with q
promenade pavilion for 1900 people on
the roof. From this promenade the
view is superb. In the distance the
Brooklyn bridge stands up Ike the Arc
Of Triumph In Paris. Coney Island To
the westward, with Manhattan, the lie "
Oriental, Brighton, and Cables. looks
like Venice from the sea. Sandy Hook
rears itself from the ocean OH the uth,
The Garden City Cathedral pierces the
sky on the north, and the Palisades on
the Hudson and The distant Orange
Mountains in New Jersey stand against
the sky beyond Prospect PARK in Brook
i lyn. EGgatest and bathOtubs are in~200
rooms, and fresh water comes from eisE
teen wells. This hotel, like the hotel at
Atlantic City, is to be. kept open all the
year round. There are 1900 rooms,
1000 Of them fropting on the ocean. ~
The house s'built After the Queen Anne
style of archite shire. Two miles ofsdado
are made Of California red wood. The
piazza is seventy, 81 feet wide and. 2,S00
feet long. One dining room will seat
5000 people at one time. The o no e
company made one purchase of 10000
chairs. a.ia d - - 1"l1'"
This colossal building is erected on
narrow peninsula or sti ip of beach run
ming out into the ocean like Cape Cod.
| The building has its front and two ends
OH the ocean, and Its rear on Jamaica
Bay. The hotel is almost entirely sur
rounded by water. rgt
| =. The n in. ,of tbe beach juaing into the
ocean beyond the hotel win be turned
into VI race course. sfhe new tubular
bridge, 1920 feet In length, with its q
| 900 gas jets, is near The hotel, 1t cost
81, 100000. Ii is safe TO say that ga, ,0OO,-
OOO will have been spent OIL buildings al
Rockaway before the tall.
Rockaway is thirteen miles from
New York City Hall, ard is reached in
forty-five minutes from Hunters Point
over the Long Island Railroad and the
New York, Woodhaven and Rockaway
Railroad.
Mr.. James Remsen of the Sea Side
House says "Thir y years ago pur-
chased eight or ten miles of beach here
for $500. Notwithstanding it ran back
into the country, everybody called me
crazy. When the Canarsie Railroad
was built, in order to get Mr.. Little
john to run boat across Jamaica Bay,
| gave him a mile of the Rockaway
beach. And now what do you think ?
Why, Littlejohn has sold $3.50. 900
worth of that little present, and still
has enough to make him rich Then
Oliver Charlick built road from ia
nacia through Far Rockaway. This
shortened the trip from New York by
half an hour. And now the New York,
Woodhaven and Rockaway Railroad
Company have built a road from Wood
haven and Glendale, on the Long Is
land Railroad, on piles across Jamaica
Bay, up to the big hotel. To-day we
have docks'in the rearof US pnJ amacia |
Bay, and a big iron pier running Of in
to the'oeeah for Steamboats,. and two |
railroads carrying passengers in twen-
ty five minutes from Hunters Point
and in forty minutes from New York,
and iustwenty, minutes from Brooklyns
Last Sunday the 27th of June, ,ex-Fire /
Commissioner VIM. Wainwright says
100000 peop e came here. | know we
batled 6,oO0 in front of one hotel.
The Grand Republic, the Columbia,
and the Americus are making six trips
daily from West Twenth- street,
Leroy street, and JEWELS wharf lFuLi i
ton Ferry, in Brooklyn Pretty lib
eral man | was, wasn't l." mused Bill
ly, "to give away mile of ocean beach
within thirteen miles Of New York ?
LONG BEACH, JG&
Another beach which has loomed up
in the ocean within twenty. five years
is Long Beach. This is the, hand
somest beach in the world. Here yau
can walk out 500 feet before the water
goes over your head. There is no un-
dertow. Here tke bathing is as safe
as in your bathtub at home, and The
sand is packed so level and hard that
you can ride over it on horseback.
Here there is no garbage. Here, on a
narrow island seven miles long, with
the great South Bay (where w5 get the
Blue Point oysters) to the eastward,
and within sight of Rockaway and
Fire Island, Sam Ward, Thomas r.
Sharp, w. M. Laffan, and other gen.
tlemen have built another mammoth
hotel. This new Long Beach hotel is
BOO feet long-as long as thirty-six
Tull-width houses on Fifth avenue.
The corridors are so feet wide. The
lining room is 175 by so, and in it and
other dining rooms 5000 people can be !
served at one time. A huge ventila-
ting shaft, 25 feet square and 80 feet
high, runs up through the centre of
the hotel. Opaque glass partitions on :
wheels, such as we see in Russian ho- !
tells, are used for separating private
parties in the dining room. AS at {
and with the new Oriental !
Hotel at Manhattan Beach, there are /
TO be several elevators. !
The music is furnished by sixty-one
Prussian musicians, who came over
under contract to the Long Beach In.-
Company.
The only approach to LOrg Beach is
over Receiver Sbarp's Long Island Rail
road flom Hunters Point and Flathush
avenue, Brooklyn. T