New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-07-18
SUNDAY OUT OF TOWN.
PLEASURE AT COMFY ISLAND.
20 SURE. BUT MANY NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.

NO SURF, BUT MANY BATIiERS-GUESrS AT THE
HOTELS.
There was no surf at COney Island Yesterday,
but the day without fault. The breeze, although
from the land, brisk and COOL and while it combed
down the waves the Shore dashed the spray back
in pretty ranbOws, and specked the water further
with white glmpses of foam There large crowds
upon all the beaches and the bathing grounds particu-
larry the one at Manhattan Beach. filed with a
merry crew. as happy and hideous salt water and
flannel could make them. good many persons who did
not care to battle amphitheare pa
Von where they could look down at their leisure upon
the three or four hundred bathers clngng to the floats
OF tlinbing among the waves. Fifty women shared the
sport some of whom remained in the part of the ground
reserved Tor their separate while others followed
thelr protectors into the general ground.
1t IS curious to see how completely quiet and dec
orous person Will be metamorphosed i'll the surf.
whether because of the extraordinary costumes the
uncercmOnOus handling of the those who into
the water at the beaches to lose all Of the
binary bounds of behavior; yet some might be seen
among the bathcrs yesterday who seemed to remember
that it just such occasion of relaxation which il
the surest test of real refinement
The precautions against accident at Manhattan Bench
make bathing safe possible Besides the lifclincs
which reach tar beyond the point to which most swim
venture. there is boat always in attendance
manned ny who keeps the whole space under
his eye kind OF barcoOed patrol adds by his presence
to the general sense of security.
The Oriental Hotel winning this season the success
that it deserves The Verndas closed against
curious strangers, but the chairs reserved for the
guests of the house. and there is atmosphere cx
cusvcness which keeps the crowd away There were
800 guests at the hotel yesterday, among them
Edmund G. Stcdman and wife. \. Il. Whyland and fam
lily, j. Blacnan and wife, j. a. Roosevelt wife,
and T.. W Jewctt all of New York George H. Fish of
Brookyn G. M. Wahl, of Boston and Mrs j. 5. Della
van, of Albany.
The Manhattan had nearly 400 guests and the register
OF the Hotel brighton did not tail far short of that
Der The crowds in front of both houses large
Neither hotel doing the amount of business that
1t dl year result partly due Perhaps 10 the
weather, and partly to the fact of the gate
Keepers suggested, that people not quite free with
their money as they were year ago.
The peasaniest time on pleasant day at Concy Island
Is the hour of sunset. and the number of visitors prob
ably greatest then They gather upon the setees and
the boardwalks overlooking the and watch the col
ors i'll the sky that pass through all the shades of blue
and violet aud gray until the deeper brown them
that II is time to turn away and their homes again
II would not be hard matter to divide the visitors
into two ciasseshose who enjoy the day who
marked and the number of those who 20
to the shore only to find the day a wcari-
some search for pleasure il by means insignih-
cant. Those who discuss politics and business on the
beaches rs vehcmenty a. they do i'm their counting
rooms might be puzzled to give good reason for making
the change; while the bnsht yollg who finds him
self tied for the day To the tonIccd Young
obviously far from content. Most of the pleasure
seekers, however find what they look in the con
tlsous gaycty of crowd. and DOUBT profit by
Tile cool DrceZeS and the relaxation of the holiday.