New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1882-03-20
4 PLEASANT DAY AT CONEY ISLAND.

The conditions for a days enjoyment at
Coney Island for weather was concerned, could
not have better than they yesterday at ANY
time OF the year The sky clear and the sun gilt
tered on the white sand while gentle breeze came in
from the ocean that did not have the least sugges-
ton OF a chill 1t mild that gloves were dis.
oarded and in some overoonts carried the
arm The view to the seward beautiful with the
water deep green and the highlands in the distance OF
a purple color There only need Of open hotels,
OF people and usty cabmen plying their trade to
reproduce a Sunday In the regular season. As It
was this informal opening OF the season on
the part Of the weather enjoyed by several
hundred people, who found their way down the In
reauent trains running the Brighton Beach Railroad
and the Prospect Park and COney Island Railroad or by
the street car The first batch OF visitors went
down on morning train. An afternoon train on one
road was crowded that Of the passengers
compelled to stand. Many drove down from Brooklyn
In carriages and bugges and took turn the Con-
course AS the hotels all closed landowners at
West Brighton. visitors could only find amusement in
watching surf break the beach, vessels under
full sail heading out The surf which higher
yesterday than any day this season. except on Saturday
was obstrcperous. Huge waves broke with sound
like the booming OF cannon, and with their
partly spent force cracked against the piles of the
bukhead like running fire of musketry throwing froth
and foam several feet into the air As usual those who
visited the Island scattered along the beach, that It
was only when they msssed together to take
train home that they shOwod their real force.
There are signs Of the Island waking up from It's
winter repOsc except West Brighton Carpenters
at work making some improvements I'm the West Brlgh
ton Beach Hotel which 10 known Paul Bauers. The
new pier Of the Brighton Pier aud Navigation Company
which used unfinished condition last year has
been completed and looks almost stately as Its
neighbor the Iron Pier. II Is 10 have restaurant,
bar and prOmenades At brighton Beach visitors yeser
day found the grass the pats front Of Hotel Brighton
already turning green But aside from this the grounds
were desOate few peasureseekers sat on the stops
leading the piazza Of the hotel In the but they
day nigh that 1t forced It's through the bulk
bead at the Bathing Pavilion and undermined the plat
FORM which In places broken down and destroyed
Several men employed in the afternoon with
wheelbarrOws trying 10 I'LL the excavation up. II
like putting sand into a hole without "a bottom and the
wheolbarrOws abandoned. From the condition OF
the bulkheads and platforms adjacent to the
getting dangerously near No Improvement
at this part Of the beach IS taxed Of,
except the enlargement oft Bathing Pavilion to which
wings fifty feet long to Dc added on either side.
The change I'm the conformation OF the Island which Is
going ON noticeable between Hotel Brighton and
Manhattan Beach. II Is beginning To appear ike q
hopeless fight which the Manhattan Beach Improvement
etties have been built between these points and
additional OF piles has been driven along tho bu X
head between the track OF the Marine Railroad and the
beach AS these jetties will formidable barriers
10 all but agile climbers strOlng along the beach here
will have be abandoned even M low tide. The Man
haitian Beach Hotel is stu boarded up There no
signs Of life about 10 yesterday except solitary watch
man who quietly smoked his pipe and kept his eyes to
seward The Oriental bore al equally deserted ap