New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1882-06-25
CHIyGES 1T COMFY IsL1ND.

TTE DESTRUCTION or MANHATTAN AND BRIGHTON
BEACHE-FXpEEIMENr TO RESTORE THEM
THE WEsT END
Each year makes Coney Island n new study TO
one who has watched It's development in seven
years from an untashiouable and repuigve sand
beach without hotels 10 The most popular Of summer
resorts for metropolitan residents. This year the
changes which have taken place are az marked
az those in any previous year, and point
10 greater changes to come. The natural
changes which NAV be noted are among the
most important, involving as they do the
uent Of the heretofore most attractive
bathing beaches % Manhattan and Brighton
The riy1ces Of the ocean at Manhattan Beach,
which began on the completion of tho bulkhead oil
stone and timber that was erected for the protection
of the Manhattan Beach Hotel and bathing-houses
and the Marine Railway, have extended along the
entire front Of this property, and beyond 1t to
nearly the whole front of Brighton Beach. This de-
struction seems bound to continue as long ~ the
bulkhead stands and yet to take il away NJ once
from in front Of the Manhattan Beach Hotel Is
equivalent 10 letting the ocel IN through to Sleeps
head Bay. The company has discovered that the
sand will not cling to the wooden spiles OF the
bukhead but washes t. the right or left according
TO the direction of the wind; and D. G. CorbIn re-
Gently admitted that the bulkhead had been
costly experiment.. Sand must have sand 70 build
upon To- form or extend a beach and with this idea
a u.rIous experiment has been begun Manhattan.
II successful u will result in the removal Of the
bulkhead gradually, but as rapidly as Will be con-
sstent with safety. Auou fifty yards OF the bulk
head east o. and directly adjoining the bathing
houses have been removed, and on Sunday last the
OCEAN was beating against the sand at that polnt.
The first tide after the removal Of the bulkhead
D. Ella ..tr4 tt-|. f|p
90 the right and left of it the waves dashed yo-
lcrtlv against the bulshrad distinctions. they
rolled mp on tine sand at the point indicated with
the utmost plo.idiry and moulded it into smooth
and soft bed. The chances arc though 1t is by ro
means certain. that TIN, beach will increase and d.
&, then the purpose of the company gradually To-
te.rup tine bulkhead toward the east along tine
whole front OF the Oriental Hotel and permit the
beach 90 restore itself.
''I~was an error" said VT. Corhiu TO a.t'mpt
10 build Grass plots here, and then protect them
with % costly bu'kheld. We should have given the
visitors sand to their hearts content"
Mr.. Corbiu was confident of the result q the *
parimcntju begun. and tine eventual rrstosa ion
OF what was once "a magnificent stretch of beach cv-
tending hundred yarus further cut % sea than II
does of present.
Brighton Beach has suffered a. the Manhattan
Company- property la, tloagh NOT set t1 the same
extent. Bur much of Brighton Beach as it. existed
n year ago BIAS disappeared. Al high tide the water
beatsazaig-t Ln-emau's lighthouses, and reaches
worry nearly 10 the wooden walk eXten ling along
the whole front OF ihe Hotel Brighton. The Ht-ie
round house I'm its 'front.' which formerly was O..
least two hundred feet inland %, high tide Is now
almost surrounded at tho urn Of the high tide and
must eventually bee washed away Il the process of
! destruction of the beach goes on. IN view OF the