New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-05-20
RANDOM NOTES All. COMFY ISLAND.

TIE PROMISE OF THE COMING SEASON
| A GLANCE AT THE HOTELS THE BEACHES, PAVIL-
| IONS AND OTHER OBJECTS OF INTEREST.
There is tradition that Sir Henry Hudson
was the frat to dispute the proprieors the posses
sion OF Coney Island but that finding the prices so high
and the beer poor he relinquished his clam Tor
paltry sum, bought excursion ticket on the Mary
Powell and started for Albany Sir Henry had no deS re
to figure the keeper of bathing machines or to stay
where there such superfuity of water 80 early
one une morning before the dew had gone to grass he
miey stole away But Others with an eye for Invest
ments more keen than his, were early to the rescue
Coney Island quickly filed IN with garbage planted
with lighthouses and soon bossomed Into iul-Dio"h
| summer resort.
Coney Island looks to-day just about it did at the
close OF last season-possiby little The hotels
| seem trihe rusty 1t is difficult no doubt to keep
them fresh the salt water but there Is TINS con-
ISOLATION, that whatever the hotels lack In freshness
| is always made up by the walters Ihs Is peculiarly
true Of Coney Island. Aside from the weaher-beaten
look of the hotels they as they were last season
But while they have suffered very noticeable change
the mana cement has The hotels to stand the sea
better than the managers In the eastern part Oh
the slsnd the three large hotels have yielded mp inc "H
and will take themselves managers. James IT,
Bresin of the Gsey House, in this city, managed The
Hotel Brighton for five years His experience was such
that at the expiration his lease last fail he gave MP
without murmur The excellence of the Brighton sand
witch has been great attraction FOR the people ID
| BROOKLYN. Mr.. Brcsn OF course hal no objection 10
their eating sandwiches, but there was so hte eau 10Y
anything else that every the sandwich capacity
OF the was severely taxed And as there very
| little profit IN Brighton sandwiches Mr.. Bresin con
cluied 70 Join other parish He has taken charge
both of the Manhattan Beach and oriental hotels which
| last year managed by Burnap, Mcklnme q Co.
Charles Leland for nerly OF the Dcsvan House in Al
bany has leased the Hotel Brighton lie hopes 10 open
| Monday. May 2s.
The Manhattan Beach Hotel will he continued on the
European PLAN II contains about 800 rooms and in the
| height Of the season regrets that II has no more.
| The New-YorI Club and the COney Island
| Jockey Club will again occupy suites OF rooms
| in the Manhattan. II will be opened on 30 Ahe
| Oriental will he conducted the American plan. II
.,oces m 49, airy rooms and plenty Of backyard for
children. This hotel will rot swing wide It's portals
until June beautiful ndimpOsing structure wnic
| re,oces in the name of "picpic PAVILION and has
stood for a longer time than it ought between Manhat
tan Beach ard the Oriental has been moved back about
200 feet People who GO to COney Island to eat biscuits
| and drink milk viii Doubt regret the change The
lie OF tho "pcknicker" this season Will he hard one
When the removal Of this hospital for pcnies Il com
pete young at on the porch OF the Manhattan
Beach Hotel and Hirt with the young women on the
porch OF the Oriental The change will he appreciated
| by the young men,
trip TO tne beach shows that with the budding spring
and singing birds Concy Island has shared the general
| awagemng. The wiseacres who prOphesicd dun sea
| son have changed their tune. The indications
are that this Will he q gala season Certainly
"a far as the hotels conc rned
the prospect il bright aud almost eXhiIarang. II !.
a time Of great activity. Three hundred men are hard
| at work every day al Brighton, Ma1hai a., West
Brighton and the iron per'. The panbru-h flashes ia
the sun and songs OF the hanmer and the
heard in the land The winters storms have somewhat
/ II fba I.a.a Fr.y atfta
udcious Of tue shovel and the hoe viii restore
ittoits former greatness. The scent railway had
trying experience through tie winter and came out
| little the Tor The Brighton Beach bathing
uayon having long furnished baths TO others took
| tself and in consequence is somewhat democrat
| lied The edge which
before several hundred feet in front OF for time
| about an equal distan behind it, The pavilion was
surrounded by bnt it has recently been moved
back on line with the station OF the 5ccnt railroad.
Tue Moorish pavilion and the fireworks poles suffered
severely from the storms. The beach between Brighton
and West Brighton unlnured but the roadway OF the
| Concourse is in very dilapidated state.
| over the sat marsh between Manhattan Beach and
the village Of sheepshead Bay 1t Is said that a bridge
| will be built. This bridge will fill ongfel want
The long stretch OF unauthorized sand that lay be-
tween Manhattan and Br ,hton beaches of the
attractions COney Island In its earlier Children
payed on it, mothers wept it and elderly persons,
with large Canes delighted TO write their thereon
But like the foam river like the bubble on the
fountain il has gone and forever The Marine Railway
did it, II will cost, heretofore. cents ride
this railway, and the driver Will furnish change 10 the
| amount OF 81
Down al the west end OF the island there Will be
cterng array cheap. dirty and little hotels. Here
the peanut will the air. and the cla-chowder.
consisting of and pint OF mud, VIII rival the
AQUARIUM There Will be unalioyed easurc here Beer
will be staple article OF commerce and Jersey
| lightning" will be the only attempt at fireworks
Vauderyter's the first Coney Island hotel TO open
this season. All tne hOtcs IN that vicinity washing
hg sIIV
| for the spring trade soon . - 800
The great piers have braved the blast md the bill
lows shock with great eqnaninity and fornde. SOme
the planning torn up and washed away, but tblt
damage repaired, Gnd the piers now ready
TO receive the remaining couples VINO did not finish
| their colriing last year
| The police arrangements az Manhattan Bcach-and
they are no small OF COucy Island fe-Dave
been completed aud the PnkertOns VIII again see that
tuc grass kept green ana tlat 10 one ESCAPES Win he
| hOIe spoons.
| Those monuments OF art, the wooden COW, camera
obscura, the observatory and Bunnclls Museum,
will again mako life miserable those few people who
do 90 tho ashore to see the circus or drink
| milk from wooden There Will also lie the
unusual lumber of rifle galleries and lemonade jungles
| to decoy the unwary and make the nappy sad.
The great rash OF people To Europe tnls summer Will
| VINO will go 10 Europe instead Of COney Island Will OF
course ned responsible for their folly But few
those who to Europe could afford 10 20 10 CObey
| Island, tAat Their absence will not be keeny felt
The music the Manhattan Beach Hotel VIII be under
the advice council direction of l.. sgfsed Gilmore
crowd His band viii help Linn out 10 the best OF hs
ability.
Oh May 70