New-York tribune., 1883-06-18
SUNDAY By THE SEA
sPoRTIvE WINDS AT CoNEY ISLAND.
GooD-HUMoRED CROWDS AND MANY CHILDREN
OLD FEATURES AND NEW


OLD FEATURES AND NEW
The crowds who spent the day at Coney
Island yesterday had fine moral lesson preached to
them on the snfulness OF wearing fine clothes
upon the Sabbath day, for, though the
weather was warm ana sunny enough
whole, the wind had way of coming In gusts, and
those proud who bad dressed themselves o'tenta-
Ousy in tall silk hats sorry for it, But the people
in far too good humor be depressed by tres,
and when two hats came humping along the esplanade,
with two owners neck-and-neck behind them,
everybody regarded 1t such tremendous joke, and
cheered Justify that the owners had to pretend they
liked 1t too So, again. when amana dull and dignihed
person. faultessy upholseredtred to sit down on his
chair in front Of the Brighton Beach Hotel and missed 1t
by about half foot making the wooden piazza ring again.
and hundred or of people burst out laughing, he
seemed to enjoy 1t as much as anybody else. In
fact, everybody brimmng over with good
spirlts which only elouded once during
the day with the shadow OF tragedy. A
little grl-a tiny mite in bright blue clothes-tumbed
off the edge OF the esplanade into something less than
two inches Of water Immediately there was general
rush Of bonnes and parasos away from the fatal spot
and the air alive with cries Of" Save her" hero
was forthcoming oo who did her, although he got
his boots wet In the achievement
There were plenty Of children after this little
one carried dripping away. The whole
sand was studded thickly with them, as If
they had sproutod up in the night
like crop Of bright coored mushrooms after thunder
shower they had been washed by the last tide
and the had forgotten to take them back when it
ebbed. All alike busy digging pock-
marks and raising pimpes on the face
OF the beach with anything that would dig,
nexng II with spades buckets and clam shells what
ever would scoop up sand, and building up with their
castle walls the budding acqualltanceships which
interrupted last fall. Above them the esplanade
wa moving half-cOncealed by
brighter parasos aud still further beyond the roadway
showed q mere stream OF vehicles. In the stages
the poor old horses apparently last year. only
that they are year older and threaten moIe
violently than TO TO pieces. Inside
the hotels the walters had plenty TO do,
but they did with general good spirits; for the
hotel waiter is essentially creature CT impulse.
80 when the first beams OF returning prosperity strike
him he blossoms out ntosmies Of excessive pbsequous
ness. -
Toward West Brighton the scene was the old one
OF Coney leland IN the season again
and drinSngpaces, weged with solid blocks Of peo
pie shouting aud laughing and eating, trying thelr
dolls that ought To have been pensoned OF put upon the
new SSaso for amdns tns PpGS hsso 'nGs
the abolition Of the toll upon the old iron pier which
Yesterday was open free. The densest crowd OF ALL
however, probably that in front Of the Brighton
Beach Hotel listening the orchestra from Cincinnati
which has been engaged Tor TINS season; roh Lhe
entitled brighton Beach," by Michael Brand
the wollknOwn violncelo player formerly OF thls city
who for some time travelled with Ineodore Inomas'
and Is now the musical conductor Of this band
Among the prominent visitors a; the Manhattan Beach
General j. snowdon Andrews. OF Baltimore; exGoy-
ernor oden Bowie. the Hon Washington Booth Marquis
Cassa Montaiba, !. X Jerome, Ralph + KING A. WTgat
Sanford & S. Cox and General a. X Barber. AZ the
Brighton Beach are ex-senator Koch. Rufus Hatch.
William Rhinelander Stewart and VIE, W. u. sterlng
and Daniel Al. Beatty.