New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-08-13
SUNDAY RECREATION.
AN ORDERLY DAY AT COMFY ISLAND.
LIFE AND BUsrLE WITHOUT AccIDENT-BUFFALo
puI,s FIREWORKS.

AN ORDERLY DAY Al CONEi ioLAND'
LIFE AND BusTLE WITHOUT AccIDENT-BUFFALo
BILLS FIREWORKS.
Tina HING heavily on the hands of the police at
Coney island yesterday, for not only were The
crowas unusually slender for q Sunday. but they
aors s,so dsco1ragingiy well-behaved. Nobody
was hurt or drowned; there was no rioting, and
no old gentlemen in spectacies came 70
nocketbooks stolen by well-dressed men In white
hats. Even the supply of lost babies appeared to
have run out; and though one boy made we'll
meant effort to break the monotony toward even
ing by beating man over the head with bottle.
he was TOO weak to do much harm, and the evening
s ss pSu.s the however, %STs's NAG
can never be more than relative-the word bears
no more than a Pickwicnan Specification, And
sSaae nSsy than the average Sunday there
stll remained enough movement and uproar to turn
the heads OF halfa-dozen ordinary pleasure resorts
There is no small amount OF h.d gru,i,
just now, Tor since the judges decision was given
in favor of the Surf Avenue stage nnes nf the
Brighton Beach end of the road. This fact Is 9ehR
gradually recognized among the patrons OF tne
island. who are slowly transferring ."e rrangemspf
arc likely to have an indifferent time there there
next season Just at the turn OF the road Wne d
the backmen's charmed crce-ends, little episode
caused small 1utter of excitement yesteIoay
among the few passers-by. little glri dressed III
backwards across the roadway. with her eyes ana
thoughts fixed far away out at sea, when q
buggy came along and topped her heels
over head in the dust. Instead OF screaming ana
fainting-as an adult little girl would nave Done
the mite soemnly picked herself mp ana wiped Ihe
dust off the piece of candy she was hcklng: her
name was Rose.D and she said she llyed over
there D-pontlng toward the interior OF the island
and that was as near as she could get 10 local
habitation add name for herself AS she was not
bit hurt and perfectly self possessed, and as the
offending buggy was out of sight, nothing renamed
for the spectators but to agree that 1T was very
narrow escape, and go away. -. ~,
There is no lack of pyrotechnic attraction at the
island at present, and even Sunday evenings are
not free from Them for last night Buffalo Bill had
occupied the sidewalks with a gang of huge-lunged
persons who thrust play bills upon every passerby,
with the assurance that his was the only place OF
entertainment open Sunday, while at
night the whole island was lurld
with the red lights from his Enclosure, and
the sky ablaze with rockets. Manhattan Beach ap-
pears TO depend upon quite another public to the
west end Of the island and upon one of an entirely
contrary spirit, for when West Brighton is dullest
the Manhattan Beach and Oriental Hotels are often
the most crowded, and so 1T was last night. Bnt
though throughout the day the hotels
were busy and the plaZzas thronged, and
though at night large crowds surged
round the band stand sll they even more dis
hearteningly well-behaved than those at the other
end. and here too the police complained that the
day altogether dull.