New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-08-31
EFFECTS OF HIGH7iDE ArRocKAWAY.

DAMAGE ALL ALONG THE BsACH-wALKs. BATHING :
HOUSES AND PAvn1oNs WRECKED.
Sufficiently self-asssrGing was yesterdays
surf al Rockaway bu h was not ut all comparable with
the ambitious and angry breakers which dashed high
the low and shsntyfringei coast Wednesday even
ing 1t was food tide at p. m, and at that
hour the waves had washed inland from fifty to one
hundred feet further than h Ia tia Of high tides
60 There was a heavy wina from seawara which dashed
the waves into such fury that they hurled themselves
over and across the iron pier in ID reve The
in fact, were "mountaius high prov ded mountains
do not reach greater altitude than ten or
dozen feet bat the mist aud spray
were thrown five times that height and equa dis
lance beyond tue water line For hour the sea
scemed as II tidai- renearsing for
the destruction OF the biz gray empty and worse than
useless Jumbo Hotel. In the absence of any suen
achievements this. the breakers rppst plan kipg
stopped around bashing.houses, tore off the ends Of
bridges. demolished some SIN MI pavons which were
too audacously near the sea. and ebSed and
flowed the spng of several OF the larger hotels
and restaurants in q manner that suggested that
would require little additional temptation effort TO
foat them bodily out to
In front of the New-York Hotel two small paviions
were demolished, and the came up TO within
foot or so Of the level the oor At the Ocean House
the water was nearly up to the STEP and
way under the veranda was completely fed up with
sand. At Myers's place, the Rockaway Pier House,
opposite the Iron Per- 1t found
the hundred bIta uader pier. 90 pre-
vent them from being washed away. The report taat
they had been carried OF ON imprompIu
voyage was Indignantly denied. The hotel
itself double bulkheids insure safety in
OF too heavy sea- prec utOu learned Irom expe
rience in 1876. wnen the house barely escaped Ine
destruction oi saootins gallery near tue per Was
reported. AT Remsen Waiawr-hrs balm
houses the end OF their bridge was
ried away. rne chIldrens pavilion at the
Grand Republic Rotel unshipVed, and
game OF " Aunt sally " was " knocked out ." in way
that its proprieors never 10 before Att. ).
Curey' end Of the bridge broken off, all
alOeg tue entire distance from the Ocean House ID Red
terms the board walks rpp and torn aud twisted
while oil sorts Oh miscellaneous dIiitvoOd marked
tue high-water hue. Everyone WHO saw tue
ooean AZ Its best, or worst, on W.,nes-
day agreed that IL magnificent
sight and that the tide higher hln they
II befort; at time whose business keeps
them as neal the water possible were Unanimous ~
expressions OF satisfaction that tie water stopped
II did.
Early yesterday morning the bar OF the Empire Surf
Pavilion was roDDed OF numerous Dottes oi liquors,
ciaret, Rhine WINE and DiltFrs-aoOl. ~Ozen la ali.
Traces Of the thiei thevrs were found a tae
Beacb-aye railway ssaton. Ihls Inc nrsG
OF the kind reported Rockaway thls and
peets alseHaIsed employs. here were gOOJ many
visitors ~ ROckswsy yesterday, and some of tLem we're
foolhsray enoagn to 60 into the Out thcy were
watched WIN the INTEREST with auiience
l0oks acrobat In mid-alr weo 10 III mone mary
chance OF nlcetlng Alt ueAsh.