Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1883-08-12
THE GREAT sowERr BY The OCEAN.
r,;oving Music and Cool Air on the Pier
How Summer Sunday Is SPent-
The Great Hotels and the
Cost Of Diving.
NAUGHTY mlsTREssEs OF FASHION,
N IhOnares, GOrgeOusly ALFRED haidens,
Canadian HabObs, and Titled Euro
peans Longing Together
Where Vice Reigns
Supreme.
SpeciI Correspondence


NEW YORK, August 10, lSS3.-The
KEY TO my room had the number l02l
stsmped upon it. passed down q long,
low hall in what seemed an acre Of
rooms. Similar halls branehed to the
light and left at every few feet and the
ioors of apartments, as close together
Is in u ten-eent Bowery lOdging-house,
stood side by side in continuous double
ines everywhere that | could see. By
snd-by came to q corner OF one Of
these wooden streets wherein was
psinted the sign, 1000 to 1910" A
man stood near by.
For heavens sake" said, chow
nisny rooms are there"
"A little more than 1900" he replied,
land not more than two dozen are VA
cant,
II WAS the hottest day of the excess
.iy,,y q. peal week and had bought
a t.rkpi tor swim and was in the
hatEhoUSc of the Manhattan Beach
Holci, looking for my room in which
10 uuurvss. The man at the office had
given nre
ABRIhIng suit
muGy'.d on the plan ola chemilOOn,
which the wOueuS rights dressmA6eCs
were TRYING TO introduce to femiDinity
half dozen years ago. 1t had back,
legs and sleeves and was split from the
collar button 10 where the legs began.
| sfterward noticed that the regulation
dress for the women was tue same
thing, with short skirt at the waist.
also had two towels and | found IN
my room "A looking glass y foot square,
clUtI -. pats, 3 bench, q freSh-wALer
fat C., anu big galvanized. iron foot
psn The whole affair cost me y cents,
though tor 10 cents i could have had y
flamrl shirt and n pair of trousers,
which have found not 50 comfortable
as the standard suit But only meu-
ton these figures $40 rooms, 5000
bathing suits, 100 attendants, life rats,
watchman in rOw-bOatS and a great,
spacious galley, from which whoever
cafes to may watch the batherS-tO show
nwhat grand scale everything is being
done on Conry lSlaud-the most pOpu-
lar, largest and most compete watering
place of modern times.
SrasIde HOstelries-
have been there many times, but
thi, time welt on business aud ran
sacked the Island from end to eud 50 rs
to b+ able tO write il up for the REGIS
TER without missing any Of Its features.
L. struck me when | had come To the
end az ny iGuruey that | hal never
really So, n lI. Island before, 50 maLy
are it, points of interest aud 30 naturally
does the visitor gravItatc To the sort OF
entertainment he prefers and leave tho
rest untpsted. The hotel | have men
toned j. not the best on the beach |
am not going TO say which one il, but
biz ~ you prtCrive il must be, 1t Is only
one Of three. that are virtually of size.
Th, r.. are about the same mammoth ac'
congratulations tor batherS in front Of
the Brighton Beach Hotel, next door
70 the westward, and the OrieutiI
HOE'l. 10 the eastward, has nothing OF
the sort, because IL il not an excursion
bCusr like the Others These hotels are
tall, long wooden buildings, beautitied
" ample vrrnndSS, balconies, towers,
hrmcr windows, gables and the like.
They can each take in $40 bOarderS
without squeezing; one held 100
tnur,ierS last Saturday night aud at
a"th'r 1900 people had dinner. There is
Nothing Cheap
scout these places. Furniture, carpets,
nhsEdrllprs and all the odds aud eud5
that so TO make up q hotel are good
enough 10 satisfy man who steps into
them after "a stay i'm the Windsor or the
GilSry in New York. The Oriental
anu litigation Will board you for = n
lay, though you can have 80 worth Ii
your anxious to. The Manhattan
Beach il run on the other plan-rOOms
ana meals separate, the rooms costing
S2to - "a day. There is practically no
lif'eItnce in cost in favor OF any Que OF
he three. These are the big hotels
ant their grounds cover the third
Juaittr Of the island. Grass has been
lorCtd To grow in front of them and in
heir central courts fountains play aud
birds carol i'm gilt cages. From out OF
huge, well.shaged music stands, so ar
ranged as 10 throw the sounds Of the in-
StTuments toward the hotel, where the
bOardeTs sit i'm their windows and the
eXCuIsiOuiSts crowd the verandas, the
volumes Of melody produced by Gill
mOre'S Band at one house and an inn
ported orchestra at the other are en-
oyed every afternoon and evening.
The idea Of an imported band sounds
fine, but il is no better than the dOmes-
tic. Three Of them are on the coast
now, brought over because the
musicians are so cheap that il Is profit
able to pay their way over and back,
whereas the New York musicians have
trades union Of their own and will
not take mean wages.
The Fashionable Quarter
Everybody c0ngregates st the hotels
when the great bands play. Naughty
mistesses of fashion from San FraucIS.
co, bruSque cattle milliOnaires from
Texas, languid but generously attired
maldenS from Louisville, Canadian ma
bots and titled Europeans lounge to-
gether, listening to the music and
brushed and squeezed by New York
mechanics with their shop hand sweet
hearts, Brooklyn beaux and bellies and
rustic couples who may have driven
twenty miles 10 see the glitter and
glare, to hear the hubbub and CHATTER
and to catch the contagiOu of the gem
eTal iun. IL ia 30 degrees by the ther-
momeler I'D the city seven or eight miles
away anu there no breeze Is blowing.
mere II Is out IS degrees and you have
70 eiuieu Your hat once In q while 10
hetp II on your head. But this ia the
stylish section-the third Quarter offhs
Island. The first Quarter. m which
New 1orSers used 10 90 to get blue. nah
and CLANS forty years ago. il cInssJ
pending the result Of a litipaLion. II
amounts to nothing anyway. TSe last
quarter never has been built upon. So
tbst extensive as is the resort we crowd
ihto, there l. room on COney Island for
Twice as much OF a place in the fntura
Lev Us go 70 the middle part, where tho
49, ., eSe5y'day people who cant
un are 'Nu 'ueIr
s"arminE Like Bees.
10 get there we take the most nros,,
DIE piece Of railroad in the wnrl6 'o y, =
called the Marine Railway and co,l - Is
d an eighth Of an mile Of U ous5S.S
SrestIework, bridging a swampv I iDIas.
NO locomotives and five or six co, 49,
are hve cents; monopoly absolute Sin%S,
mere Is no other way to 90. and ,.uJ'