New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1884-08-25
SUNDAY ny THE SEA.


f,om ,he nrighton side-shows at uQney Island,
The sun shono pleasantly and SoHl breeze maho
Tia. Gilmore Jubilee was, TO o begin m
To hear and to see II. Those who were used TO
"roller coastiug" aud the moro exciting sports 81
brighton soon tired Of the class strains aud ie-
iiglous melodies and retired n disgust but thGro
were moro than enough TO Gil their places. The
walks aud piazgas OF Manhattan Beach were hidden
FROM sight by tho crowds that covered them When
MR. GILMORE made his appearance. his breast shin,
ing with medals, laundering applause greeted
him. aud rolled away like storm down the
music stand seemed astonished AZ tho unusual
amount of melody. and when the cannon sou1huTTu
IL accompaniment IN Nearer MY "0 4 soa ~
Thee they were shocked and reire9le9 us u icar-
ful that this resort had been made II he the Ciy
Of Pekin," the centre OF bomoara9lnennHI' ooo
was estimated that an audience OF So'V ;bo
p ssSpD ' When i was over the marine
railway was busy for an hour in carrying away
the great mass of people who had assembled. The
Jubilee is TO continue during the week, with its
park Of artillery. Scotch pipers, the I'D keglmeht
Drum Corps the brigade OF iGrty seV Hit anu Grand
concert next Sunday.
People who went down to Long Beach left their
usters at home aud took along their fall overcoats
shade of blue, figured here and there with
specks of white clouds resembling over,
grown s9Owake s each one me c@ rod air TO that
seemed to surround it. The salt meadows that
spread their carpet of green for miles back from
the beach and have been mOnotOnous picture OF
thrifty nature all summer, have now succumbed 10
the attack of scythe and moving macnlne, ana
show the thrift of the Long Island farmer IN laying
up store for an early winter Every nS,nhT
looking hay mOws. which the days suns and nights
winds have cured to ripe and hunger-lnSpllng Color
to the cows and calves III the iarm-yard ana the
horses that now and then canter along the road.
The sea seemed to have drawn IN itself and re-
treated from the beach The barrel buoy that usn.
A.. 10 tnn hnl1 SNNI
float, but rolled ANONYMOUSLY on the sand In
foot of Sater. and was dlstanced by dozens
Of bathers who or s3VerS ct { tha Iow
roll of the surf that tumbled slowly in against the
stiff breeze that fought il back from land In nam
the sea rolled in her troplc warmth. Inc northern
breeze had n fairer sweep and soon drove dripping
bathers TO their rooms. The sun bath was moro
pleasant and more generally INDUCED m ana ne
pure white sand was as comfortable to Toll upon as
n hot air register in January. OF course people
had appetites under these circumstances and they
induced in the most rational of human ENJOY
menls with the accessories OF oeau-
tful pictures of the sea Touched up here ana tDcre
with a sail and sweetcDcd by The music OF the
waves. Theodore Thomass orchestra played on
the broad piazza 10 an appreciatlye audience
Women sat with parasols raised to keep OIL the
wind aud men in their garments moved about and
stood IN the sunshine to keep warm.
Good Judges estimated the visitors at RockawaY
Beach M 30 900. The boats aud cars were crowded
from morning until night, and the managers OF the
New-York. Woodhaven and Rockaway kMlroad
found IT necessary to extra trains IN order TO
accommodate their patrons. Landlords VINO nave I'VE
not been known 10 smile Tor many gay, ON ac-
count of the unfavorahle season. wore their broad
est smiles. The beach was alive wit the pleasure,
seekers The air cool, but the breeze beng OH
the land the surf was not Hs furious az usual.
DISGRACE TO AMERICAN JOURNALISM.
rnE STORY or CANNlBAtIsM SHOULD NOT HAVE
pErN PUBLISHED.
Tho Rev. n H. Thompson preached in tho FREQ
Baptist church. nj FiPhtl-ave and Twenty, iiith;
ri last evening on thc subject of "Cannlhallsn.'
lie said In substances
cnnnihnlism among tho Arctic party tlnt were
under Lieutenant Greedy. Scarcely had the smoke
At the cannon that welcomed back the survivors
from the lev North Ill appeared scarcely had
the last note Of that Outhurst Of glad
excitement died away than the whole civilized
world WIS tAuibly shocked by the wholly uncallcd
tremity of their suffering. had been forced to sub
rist upon the ilesh ol Their de9d c"ml9dCs. me one
cent man r. that which has been lelogIhphed to our
chores from foreign land that the stories OF eau
nibaisn were disgrace t0 American lnuInaIsW
Tho editor of the uaurr which first printed
that shameful story when the first Whlspellngs |
oi it reached hs cars should have 'a,I TO 'ne
tho sake of Cod aud hun anIty LET not another
Wptd ue heard of IT, liut NO io hlood-ouidnng
tale went tuiihpnd sorrow aud 'hnno went INTO
many homes tholehy, doubt not thc stoiicR we're
swead phtold tot malicious putpo'cti lul
iho canuha,ihn which lay ~ the 'uoulHti"n "I
that story wac thouaaud iih'A Mpi'o ihNu tho
tmnihaliAm of which II told, "
"Nhy should they uy aud lift the veil which
God had mrtCtinllN pulled down over those months
OF tuleriuqg They should cover It up now 20
thick aud deep that IT viii mover be lcMnecitd
again Not "a body should be- cAhhhod Nh4l lh"so
what You or / would have d0uci what We cHnuot
help thinking they dad right Ina doing, Tor liie rs II
sweet aud precious boon 10 everyone. There is a
worse aud a Thousand Tunes moro dangerous can
nibalism gong on around ms every daY uhdcf
the sanction of the law where men Ic3rh down
into the ccsSpOol5 of mud and SANDER ana blac en-
the characters of candidates for high aud honorable
office This is the Cannlnalsm when We deteSt
this is he pouring out of the tlOOdgates OF evil
from the mouths OF the wicked. Inc timo was once
when il was esteemed high honor ~ be nominated
for great office, but the day is fast coming when
men will refuse to accept nom nations winch mean
their characters their rcpatations and their hyes,
regardless Of truth or right, are to be besmlTched
and blackencd.'
UONORS TO A DEAD WAR CORRESPONDENT.
The Legislative Committee from Ohio, consisting
of Assemb ymen ,sphn Ferguson ana IL. q. Greener.
of Perry County, and senator John O'Nenl, OF
GAINESVILLE appointed to take charge of the body of
D. A. Mac(ahan, arrived IN this city early yesteT-
day morning aud took rooms at the AstOr House.
in the afternoon they held conference with the
committee of the Press Club, approved the action
of that committee, and expressed their qualification
to the cuD Tor its kindly interest III caring for their
dead friend. The following arrangements were
agreed upon. The body wifi be receieed by COM
lnittee of the Pr.ss Club made up of newspaper
correspondence in the Civil War This committee
will remove the body from the Navy Yard to-mor-
row and arrive at the Battery at noon. Members
Of the Press Club. tie Ohio Legislative
Committee and journalistic friends OF the
dead man viii meet the Press Club at II a. m,
60 10 the Battery in q body and escort the remains
10 the City Hall where it VIII lie IN state until
$50 The body. the Ohio committee and relatives
Will then he escorted TO the Pennsylvanla Railroad
depot al the foot of Cort andt-st The Pal-3earers,
who are TO be appointed hereafter will he repre-
sentatives of New-York journalism who were core
spOndents in the late war.
The body will be taken on the o'clock train and
will arrive in Columbus, OhO on Wednesday az
ternoOn, and will he taken to the State House and
Will be taken to GAINESVILLE. the home of Senator
OBrien, and placed in vault. The final mtei1nent