The Magnolia gazette. [volume] (Magnolia, Miss.) 1872-current, 1888-07-28
NEW YORK LETTER.
New York Star Syndicate Letter to the MAG
NoIIA GAZETTE.
New York, July 24, 1888.


Most people who come to New
York primarily TO "do" the city
and take In the sights, choose the
winter or spring as the time for
their visit. Nevertheless, the
summer visitor, if he doesn't OBJ
ject to being parboiled and is
an expert at dodging sun-strokes,
gets the most for his money.
1t is worth the price and pains
of journey here from almost
anywhere, to go to Coney Island,
on Sunday or Saturday after>
noon, which Is a half-obscrved
legal holiday.
"The Island" is in reality only
a short section of the ocean ashore
of Long Island. 1t is less than
aa hour from the city by steamer
or train. You take the boat as
the more pleasant and pay half a
dollar fo. a round-trip ticket.
You land at an iron pier that
juts out into the sea at a section
of "The Island" Nudnas West
Brigh ton. Its patrons are chiefly
J of the laborng classes and Gel
/ man is the predomlnating tongue.
, Two or three thousand people,
; men women and children, dressed
/ in their best, are sitting around
| small tables, in q mommoth pa
vilion, drinking beer and eating
, Schweitzer sandwiches. A little
f army of white bibbed walters arc
! lifting about with elevated trays
ministering to their pleasure. Al
one end an orchestrian is grinding
! out last years tunes, and wher
the big music machine stops, .
brass bard takes up the broker
! thread and sixty or seventy pairs
of healthy German lungs pump
! wind with great energy into th'
4 mouths of their brass instruments
The blare and air of 1t all ma,
be inaglned-by people who have
been inflicted with 1t.
:. But 1t is outside the building
! that you see to best advantag,
the merry, jabbering motle,
j pot-pourn of humanity. An i'm
mense fanclful edliice, Jumbo j
, wood multiplied hundred times
i is b, fore you. For, dime yoi
:, may enjoy the luxury of enterin
:, the end of his trunk, which trail
on the ground, and climbing
few hundred eccentric steps I
:, the car on his back.
IL Then there is the tower,
N skeleton iron structure of sue
dizzy height, that you begin t
,a speculate on the possibilities {
- lodging up there in upper elthel
90 On bright day the big cities an
~ green villages and the ships f,
!. miles at sea-seem TO nestle ;
Ho your feet. You look dow
- immediately below, on such q
( aggregation of pleasure devic'
: g for those of simple tastes, as Il
a. continent elsewhere does n
-, afford. There comes to "
y above the roar of the surf a bab
of voices from tens-sometim
hundreds of thousands of throat
"Merry-go-rounds' by the doz,
aal are spinning around people on Il
ite backs of the most grotesqt
'ur creatures imaginable. There "
be catch glimpse of a zig
in Dutchmau complacen.ly l
,ut volving on meck-looking drom
ers dairy, by his side a toto of u lit
ost girl gaIly perched on the back
ely wooden crocodile. There a
GU toftuous tracks of uncerts
itn length on which car loads of pc
in pie are quizzed about with t
hat speed of the winds, solely by {
at force of gravity, landing event
the ally at the starting point. ThS
ed, are grlnd-organs and trlck-mc
'ce, keys, fortune-telIing Gypsies a
in dancing bears, stuffed cows II
his allow lemonade to be MIXED fr'
len them for five cents a glass, pl
rise tographers' tents, bearded won
ec- to sell you sandwiches, llyi
,ne skeletons gyrating on tight rop
ust and thousand and one other {
or vices to arrest your attention a
to salt down your pennies.
the beach Is black with strollers q
on loungers, while hundreds of 9th
'sa- are spIashing about in the surf
mes As you proceed up the bea
her the 'stone" improves very p
call ceptibly. The gim-crack vend
ust are left behind and the fest
Else voice of the lurdy gurdy smi
hes no longer the curicIe. The !
gest hotels on the beach
brighton, Manhattan and ORR
ana tal-most fashionable in the orr
ro- of their rcmoteness from
West End, are approached 5