New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-09-15
has been no damage except that already reported
The weather to-day IS fair and warm.
STORM-SCARRED BEACHES.
A DEsoLATE SCENE AT coNEY ISLAND.
THOUSANDS GO DOWN TO SEE THE RUINS OF
THEIR FAvoNTE HoT.wEATHER RESORTS.

! THOUSANDS GO DOWN TO SEE THE RUINS OF
THEIR FAvoRTE HoT.wEATHER RESORTS.
Many thousands Of people visited Coney Island and
Manhattan Beach yesterday, but the crowd in
striking contrast to the usual Saturday gatherings at
those resorts during the season Of summer gayety.
The difference particularly noticeable at West
Brighton, where is accustomed to hear continually
the dscodant grind Of score Of barrel organs attached
to as many merry go rounds engaged In bitter COM
petition for stray nckes tho voices Of the hawkers
beseeching pa'ser-by to enter their booths and see
what they should see for a dime or less, and the
thousand and noises that ordinarily form a
feature of the revelry Of the place.
The crowd went down yesterday not for revery, but
TO what the storm had DONE and the sight amply
repaid them for the journey. From West Brighton to
the Oriental Hotel the beach presents q scene of
devastation, demonstrating nothing else would the
awful power Of the sea. The ashphalt drive on
oceanave from West Brighton Brighton is entirely
destroyed The pavement is completely torn away in
some places and in others 1t is buried beneath tons Of
sand. The booths along the promenade have disap-
peared altogether first having been smashed into DTS
by the waves and then either carried out to sea or
carted away for fuel by the thrifty poor of Gravesend
Tho meadows back OF the drive clear to the Brighton
Beach race track are still partially submerged, and
tho eastern end Of the track itself is stu under
water The stables, some Of them with their sides
battered in and others hafkeeed over, are standing
In the middle Of little salt lakes.
The veranda on the south side of Kearn's Ocean
Hotel is wreck, the boards being twisted into
fantastic confusion and the oubuildings and stables
are lying on the sands where they stood. In
front of the Brighton Beach Hitel the sea has made
its power manifest IN many ways. The entire front
OF the lawn Is covered with the loose dirt which was
used in filling In from the hotel to the breakwater
The breawater itself no longer exists Al hlgh ude
the waves up and just touch the great SAND Ddes
which lie about In confusion The tiled Walks Ill
front of the hotel washed out and the smOoh mai
stone displaced in many places Still, the managers
say the damage heie will not amount to more thah
- 600 and repairs will be made at once.
Thousands Of visitors walked from the Brgnoon
to the Manhattan Beach Hotel yesterday, because
the Marine Railway is thing of the past where
the rails were laid is now great bank OF SAND.
The fences are all washed away and the piles wrehcheo
from their beds snapped OIL like twlgs. eHaheo
m saw the beach between Brighton and Manhattan Is
much better now than ever before. 1t has been
washed into the form Of deep crescent, and the S@u
is packed as hard as an asphalt pavement
The damage in front OF the Manhattan Beach ana
Oriental Hotels Is greater than at any other poin'
on the island. The breakwater and the promenade
over IL at the Manhattan are ruined The splendid lawns
are covered with sand and the earth is washed away
fully thirty feet back of where the breahwater was
The pretty walks have been destroyed In many places
the tiIg having been swept away or piled up In con-
fIssi masses on the lawns Between the piazza and
the music pavilion where Gilmore and his players nave
delighted thousands OF people, there are wiuc, 9seP
gulles impossible to pedes TRANS Inc lhrloI Vi So
PAVILION is also wreck, the floor and seats having
been washed out of place and crunched loeelher "a.
most 10 puIp East OF the hotel, and between II and
the fireworks enclosure the grounds are under water
10 a depth Of several feet The pathns pa'uoh
is almost a complete wreck -. 49,, or,antal
Close to the approach to the grounds OF the
the sea has washed wide gully across the prom,
enade and the west end of the terrace eaten awa
for fifty feet. The wall has been parualy
DESTROYED and the lawns covered WIN sand snu
heavy stones washed up by the sea Great ron lamp
posts are scattered about the lawns where the waves
The beautiful beds of flowers which ornamented the
lawns nearly all have been swept away: from p, ane
GENRE of one bed there rises young century psht
which demonstrated Its hardihood by wlthstannng tne
assaults of the waves, and now remains the only NinS
Iii of vegetation where few days ago all was lie
and beauty. .,... oo..,od Iaroa
crowds of curious sightSeers 10 the beaches all DAY yes
terday.