New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-09-29
OUT OF SEASON.
NUoSPITABLE COMFY ISLAND!

Tho su,ost vrav in the world to bring on an attack
Of the blues is to visit a summer resort ~io" ,I0
soason is over If the reader wishes TO convince ni'
,eIf of This. or is suffering from abnornaly hleh
enirits LET him run down 10 Manhattan Beach' l"o
tIinc If dcsoation will begin to be felt when ono
t.,,es a closed car at the City Of Smells anu vi"
increase as one PUSHES onward through inc yeno"i'e
woods and harvested fields, with gray SHY oVerheal'
and an autmnal wind that is let into the car Oy INC
fresh-ar fends. producing a general shlVor' |i"'
crossing the bleak marshes and stopping at "'o
Manhattan Beach Hotel, few weeks ago the nome Oh
49, To,,Ititude hut now having no welcome for any
ON. some recent visitors passed on 10 the wrecked
Measure ground with its deep gillies and dlspla'ed
files its fallen lamp-posts and look Oh eonordi
dilapidation. Against the naked pucs-an mat ID
left of the breakwaer-the sullen Atlantic peat l9oH
into clouds of spray, and great piles of broken luper
bore witness TO what IL do when once It's Jury
is aroused A few disappointed children who were
among the yisitors-children to whom Coney Island
means paddng and wcldlgging. and various
other delightful occupations by which smali-sHen
humanity renders itself unpresentable-gazed visit
fully upon the melancholy misunderstanding
at isn't nice in winter observed one little GIRL
whose mother had wrapped her in great shawl pu'
1t wouldn't be so awful bad II tho VIM uu p1'" 90
harl'
The marine railway gone, but the beach is In good
condition for walking observed paterfamilla''
shall We 90 down 10 Brighton, and see II mat 10 Ill d"
bad fix Manhattan"
NO we have seen enongho replied his spouse
al yvisbs We had returned 10 NewYork on the tralh
which brought us down here. l did think that mo
cludren would at least have the satisfaction oil run
,n on the grass now that the is over but ID"
cause poor Tommy stepped outside oil inc "ah Ill oiu
to keep from stumbling into gully, one OF ths "orN
men yelled at him If he had been caught seuihs
fire to the hotel. The children are making 'heIn'
sc,vcs sick with candy know but they were starving
| c.hc IN he
onlv ca,able I could find I'm that lirtle drug store
mr. whatever they may call htho place where we saw
| all those blue-nosed young men winkng at tho soua
water clerk
Az evening advanced became evident that electric
: LIGHT was luxury Of the past and the pleasure
seekers gathered In the dmly lighted little station and
| anNIously awaited the coming OF The 80 'Ialh'
| u have something 70 remember Manhattan by,'
! ead a Young lady. holding up small bunch on
| Iaptanas That oGicious workman ran mo away
| from the howerbed. but held on to what nan
already gathered and hid them under my shawl
might as well tako the flowers as leave them ID NC
! blown down by thai horrid Wind
| ..Tho wind that came over the sea,
| Chilling and killing my Annabel Lec,'"
quoted her companion as lie shivered IN MS o'e'ood
- Ab thai was why you brought me down here this
afternoon instead Of taking me to the PARK Elri'
are constantly being killed nowadays by ther friends
and ought TO have had my suspicious OF yon''
al was rather fresh Of INC to propose such trip
| at this season" -, - , ,.,,, boe, &,
te wind Observed an older man. he wiped the sea
spray from his glasses. aIl coNoIeu max d" HON
! deem with chloride OF sodium III,
As Tor me- said the young lady, as she ripDe.
her cheek vigorously with her handkcrchei' an
with your face turned toward Gomorrah! = asked
| the man with the spectaces, , ~. ,,,,,, .r5
| No with my. fare turned toward New 9ik' az.
! there IL will be turned I'll that DFsSed 'FAt
| arrives. have enough OF Manhauah bta-i
out Of season Just think Of the deleh Jul eNeeIihE
! have had down here listening 10 the music!
! You might IS well wonder what has become %
! Gideon's band | came down 10 listen 10 what th'
| Wild waves are saying at this season OF the year
And what have you heard :! ~, -. ..,,.
"They are saying, spIopos OF The late destfuoloh
we did IL and we'll do II again, -, -, -.
! An evening like nils In such place nahes M.
feel poetical as well chilly observed the youni
on, don't - exclaimed She
Don't feel pOeticalF .
Don't 0uote that stuff about there being raptirt
on the lonely shorc-stuii that Byron didn't beiev'
| when he WROTE II. and that nobody believes wh'
| ~ was thinking OF some lines from later poet
"sBy the gray sandhls DER the dull seashOre where
dumbly pccring, .
Pass the pae-sailed ships, scOnfuly, silently wheeling
and Vcefng;
Swift oui OF sight again; while the wind searohe
| what it finds never,
Ger the sand-rcaches, bays, pillows, blown beaches
homeless forever"