New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-05-26
LONG ISLAND BEA Giles.
GETTING READY FOR TIE SUMNER SEASON.

PEOPLE BEGINNING TO GO TO coNEY ISLAND
DAMAGES WROUGHT BY WINTER STORMS.
The hustle Of preparation for the opening Of the
season Is heard on all sides Al COney Island, arl
every body Is making arrangements on larger scale
than ever before In the belief that tho coming summer
will DO tho most prosperous that that popular
watering-plarc has over known. The island Is far
the great part tho most Gososte Of places during
the winter few stores and hotols at West Brighton
arc kent omen all tho year around, but the other
paris OF the island arc deserted except for the watch
mon Of the big drcsry-ooking halls and h0foas.
The storms Of the winter have damaged some Ut tho
buildings and the marine railroad, but not mora man
is the case every year, and all necessary repairs can
easily DO maic.
The hotels and other buildings at West brighton
Beach have been In the hands OF carpenters, painters
and scrub women for noar!y month While McH'"'a
Dsv is by general consent regarded n tho opening
day the barrooms have found It profitable To throw
opcn their doors TO thirsty customers lot seVrra'
weeks already and on warm Sundays business has
been brisk There are some visitors on wccR DAYS
hut these are generally strangers visiting New-iorH
who do not wish to return homo without WISHING
Coney Island. The bathing houses have been open
for several weeks; that H. the men VINO arc n'''"s
tbcm ND In readiness for warm weather have alio"od
n tcw persons to take n Dip Those who 90 dsrh
ont into the surf and rush back sh'Verhe '''" '''
dressing rooms generally men who have mar
wager or who want to be able to boast 10 'n'r
friends that they the first bathers OF tn' sea'o
The shooting ranges, lunch stands, photograph
GALLERIES. and the hundred and one other de'ices io
getting mans money. arc being PM mo shap' on"
viii Le omen for the most part by Memorial Das'
The hotels TO tho east OF West Brighton Beach a'
ways kept closed much longer, as their class Vi .A
rons Is different. Tho earliest OF these 10 "cno"'
guests Will be The Brighton and Manha''ah hoa'"
hotels June IL being the day set. The former h''o'
has surcrel no damage from the storms since u WA.
closed las, year. and the large fore OF men ana
women at work on II will have It ready for occupancy
In every detail at tho appointed time
The blasts Of winter have dealt less gently WIN w"
brighton bathing PAVILION. which looks a. u 'N'i
had struck H. as many Of the window pancs arc orohe
and the platform leading 10 tho SOLID shore mas o"o"
blown onircl. away. The Manhattan b'%h 'io.ra !,
a,-p alive with wOrkmen who have alrcai! bca"t'h"'
,L ,,rroruatpp ,rourLs Tho lawn has been
.moothIy moved and large bells OF flowers have been
,ct OUT The BIC amphitheare In which GiimorrH
band will play every day In the season Is sun pauN'
up. but It viii be Int Ia oder IN II" Jay VIZ
q, the chief attractions at Cmey Island rms season
VIII undoubtedly b. tho mammoth irnworkS Spec'"''
The last bay, OF POnocU.' which VIII Ue given III
the amrhithea,rc at Manhattan Ecach. Tails was
exhibited In leol b.: Palm the p:rotcchni't. aud l.
generally REGARDED the most beautiful OF his SHOWS
II Will be given with entirely new scenery and on
rrandrr scale than ever before The Manhattan Bath.
Ing Compsnys big pavilion Is bcins rbuilf' the
Grand stand having ben moved eastward
som" distance. This VIII aid con-
.l!crable area to thc lawn OF the Msnhaftan Beach
Hotel! The pavilion viii be c:cncd ON the same da:
that the hotel Is.
Half the marin" rad which ran from a point west
Of the Manhattan Beach Hotel to the Brighton Hotel
was ovcrwhcm"d b.. the sea last winter and VIII not
10 rebuilt Instead the track will DO laid aion- ue
beach.
The grounds surrounding the big Rockaway
Hotel which is being torn down, Will be graded
and streets viii be opened through them. In this
park Of 40 acrrs forty cottages will be built 10 time
" be occupied In the season OF 1900.
Tho Oriental, Long beach and Point Lookout hotels
will bs opened June D. The number OF rooms
ar"aiy engaged at these hotels Is m"cn largsr nan
along ,hc waters Nlgc In front Of the Oriental was
much damascd By the r sTrm SSt p1 GSp ar carb
and Point Io"kont also damaged but moi hurt u
'"s s again extent Many Of tho os IN the Long
Hotel and two-'hiri' OF The surround;
70; rho SIMMER An AND "Tsy OT pG
exceptionally brilliant season. \ sting OrhStra Icd
by John D. Hol until Lately soIr, ". 81 III. nlni
fudr's> hops and parlor entertainments WIN be given
his ,"a>Gm AMI two" w,ot 'ne'e viii Ge sap S
alsn bo oponed on June %.
A. ~" M}o S"I r. nanyipn Which n, Is hD, one
Ia H. unusually brilliant Among the novelties that
viii entertain the guests herr IA an old fashioned
uIInia a, which bold men and women on horrcbark
WIN ride with swords There Ge thirteen cottages
about This hoi,l IN the COVE VI seventy arrc> In
yhlch n stands Uf The oldest AMI finest
,rrcS on Long island and a lake with row and sail
boats 4 line OF hUrse-cais runs from the hotel to
the srashOrr.
now resort that Is growing In favor was opened
last vrar n ShnnrcOck inns which Arr between the
t;rst pecnnic and shinncco'k bays. Nine handsome
rnitner> have been hur there. and will b" occupied
hv prominent Nurlciy people. Tho location IS "ant!
Gl and the >n rnunln!~ all that could hr dcNTi
for cool quiet and healthy plsre 10 spend the sum
mrr.