Woman's chronicle. (Little Rock, Ark.) 1888-1???, 1890-07-19
OUR NEW YORK LETTER.
NEW YORK, July 70, 1890.

slderatlon to the resorts around about; for once
in the year the great city is the next best thing.
The streets present deserted appearance in COM
parison to the throng of few weeks ago. Houses
and stables are closed and everybody is out of
town.
Coney Island is a thriving settlement Famed
by the ocean breezes and its beach bathed by the
rolling surf, it is all converted into vast play
ground-a huge fair of which one can have little
idea without visiting and beholding with one own
eyes.
AS the steamer sails down the bay, passing in
turn the Statue of Liberty, Staten Island, Bath
Beach, Benson Hurst by the Sea, South Beach, all
decorated with flying colors to attract attention
as far as Coney Island can be distinguished in the
distance looms up vast toy elephant. What is
it, if not toy elephant?-a although it IS five sto-
ries high. The internal anatomy of this enormous
structure is arranged in booths, and the whole
constitutes bazaar. Such an artifce to play
upon grown-up juveniles, who are "by Natures
kindest law, pleased with rattle, tickled with
straw But this is not all. A huge wooden COW
of abnormal proportions yields milk to the passing
throng-milked while you wait. A fascinating
mllkmad presses a valve, and that nothing may be
left to your imagination the creamy fluid streams
into the cup.
Nothing however, exceeds the glory of the
"Merry-Go-Rounds." To the music of a steam
piano this circle of gay caparisoned animals, on
which riders seat themselves flies around the ring.
Lifesize Understanding steeds with dilating nos
trils, needing only the fire to resemble night
mare-lfe-slze tigers and lions from the jungles,
leaning deer with horns, and dragons and swans,
M
er. or span of ROSTERS, for this unique hippo
drome reels around in pairs. 1t is all very funny
and mirth- provoking, and the riders seem utterly
unconscious of the figure they cut as they cling to
the flying steeds.
Then there are roller coasters and another bor-
rible affair which carries its victims around in the
rolling motion of ship happy SWANS, toe, land their
qum-chewing sweethearts, to whom Coney Island
proper is q paradise of 'merry-go-rounds" and
caliopean melody
Bevond this resort, which is nothing more nor
less than Bohemian settlement, is New Brighton
Beach, and still further on and more exclusive,
Manhattan Beach, The charm here is the beautl-
fnl hotels, and Gilmores and Seidls orchestra and
the surf bathing. Everything is secondary to the
surf. and of all attitudes in which society is wont
to exhibit ITSELF nothing is quite as unique as the
picture on the beach. Age, uginess, anatomy,
everything is forgotten in the joys of the bracng
.surf Grav-haired men and women realize how
vouno is the heart within them when they are thus
brought face to face with their capacity for enjoy
mo as little children enjoy. Just how much of the
modesty of human natuae is sacrificed no one
stops to estimate, all is willing y sgbSerVlen when
the huge waves of the boundleSs blue ocean break
in on the shore and tax your ability to remain up
right. In,
"a good supper, and after enjoying the orchestra
and the marvellous display of fireworks, comes the
ride home on the bay, the ocean air braclng you
to the extent that you wonder if it is not the be-
ginning of day of pleasure instead OF the close,
50 keen is every sensibility to the enjoyment OF
the hour. All about you on the shores are the
liohts of the summer resorts and you hear strains
=. +bo diotoncn The Statue OF Liberty