Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-08-31
DOING NEW YORK.
Distance Has Been Annihilated, Time
Reduced to Fractions of Minute.
The Numerous Resorts visited-An Ocean Ra-
eer-In Love With ths Yankees-Battery
Place on Friday Nights.
Special Correspondence to the Gazette

Special Correspondence to the Gazette
New YoRK CITY, Aug. 26.-New York is .
land of short distances. In Texas, when one
Says, Lets go over to So and so.'' it means
setting day, getting up at any hour between l
and eight o'clock a. m, catching one particulas
train and trusting to no washouts to reach one
destination some time that day. In New York
people do not ''go'' to places. They run
over,'' and a veritable run it is. Just so many
seconds to catch the elevated car, another speci-
fed fraction of time to make the ferry or excur-
sion boat, then heller SHELTER for the choice
seats on deck-all in q good-natuTed, make
believe way, like SO many rolicking school
his eloquent address before the Denver chamber
of commerce, endeavoring to convey an
idea Of the area of Texas, SAYS, LET
us imagine that its eastern border is CON
nected with the western line OF Louisiana
by a vast hinge, and Texas raised up
like great trap door, and folded over TO the
handle would be found resting upon Kentucky,
ana Ell Paso woald be out on peninsula in the
Atlantic ocean beyond Savannah, Ca.
Here it is exactly the reverse; distance is moth
ing, time everything. Where shall We go? Is the
question. Manhattan Beach, Coney Island,
Sea Beach. Glen Is ard, Sheepshead Bay, even
deringly accessible and equally attractive.
There is probably no excuse for one DOR & what
one does not like in New York, for there seems
to be special Providence looking after the
supply of qualification fos each and every one Of
the idiosyncrasies of all manner Of mankind and
purses. New York could better dispense with
aj!lars than with pennies, for splitting
nickel is one of the medium grade financial
transactions here.
or the nearer resorts Brighton and Manhat-
tan are, of course, 1.-The ton" Gilmore's sea-
son concerts at the latter place, giving it the
palm. Saturday was his closing day, and both
programme and attendance magnificent,
though. entire nous the music pavilion there is
not half SO handsome nor SO. commodious IS
our Spring Palace was While idly m aking this
struck me what an ideal combination OF de-
lights, that beach and our Palace, would have
made. Imagine the great roaring Atlantic, her
iestc weight against the messy piers, hecking
the white sands with seaweed anu shells; her
guessed at horizon golden with sunset, and sill
vered with mist, her undulating bosom dotted
with white-winged schooners and majestic ocean
steamers. the blue sky with its lecks of clouds
seeming a mere repetition of the foam-tipped
waters: the bread white stretch OF sandy beach,
where little long haired, short-stockinged tots
piled their gilded shovels and filed their mimic
pals; where languid nathers rested after their
plunge, stretching their bare white arms over
their heads and tossing their loose hair, sesweed
decked, like Aphleea, over their flushed faces
women and men, their wind-tossed draperies
and tip-tilted umbrellas. making checker
work OF light and shaoe on the stone paved
nernerian harmony under the magic
of Gilmore's baton, not in their
barren old pavilion, but in
fairy-Iike palace, with its yine-wreathed
columns and its banks OF grey moss and cut
flowers, and tell me, can you conceive Of more
inviting par adise, and sill for the small sum of
rs cents, including boat and car fare and adnnis-
sion to the reserved seats in the pavilioni
There: isn't that coming down out Of the clouds
with vengeance?
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At Glen Island one Is in Deutschland, Sweitz-
zer sandwiches, Vienna ssusages, rye bread and
horseradish abound, and imported beer is the
only drink furnished. One can get genuine,
clam-bake for 70 cents, with spe-
cial service 81, and all the salt air one can swat
low for nothing.
The "Teutonic'' OF the White Star line OF
steamers, is now the record breaker of this port.
She and s'The City of New York, % OF the Inman
line, raced over from Liverpool to New York.
the .sTeutonic'' coming in ahead. making the
trip in i've days, nineteen hours and five min
rtss. A verit&ble queen she is too lying there at