Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1891-09-12

In the time OF the pilgr1mages- The old
joker knew that the universal British
pulse and purse lay Just beneath the uni
versal British glandulsr disease; and by
the covert mention of the peculiar adap-
liability and efficacy of Brighton salt water
in particular, stream of people and gold
began flowing toward this one cove of the
sea that has never ceased increasing.
Then dear, delightful Thsckery wrote:
sit is the fashion to run down George the
Fourth. What myriads of Londoners
ought to thank him for inventing Brigh-
toni One of the best physicians our city
has ever known is kind, cheerful, merry
DR.. Brighton. Hail, thou purveyor of
shrimps and honest prescriber of South
Down mutton! There is no mutton 30
good as Brighton mutton; no fys SO pleas
ant as Brighton fys, and no shops SO beau
tiful to look at as the Brighton gira-crack
shops, and the fruit shops and the mar
ket." More than this, he peopled il with
many of his own fair brood in 1.-THE New
comes" Who can come here without feel
ing that Give and Ethel Newcome are
somewhere in all the joyous company
And while one hopes he has left all the
Rev. Charles Honeymans, with their sweet
feet, delicate and white hands, snowy
handkerchiefs redolent of the richest
Trueftt and Delcroix, rich cassocks and
meek faces, at the Lady Whittlesea's chap
els in hideous old London behind, who
will not wander on the Stein here to pick
out the very house where brave little Miss
Honeyman grandly held her own and con-
queredi There it is, in scores of places,
the little, pudgy, round tronted house,
with bow windows and green painted bal
cony, redolent of scrawny chops, pinched
"teas" and dodgers, but veritable shrine,
worth pOn1inCr oil tho xt-ax A -,
see, by any one who thrills at the bravery
that is CHEEKY and stern to the happy end
in all the bitter sweet trudgery and vexs-
ton, the rebuff and insolence, and the
final glorious victories, in everyday life.
1t is with this sort of flavor a. d through
this tender glamor that all who come, dim
ly or consciously, know and love Brighton.
All else is as at all other great seaside re-
sorts, perhaps with the difference that at
Brighton the peculiarities of the seaside
resort are more pronounced because on a
grander scale.
1t is but an hour and a quarter from
London. 1t is so near that it is almost an
ever present and blessed temptation 10
millions of hsrried and hurried men and
women. For every city whim or hurt it
is an outlet and panacea. For override
preston or exultstion; for headache or
heart singing; for debility or plethora
there is the sudden resolve, the apologetic
note or telegram, the fleet hanson, and the
next Pullman express to Brighton. There
fore, from Easter until September, Brigh-
ton is simply beaming faced London-by-
the-Sea 1t is London at its best Brigh-
ton East street is turned into London Bond
street; North street becomes Picadilly, and
Kings Road, the great sea front thorough
fare, is transformed into splendid Rotten
Row.
For London and all other common folk
who come to Brighton the great attraction
is this Kings Road, an unbroken drive
way and promenade three miles long; the
vast show ground and gim-crack shops be-
meath its sea front edge; the wide reach of
foreshore, ample enough in area for mil
lion people to disport themselves upon;
the shore itself, lined with innumersble
sailing craft, rowboats and bathing ma
chines-the old closed van on wheels which
English conservatism and prudery will
seemingly never relinquish-and the end
less sea, upon which perhaps fifty thou
sand souls from the home pens of London
daily gaze and gaze with a vacuous sort of
dreamy longing, as though the life giving
feast could never be given up.
For these same common folk there is
hardly another such a pleasant pandemo-
W Dc lOuuu WHOIG WOIlu AS
upon the sands and shingle between Kings
Road and the sea. Half the humber
''pros,n the vagrom players, "eccentrics''
and mountsbanks of London, free of fee
or license, take possession of these miles
of foreshore, where the ivelong day the
multitude is entertained in return for
whatever pennies it may choose to shower
upon the singers and players. 1 have in
one day counted twenty seven hundred of
the performers-a no mean villageful by
themselves-who were entertaining from
fifty to one hundred thousand people
These are the "busksrs" or "busketersn of
Brighton. Put all the rest of the seaside
fskirs in England together and the whole
of them would not furnish the same varie-
ty, ingenuity and picturesqueness of these
merry nomads. But burnt cork minstrels
and the deathless domestic tragedies of
Punch and Judy ever closest hold the vast
crowds heart. The onlookers stroll or
stand at the edge of the Kings Road es-
planade, about sixteen feet above the vari-
Gus mountebanks who perform on the sand
and shingle beneath. The latter are sur
rounded by rings and eddies of children
sometimes numbering from fifteen to
twenty Thousand on a sunny day, and
their only apparent temporary sorrow is
found in the merciless Interruptions by
the donkeys, drivers and riders, with
which the frequently become ingloriously
involved, for there are nearly as many
donkeys as harlequins at Brighton, and
their masters are London gipsies, handy as
costermongers with their tongues and fists.
For the fashionables, aristocrats and
thousands of well to do families who sum-
mer at Brighton there is not only the glo-
rious sea, but there is London itself to run
to and from as often as the fancy or bust
ness and social necessities may prompt.
Again, in summer Brighton possesses real
ly more elegance, comfort and entertain
ment than London itself can boast. The
great singers and actors do not regard
Brighton as provincial but metropolitan
The Theater Royal and Alhambra rival the
greatest London legitimate and variety
theaters. The hotels are enormous, num-
berless and splendid. The Royal Pavil-
ion, the scene of some extraordinary or
gies when William " was Duke of Clar-
ence, and which are best left untold, is
now the home of the grandest of popular
promenade concerts, and the magnificent
Royal Aquarium is not only a wonderful
place for the student of ichthyology, but
also provides fine musical ard other enter
tains. The shops of Brighton are as bril-
liant and grand as those of Regent street,
in London, and the display of equipages
and horsemanship On Kings Road drive
any sunny afternoon is astonishing, even
to one familiar with Bois de Bologne, in
Paris, or London's famous Rotten Row.
There are many other aspects Of Brigh-
ton, some being quite disassOciated with
its chief interest as a resort, which are
very winsome to one lettering here. These
come to the attention like daily new and
pleasing acquaintance. The coaching
tours are full of delight. There is moth
ing more charming in England than trip
to Arundel and dinner at the old Nor
folk Arms, one of those delicious old inns
with which the literature of the early part
of the present century abounds. Coaches
run daily now as they did hundred years
ago from the White Horse Cellar in Lon
don to the Old Ship hotel in Brighton.
The Brighton races, out of which ''On the
Road to Brighton" and scores more of
roaring old English ballads had their birth,
are still held ION the Downs" the first
week in August and the last in October
The "meets" of Crawley and Horsham,
Burstow, East Sussex and Goodwood fox
hounds, and the Warnham and Surrey
stsghounds are near, and tops, spurs,
cords, ''crops" and white, with
A southerly wind and a cloudy sky
Proclaim a hunting morning.
Injecting papa" at the station in the
evening on his return from London is one
of the prettiest sights in Brighton. The