Daily Yellowstone journal., 1891-09-15


hands. snowy handkerchiefs redolent Of /
the richest essences Of Trueftt and Del /
croix, rich cas~ocks and meek faces, at the /
Lady Whittleseas chapels in hideous old /
London behind. who will not wander on /
the Stene here 70 pick out the very house
where brave little Miss Honeyman grandly
held her own and conqueredf There u il,
u scores Of places the little. pudgy, round
fronted house ith bow windows and
green painted balcony, redolcnt OF scrawn
chops. pinohed "teas" and .Odgers, but
veritabip shriUe, worth coming all the way
from america 70 see. by any one who
thrills at the bravery that is CHEEKY and !
stern 70 the happy end in all the bitter
sweet trudgery and vexation, the rebuff
and in-olence. and the final glorious vic
tories in everyday life
Il is with this sort Of flavor and through
this tender glamor that all who come, dim
Is or consciously, know and love Brighton
All else is a. 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
grander scale.
Il is but an hour and a quarter from
London. Il is 80 near that il is almost an
ever present and blessed temptation 70 mil
lions of harried and hurried men and WON
en-. For every city whim or hurt IL Is an
outlet and panacea For overdepression or
exultatiOn, for heartache or heart singing;
for debility or plethora-there is the sud
den resolve, the apologetic note or tele-
gram, the feet hanson, and the next Pull
man express TO Brighton. Therefore, from
Easter until September, Brighton is sim
ply beaming faced London-by-the-Sea Il
is London at its best. Brighton East street
Is turned into London Bond street; North
street becomes Picadilly, and Kings Road.
/ the great sea front thoroughfare, is trans
formed into splendid Rotten Row.
For London and all other common folk
who come 70 Brighton the great attrac-
ton is this Kings Road, an unbroken
| driveway and promenade three miles long;
the vast show ground and gimcrack shops
beneath its sea front edge; the wide reach
Of foreshore. ample enough In area for
million people 10 dispOrt themselves upon;
the shore itself, lined with innumerable
sailing craft, rowboats and bathing ma
chipes-tbe old closed van on wheels
which English conservatism and prudery
will seemingly never relinquish-and the
endless sea. upon which perhaps 5000
souls from the home pens Of London daily
gaze aud gaze with 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 pleasant pandemo-
Il mum TO be found IN the whole world as
upon the sands aud shingle between kings
Road AID the sea. Half the humber pros
the varrom players, "eccentrics" and
mountebanss Of London, free OF fee or IA
cense. take possession OF these miles Of fore
shore, where the livelong day the multi
tude Is entertained in return for whatever
pennies il may choose TO shower upon the
singers and players. I have in one day
counted 2. 200 OF these Performers no
mean villageful by themselves-whO were
entertaining from $4,000 to 100000 people.
These are the ''buskers" or 'busketers" OF
Brighton. Put all the rest Of all the sea
| side fakirs in England together and the
whole Of them would not furnish the same
) variety, ingenuity and picturesqueness OF
these merry nomads. But burnt cork
Ministries and the deathless domestic trag
edies Of Punch and Judy ever closest hold
the vast crowds heart The onlookers stroll
or stand at the shore edge Of the Kings
, Road esplanade, about sixteen feet above
the various mountebanks who perform on
] the sand and shingle shore beneath The
latter are surrounded by rings and eddie'
of children sometimes numbering from Is,
: 600 TO 1000 on a sunny day, and their only
apparent temporary sorrow Is found in the
, merciless interruptions by the donkeys
! drivers and riders. with which they tre
I ouently become ingloFiously involved. fol
there are nearly a. many donkeys as harle
ouins at Brighton. aud their masters ar
London Gipsies. handy as costermOngen
: with their tongues and fists
Fer the fashionables. aristocrats ans
thousands Of well 20 do families who sum
3 mer at Brighton there is not only the glori
. Gus sea, but there h London itself TO ruI
d to and from rs often as the fancy or busi
ness and social necessities may prompt
Again. in summer Brighton possesse
really every elegance, comfort and enter
tainment that London itself can boast
: The great singers and actors do not regar'
Brighton as provincial. but metropolitan
The Theater Royal and Alhambra rival tn
! greatest London legitimate and variet
3 theaters. The hotels are enormous, nun
: berless and splendid The Royal Pavilion
the scene OF some extraordinary orgie
!. when William Nv was Duke Of Clarenc'
, and which are best left untold, is now "a
: home Of the grandest Of popular prOmenad
q concerts, and the magnificent Roys
u Aquarium Is not only wonderful plac
2 for the student Of ichthyQlogy, but ais
. provides fine musical aud other entertain
ments. The shops Of Brighton are g bri
d liant and grand AZ those OF Regent stree
= in London. and the display Of equipags
q and horsemanship on Kings Road driy
. any sunny afternoon is as astonishing eve
= 70 one familiar with the Bois de BOlogn'
y In Paris. or London's famous Rotten Rop
n There are many other aspects of brigl
= ton, some being quite disassociated vii
y its chief interest as a resort, which are yer
= winsome TO one lettering here These com
q 20 the attention like daily new and pleazin
' acquaintances The coaching t0urs Al
= full Of delight There = nothing mol
q charming in England than atrip - Arundi
4 and a dinner AZ the old Norfolk Arms, on
n Of those delicious old inns with which "a
= literature Of che early part % the preseI
century abounds. COaches run daily no
. a. they did hundred years ago from q
= White Horse Cellar IN london 20 the Ol
y Ship hotel In Brighton. The brlghto
- races. out OF which 'On the Road 70 Brig|
y Ton" and sccres more Of roaring old En-
?. lish ballads had their birth, are still bel
a s'nn The Ilnwuen the frsi week IN Auuu|