Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-09-13
to look at as the Brighton gimcrack shops,

veritable shrine worth coming all the way
from America 10 see, by anyone who thrills
at the bravery that is CHEEKY and stern TO
10 the happy end in all the bitter sweet
trudgery and veXation, the rebuff and inso-
lence, and the final glorious victories, in
everyday life.
1t is with this sort Of flavor and through
this tender glamor that all who come dimly
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 re-
sort are more pronounced because on
grander scale.
1t is but an hour and quarter from Lon
don. 1t is so near that it is almost an ever
present and blessed temptation to millions of
harried and hurried men and women. For
every city within or hurt it is an outlet and
pauacea. For oyer-depreSSion or eXulta-
ton: for headache or heart singing; for de-
bility or plethora-there is the sudden re-
solve, the apologize note or telegram, the
feet hanson, and the next Pullman express
TO Brighton. Therefore. from Easter IN
til September. Brighton is simply beaming
faced London-by-t he-sea. 1t is London at
its best Brighton East street is turned
into London Bond street: North street be-
comes 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 to Brighton the great attraction
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 fore
shore ample enough in area for million
people to disport themselves upon: the
shore itself, lined with innumerable sailing
craft, rowboats and bathing machines-the
Old closed van on wheels which English
conservatism and prudery will seemingly
alI T1gt11i. h md rt,.a
which perhaps $4,000 souls from the home
pens of London daily gaze and gaze with
VdcuOuS 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 Il pleasant pandemo-
mum to be found in the whole world as
upon the sands aud single between Kings
road and the sea. Half the humber pros
tho Vagrom players, ''eccentrlcS' and
mountebaukS of London, free OF fee or
license, take possession of these miles of
forcshOre, where the iivelong day the null
titudc is entertained i'll return for what
ever pennies il may choose 20 shower upon
the singers and players. ! have in one day
counted 200 of the performers-a no mean
villageful by themselves vino were enter
tanning from %. 900 TO 900 people. These
are the "buskers'' or 'busketers' of
Brighton. But all the rest of the seaside
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 dcathleSs domestic tragedies of
Punch and Judy ever closest hold the vast
crowds heart. The onlookerS stroll or
stand at the end of Kings road esplanade,
about sixteen feet above the various
mountebanks who perform on the sand and
shiugle beneath. The latter are surrounded
by rings and cddies of children sometimes
numbering from 5000 to 1000 on a sunny
day, and their only apparent tenn
porary sorrow is found in the merciless
Interruptions by the donkcyS, drivers and
riders, with which they frequently become
mgloriously involved. for there are nearly
as many donkeys as harlequinS at Brighton.
ami their masters are London gypsies,
handy as costcrmongers 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 glOri-
Gus sea. but there is London itself TO run to
and from as often as the fancy or business
and social necessities may prompt. Again,
III summer Brighton possesses really more
elegance, comfort and entertainment than
London itself can boast. The great singers
and actors do not regard Brighton as pro-
vlnclaI, but metropolitan. The Theater
Royal and Alhambra rival the greatest
The hotels are enormous, numberlesS and
splendid. The Royal Pavilion, the scene
of some extraordinary orgies, when William
~. was Duke of Clarence, and which are !
best left untold, is now the home of the
graudest of the popular promenade CON
certS, and the magnificent ROYAL Aquarium
is not only wonderful place for the stu |
dent of ichthyology, but also provides fine |
musical and other entertainments. The |
shops of Brighton are as brilliant and grand |
as those of Regent street in London, and |
the display of equipageS and horsemanship |
on Kings Road drive any sunny afternoon |
: astonishing. even to one familiar with |
Bols de Bologne IN Paris, or London's |
famous Rotten Row.
There are many other aspects of Brighton, |
some being quite disaSSociated with its |
chief interest as 4 resort, which are very |
winsome 10 one lettering here. These come |
to the attention like daily new and pleas |
ing acquaintance. The coaching tours are |
full of delight. There is nothing more |
in England than 4 trip TO Arundel |
and dinner at the old Norfolk 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 London to the Old Ship hotel in
Brighton. The Brighton races, out of which
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 Good
wood fox hounds, and the Worsham and
Surrey staghoundS are near, and tops,
spurs, cords, crops land white, with
a southeriy wind and a cloudy sky
Proclaim . hunting morning.
Injecting papa" at the station in the
evening on his return from London is one |
Of the prettiest sights in Brighton. The
Populations of wives and children in fine
Oroughams, the CHEEKY greetings and the |
iashiug away to the home or hotel of the |
reunited hundreds of families is one Of the
grand events of the day. Then there are
interesting professions of Dr.. Blimmer's
boys in their going to and from the playing
fields, with the solemn assistant masters,
greater slaves than ever was any Elton or
Rugby flag" conscious of their impor-
lance, but writ ing under its sedate digni-
ties; the rambles,to Shoreham and Lane
in where there is a wonderful little Nor
man church and the figs ripen in the open
air: the eXultant walks cover the long back
Of the bushleSs DOWNS and a thousand |
other things TO do and know. until. at de-
parting, the rhythmic wheel beat of your
train times truly with countless
rhymes the MINISTRIES have made on this
and most of all with
If you're fond OF good wine and good dinners,
Se2scapes divine, which the flashing seas
whiten,
Nice little saints and nice little sinners,
Loiter III Brighton.