The record-union., 1891-09-12
one cove of the sea that has never ceased


w.. What myriads of Londoners ought
to thank him for inventing Brighton.
One of the best physicians our city has
ever known Is kind, cheerful, merry DIR.
Brighton. Hail. thou purveyor ofshrimps
and honest prescriber of South Down
muttoni There is no mutton so good as
Brighton mutton; no fys so pleasant as
Brighton flys. and no shops so beautiful
to look at as the Brighton gimcrack
shops, and the fruit shops and the mar
ket." More than this, he peopled it
with many OF his own fair brood in 1.-The
Newcomes." Who can come here with
out feeling that Give and Ethel New
come 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 rich
est Truefitt and Delcroix, rich cassocks
and meek faces, at the Lady Whittleseas s
chapels 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 conquered? There it is, in scores of
places, the little, pudgy, round-fronted
house, with bow windows and green
painted balcony, redolent of scrawny
chops, pinched teas and dodgers, but a
veritable shrine, worth coming all the
way from America to see, by anyone who
stern to the happy end in all the bitter
sweet trudgery and yeXation, the rebuff
and inSolence, and the final glorious VIC
tories 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 resorts, perhaps with the
difference that at Brighton the peculiari-
ties of the seaside resort are more pro-
! nounced because on a grander scale.
1t Is but an hour and quarter from
London. 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 whim or hurt it
is an outlet and panacea. For over de-
preston or exultation; for headache or
heart singing; for debility or plethora,
there is the sudden resolve, the apollo
getic note or telegram, the fleet hansom
and the next Pullman express to Brigh-
ton. Therefore, from Easter until Sep
tember, Brighton is simply beaming-
faced London-by-t -the-Sea. 1t is London
at its best. Brighton East street is
turned into London Bond street; North
street becomes Picadilly, and King S
Road, the great sea front thoroughfare, is
transformed into splendid Rotten Row.
For London and all other common folk
who come to Brighton the great attrac-
ClOh 10 ILLS 1AlIlS = 1NOdll, du
| driveway and promenade three miles
long; the vast show ground and gimcrsck
shops beneath its sea front edge; the wide
reach of toreShore, ample enough in area
for million people to disport themselves
upon; the shore itself, lined with innu-
merable sailing craft, rowboats and bath
ing machines-the old closed van on
wheels which English conservatism and
prudery will seemingly never relinquish
and the endless sea, upon which, per-
haps, $4,000 souls from the home pens of
London daily gaze and gaze with yacu-
Gus sort Of dreamy longing, as though
the Hfe-giving feast could never be given
up.
For these same common folk there is
hardly another such pleasant pandemo-
MUM to be found in The whole world as
upon the sands and shingle between
Kings Road and the sea. Half the hum
bier 'pros," the vagrom players, "eccen-
tries" and mountebanks of London, free
OF fee or license, take possession of these
miles Of foreShore, where the livelong day
the multitude is entertained in return for
whatever pennies it may choose to shower
upon the singers and players. l have in
one day counted Z, ZOO of the performers
no mean villageful by ythemselves-who
were entertaining from $4,000 to 100, 900
people. These are the 'buskers" or
'busketers" of Brighton. Put all the
lGSb VI lIle SSdSIue IdhlTS ElgldnU TO-
gether and the whole of them would not
furnish the same variety, ingenuity and
pictureSqueness of these merry nomads.
But burnt cork minstrels and the death
less 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 esplanade, about six
teen feet above the various mountebanks S
who perform on the sand and shingle be-
meath. The latter are surrounded by
rings and eddies of children sometimes
numbering from $1,000 to 10000 on q
sunny day, and their only apparent tenn
pOrary sorrow is found in the merciless
Interruptions by the donkey drivers and
| riders, with which they frequently be-
come lngloriously involved, for there are
nearly as many donkeys as harlequins at
Brighton, and their masters are London
gypSieS, 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
business and social necessities may
prompt. Again, in summer Brighton
possesses really more elegance, comfort
and entertainment than London itself can
boast. The great singers and actors do
not regard Brighton as provincial but
NlelIODOIlldI. Ing 1UcdIOr Royal and
Alhambra rival the greatest London legit-
innate and variety theaters. 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 grand
est of popular promenade concerts, and
the magnificent Royal Aquarium is not
only wonderful place for the student of
ichthyology, but also provides fine musi-
cal 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 horseman-
ship on Kings Road drive any sunny
afternoon is astonishing, even to one ia
miliar with Bois dc 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 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 nothing more charming in England
than a 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 hun
dred years ago from the White Horse
Cellar IN LONDON 10 the Old ship Hotel
in Brighton. The Brighton races, out of
which ''On the Road to Brighton" and
scores more of roaring old English bal
| lads 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 foxhounds, and the Warn
ham and Surrey staghounds are near.
and tops, spurs, cords, crops" and
white, with
A southerly wind and q cloudy sky
Proclaim hunting morning.
Meeting papa" at the station in the