Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1891-06-28
GOTHAM In SUMNER.
IT'S ADVANTAGES AS A SUMMER RE-
soRTp NOT OBVIOUS.
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tcorrespondcnce OF the Richmond Dispatch-l
Nyw York. June 27.-Opposite June 2o-So
,he average New York correspondent notes
in his almanac: "About-this-time-
write-up-' New-York-as-a
resort" IL,
would not willingly violate any trad'-
ton of nv craft. New York 10 summer
resort. q big ono the biggest OF all "hi'e
900 600 New Workers TO the city born anu
bred fee from the city TO pass the summer
elsewhere. their places are taken on the
street bv nearly a. many strangers iIonh
other parts of the country. Saratoga,
Long Branch, and Newport toeetueF
haven't so many visitors, ana lot lhIcH ~
the summer the city IS cool ana uellsntIIIi,
Our uearuess 10 the ocean gives Us weeks
- davs ne cool as are necessary for COM
fort. and August seldom passes without "a
decided cold spell. Besides, II 1t gets very
hot there are Coney Island and Roekaway
and ~
But. all. Humidity! Thy name Is death.
There are other weeks Of n different cha-
racter. when for days AT time the pltIiesS
sun blazes down, scOrchlng, Wltnerlis, tOI-
turing. killing those who cannot get away.
Haggard mothers swarm in the street aiter
nightfall gasping for breath, tlIeLr III H.
ones in their arms peeylsh ana restless.
The roofs OF the tall tenementS are
tbropged all night by those who cannot
endure the sitting air OF their rooms
They curse. they pray for rain. they
babble, and 60 mad. Suicides multiply
and up goes the death-rate with reap rs
if tho grip were come again. ue
bridge is thronged till late Mt night. EaSh
hot spell hundreds are sacrificed IN the
most crowded city in the world. and those
who survive the horrible ordeal emerge
wan and hollow-eyed from days OF suffer
inc. Hundreds Of the heat prostrations
occur every day. The prosperous man
who has not quite dollars enough and ~
staying 10 earn more drops by the side or
the poor one who has not dollars enough
20 take him away. And yet the thermone-
ter does not run above "a or 20. It's the
humidity, the dampness in the air, that
fortunes all and kills many.
Two young ladies from New Orleans. &C
customed one would suppose TO heat, came
North to take passage for Europe, arriving
some time IN advance of steamer day to see
the city. one day in town between the
baking hot brick walls cooled their ardOr.
or rather over-heated it. They could not
be induced to repeat the experiment, but
waited the rest OF the time ut q friends
country home. They had reached the city
at "a bad time.
Yes. New York is a pleasant summer re-
sort TO those who can take It at lts best, or
who are free to fee it at it, worst. No
thing could be more agreeable than sum
mer visit here sight seeing on cool days
and freaucnting the beaches on hot ones
But TO live and work in the CITY through
out the summer IS quite another matter.
AN ISLAND or HOTELS.
Ten years ago. having made \ number Of
trips thither. Thought L knew All ABOUT
COney Island.
one dsv Jonn Y. McKane, the king Of
the island sought 10 test my knowledge PN
asking me rather abruptly: TOW many
hotels do YOU think are on lhl5 strip OF
sand. little and big!"
"Oh, perhaps thirty
"Thats not bad guess. There are only
800. 80 SAID the king with benevolent 5mue
Last Sunday was down at the island
again. he island Is Mt its best on sun
dav-. The 300 hotels must have grown 10
900 bv this time, from the palatlal Oriental
10 the littlo huts In the gut where
every negro patron has razor ready Tor
emergencies. Probably there IL 40 other
such summer city IN the word. Brighton
and Trouyllle and Ostgud are permanent
towns where people live winter rs well rs
summer. Coney Island differs all the way
rom g. 600 10 10000 people on pleasant
81 mer sunday 70 q scant hundred watch
men and employees IN winter.
Yet the city j. very well behaved. much
better than il usei.to be in the old days, a
we'll rs any city OF SO many people. one
reason saw on Sunday, when big pla-
toon Of fue-lo1bng policemen marched
out from the staton-house 10 change pa
.rOls with another iiue-looNng platoon
.u-t going in. Mr.. Nckane i supcrinten-
dent OF police besides being supervisor Of
he town and the builder IF most OF the
uig hotels. The town Of Grayesend, which
owns the beach, pays for the police force
and the roads and water-works, and has
money left 60 pay Tor it schools out q.
the rentals received for what YRS not so
very long ago a worthless strip OF sand.
4 bewilGering and delightful maze of
men. women. children, photographers.
Frankfurter sausages, wooden cows which
Give real milk. a wooden elephant. iron
PIERS which are splendid for babies 70 SIT
under and burrow in the sand. peddlcrs,
lokey-pohcy men. restaurants. aldc-ShoWs,
,ailroad stations. bar-rOOms, tobOggan-
.lidcs. clam chOwders. and the glorious
sea near at hlud-that is Coney Island III
this year of our Lord 1871.
VINO WILL ~ GOVERNOR.
Il seems 10 be pretty well agreed that
ACKNOWLEDGMENT Jones l. running
homeless race for the GOvcrnOrshlp.
he situation in New York Is peculiar.
Governor Hi * holding the Office Of soma
tor AS well rs Governor. He took The
Office of senator TO avoid q fight IN the
party. he Is keeping ithe goycrnorship be-
cause he cannot trust Jones 10 put up ms
DELEGATIONS. and II Is even possible that he
may in the tall again accept n nomination
for Governor, reslgnlng the senatOrahlp.
This is hardly likely, and all present signs
point e Roswell L. Flower as the nominee.
Mr. Flower Is Il sensible aud discreet
man, rs well a5 nch one. and
worked hard 10 BRING the Worlds Fair to
New York. Mr.. Jones has barrel. but 1t
isn't n big one. and there Is something The
matter with the splgOt; It doesn't turn
easily. Besides, Mr.. Jones Is not always
discreet or even sensible. 80 the fact that
he has been ut-GOyernOr, and
that he really ought 10 be Governor now,
If Mr. Hill weren't straddling Is not likely
TO help HIM much.
OF course there are plenty of dark
horses. Mayor Capin. of Brooklyn. was
considered very rapid runner NJ one
time. but local scandals have crippled HIM.
Sir. Covert, who represents the First dis
trict IN Congress. would like To be can
didate.
On the Republican side there is not yet
nearly so much interest shown. This does
not moan that there Will not be 4 fight, and
a hot one. later. IL simply means that cleo
tions is a long way off. 1t is by no means
impossible that frederick Schroeder of
BROOKLYN, NAV be run on a platform with
a liberal excise plank to please his German
fellow-citizens. which would be queer
enough comment on the high license cam
paign when Warner Miller fell outside
the breast-wOrks."
With both sides the motto il: Any
thing to Win" For Is not next year 1872 ?
GOOD AND BAD IMMIGRANTS.
II is difficult at distance from New York
10 comprehend how many of the immi-
grants who land here are more beastiy
than the beasts. Ii Is difficult for some
people here TO realize how many of them
are splendid specimens Of man and woman
hood. There is much to be said on both
sides.
once saw an old woman land at Castle
Garden who was yislbly detested and alb
hOrred by tue other women about her.
There was a story behind it, an incredible
tory of filthiness which cannot be- told in