New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1891-07-19

travelled by the Sea fach ryu,e, Va ntnS Tho
soa air and lust enough of ride on the train 10
keep one FROM getting uIeu' .,r,oar resort
m S I,o Hsc OF don't youP Well do, too and
49, ahout once so often l take a run down W
Manhattan Beach TO hear Gilmores oanu; 'o ond
day I'm going t to '& While Il isn't fair that you
men in the East, rather In New-fofK' snouiu
navy you know the Major ratified on. lighting his
,,r,H c~nr have certain amount OF business
| 80 trnnsoct I'm Boston every year IL taxes me
obout t fonr days. DO you think that go over
Boston and stay there d 1pf i3 five of that Ny
wife and get aboard one of the Sound steamers
Alter a fine trip we arrive in Boston early IN tne
morning WE are sd I'D WE Gadh the evening boat
haclt TO New-York. In week or so we make i
the same trip again. Nothing like Enjoying W 1 40"
live is there nrcfsr ' ride than one an get
on fine Hudson in one of your fine river steamers
Do Won know that have always thought u i,lo
vote Of thanks G%f5 70 De pSS the Garden
Mo tho Eden Musee Company, and the resi- Oh
them ? They have cOnspired to add the only Inlls
that NewYork in years past aGR RDrb ~ in SIMMER
wien so many people think they are mlserd p
worth 10000 Trapped laughs i'm. IN winre[ cw y FL Fl
way, there's another new thlng. 70 1c g@t there
Dorado h bnys4f h :" miss sHf IT, Well ri get
over there this week. What is itP King SOLO.
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| he'll try not to disappoint me- 1890 .h;rc
II have time to tell you just one more tnins
before / co., said the Major. / like to give a
pSHs G Rav es GT Now ri
tLat Won don't know that special excursions urc
rmn On the NewYorl Central, the Pennsylyana,
the Erie and the Jersey Central 10 ai' 0''''"'''
points in summer" ,,,
"You would lose your money, Major. NJ
well. I'll bet you that ] can name more "'-
tractive places on each line than You can.
| al taka
classical scholar on NewYorll as summer resort.
Right YOU are" cried the Major, PITqpuuIS,
Just read their advertisements ana you VIII op'"
Now" he said, coming TO his pet; one LILLE
more and then | must leave you. we are 5oi w
over to the Garden Theatre this evening" UNIV
about time to start
THE ONLY PLACE TO GET THEM.
1.-THE only place in this country where you can
ret good meal night OF day, is New-forK. Inc
only place in the world where you can geu goou
miyed drinks is Ncw-York. You see. am
Westerner and that is an important feature. Inc
only place where you can get good operas ana goTu
comedies is in New-York New OK Is o''1 h D
after snndown. And New-York has no mosqultos
New-York has no malaria. Newly ork Is the c zen
tire of all tie good things in this country: ooni
night; | must hurry or III DE ia'e ioi 0' wa
cert at the Garden. ,~ .oIl,rs
Now. as it happened, the Major had been 1 taINna
10 a Tribune reporter. The reporter aId tr no,
force Of habit perhaps from the fact that ne was
onyons 70 prove beyond n doubt that this was an
truc for the honor Of Newly Ork, ne SCI " murH
the next day to make an investigation ne lo"ai
that the Major had made no mistake III was al
trne about the big drygoOds houses whlch ne Ilau
mentioned. They were offering special inuu o'd
mcnts to summer buyers. Prices were io"ri ; tn
tbe stocks were Just as complete as In Winter
The great rooms were cool on warm aieI WI,
Novelties were attractively displayed; Siel I'M
wore attentive and the shop girls ooKeu fresh anu
VI 4; IlrLt GOWNS with bits of flowers IN their
hair or at their threats But It was ev d no rned
many people beside the Majors VIE nad Ieaii Hor
the value of doing their shopping IN summer au
the stores well filled WIN thosr r,c mno New
York stores in the middle OF summer WTre or se'
attractive. As one firm puts the CASE ii'i' 10
no summer dulncss here
THE MAJOR SEEMED TO BE RIGHT
And then the reporter coming uoWi ,o",'
r,or,borcd all that the Major had said about the
water the boats the breezes and the cooinesS Vi
evening lie walked out on the big Bri'i!e'
Down tbc Eas: River came the lights of silently
eoatirr steamers In the hafbor the tall spaTs OIL
many shus stood high up III the ooIhsi ,,
Acros, the bay electric lights flashed ana tlreW
long shadows Down below wheTe , o1e cnmina
hack 10 New York laden with the peasg
of day There was dark streak atar on VIII VIII
! the land Law low in the water ana over the sIauom
~ Governors Island came the llght OF the noyll,
! banrinr in n silver circle from the blue OF the
skv On the water it hOated like ven OF ls en-
bne touched with white where the cres.s o, 1nJ
waves met the light II deepcned as ~ ~ u
| flo Fridge and went under the great span IN
long black shadow. breeze, 9utraclhGg tr tre
Homecoming steamers, wound up and around rom
| SANDY Hook and stole up the river " t9ucIedd
cooling. The moon slipped behind mass OF
Sorl clouds feather-t!pped and billowy, and for
o", moment hid her face from the finest summer
resort in the world. The Major was right