Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-09-12
gan flowing toward this one cove of the sea

One of the best physicians our city has ever
known is kind, cheerful, merry DR.. Bright,
on. Hail, though purveyor of shrimps and
honest prescriber of South Down mutton!
There is no mutton so good as Br1ghton
mutton; no fys SO pleasant as Brighton fys,
and no shops so beautiful to look at as the
Brighton gimcrack shops, and the fruit
shops and the market" More than this, he
peopled it with many of his own fair brood
in ''The Newcomes. Who can come here
without feeling that Give and Ethel New
come are somewhere in all the joyous COM
pany?
WHY BRIGHTON IS LOVED.
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 whim or hurt it is an outlet
and panacea- For overdepress:on or exulta-
tion; for headache or heart singing; for de-
bility or plethora-there is the sudden re-
solve, the apologetic note or telegram, the
heet hanson and the next Pullman express
to Brighton. Therefore, from Easter until
September, Brighton is simply beaming
faced London-by-the-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 transformed 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.
CHARMS MOST VARIED
The vast show ground and gimcrack shops
beneath its sea front edge; the wide reach
of foreshore, ample enough in area for
million people to disport themselves upon;
the shore ITSELF lined with innumerable
sailing craft, rowboats and bathing ma
chines-the old closed van on wheels which
English conservatism and prudery will
seemingly never rrelinquish-and the endless
sea, upon which perhaps $4,000 souls from
the home pens of London daily gaze and
gaze with a vacuous sort of dreamy longing,
as though the lite giving feast could never
be given up.
For these same common folk there is
hardly another such a pleasant pandemo-
upon the sands and shingle between Kings
road and the sea. Half the humber ''pros,"
the vagrom players, "eccentrics" and
mountebanks of London, free of fee or
license, take possession of these miles of
foreshore, where the livelong day the null
titude is entertained in return for whatever
pennies it may choose to shower upon the
singers and players. 1 have in one day
counted 2,7O0 Of the performers-a no mean
Vlllageful of themselves-who were enter
tanning from $4,000 to 100, 900 people These
are the "buskers" or ''busketers" Of
Brighton.
SOME PRIMITIVE ADJUSTMENTS.
Put all the rest of the seaside fakirs in
England together and the whole of them
would not furnish the same variety, in
genuity and picturesqueness of these merry
nomads. But burnt cork minstrels and the
deathless 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 16cfeet
above the various mountebanks who per-
form on the sand and shingle beneath. The
latter are surrounded by rings and eddies Of
children sometimes numbering from IL, 900
to 10000 on sunny day, and their only ap-
parent temporary sorrow is found in the
merciless Interruptions by the donkeys,
drivers and riders, with which they fire.
quently become ingloriously involved, for
there are nearly as many donkeys as harle-
quins at Brighton, and their masters are
London Gipsies, 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 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.
AS METROPOLITAN AS LONDON.
Again, in summer Brighton possesses !
really more elegance, comfort and enter |
tainment than London itself can boast. The |
great singers and actors do not regard |
Brighton as provincial, but metropolitan. |
The Theater Royal and Alhambra rival the |
greatest London legitimate and variety the |
aters. 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 |
grandest of popular promenade concerts, and
the magnificent Royal Aquarium is not only
a wonderful place for the student of ichthy- |
ology, but also provides fine musical and |
other entertainments The shops of Brigh-
ton are as brilliant and grand as those of
Regent street, in London.
The coaching tours are full of delight.
There is nothing more charming in England
than 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 q hun
dred years ago from the White Horse Cellar
in London to the Old Ship Hotel in Brigh-
ton. The Brighton races, out of which "On
the Road to Brighton" and scores more of
roaring old English ballads had their birth,
are still held.
PLEASANT DOMESTIC SIGHTS.
injecting papa" at the station in the
evening on his return from London is one
of the prettiest sights in Brighton. The |
deputations of wives and children in fine
the CHEEKY greetings and the
dashing away to the home or hotel of the
reunited hundreds of families is one of the
grand events of the day.
Then there are the interesting professions
Of Dr. Blimber's boys in their going to and
from the playing fields, with the solemn
assistant masters, greater slaves than ever
was any Eton or Rugby 'fag," conscious of
their Importance, but wrfthing under its
sedate dignities; the rambles to Shoreham
and Lancing, where there is. wonderful
little Norman church and the figs ripen in
The open air; the exultant walks "oVer the
ong back of the bushless downs;" and
thousand other things to do and know; until,
vt departing, the rythmic wheel beat Of
your vanishing train times times truly with
countless rhymes the minstrels have made
IN this London-by-the-sea, and most of
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