Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1892-07-14

Special Correspondence OF Gazette and journal |
On CoNEY ISLAND BEACH, July S.-The |
regular New York woman who sees every |
thing there is to see begins the summer |
days with a visit to Coney Island. Now,
if she is the type given over to languish-
ing in her gowns and thinking of the
injury done them by their being mussed |
or having a splash of sea water thrown
upon them, she will sit on the veranda of
one of the porches of the large hotels and
know no more about Coney Island when she
comes away than she did when she went
there If, however, she is wise and inter
ested in life, she will wear plain cotton
froek, a simple straw hat and enjoy the
delights of the island from beginning to
end.
ONE OF THE -four MILLION"
She starts off in the boat and is quietly
seated outside, where it is shady, when
she begins to look around. The repre-
sentatives of the Four Hundred are scarce
but those of the four million are there
Near her is young woman, who has an
nounced to the public Immediately about
her that she often makes as mucli as ST.
a week in cravat factory. Personally
she is gorgeous; her gown is II white
challie printed with pink roses, and
lavishly decorated with pink ribbon; her
hat is a mass of pink flowers, and great
long pink streamers hang down her back
pink streamers that every gust of wind
blows into the eyes of the men, women and
children who happen 10 be near her. But
they forgive her this, for they feel that in
way while one of themselves she is yet
creature almost too bright and good for
them to find any fault with her.
any GENTLEMANFRIEND."
With her is the person she calls 'My
gentlemanfriend;" and his get-up is quite
as artistic as hers. 1t is true his trousers
look as if they were made so that he might
do skirt dance in them but then his
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has pin IN it which, unless you were
judge of diamonds, you would pronounce
the Kohinoor. His ways were gleesome
He called his "ladyfriend' Maggie, and he
+ talked for the benefit of every body He
reminded Maggie of the night they got
prize for the best dancing at the United
Cigarmakers ball; he gave a full and
accurate account of a fight that he had
with man who once asked his girl to
dance with him. and then he added, with
protruding jaw, and an uplifted shoulder,
IF you'd done it, Mag, you'd n been
dead.n And Mag looked at him with eyes
Of admiration, and said, "My tiawdm
she hadn't the remotest idea that She was
being blasphemous; she was simply re-
peating All exclamation that she con-
tinually heard.
THEY'RE ROUGH, BUT TENDER.
Near this happy pair is a tired-looking
little woman, with a sick baby in her
arms, and with her man who gives CON
tinual care to another child about three
years old. White, miserable looking,
these people had come out to give the baby
a taste of the salt air and see If it wouldn't
bring some life to it. For these people
love their children, these people Of the
million, Just us well as do those in the
higher grade; and they go to deal more
trouble in looking after them. Maggie
proud IN all her llnGry, saw the sick baby,
and getting up little closer to her steady
company" she said: "Chimmie, go and
get the sick young 'un somethin." Now,
Chimmie was what you call tough but
if he had been called James" he couldn't
have had tenderer spot in his heart than
he possessed when il came TO a question of
babies. Every child in the neighborhood
took pride i'll his fighting abilities, and was
never so happy as when "lnnerarity's
Chimmie' "hsted me up on his shoulder
and tux me home. He went down to the
bar, and he came back bringing the sick
baby-what do you think : K glass of
foaming beer II was cool, and it was
accepted with much gratitude; the sick
baby had sip, that is it was put to its
lips; the other one had a mouthful, the
tired mother drank little, and the father
finished i up with Here's to you,
Chimmie' And Chimmie accepted the
greeting with condescending nod.
THE COMFY ISLAND SANDWICH.
The island has been reached: the crowd
is pushing and sCrambling to get of, il is a
case OF every Inan take care of his own
girl, or she will have the wind knocked
out of her, so the various girls are grabbed
by the elbow and pranced along ms if they
We're bicycles, by which the owner was
walking. The first thing to do is to get
soneting to eat. The charm of Coney
Island sandwich is that il is the same yes
terday, to-day and forever 1t has no inf.
mite variety, and all the custom in the
world couldn't stale it. 1t consists IF two
hunks OF bread with vicious lump of
something--called butter-planted in the
centre OF each. over this grows something
the size of postage stamp, which may be
chicken, ham or beet then there comes a
Hood OF mustard. In eating one, You have
TO make up your mind to 20 in Tor a reg
lIlar scrap, and unless you have been going
through course of training with your
dentist the sandwich comes out first and
you are lett. II has been described as being
set-to between the material and The.
spiritual and the material gets the better of
It. II you can eat a sandwich, which is rs
much as to say If you are the woman with
the iron jaw, then you realize why so
much mustard Is used-its to give YOU a
thirst, Tor from that point right straight
around the island You have a consuming
desire TO drink anything from milk or
lemonade to beer and champagne. After
this you buy string of popcorn, or Il bag
OF peanuts, ana keep them to return to
when You cant get anything else 10 eat.
SEASIDE VARIETY SHOW.
~ Here are the variety shows. In YOU 20.
Tor you are seeing the sights. Chimnlie
And his 'ladyfriend' are in the front row.
N1g is in ecstasies of delight over a
much bepainted young woman in a red
velvet frock, cut very low in the neck, and
permitting her ample charms to display
themselves. She wears-save the mark -
diamond necklace, aud she has already
told the audience, consisting of two bcar-
eyed men, three small children two ladies
and their steady company Chimmie,
Mag and a quiet party of two that II
am such silly young thing and is now
wailing Comrades" Mag saws, "Ain't
that necklace ilne" And Chimnie. fear.
tng that Maggie might have spirations for
the stage, answers ''I've heerd that Ills
Nibs, the Prince of Wales, Civ it TO her,
and perhaps she amt AS decent as She
might be- p rose Maggie; no more ad.
miration for the necklace, but very en-
phatic speech comes and she announces
Mr.. lnnerarity, would never have be-
lieyed You would took your Iadyfriend
where the women were crooked" and
then Maggie sailed ont with her "gentle.
man friend" behind her, prepared to ubase
himself before her and beg her pardon.
AS YOU LISTEN TO GILMORE
On we go until we reach one of the big
hotels, where hundreds of people are hay.
ing their dinner and listening to the music
that only Gilmore can control There are
all types here. There is little Miss Frivols,
who has come down under the guidance
of her brother, and will go home under
the guidance of somebody elses brother.
There n hpr1np fnt 1.