The daily morning journal and courier., 1894-08-22
0S LONG ISLANDS sEA-GIRT SHORE
Several New Haveners Enjoying Life on
 the Ocean Side of old Long Island. Ha xln.Ia IL Ial


 the Ocean Side of old Long Island,
 To the Editor of the JOURNAL AND COURIER
 Camping on the Pine Tree Point in the beautiful town of Patchogue are a party of New Haven young men. in- ciuding Councilman D. A. Beulah. Will liam Starks. Walter Archer. Edward sutciifr and George Skinner. They are the guests of Mir. and Mrs. Morti- mer Bayies. on whose beautiful grounds adjoining the lake the camp is located. We find Patchogue a delightful sum mering locality. conveniently sur rounded by attractive summer day re- resorts. but the facilities for reaching them might be improved In percepti- ble manner. Our attention was first called to the fact on our tourney 10 Chataqua. We boarder small steamer of about fifteen tons displacement. which plies between Patchogue and Chataqua. She had her full compile ment of passengers. Unfortunately for those who failed to wear rubber boots) and the water that frequently boarded her amidship on this calm day made 1t necessary for the captain to request all passengers with silver money and those with bills in their pockets to divide themselves equally on both sides of the boat, to even her up. as he said This necessitated balanc- ing of finances, which showed up very disparagingly to those on board who had neither silver nor bills. and who could readily be distinguished by their grouping themselves together In the middle of the boat. Chataqua is a new summer resort opened this year, whose spasmodic growth Is fiattering trib- ute to its natural surroundings. Ii Is under the supervision of ecclesiastical government, which will eliminate those objectionable features so common to many summer resorts. Here is vast auditorium, in which are held every day new features in the line of attrac- order. It was our pleasure to hear the famous Ferdinand c. Quicken in some choice selections from Mendelssohn. Schumann and Weber.
 Our surf bathing at Chataqua is an- other feature that will long be asso- ciated with a catastrophe which one of our party experienced. In his New England innocence and fragile bathing suit he gaily sallied forth to meet old Neptune, but it was not long be- fore the spectators on the beach were convinced that his suit was never de signed for such boisterous reception, and his frantic efforts to don another without coming out of the water made some of the onlookers hesitate between their sense of duty on the one hand and propriety on the other, as he was violently juggled upside | down and his additional suit inside out in his frantic attempts to convert the Atlantic into a seaside bath-house Others who arrived at conclusions quicker picked themselves up and strolled away to calmer scenes. Our Chataqua trip was through the kind | ness of MT. and Mrs. w. B. Nichols, Patchogue's prominent music dealer. Our camp is conveniently situated be- tween a COW, an ice house. hennery and a farm. which enables us to enjoy with a measure of fullness the beau- tiful silver lake whose waters teem with the choicest varieties of the finny tribe. We cannot speak too loudly in praise of the hospitality of Long Island people and their gaiety. as evinced by the number of hops we have received invitations to attend to prove their appreciation of terpsicho- rean pleasures. B. A. B.