The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1894-04-06
New York City. April 2,
1894.


wood Cemetery yesterday and re-
greet that we are not able TO give
you an idea of the extent and
solemn and imposing grandeur Of
the place. When there you can
look back 10 the largest city OF the
living on the American continent
and also realize that you are in the
largest city Of the dead on the same
continent. When you are there
among the monuments and tombs
of the thousands on thousands Of
our race who live silent in death,
the sentiments and feelings eN-
pressed by William Cullen Bryant
when he said: $50 live when the
innnmerable caravan that moves
TO the pale realms Of shade where
each must take up his abode In the
silent halls OF death,n are i'm
pressed foreibly on your mind.
From here we went to Coney
Island via the Prospect Park and
Coney Island Il. r.. and were dlsap-
pointed to find it was not an island
at all but simply a promontory
from Long Island. | don't know
why it is called an Island for it is
not-just about such an Island as
Coney Island on the Ohio river
above Cincinnati, This place is
one OF the many great summer re-
sorts about New York city. The
Jumbo Hotel is a hotel built in the
shape and resemblance of an ele-
phaat and is large enough TO ac-
commodate as many guests as an
ordinary hotel. The trunk comes
down to a low platform in front and
all guests enter the hotel through
the trunk, there being regular
stairway up it to the reception
room in the main building. There
is no part Of the resem blance OF an
elephant wanting in the construc-
ton of the building. Its eyes,
ears, feet, legs, tail, head and body
are all symmetrical. The legs are
long enough for three stories and
you see three windows, one above
another, in each leg and on the
sides or main body of the elephant
or hotel | counted twenty six Win
dows. If you ever visit Coney
Island l think Jumbo Hotel will
be the first thing to attract your at
tention and the last thing you will
forget. There are many other
things to make the place interest
ing. There is tower three hun
bred feet high which affords a view
of fifty miles out on the ocean.
On my return | stopped to see
c. Johnston at his place on corner
of Middaugh and Fulton streets.
Brooklyn, the man who always
backed John l., Sullivan and lost
between forty and fifty thousand
dollars on him when he was de-
feated by Jim Corbett at New
Orleans.
We have often heard of George
Francis Train and had the pleasure
OF seeing him last Friday. He has
a roomat the Continental Hotel on
Broadway and Twentieth streets,
a large motel kept on the European
plan. He of course has always
been eccentric; but about twenty
yearsago, we learn, it was plain to
those who knew him best that his
eccenIricity was degenerating until
the last seven or eight years he has
been a yeritable recluse, except as
to hts fondnes5 for children, whose
company he has eajoyed all CHS
time lie Will hardly speak to an
adqitatali. Ills hotel is near Mad
ison square and he spends most all
Of bis time there when It is not too
cold either Walking around or sit
ting ON the nice seats, or amusing
himself with the Children who
know him and gather around him
for good time. When men want
to shake hands with him he will
clasp his own hands together and
shake them, but will not shake
theirs. He has stayed there so
much that the sun and wind has
turned his skin dark as a Moor 5,
while his hair is very white from
age, he being now more than 10
years old. His daughter makes
him a weekly allowance for his