Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1895-08-15

inferior quality. and the clam chowder 10
cheaper and more indestructible. There
are, also, tempting facilities to have your
photograph taken In q group. The air is
about the same ~ at Manhatten beach.
Speaking OF clam chOwder, Chauncey De-
pew is given m authority for the state
ment that . lady ut Brighton became SO
addicted to the clam chowder habit that
her waist rose and fell with the tide.
l would like to say that the viauds are
tempting, but I cannot truthfully do SO.
The butter Ii evidently Of the kind that Is
made in an iron kettle with a fire under
it, and the spring chicken Is as springy as
q rubber teothing ring. 1t it were not for
the ozone In the atmosphere, Id prefer a
horse trough rs q watering place
road for q few hundred yards to reach
I rave figured out that IL railroad
companies charged rs high in pro-
portion to the distance travelled as do
these COney Island roads, the round trip
from New York to Chicago and back,
would amount TO $S43, 675, 42S-but / ain
DEPRESSING. Some parts of COney Island
proper are very nee, while the lower end
Is somewhat otherwise. Dine museums,
dancing aud cOncert halls, cheap restau-
rants and all n Of fake games
abound.
However, these are not the only attrac-
lions at Coney Island proper. Besides
clam chOwder, you can obtain at reasonable
figures two tablespoonfuls of warm heer
with hydrophobia on top. The salt-cov-
cred pretzel comes under the head OF
extras. You can also refresh yourself with
FrankfOrter sausage aud q roll, il you are
not particular what you eat, and the facili-
ties for acquiring q complicated case OF
cralnp collie By quafing lemonade and eat
ing popcorn are unrivaled. Ii you are
tired and really need q rest yeu can test
your strength on several different machines
which are there for that purpose. The OPP
portunities for finding out how much you
weigh are numerous, and II you try two
Of them you will be surprised ut how many
pounds you can gain or lose in q few min
utes. There is not much fishing, but there
is no end of game. One called the she'll
game seems to be the most popular.
And yet on a hot Sunday more than
fifty thousand people will visit COney Is.
land, which goes to show what sort of q
resort New York Is when the
mercury gets up among the nineties.
There are tive or six different routes by
which C0ney Island can be reached from
New York. The most pleasant way to
get there Is to 90 by steamboat. Ii you
don't miss the boat 1t will take an hour.
One advantage Of going by boat is that you
can truthfully say to your friend, whom
you have not e In some time, that you
have been across the water, which will
leave the impression on his mind that yon
have just returned from Europe. The only
objection to the water route IS that you are
liable to be disturbed every once In awhile
bv a beetle-browed bandit of an Italian
musician going around with an inverted
hat.
If you like to participate In railroad acci-
dents, the trolley cars, which run from
Brooklyn, afford unrivaled facilities. Or
you can 81 part of the way by land and
part by water. The shortest route Is via
Long Island City. There you take the
Long Island railroad, which runs through
Hunters Point, where the fat rendering
establishments create an aroma which re-
minds one not SO much of the perfumes of
''Araby the blest'' as they do OF the indi-
vidual Arab. 1t would be useless to at
tempt to describe the Hunters Point smells.
That they battle description is no figure
of speech. They are simply lndescrible.
ALEX e. SWEET.