Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1895-08-01

perienee at that particular hosiery.
Manhattan beach is, to all appear
ances, aristocratic and highly respecta-
bic. You do not see much OF the bill
ing and cooling so noticeable at some
seaside resorts. Most of the billing is
done by the hotel proprietors. At the
same time have observed, while gaz-
ing at the bathers, that quite number
Of family skeletons were on exhibition
1 have been told, moreover, that some
OF the ladies go out into the water to
catch the swells, but this may be q
SANDER. Here the summer girl Is verv
much in evidence. She must go TO the
seaside, and, very likely, while she is
breasting the waves, her poor mother
is at home stemming the currants.
The great attraction of Manhattan
beach is, and always has been, the
music. Until his death, the great
bandmaster, Gilmore, supplied the
music. He was fairly idclized. not only
on account of the entertainment, but
also because of his great personal pop
ularity. Everybody liked him. Now
his place is filed by Sousa, and he is
quite as popular. Temporal mutantur,
ct nos Dautdnur az Ills. People crowd
into the pavilion, and are just as well
pleased with the way Sousae hits at the
mosquitoes with his baton, although
Sousa has never been able to acquire
poor Pat Gilmore's smile.
By the way, every man, woman and
child at Manhattan beach is a masher,
as there is small kind ofgnat that can
be discouraged in no other way.
Brighton is only about two hundred
yards from Manhattan beach, but there
is no way to get there except by pat
ronizing the Marine railroad, for which
ten cents as extracted for the round
trip. The truth is that you have to pay
extra for everything, except the fresh
air. All efforts to bottle it up and COM
pei the public to buy it have failed.
The musical airs, however. in the pa
Wilton have to be paid for, as the
benches are put so far off that the
music cannot be heard.
At Brighton there is more music of
an inferior quality, and the clam chow
der is cheaper and more indeStructible.
There are, also, tempting facilities to
| have your photograph taken in a group.
The air is about the same as at Man.
haitian beach. Speaking of clam chow
der, Chauncey Depew is given as au-
| thority for the statement that a lady at
Brighton beach became so addicted to
the clam chowder habit that her waist
rose and fell with the tide.
would like to say that the viands
are tempting, but I cannot truthfully
| do so. The butter is evidently of the
kind that is made in an iron kettle with
a fire under it, and the spring chicken
is as springy as rubber teething ring.
| If it were not for the ozone in the at
mosphere, I'd prefer a horse trough as
a watering place.
From Brighton, you take another
railroad for few hundred yards to
reach Coney Island proper, or rather
| 'mproper 7 have figured out that if
railroad companies charged as high in
| proportion to the distance travelled as
do these Coney Island roads, the round
trip, from New York to Chicago and
back, would amount to SS43, 60, 1875
but / am DEPRESSING. Some parts OF
Coney Island proper are very nice.
while the lower end is somewhat other
wise. Dime museums, dancing and
concert halls, cheap restaurants and all
| manner of fake games abound.
However, these are not the only at
fractions of Coney Island proper. Be-
sides clam chOwder, you can obtain at
| reasonable figures two tablcspoonfuls
of warm beer with hydrophobia on
| top. The salt-covered pretzel comes
under the head of extras. You can
also refresh yourself with Frankforte1
sausage and roll, if you are not par
| ticular what you eat, and the facilities
| for acquiring a complicated case OF
cramp collie by quafffng lemonade and
eating popcorn are unrivalcd. If you
are tired and really need rest you
! can test your strength on several diff
ferent machines which are there fol-
that purpose. The opportunities fol
finding out how much you weigh are
numerous, and if you try two of them
you will be surprised at how many
| pounds you can gain or lose in a few
| minutes. There is not much fishing
| but there is no end of game. One
called the shell game seems to be tho
most popular
And yet on hot Sunday more than
fifty thousand people will visit Coney
Island, which goes to show what sort
of a summer resort New York is when
the mercury gets up among the nine
ties.
There are five or six different route:
by which Coney Island can be reached
from New York. The most pleasant
way to get there is to go by steamboat
If you don't miss the boat it will take
an hour. One advantage of going By
boat is that you can truthfully say t.
your friend, whom you have not seer