The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1895-08-29

told. For reasons too painful to e1abor.
ate, have never had any personal ex-


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 a number
of family skeletons were on exhibition
I have been told, moreover, that some
of the ladies go out into the water to
catch the swells, but this may be .
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 idolized, not only
on account of the entertainment, but
also because of his great personal pop
ularity. Everybody liked him. Now
his place is filled by Sousa, and he is
quite as popular. Tempora mutantur,
ct nos nautamur in Ills. People crowd
into the pavilion, and are just as well
pleased with the way Sousa 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 IS 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
villion 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 1ndestructible.
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 lady at
Brighton beach became so addicted to
the clam chowder habit that her waist
rose and fell with the tide.
Iwould like to say that the viands
are tempting, but cannot truthfully
do so. The butter is evidently of the
kind that is made man iron kettle with
a fire under it, and the spring chicken
is as springy as a rubber teething ring.
If it were not for the ozone in the at.
mosphere, I'd prefer horse trough as
a watering place.
From Brighton, you take another
railroad for a few hundred yards to
reach Coney Island proper, or rather
'mnroper I have figured out that il
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 s843,675, 42S-
but l 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 Cdney Island proper. Be
sides clam chowder, you can obtain a.
reasonable figures two tablespoonful
Of warm beer with hydrophobia OF
top. The salt-covered pretzel come.
under the head of extras. You cal
also refresh yourself with Frankforte:
sausage and roll, if you are not par
ticular what you eat, and the facilitie
for acquiring complicated case o
cramp collie by quaffing lemonade ant
eating popcorn are unrivaled. If yo1
| are tired and really need a rest yo1
can test your strength on several dit
ferent machines which are there TO
that purpose. The opportunities TO
finding out how much You weigh ar
numerous, and if you try two of then
you will be surprised at how man,
pounds you can gain or lose in a few
minutes. There is not much fishing
but there is no end Of game. On
called the shell game seems to be tn
. most popular.
And yet on hot Sunday more tina,
1 hlty IlOuodnN pCoplc WILL Flolt SOuc
Island, which goes to show what sor
of summer resort New York is whel
the mercury gets up among the nine
ties.
There are five or six different route
by which Coney Island can be reache
from New York. The most pleasan
way to get there is to 60 by steamboat
If you don't miss the boat it will TAX
an hour. One advantage OF going
boat is that You can truthfully say t
your friend, whom you have not see
in some time, that you have been acros
the water, which will leave the in
preston on his mind that you have jus
, returned from Europe. The only OF
, lection to the water route is that 20
!. are liable to be disturbed every once
awhile by beetle-browed bandit {
= an Italian musician going around wit
. an inverted hat
Easily Accomplished.
4 Mrs. Sunklands ian Arkansaw m,
a tron)-I hear tell that Jim Clayeta
: says he's goin' to move his family bac