Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1895-07-27

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BILE. 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 a number
of family skeletons were on exhibition
/ 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 filed by Sousa, and he is
quite as popular. Iempora mutGntur,
ct nos nautan1atr IN alZis. People crowd
into the Pavilion, and are just as we'll
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 masher,
as there is a 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
70.
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 indeetructible.
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.
/ would like to say that the viands
are tempting, but 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 a rubber teething ring.
If it were not for the ozone in the at
mosphere, Ia prefer horse trough as
a watering place.
From Brighton, you take another
railroad for few hundred yards to
reach Coney Island proper, or rather
;mprOper T 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 1865, 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 Coney Island proper Be-
sides clam chowder, you can obtain at
reasonable figures two tablespoonfuls
of warm beer with hydrophobia on
top. The salt-covered pretzel comes
under the head of extras. You can
also refresh yourself with Frankforter
sausage and roll, if you are not par
ticular what you eat, and the facilities
for acquiring a complicated case OF
cramp collie by quaffing lemonade and
~ a Won
are tired and really need a rest you
can test your strength on several diff
ferent machines which are there for
that purpose. The opportunities for
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 the
most popular.
And yet on a hot Sunday more than
fifty thousand people will visit Coney
Island, which goes to show what sort
of q summer resort Now York is when
the mercury gets up among the nine
ties
There are five or six different routes
by which Concy 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 viii take
an hour. One advantage of going by
boat is that you can truthfully say to
your friend, whom you have not seen
in some time, that you have been across
the water, which will leave the i'm
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returned from Europe. The only OBJ
lection to the water route is that you
are liable to be disturbed every once in
awhile by a beetle-browed bandit of
an Italian musician going around with
an inverted hat.
Easily Accomplished.
Mrs. Sunklands (an ArlxaAsaw ma
trOn)-I hear tell that Jim Clavetah