The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-07-26
THREE CROWDED BEACHES.
ooNEX IsLhND oNLE ONE OF MANY
ALI.

North Beach, BERGEN Bcach and UIracr Park
FILLED with Humnnity's Sunday rde-Troi-
leg Cars pzobbed = Enioyraept IN Myriad
Forms - suikn and Smiles on the Shore.
Tho man who was tired Of passing Sunday at
Coney Island decided yesterday to start ON q pill
Rrimage for information. He had learned
vaguely from signbonrds and advertising posters
that there were places Off Coney Island where
one could 20 in search Of fresh. cool air and ind
folks who were ready to take from him all his
earthly possessions at a requisition.
The pilgrim started from the Thirty-fourth
Street Ferry at half.past 2 o'clock, headed for
North Beach. He went from North Beach, on
Bowery Bay. to Bergen Beach by trolley; again
by trolley he went from Bergen Beach to Ulmor
Park. and yet again by trolley from Ulmer Park
to Hamilton Ferry, on the way to Midland
Beach and South Beach on Station Island.
But though he had passed only half an hour at
each OF the three beaches he had visited, 1t was
after IL o'clock when the pilgrim arrived at the
Battery. He had no idle longing to see Midland
Beach and South Beach. He crawled into q ca
BILE car and went homo.
lie found material with which to iDdorso
most enthusiastically the theory that Coney
Island was not the only place where tho Rainos
law was broken to tho accompaniment Of
merry-goround organs and bankers for side
shows. But he swore n solemn oath never again,
of his own free and unrestrained will. to visit
any two Of these resorts on the Same Sunday.
TO begin with. the pilgrim found q great mob
surrounding the startins place OF the trolley
place directly In front OF the ferry houses and
back beyond Mayor Gleason's old office, perhaps
into The throng and they swarmed upon It. Be
fore the stranger realized that q car had ar
rived NSrt 4 Y sesa IaS ass b fSI! am and bo nSa d SHne'w When tho
Pilgrim arrived Just after the shower II seemed
as II the place were empty, except at tho bath.
bobbing around in the water. Ten minutes after
the sun came out every walk and roadway was
2emmEq. in aoJ Pe tbsst nss G sspdi Pask fsab bhso the ae
keep out of the wet.
II presently became apparent that the prinoi-
balls at the heads Of colored men, who put the
said heads through holes in pleasantly decorat.
the Enclosures where Africans wero to be pelted,
and there was an astonishingly large number Of
their eaeerness to get an armfui Of balls to shy
rage BY taunts the men who threw and missed.
thus inspiring a spirit of personal revenge and q
nightly. No'rth i Beach has as It Is now arr Arranged.
Hundreds Of mothers led their little ones out
under tho trees and spread lunches brought
fTEm SSns i snd ih we're p Rain Gr two sre nsd jo sTo front
young men and women which had bought a keg
"a oSSh pAhNA W 10 " " a. " an
while n clumsy Ganymede with tawny hair,
curling mustache. and a much-soiled white
apron. passed along with a big white pitcher.
The general characteristic of the crowd was
cheerful willingness to pay for what It got.
platform at Bergen Beach. The length Of time
required to make the trip was partly duo to the
giving out OF the power on the Bowery Bay
tSan Nothing could Z be more marked
good nature Of North Beach and the al
most sullen determination of the Bergen
Beach crowd to amuse itself without spending a
cent. There are two classes at Bergen Beach,
good. pious Brooklyn folk who live along tho
line OF the city railroad and 60 to tho beach as
they would walk around the block or swing in
a hammock. or do anything else cooling and
godly.
The pilgrim reached Timer Park at a quarter
to 10. The thousands were gathered In the great
auditorium, sitting eight or ten at Il table, sip
ping beer and holding calm and deliberate con-
versation at intervals between the slipping
Of beer.
The language of the place was German. The
flags were those of tho western land and the
vaterland INTERVIEWED. An excellent orchestra
was playing German airs.
In the restaurant at one side, always within
shows that took place on the stage from time to
time, were folks eating a belated dinner. OF
about the grounds big box swings were creaking
lazily. From a shadowy boat out on the water
came mems voices singing: Elm Feste Burg
There was nothing here to be compared with
what was going on at North and Bergen
beaches. The pilgrim felt somehow as II he had
intruded in u family party. When after settling
himself In a home-bound trolley car two very
stacked two sleepy small boys and and a noisily
wide-awake baby up against him, he know 1t.