The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-07-06
THE DAY ON COMFY ISLAND
NOT n GREAT HOLIDAY crowd
THERE TESTERDAE

THERE TESTERDAE
70 Yves sust an Ordinary Crowd. ssch 30 NAY
Ne Seen on Any sunaay-They were Old
Timers, Tee. Apparently. Tor They weuian'e
spend Messy without GottinE seuseshias.
Tho fsh market reporter translsting the Coney
Island police returns last night read them on
like this: Skates plentiful and very unsteady.
Sharks abundant, but the demand light. Some
hne specimens caught around the iron piers.
Muttonheads by the boat load from Newark.
N. j., and other nearby points, suckers by the
hundred car loads, but not equal to the demand,
, and 20 firm that they actually wanted q show
for their money. 80 firm. in fact, that the
Coney Islandors who make their living fishing
threaten to leave the fishing grounds for good.
The fish market reporter just about hit tho
truth. too. From tho standpoint OF the Coney
Island man. who is used to seeing people spend
their money In fool ways, and who is himself
accustomed to gather 1t in, the people had gono
back on the island. They wero there in plenty.
but they werc not spending. They were not
nearly as plentiful as they have been on holt
days in previous years, but thoro was q good av-
GRACE Sunday crowd on hand. and everybody
was in everybody elsc's way. But they would
not spend.
Even the genuine side shows in West Brighton,
where you could get something for your money,
wouldn't draw. and as for tho fnke ones, why,
everybody knew them md nobody pntronized
them. The bankers stood around signing for old
times.
1t was the place that had out the sign "Admis.
sion Free or Basket Parties Welcome" that
got the crowd. There were lots of these places.
When they got tho crowd they were worse of
than the other places. for they didn't know
what to do with It. Somehow tho people who
saw these signs took them literally. They
stayed In the frce show places Just as long as
the show was free.
The moment there was q suggestion OF pay
they got up and went out, and It didn't mako
any difference how much better the show was
that the barker promised to give them for the
"small sum Of Ave cents." Just think, too, Of
people with baskets and families having the
nerve to think that the sign Basket parties
welcome" meant that they could go In and
alt down and never spend a cont.
lilies did yesterday. and the white-a nroncd wait
ers everywhere dtood around Ike ~statuos.
wonder that these .whIte-a prom citizens ssns
s siSc make q , BIT snle OF on tn the ,bsp2 prize ,rI.a When ,h n,,,, they sy
dollar bin that you gave them; whcn they were
sSSra Ma at T. 4 t shSy on ai L.enrd k Mh.r very ,S.r h ,hd,, and
the man who objected to being robbed.
While this saving disposition was noticed al
tions. For instance, there's u now sort OF razzie.
dazzle. They call IT a hurdle race; Thore ia a
W vi poeoi boloc VIZ TCal shlnb OH LntIn.
They star; OF in batchos of nvo or six.
with two passengers apiece, and race
rollers; Now a a%uileiess reporter stood
Watching, theso races for an hour. saying
sei@s' pa i1ts "a and ipo! w Sns IDIOTS hs nE!'HffSE s n IN:
closure s.s was filled. It We. literally packed
In that hour this esuiieless reporter noticed thai
the men in the crowd bought fresh pastcooard
s sSsyy e s," in i lins f SssG an nos Sne r. 'ssy h Il Ia ase II IKE iSe
end or the hour when u radiant youth whispered
."ihayo not" said the suileless reporter. en-
Say; Wv wan. to try it.".atd tho raaian.
View Tiri 81" began the sufleless one.
Now. there really WIS something ,~onticins
smother one with a dark blue waist right; behind
her. somehow, in spite Of himself. this reporte,
on. ever nearer to tho place where the horsel
stopped to get their ridcre. and finally he wat
The girl with the blue waist. and tho young mar
and tho girl with the pink waist wcre Just ahead
Jump up! Jump up.' shouted the hostler
, Hurry there! Hurry up! Hundreds waiting
The sIrl with the blue wais, climbed a era,
, al the other girls sat ns,rid". None of IN
Jump up tRere." shouted the hostlcr
! think we're soin' t wal, all dTy fer you to 81
mn VIZ W Az vi
and he was almost lifted Up behind the girl will
D tho blue waist.
: Hold fast, now" shouted the hostlcr.
! Ora her: she don't care; .akc her around
I the waist" This was to tho ~gu!lelcss reporter
i t tSe cr SSG' s Tn,s fo@ "Tna ne re- 900 on! r I'm IN a .nosSs
instant the wooden horses were shooting dowI
. a forty.hve-de.rce grade. There was an IRE
Z sistihlo impulse 10 grab something 10 hold fes
D TO. Tho only thing TO grab, WAS the waist OF the
i. girl in the blue waist. " 9 hil and down a1olhe,
3 around a curve. The girl In the blue waist clunl
to the iron reins. The gui!olcss rcr0rter-well
he had to cling to something. md he had 4
/. cling hard. too. Up hill and down again and VI
and down and up ana down and then the end
= The horse STOPPED. and the girl in the blue wDis
blushcd and said:
"Say, It was great. wasn't it r.
The guilcless ono didn't say another wor1
' about fools and their money or about idiots
U The crowd at Manhattan was smaller proper
y tionatcly for n holiday than the crowd, a
:. had to; so there isn't anything surprising abou
L that. There wasn't IL single sign basket PAL
o ties welcome nor n single one that read "Ad
Z mission free
The police everywhere were pretty busy. Tho
0 raided. two hotels in the morning. They wor
I on Henderson's walk. They got ten women En
fourteen men. Among those taken wc:c Phil,
4 Eros and his wife. Phyllis. two variety pei
n formers, who said they had Just como froT
Y New Haven to all a Concy Island contract
i Their explanation satisfied J~ust!c. steers an
a and Sadie Smith. who dance In tho, Turks
= Theatre, were sent to jail: but Samuel Sansel
q fire Gator, in the same theatre. was discharged
The managers of the hotels were held for trial.
n GAVE AWAY FIRECRACKERS.