The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-08-02
.sKEE1ERs RULE At ooxEY ISLAND.
&Asy 0toFmed the Trolley Carr ana Fea On the
Birst Sunday Crowd or . Month.

&Aoy 0tormed the Trolley Carr ana Fea On the
First Sunday Crowd or . Month.
For tho first Sunday In q month the yourg
maj and his best girl had q chance yesterday
TO digport themselves at Coney Island without
taking an involuntary bath from tho weeping
heavens instead of disporting themselves in the
surf and baking their faces In the sunshine.
Tho rain lad been coming 30 steadily day after
day; and tho cold winds had been sweeping the
resort with such regularity that tho wiener
Wurst man was pining away for want OF
patrons. and the gloom about the place was
hlacker than tho clouds above. Hence. when the
sun rose yesterday morning with no mist to
dim Its warmth. and brightness. the sausage
man. the peanutsvender. the balloon seller, and
the rest of the great professional army which
Makes Ats living at Coney Island prepared for
. days big business.
Nor wero they disappointed. The crowds
poured in increasingly untilshong after nightfall.
Next to those of Fourth of July and the day
following, it was the biggest crowd of the season.
Shirt waists and crash:isuits bloomed by tho
thousand and the fakirs were happy.
/ 4 fakirs. however, were not the only erea-
were at least four hundred million mosquitoes
on hand to greet the m~errymakers, and they
had come In the interim OF dulness as q result
of the rain. A skirmish line was established
tust above Bath Beach, and as the unsuspect-
army fell upon them. Then came a fght which
resulted in the loss of many tempers and mnch
0iooaS5o me occupants Of the cars and pre-
A man unaequa.n cd with the habits of Long
! WoalS h %SsaGb, sSS j arsef g tiw'66 sile days rain rain
there was an immense insane asylum at Coney
Island to which maniacs were being taken in
carload6. There was such a waving OF handker-
chiefs and Shaping OF necks and ears as to lead
without question to some such conclusion.
II was almost as bad. BaCtalions OF tn pesky
h;sects lowered about the piers Of the Iron
They were In aft the concert halls and restau..
f fSn sbt and d ths gravity rail sstirqad and the shoot
.tndulging In these pleasures one was safe from
The proprietor'of a stand on the Bowcry who
makes his living by persuading persons To exer-
else their skill With a baseball al the expense Of
Q dummy Ethiopian and 5 cents for each three
papers since the rains began. He had placed on
The beast !.T q his dummy a card bearing these
Many followed the advice given, but Il IA not
In evidence that their enmity toward the al
legged cause Ct the wet weather increased the
Late in tho afternoon when the crowds oom.
naeneed TO 80 home there was the usual rush for
files, but one large woman was squeezed until
She tainted. She had an exaggerated idea Of
Together with some 800 other persons. sb sii sn.
deayofed TO board Q, Marcy avenue trolley car
held q little girl BY ono hand and a red BALLOON
th the other. The car kept pushing slowly
thToughrthe rushing mob, and the large woman.
being close to the tracks, attempted to board
the car. She was on the wrong side, but as the
car was open, she grabbed the long bar sup,
poSediy for the purpose OF keeping people or,
"a big; man behind her gave a shove and she
rose maJesticallS her head under tho bar. The
result was partial suffocation for her.
%; f'Aohi i am chogtng," she yelled as the red
bAlloh went up in the air. She Tried ]tonnextpiS.
cato herself, but the crowd behind her Kept
showing her tighter and tighter In between Tho
nned AND the pressure was relieved. Then
she SID slowly TO tho ground, red In The face
and gasping for breath. A man led her In one
side where she tottered a bit, but soon teoc
ered suticiently 70 find a chair at a table
Lena" she said to the little gin. I'VE win MT
homo 30 until do blase iss embdied ovid y A''
AZ z o'clock she was still sitting al the tsble
= SHD had 30 far recovered as to have pur.