Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1897-07-25

Manhattan Beach, July 25.-It is all
"Coney Island" though they like to
call that strip of it where the big
hotels stand Manhattan Beach.
"Coney" means the merry go-rounds,
the rifle ranges, the cane losses and
the Ferris Wheel, but Manhattan
means a. long stretch of beach with
Sousa waiting music from an inclosed
pavilion and the hotels stretching
along for a mile or so, with big ex-
otic gardens and asphalt walks be-
tween.
To Coney the people go, but if the
people who spell themselves out as
Politicians or Plutocrats accidentally
get to Conety they take the little sea
beach railroad (the little road that pays
its entire seasons expenses in one day
and is clear profit to the Corbin estate
all the rest of the season. and are
whisked up to Manhattan-only TWO
stone-throws further on!
Manhattan Beach, though no fault or
its own, is famous for its politicians
and its political deals. Lying as II
does at the entrance to New YORK.
Harbor. il is a convenient runaway
place for those who want to walk to-
gether alone and unsuspected. And,
shielded as it is by Liberty, whose pro-
tecting arm almost overshadows 1t, 1t
seems in all ways an appropriate place
for the politician and his summer pre-
ferments. Here Bryan was taken last
summer. And here Altgeld and his
wife spent the Fourth this year, run
ming to town only for the Governor
Fourth of July grafton.
1t makes no difference what TIE poll
tics of the man, he goes to Manhattan.
Senator It. C. Plat, the Boss, rs his
friends and enemies call him, skipped
straight from the Senatorial halls to
Manhattan at the close Of the session,
giving New York the go by"
Former Governor Roswell P. Flower
is also prominent among the summer
men. He is a short, fat man, almost
square in his proportions, with face
like rosy apple. Politics may come
and campaigns may go, but this Flower
is ever blooming. He is democratic,
too. in his tastes, in spite of his bar
rel" and eats plain food and enjoys
himself in a plain way. At the table
his one popularity is wanting "a whole
one" a popularity which is catered to
bv the walters. AT every dinner a
whole fish and a whole duck are placed
before him. He likes to carve as he
eats. and, though not Manhattan's
proudest, is certainly a good apprecia-
tor Of fine fare.
Quigg, "the new boy" is always a
prominent figure here-never far from
T. c. Platt-and then there are lesser
lights coming and going.
The Manhattan girl is legion. She
comes down in the afternoon withcher
best beau, and often with chaperone
also. Frequently she is one of a jolly
party. They go in bathing, afterwards
dine on the broad piazzas, and end by
seeing Hopper's "El Captain" or
watching the "ir"works." regular
summer feature of Manhattan.
Marriages are made in Heaven, hut
matches do not seem TO be made at
Manhattan. People go there for a
good time and to fiirt desperately, but
| they do not seem 10 speak the little
word there. To Manhattan's credit il
can be said that they get ready 10 dc
so. but there is such a jolly party al
ways around that they get no chance
If looks could propose many vital
question would be settled in one CT
| Manhattan's mystic evenings.
A mighty effort is being made To gel
the McKinley-H arna social set TO come
to Manhattan for the month OF August
Daily letters are senr TO the President
from here, and one sportiye young We
man went so far as to snap camera
upon her associates as they were bath
ing in the serf to send to the Presi-
dent. She received an acknowledg-
ment that her pleasantly was appre-
ciated.
The summer man mere IS rather IN
happy. That is because Manhattan is
expensive. 1t is cheap getting here
and the air costs nothing. Neithe- Is
there a tariff upon the waves Of the sea
breezes, but the trouble Is that there