Evening star., 1901-07-06
THE JOYS OF CONEY
Can Be Appreciated Only by Real
New Workers..
SNAPSHOT FIENDS IN EVIDENCE
Why a Hotel for Women Would
Never Pay
ONE MANS GOOD LUCK
ONE MANS GOOD LUCK
Special Correspondents Of III. Evening Star.

| Special Correspondence OF The Evening Star.
NEW YORK. July 8. 1901.
Coney Island is about the same. You may
If you are untaught by sxperience-put in
about the same old miserable. nerve-rack-
ing day there as in other years. There are
almost as many folks who try to convince
themselves that they have fun at Coney
Island as there are people who imagine
| that they enjoy themselves at a symphony
| concert. Year after year the New Workers
rush down there, returning with hatred in
their souls for the place. and yet they un-
varyingly maintain that they've had the
day Of their lives"
The New Yorker in Spokane San Diego
| will swear that there Is no place on earth
| like Coney Island-which is one of the few
instances wherein the New Yorker speaks
truth when alluding to his own burg and
the regions circumjacent thereto. There
| is, distinctly and decidedly, no place on
| earth like Coney Island. AS 1t always was,
so 1t still Is. madmen.s playground. IL Is
the ouintessence of the grotesQue, the
jumping-off place of all sanity. 1t Is nerv-
GUS prostration on promontory. II Is
pandemonium pin point 1t is out
door bedlam brought over seas. 1t Is the
apotheosis OF unreason And 1t is just
about the sort OF excrescence OF Manhat-
tan Island that you'd expect to find
The Same Old Game.
The flying horses still fly to the accom-
paniment of that nether-region music that
has been known to drive upright and sober
men to strong waters. You may still have
a tintype taken that will cause you to look
upon your outer seeming with loathing for
the remainder Of your years You may still
shy rings at canes that are the baldest OF
immovable properties Still may you hurl
the base balls at the leering heads for
cigars that are jokes and only meant for
souvenirs Of wretchedness. The desperate
barkers still hold forth-this year adding
physical to vocal efforts by grabbing easy
looking marks" around the neck with the
crooks of their canes and thus forcing them
within the portals. That, by the way. is
the new attitude of the Coney Island bark
er Come on in. youse!' he demands.
you've got to come inr' You may still
IL your wisdom has quite forsaken you
wallow around in sea water wherein passe
melons and invalid cabbages and such are
awash. distributed from the dump barses
on their way to sea. If your grudge against
your digestion remains unappeasetl, YOU
may plunge into an orgy of Frankfuerter
sandwiches and beer that is three parts
resin and the other part mystery IL the
holiday spirit is full upon you you may
place your anatomy in jeopardy on the
carousels or the shoot-the-chute outfits
and If you banker for the delights of ma
ture as portrayed with the two-foot brush
you may ride on the scenic railway or have
yourself bumped through the scenic water
way. The whole world and the 1oys there
of are still before you at Coney island: and
II. at the end of the day you are not
ready for the rest cure I'm a santarium you
may claim for yourself that you were born
for excitement and plenty of it,
The New Yorker afield is right--her,. 70
no place on earth like Coney Island, This
country has SO many reasons for self-con-
graduation!
The Snapshot Fiend.
Inc snapshot cad is buster than ever this
season. He is particularly a nuisance at
the Jersey seaside resorts. He sneaks I'M
ana oown the beaches, picking out pretty
women In bathing suits and in momentary
(and quite unconscious) attitudes suitable to.
his purpose. and then he executes his lit
tie button-pressing trick. There is but one
way to deal with the fellow He must he
mani handed by the male persons accom-
panying the women whom he impudently
snap shoots. And 1t Is pleasant to be able
to record that this has frequently happened
to him already this season
A young man and his three young women
sisters were lounging In the sand in their
bathing suits on the Long Branch beach
the other afternoon. when one of the kodak
loafers walked up to within ten feet of the
group and grinningiy took a shot at them
Inc young man on the sand heard the
click. and he rose up. the entire six feet
two Of him. He strode over to the chan
with the kodak. grabbed the camera out Of
ms hands and threw it on the beach, and
then he picked the snap-shooter up IN his
knotty arms. carried him high over his head
to the verge Of the surf, and hurled him about
ten feet into the water. When the Kodak
cao emerged. dripping. the young fellow
who had thus cooled him of took a snan-
shof OF him as he dripped with his own
camera, and then threw the camera into
the sea. Many delightful incidents of this
character are liable to happen before the
season is over. and after a while II NAV
be that the kodak nuisance will arrive at
the conclusion entertained by most folks.
that ne doesn't rate much higher than the
peeping Tom.
That WOman's Hotel.
The projectors Of the much-talked-of
woman's hotel are beginning to hedge
II would SEEM They were going
to invest. 1t will be remembered.
about two millions of dollars in a cara
vansary intended for the exclusive recep-
tion OF women. and they had even got as
fas as selecting site for this extraordi-
nary inn. Then some Of the persons inter-
ested In the scheme set on foot certain in
quiries among the class Of women from
Whom they thought to draw their patron
age upon the completion Of the hotel. and
the things that they ascertained from these
women surprised them.
They learned that only about one of
sucn women IN twenty would put I'D at
such an institution, even suppostne II
were made as gorgeous as Aladdin's pal
ace; that even women who are untroubled
by any masculine complications whatso-
ever ridiculed the idea of registering at
hotel exclusively for women, and that they
We're pretty likely to have losing ven
ture on their hands IL they went ahead
with the scheme.
So the proposed woman's hotel hangs in
the air. All of the institutions that mis-
guided philanthropists have started for the
accommodation Of young women making
their own livelihoods have proven dire fail
ures for the simple reason that the work.
ing women firmly declined to patronize
them on any terms. and 1t Is almost a GER
tainty that the manless hotel in New York
Is long way of.
Kindness to Animals.
1t must be said that very humane
spirit toward four-footed creatures prevails
over here. For instance. development Of
the recently extremely hot spell was the
straw hat for the horse. The equine
straw hat is wide. fat affair, usually of
pretty good material. and with holes for
the animafs ears to stick through A very
few OF them made their appearance last
summer, but this year perhaps three
fourthS of the horses hitched to wagons