Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1901-07-27

liquor with them. AS for the New
Yorker, he had home i'll the city and
it was better for him that he go without
a drink on Sunday"
Not at all, not at all, said the stout,
moist man. 1.-The Raines law was i'll
the interest of order and morality.
Think how moral it is to feel that here,
down i'll the heart of gayest Coney Is
land, we sit with the sand which is here
and the sandwiches here with moral
three-inCh partitions between us and the
bar room. Not two and three-quarters
inches, not the profigate two-inch, not
the utterly lost to all decency onc-inch,
but reputable, respectable, law abiding
and thoroughly moral three-inch parti-
tions Will You have another malt
tonic
We walked out from the place and
went through the simple forms of OBJ
serving the American Sabbath at Coney
Island. These consisted III shooting the
chutes, riding on pink elephants and
purple giratfes on the merry -go-round,
joining i'll the Choruses of Sweet Rosie
O Grady" and "All Cohens Look Alike
to Me, at the various sacred concerts
we dropped into.
81 have been coming down here many
years, said my leather-vested friend, as
we sat together drinking soda water for
change and silently joying i'll the de-
lights of etfervescing; II have been com
ing down here many years, and like
COney Island for one thing | have al
ways noticed about it. There is no dis
cririnatiOn down here In fact, | have
been told by many hotel-kecpcrs and
other caterers to the needs of holiday
crowd, that they would sooner serve II
dozen cOlored men than one Irishman.
That's prejudice the other way, is it
not? / asked
90, no. said the man with the lea.h-
er vest; Il thought that might be the
case myself. But upon inquiry learned
that they preferred to do it because they
got twelve times the money
We decided to take surf-bath next
and leaving aside the giddy thrOng for the
time being we went down so the beach.
Here they charged us twenty five cents
each for IL bathing suit and a towel.
Then we had to tip the attendant before
he would tell us which was the suit and
which was the towel. Even then he
wasn't positive. We were much inter
ested in watching an actress rehearsing
the brave and daring rescue from drown
ing of her press agent, which afterwards
filled columns i'll the newspapers for
week. The actress could not swim, but
as the press agent was Il natatorial eX-
pert she wasn't at all frightened and as
it proved saved his life the following day
without getting her hair wet. My new
friend was much taken with the fair
heroine of the sensational and thrilling
rescue that was to take place the next
day. II thought | knew her. he said.
1T is Cora Fay, the Queen of Buricsque;
she has the largest collection of huS-
bands of any woman on the American
stage Then after pause he added.
"One of whom | am which,
where was your marriage to her
celebratcd?" [ asked
I'm the divorce court" he answered.
1t was the most celebrated case of them
all. But III i'll the divorce business now
myself and so [ have no feeling against
her.
''In the divorce busincSs:" | inquired.
Yes" he said; II separate people
from their money
remarked that | knew some people
who were welded to wealth but as for
myself | was IA bachelor.
Just what | thought he said; II
have two brotherS-onc is Il newspaper
man like yourself and the other hasn't
any money either"
Then he turned around and walked
away.
But one can scarcely expect Chester
tieldian conduct from perfect stranger
one has picked up in the surging Sunday
thrOngS at Coney Island down the bay.
Roy l. MCCARDELI.