Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1901-08-10
SLEEPING ON THE BEACH.
Men Make Beds in the Sand Crowds
at Couey Island on Hot Nights.

Nearly a thousand blvouacked ON the
sands OF Coney Islands last nigh, 20
escape the intolerable heat Of the clty.
The thunder oil the surf was their lul-
LADY and the sky their only coyerlns
From the iron pier to the ocean park
way the beach was covered with tbsm
sleeping IN the cooling bieezes i'm IL
KINDS OF postures, uuulsturb.d NV f,s
pouce. There are no electric Ugbtq
nearer than the concuurse and after NJ
o'clock there Is very Little traffic an
'he peach 60 disturb their rest Occa-
Sluhally a couple would wander along
u'e euse OF me water, but they did not
70 near the recum0DHt forms The no,
nee however. passed frequently. ko.u-
ing Nalthill eye on suspicious char
actDrs.
There are no special orders about
allDWlhB people % sleep on the beach,
hdId policeman yesterday, but No
never disturb them unless We think
lley are not all right The sand is NOT
ludsihs qOuse, and we are not hers
10 Keep watch over dodgers. but there
can De no harm iu allowing men who
are apparently ,pectable 10 pet
boyu nights rest iu the fresh air. iu-
stead oil going 20 hot rooms In the city
ana pens overcome by the heat ths
next day
Most of them wake W between
ana . o'clock IN the morning and start
loI the city, The oI>Wi was so great
mere a few mornings ago that extra
cars We're put ON TO accommodate those
VINO wanted To start Tor the city To
their work
But We do keep "a careful watch for
suspicious characters and keen tbem
moving. We cannot keen men a,yav
from The beach who can give a g.o1
account of themselves, but we make
| sure That every man who spends the
nlsU' mere ls able 90 satisfy MS that ne
Is respectable, II We did not there
! Noull De trouble. and no ease OF rob-
! berry has been reported sO far"
ii was a record saturday half holiday
| crowd mat thronged C0nty Island yes
| terday Estimates of the number %
visitors varied all the way from 100000
to 100000 and there was no way To
! prove the correctness OF any of the
guesses. Captain Reilly, who is in
charge Of a bathing pavilion, said that
| at 90 clock In the afternoon about 1900
bathers We're in the water az his place.
There was a strong breeze blowing on
the water and even IN the sun every.
| body was cool.
| The people came IN every way in
| which II was possible 10 reach the
ocean by trolley carriage, bicycle and
boat. All boats were late In arriving
! and departing They came 10 the island
packed TO the rails Long after the sup
! ply Of camp chairs was exhausted the
! passengers crowded on the vessels un-
| I'll there was hardly room for the deck
hands 10 attend TO the work OF placing
the gangWay Sitting room Waa not to
be had for love or money aud even
standing room was at a premium. So
! heavily laden were the boats that the
slight movement the passengers were
able to make toward the shore side
! when the vessels approached the land
ing pier at the island caused list
that made it difficult TO reach the pier.
In the evening when the crowds be-
| gan 10 move cityward the conditions
were the same, and women and babies
stood on the pier damned in the crowd
waiting for the boats, so close that
even the strong breeze that was blow
ing was scarcely felt.
In the trolley cars IL was the same
old story-pushlng, scrambling, quar-
reling and almost fighting for a seat
or even standing room, with the con-
slant danger to life and limb that OBJ
tains at the loop. Il was after midnight
before the mass Of people at the island
was appreciably thinned. and the rush
for cars continued until the small hours
Of the morning New York Tribune.