The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-05-22
HEAD HUNTERS AT LUNA PARK
TIE LITTLE BROWN BROTHERS
"A BUILDING HOUSES.

Biz Crowd Goes Down to Coney Iiland
and All tho Amusement Places Art
FIued-Some Visitors Come In From
tho Sea UnwtllinEiy on . Baiky Yacht
The raucous voice Of the barker wasn't
heard much at Coney Island yesterday
He hadn't met the fate Of Ananias or been
stricken with paralysis of the vocal organs
1t was simply because there was no in
ducement for him to deliver his harangues
There was the biggest crowd Of the season
on the island, and whether the show was
in Luna Park, Dreamland or on the Bowery
it drew full house in the natural course
| of the peoples meanderings.
The earliest arrivals were three ship
wrecked mariners, the only ones OF 200, 900
people who did not come to the resort from
choice. They had provisioned the good
ship Silver Spray for six days cruise and
had put out from Barren Island at break Of
day. Beating up against the wind. the bow
obstinately refused to go out to sea, but
Rugged the coast closer and closer as the
boat worked westward.
Finally it smashed up against the end
of the DreaInland pier, got hole stove in
the bow and began to fill. Sail was quickly
lowered and while the sloop drifted along
the beach, Fred Carlson Of 300 Twentieth
street, Brooklyn, took the sailors of in a
rowboat. They said they were Anthony
Contard of 2Os West Iwenty-seventh street,
William Mont mon of 3l7 West Fifty
eighth street, John j. Bollinger Of 2l5 Sew
nth avenue, and Henry Storz of ia Irving
avenue, Brooklyn. The sloop was 30-footer
and was damaged 80 badly that the young
,t IN rit
hard work they towed 1t up to a pier and
proceeded to mix in with the crowd already
pouring in from all parts OF Greater New
York.
In Dreamland none of the new shows in
preparation was ready, but at Luna Park
it was a second opening day, displaying
the only two new principal attractions OF
the season.
The trip through the Dragons Gorge
on L. A. Thompson's new scenic railway
was the new thriller Of the Luna Park pro-
gram. Though the, trip takes only SIX
minutes and the railroad has $500 feet of
track it couldn't begin to carry the crowds
that wanted to go the route. Those that
did get aboard were hauled up and down
sleeper incines and around sharper curves
lines and saw greater variety of scenery.
The initial transition was to the Artlc
regions along a sea dotted with icebergs
and showing Eskimos in cane es hunting
Polar bears. The next minute tcurlsts
were in Havana harbor the morning after
the destruction Of the Maine, then in Port
Arthur locking upon the beleagured Rus
slams and the Japanese feet in the distance.
1t is only an instant fro m the Orient to the
top of the Re cky Mountains with an Indian
encampment and deep gorge beneath
and from this fine vantage point the ride
ends with sudden dip dc Wn a sixty degree
ncline to the botto m Of the gorge.
Mr.. Thompson.nas devised 70 the railroad
perfected system Of block signals by
which a bell is rung on the car provided he
motormar is careless enough to pass a
danger signal.
Eifty-one head hunting and dog eating
Igorrotes comprised the other novelty
They were brought on from Luzon by DR..
T. Il. Hunt, who used to be a surgeon in one
Of the volunteer re yiments in the Philip
pines and then was Governor of Bontoc
Province for while. Since they arrived
last Tuesday they have been busily enga ged
in building the bamboo matched houses
in which they are to live and erecting ether
structures according to their own fashion,
it being the idea to have the ent ire village
constructed by hem. Many Of the build
ings are unfinished, for il has b1 en- too damp
for them to work. Two of them died OF
pneumonia on the way east, and Dr. Hunt