The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-06-26
TRIP TO THE CHEAPER COMFY
now THE WORLD WAGS AND THE
WAGSWHIRLED AT NORTH BEACH.
A Typical Sunday Crush at Nearby Resort
with All Its Joys and JOstiings, for a
Dlme-sOme Sentiment, Commercial
and otherwise, AnOat and Ashore

ninth street ferry. why take the long
and tedious journey to Coney Island, when
a cheaper and cooler Coney lies across
the beautiful Sound. A delightful trip on
the water. Admission to the North Beach
pleasure grounds. including steamer trip,
for the small sum Of q dime, ten cents,
one-tenth OF dollah, the pr-rice of two
beahs!'
Tho steamer Bronx whistled then, and
the voice OF the spieler was drowned by
the footbeats Of 1000 men, women and
children, who had been perspiring in the
detention pen. Little girls dropped sand
buckets and howled for their recovery;
youths in the first pugnaoious flush Of love
offered to fight other youths who had jostled
their girls. A large, red faced woman in
a white tulle hat, like vanilla whipped
cream on a frankfurter, dropped her six
year-old on the toes OF o fve-year-old
conveyed by thin and weary woman in
q pink waist.
Take care Of your own brats' says
Pink Waist, glazing.
.Whatchu lookin' at?' says Tulle Hat.
80 owe you anythin'? Teach your little
girl some manners then. II she was my
child I'd correct her.
L won't scorch my mouth a-answerin'
yuI,' answered Pink Waist. 'You amt
q lady. No moro do you look like one
The gates opened at that point, and the
crowd rushed between the Arnazons. Picnic
baskets banged the cropped heads Of chill
dren, youths In nattty blue serges, marked
down to $3.50, youths as yet unprovided
with company for the day. swarmed through
the inches of the crowd; there was surge
forward, and 900 summer clad people were
scrambling for seats on the upper deck.
where an old fiddler was already scraping
out .Tammauy,' and take Me Down to
Coney Isle They were singing long before
thew had found seats. aTammany' Is the
picnic tune OF this summer, as Farewell,
My Bluebell" was OF last.
By the time the late corners had filled
nearly every inch Of standing room the
Bronx was crawling up the Sound, plow-
ing an alley through the little white yachts
of q summer Sunday on the river. 1t was
then that young man, all mouth, gesture
and voice, signaled the professor to stop
.Tammany" and lifted up his voice.
Ladies' and gents he said, II have an
important announcement to make. I have
here several little sample packages OF con-
fections put up by one OF the greatest con-
fectionery firms in New York. The work
of packing is done strictly by women and
girls Last Saturday one Of the girls, who
has Just been engaged to one of the most
prominent young business men OF The
Bronx, dropped her diamond eng cement
ring by accident into box of candy. The
loss was not discovered until the packa ges
we're sealed for the day, and the seal OF the
firm is such guarantee of excellence that
they wouldn't break it for no diamond
ring.
Now, I'm going to pass sample packa ge
OF our unrivaled jelly beans to each and
every person on this deck. Look sharp!
Don't hesitate! Maybe II YOU don't find
the diamond ring you'll discover racing
auto or a gold watch
He passed along the line. dropping a
packa &c into every lap. He was back in five
minutes, collecting five cents from every
enc who had opened package.
''Cause," he explained, the high grade
OF confectionery contained in that package
is worth double five cents You git the
chance at the diamond ring free. A lady
down on the lower deck just found pearl
pin in hers
Only one man had the courage to hand
back his package unopened. The faker.
in passing, called him cheap Yiddish
Swede. and made reference to Ellis Island.
The Bronx hit North Beach with bump,
causing the girls to bounce over against
their steadies and the steadies to hold out
their arms to receive them. Then the
steadies said they did it a-purpose. and the
girls drew back and said they we're horrid
things. as girls aud steadies have done
ever since Fulton ran the first excursion
steamer.
On the very pier the delights of North
Reach are waiting to receive them. There's
a stare Mt one end Of the waiting room, and
two girls with fiuffs all over them are doing
IN acrobaic darce. A big sign overhead
advises the crowd to wait for Ajax, the
Human Adonis, All free, except for the
waiter with bandanna handkerchief tucked
have every two minutes and looks re-
roochful il you don't buy.
The proprietor, who looks as though he
once acted L1'ryer Marks in "Uncle Toms
Cabin is rushing up and down bouncing
little boys from tine front seats Al the
and when there is nothing else to do he
so,s the waters on people who are not
buying
The rest of the North Beach stretches
or in long line OF dachshund conversion
factories candy booths, japanese ball
merry-go-rounda, scenic railways, phono-
graph pariors, ring-the cane games, and,
especially, concert halls-dozens of en-.
Horc n soft voiced spieler tells you that
every man should be prepared to defend
his country-its three shots for nickel.
There, man in tall hat informs you
that you doubtless played the national
game OF baseball in your youth. Try
your luck now. Three throws at the bottle
for one nickel, FIVE cents, and havana
cigar il you hit it. Greatest sport on the
beach.
-Once-nevah. Twice-nevah. Three times
-,nevah, Better luck next time! Won'tthe
lady try?'
North Beach Is especially the land OF
song, the haunt of the vaudeville star that
was put out of business by the demned
syndicate Fifty tunes. sentimental, comic
and descriptive float through the open door
and mix in the street. There is q descrip-
tive song parlor, for example, where a
tenor tells about the girl he loved ip sunny
Tennessee, with biograph showing just
how he leaned his crash suit against her
shirt waist while the old moon rose in glory
and he told life's sweetest story.
The spieler calls it an -eye-lustrated song
spechulty.' Further down. the Levere
sisters are telling. with lingerie gestures
how he would be happy. and full OF pride
l! she was marching by his side.
The star performance. however, is that
oft -