New-York tribune., 1906-04-30
CROUD 1T CONEY ISLAND.
Thompson and Dundy as FBarkers"
Fatten Frisco Relief Fund.

All spring attendance records were broken at
Coney Island yesterday. when more than one hum
ureo thousand people visited ii. Luna Park was
the attraction that drew numbers and last night
IL was estimated that more than 80 Om had baen
raised for the benefit OF the sufferers of the San
Francisco disaster.
Frederick Thompson and Elmer s. Dundv were
on hand early. and, besides giving the DAVIS re-
ceipts, assisted by acting as balyhoos' for their
attractions Mr. Thompson that he could
guess the weights of the persons who patroniz,I
the scales failure TO guess within three pounds
resulting in a free weight Mr.. Thompson does not
think so any longer. and early IN the afternoon
surrendered the scales to older and more ex-
per1enced man In the business Charity would go
begging If L remained there any longer" he re-
marked as he walked over TO the chutes, where he
''barked" the remainder OF the afternoon Mr.
Dundy tried his voice at the fortune teler's booth
and even Invited Senator Pat McCarren to have his
palm read But the Senator wasn't taking any
chances. Miss Maude Adams was one of the Wis
1tors. and on wager for the benefit of the relief
fund slid down the helter skelter
While none of the larger and newer shows were
In operation yesterday, visitors were allowed to
inspect them The Great Train Robbery is Mr.
Thompson's latest conception, and nearly the
whoe western side of the park is occupied with IT,
TWO hundred and fifty persons and forty plunging
horses are TO be used IN the production
From early in the afternoon until late last niqbt
the bowery was mass of surging humanity and
an old 'balyhoo' man declared that a sumnnar,e
day could not have brought more people TO this
thoroughfare.
Ihe excise law is working on q new basis nj
Cohey Island this year. Last year IL was abso-
Ruteiy essential that the visitor order meal This
mas been found 10 be waste of energy and this
season the formality is omitted. But the meal is
furnished. or course. it isn't a very choice meal
sometimes II is simply plate. sometimes saucer
ana sometimes a teacup. IL is not necessary for
tne plate or saucer to have anything on Them
though one or two of the generous hosts
placed a bread crumb or cracker on the visitors
plate. '
The concert halls not laboring under the
same difficulties that they did last season. Former
ly II was necessary that long skirts should he
worn by the female performers. This has been al
most entirely obviated this season. and the same
costume that serves for weekdays serves for the
Sunday sacred concert "
The thirty y-twom minute Luna Park express trains
were put on yesterday and the summer scheduie
on all the surface lines was put In operation for
the first time. "
The police had little work to do althousb tL
first detail of extra men were sent down yesterday
Three arrests for intoxication Were nada ard
two youths were locked up suspicious persons
Only one slight accident marred the dsT's
pleasures. "'
Deputy Police Commissioner O'Keefe uas ono
OF the visitors at the resort and intends 70 n,oit
some changes In the trafic regulations Since Surf
avenue has been asphalted the vehicle traes our
considerably larger. and prevent nossS, Saiic Is
dents special trafhc squad will be Organized '1