The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1907-05-31
FEW WAR VETERANS AT COMFY
mr. 1T WAS A FINE DAY FOR THE
YOUNGER SOLDIERS.
Sailors There. Too; Lots Of Them Almost
A Record Day at the Resort. without
inc BARRIERS Thanks 20 the Women
-Sousa. Medals and All, Leads o Band.

-GOuSas Nltuhh btiu All = hNtAN
Mike Schwartz, the Surf avenue barber,
ohio SAWS he Ia a German. was the only
nnssimlstio resident OF Coney Island noticed
,os,orday. The reason the rest Of Coney
,,olled 'Goody. goody!" all day and almost
oil night was because the Island was having
ono Of tho greatest days in its composite
biography. More thar 'stsen thousand
neople were on the Island and John Philip
sousa and all the Sousa medals and Bert
Morphy, the Man Who Sings TO Beat the
Band.
But you can't please everybody, no
matter how you try.
Too many vimmins. too many vimmins,
almost sobbed Mike Schwartz. the barber
Always on a holiday iss too many vimmins
come TO the Islant. Fret Thompson he
nay ~r-r-roll hiss hoop up and down all
INV like the defl and laugh lout becaus
oll iss coming in and holdings going ont.
hu, vot goot ISIS vimmins? They don't
holm nobody on the Islant but Luna and
Treamlant and Steeblechase and the picture
galleries and the popcorn stants and the
beer gardens and the souvenir shops. the
loon.tne-loop the candy and the ioe cream
s,ants and all dose dings. But vot goot
Iss vimmins to a barber shop. eh? Neggstl'
All else was sweetness and light, however,
md Coney was the one spot In Greater New
York where there were no flags at hall
nast. As Mike regretted Coney had per-
haps the biggest crowd Of vimmins that 1t
has contained. Probably 30 many Of them
turned out when the word was passed that
Mr., Sousa was to be there In a nifty new
uniform to lead Phil Lemlein's Luna band
during the evening, or they may have fol-
lowed the Thirteenth Regiments giddy
uniforms, for the Thirteenth went down
three train loads strong In the afternoon
10 show the entire entire First Infantry Of
the Connecticut National Guard-also all
prinked out regardless-what Coney can
do when che gets her stride.
And one certain reason for a part, at
least, Of the overflow Of what Tommy Raw
Inns. the Days OF 40 barker, referred to
as -the flock Of skoits' was that all the
Hlppodrome ballet and chorus descended on
Coney in a glad rush early and stayed late,
so that they could spend all tho salary they
have been saving during tho year. Thoy
carried written permission from Manager
MacBride to go as far az they liked. and
when boo Livingston, the pass expert of
Luna, had endorsed several hundred appli-
cations 20 recognize the profession his
hair began TO streak with gray In an hour
and he crawled behind his desk n hid
All the officers of the Thirteenth and
their guests, the officers OF the Connecticut
regiment, tipped down In automobiles.
So did some Of the ballet and chorus. And
if Maude Fulton wasn't playing hockey
from the Orchid matinee and coastiuR
into Dreamland about l:iO o'clock P.M.S
seated in a kerosene cart painted to match
her tresses, then there's some one around
town all hanessed up in a check suit with
salmon facings trying to look like her.
As Press Agent Broker OF Dreamland,
because OF geographical location. had
fully three minutes start over Press Agent
S~hesgreen OF Luna and more than seven
minutes over young MIR. Tilyou OF Steeplo-
chase, when IL came to q race to the Culver
line station 70 grab the trsinloads OF visit
ing militiamen from Brooklyn and Con-
~necticut. the Dreamland press agent won
the first heat. He had his Royal Italian
Band playing the Star Spangled Banner"
before half the soldier boys had detrained
and he was marching them into Dreamland
and around the e~splanade, while Prof.
Krachmeier of the Lemlein band was still
Juggling feverishly at the buckles that
strapped him 10 his basedrum.
EI-Sherif Bill Buttling threatened any
soldier lad with arrest il he attempted
had taken them in to see the Fall Of Baby
lon and they had shot the Dreamland
chutes they sneaked over to Luna Park
when Bill Buttling wasn't looking to give
the Thompson chutes a trial and the girls
IN Lhna a treat. For the rest Of the day
all Coney was full OF soldiers-and sailors,
too, There were sailors, sailors every
where and lots OF drops to drink.
There was one feTvent chorus OF feminine
ah-h-hs Just about the time the afterglow
was beginning 10 die and hundreds Of
thousands of lights blinked forth instantly
IN tuTn N-a utia urnxy httilHinua intn m uI;tt,r |
ing fairyland. But the chorused ah-h-h, /
wasn't because Of thel lights. for the femi-
nine eyes we're not turned toward the glow |
ing caves, but in the direction OF the Lun
gate. John Philip was ~clanking %splendidly |
along Just back OF all his medals. one feck-
less white kid glove clasped around a white
baton. And a few white hairs were noticed
among the black beard also, but the girls
said that only made him all the l~ovelier.
The park tumbled after him, so that IL
could get a good vantage point around the
lagoon. Prof. Lemlein had his band
Stationed out on the su%peraqueous circus
ring in the middle of the park, and as John
iPhllip walked across the little bridge that
leads 10 the circus ring. doffing his lid az
he hurried along, the second biggest crowd
the park has ever contained yelled that they
We're for him.
He started of with The Stars and Stripes
Forever and then he had TO run all through
n" Free Lance, Ell Captain" and Bride
Ii''t scores ana all the SOuSa marches. |
hert Morphy, wearing a uniform second in
%spIendor only 10 John Philips, climbed an
lnprovised platform after that to sing
We Made My Plans for the Summer" and
the Others he's brought TO town.
According to Fred ~Thompson's checking
system, at I o'clock he was just about 100
people shy of the number Of people who
We're IN the park at the same hour on In
dependence Day four years ago, the biggest |
gay IN Luna's history, when there were
Ili2.Wl admissions at the end of that day.
therefore there were some people hanging
on 10 everything last night and trusting TO
we stick OF the paint while they urged John
PIhllp TO do it some more. They would
have had Sousa and the Man who Sings to
Beat the Band going ill midnight II John
I,hllp hadn't remembered doubtless that
Manager Fred Mcclellan would throw both
INTO The lagoon il they didn't stop keeping
people out Of the shows.
There was one big disturbance in front
OF EIlls's End Of the World" wheeze in
%Dreamland in the afternoon when a six
loot six Scotchman in kits named Bayne
ihachenZie got into an argument with a
,eV rube person over several things. The
hey rute was observing that he didn't give
d ,dnggone for any man with plaid skirts
W,hen the crowd began TO collect and natur-
aIIN. halted TO see Just which method the