The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1907-05-13
100000 SILVER AT CONEY
THE GROW DS MADE 1T LOOK LIKE
tn SUMNER TIME.
Nearly All the Amusement Places Open. but
a Few OF Them, Notably Dreamland,
are Vet TO Unfold Their Mysteries -lSO
GODS on Duty There With Nothing 70 Do.

IyniteS who stTOlled OUT INTO Ine Sun
lighi early yesterday afternoon quite pre-
JARED to go more than half way in making
nelieye it was really May started first &c
.hiyer and then to cry Indignantly, Dog
zone it. Wen go to Coney anyway and pre-
TEND it's summer.
nr the 200. 900 that went down in the
,r,ornoou and evening, according to police
.rausticians, Press Agent Jim Shesgreen
~ Luna Park estimated at 8 o'clock that
,,o ny0 of them had visited Frederic Thomp-
.on's shows. On the other hand, Mr.,
steeplrchase Tillyou claimed to nave
poi 600 with him. Press Agent Brecker Of
nreamIand allowed that the remainder was
Hacking traffic before the Dreamland
cate, barred except to the e~lect-trying
70 get a glimpse of the wonders hat are
bulding within but not yet open TO public
gaze.
But there were a few left to jam along the
sidewalks of Surf avenue slowly mid the
sweet scents Of the pungent frankfnrter-
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS perfume that reaches
,,ck 10 Timer Park when the breeze is
right. The quickest way to get along from
.I.nt TO spot was TO stay where you were and
order another dark or light, according 10
,aste You could, however, tax the mid
lie of the avenue with nothing TO worry you
oycapt the near private automobiles, the
side wheeler hacks and the crowds there,
who. like yourself, wanted to get through the
lam quickly. Altogether there was more life
and 90 about the Island yesterday than one
would see in a mob twice as big in August,
loafing was chilly work.
The new Heller Shelter 'Scalator at Luna
=. lz.l u,,,,, all nFtarnonp and
evening. The slide is conducive to warmth.
Heat is generated on the principle of a
woodshed conference after playing hockey
from school.
And YOU might say that all the Indians
from Buf-from a certain Western show
now playing in Brooklyn are here" con-
fded Press Agent Shesgreen. They are
10 come down as our guests, personally
conducted in all their war paint by Majah
Brr-by the press agent Of the show
with which the Indians are connected.
THEY'RE not here yet, but it's a cinch they
will come. Say that they tried TO shoot
no Luna or something. Dope it out any
way you want, 30 longs you have it happen
in Luna. There is nothing mercenary
in this. 1t will help the Buffalo Bi-the
show they're with a lot. you know
Blt the Only real touches Oh western
color in sight were Miss Jane Rogers, Laurel
nrmond, the blood thirsty Bandit Queen Of
last years Great Train Robbery" in a
new spring lid, and Arthur and Emil Voet-
glin, proprietors of the new Days of Forty
nine, that is 10 replace the Robbery. Miss
Ormond had her picture taken riding a
hucking property automobile in a Surf
avenue tintypester's, just to keep in touch
with her art, and she greeted Doc Living
,ton with a How, paleface.' Emil Voet-
Glin wears spangles on the old sombrero
now because the new show is Mexican.
Surf avenue got a shock when it looked
toward the beautiful tower of Dreamland,
sometime a ~shimmering white but this
wear, alas! painted green for some reason
81 other. The only way you could get by
Vas to admire orally Casey his dog.
Countless times in the afternoon Casey per-
formed for the crowd absolutely free OF
charge by jumping over the head OF Pete.
Perhaps 200 yards back of where the dog
was blocking the avenue with his stunts
Miss Cherry Beaver, the only woman stage
manager on the Island, was running dozens
If girls through their dances and pantomime
in Billy Ellis's Feast of Belsha2zar' show.
Pardee Lewis, one of the old Ben Greet
Players, sat on the throne as Bel. himself
hut harnessed up merely in a pepper and
salt sack suit. The Wild cries from the
populace when Bel. Queen, Miss Gentel,
and Bells Inner guests saw the hand
wrlghting on the wall drowned out the
rapping Of carpenters hammers. the slap
of broad paint brushes and the steady flow
If press agent adjectives all about. Billy
Ellis said lie would give anything II he could
only get permission from the autocratic
Miss Beaven to go in and see the rehearsal.
But Billy merely owns the show and had To
stay out.
Ray Fields. the lion tanner who had an
arm pulled of in Cleveland a short time &
while with the Bostock show, wandered
around Luna till the Bostock press agent
heard of it and made him come back and
do his sauntering in front OF Dreamland.
Lieut.. Staines. the Englishman who is going
10 flash an untamed tiger in the Bostock
arena in a few days, worked his sweet
tempered charge for q while during the
afternoon to Timber up. The brute has
no public name as yet, but the Bostock
private rehearSals. The Lieutenant uses
what he calls a -lunge' around the tiger
two strands Of rope running from the
tigers neck on either side, weighted at
each end with attendants with some neces-
>ary muscles beneath their overalls.
It's a sort of tug of war, consequently. on
both sides Of the tiger, and the first principle
of the game is that neither group OF human
luGgers must give in. II one crowd let's go
tie tiger may give his attention first 10 the
winners on the other side who are still pull
Jug AT him. but after he has devoted a few
minutes 10 these il would be just like him
10 face about and take II couple of sassy
slams at the other group before they can get
"A the island. Its a grand job.
Jim Shesgreen telephoned to THE Sun
ATE last night TO say that Fred Thompson
mad dined az HeEderson's with Mr.. Hender-
son at 6 O'Clock and that Fred Mcclellan
had dined al the same time at Feltman's
with Mr.. Feltman, and that If the news
lapers only realized how far this goes to
show hat the real social season OF the island
had been officially opened the entire press OF
ihc city would jump at il for the society
columns, The story has been thoroughly
investigated and has been found 10 be true
IN every detail.
There were $50 cops in the ordinary
sized station in Eighth street yesterday,
III being held in reserve for any outbreak
7lnoIg the striking longshoremen. Why
i!ry were held in reserve so far away from
ne POSSIBLE scenes Of trouble the cops
couldn't see. But there they were and
'tty had their own time trying TO find
places 10 bunk. At n stretch the station
"Il hold eighty men, wherefore the extra
seventy had To stretch out on desks, chairs
and tables, and many of them were pre-
par1ng 10 make themselves comfortable
'"r he night in a stable in the rear of the
>.uiOn house.
The elevated and surface cars coming
back 70 Manhattan were larded in with
N~lllanlty like n hot night in July. II was
a..lv, 10 be sure, but everybody tried to
make believe il wasn't. and as for Name
.'"I head resting on Claude's padded over
coat til her green plumed lid listed danger
.g>Il 10 starboard-she was quite con-