The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1908-05-31
Broadway Continues to Shine
In Spite of Hot Weather
By A. H. BALLARD.

that is supposed to prevail hereabout
Tor the next two months.
THE Servant In the House" is e1-
pected TO run throughout the hot weeks.
Also The Merry Widow" also The
Witehlng Hour" also paid In Full"
also Sam Demands Nearly A Hero"
also Girls Soon begln the roof gar
dens, which are 10 be good especially
so-that is. good in the sense OF intense
ly spectacular and iEsisJently fTeakish.
Coney Island has gone OF at the outset
with huge bang. Evidently the near
by seashore viii pun with great ease
this year. The people yearn for it.
Another Atlantic City.
Speaking of Corey Island. Gus Laffan
twenty years ago. was power in the
Sun office-previously he had been the
Suns dramatic critic. At the time of
which / speak he had organized a COM
pany 10 build the Long Beach Hotel, on
sand strip over on Long Island, which
he called Long Beach Austin Corbln
bought the Long Island railroad soon
after, and kept the crowd going to his
Manhattan Beach. instead OF allowing
II to go TO the really preferred spot
Long Beach A few cOttagers have held
the fort at Long Beach ever since, and
a year or two ago the hotel burned
down, after being a financial loss Now
adays Mr.. Laffan Is the proprietor Of
the sun q mention this only 10 identify
HIND, and he must have plenteOus and
fulsome thoughts when he realizes that
today they are building a second Attain
tic City over there at Long Beach. It is
an unertaking involving the expenditure
OF millions and millions, and much Of
1t is to be done this year. A boardwalk
nine miles long is only one of the fea-
lures. Picturesque as the best spot in
Europe, il is to be made. A ready-made
city is we'll under way. Avenues which
are centered with gardens A big thea
ter. where the best of shows can be
produced. is started; the biggest hotel
in the world; a casino to be proud Of;
boulevards in plenty 10 bring the whole
of Brooklyn and it's neighbors down in
automobile long waterways and
wharves for motor boats: club houses,
private residences galore; fellows like
Frederick Thompson. A. L. Erlanger.
and others too numerous 10 mention,
buying sites for summer yillas-the most
tremendous undertaking 10 accomplish
in a few months every known 10 man
kind And all going on as smoothly and
quietly as possible under our very noses
and everything almost done today.
That is many of the buildings viii be
open this summer season.
WHAT will Gus Laffan say. when he
goes there once more. and remembers
the evening he had all Of US newspaper
men down to the opening % his Long
Beach Hotel on a barren and bleak
sand spit twenty-five years ago. He
was ahead Of the times. But now the
times have caught up TO MIN. He owns
the Sun now, instead Of the Long Beach
Hotel. But he knew that there should
be a great hotel on that spOt-knew It
long ago. Now his dream is being re-
allied. l saw him not long ago He is
looking older. His Long Beach. with
that newly rising, ready-to-use city
stringing out over nine miles of length,
looks much younger than II did a score
of wears ago. The sun goes on Just the
same. Il IS neither younger nor older;
in seems as If It might last forever, for
Dana built we'll, and L9ffan Is wise. GO
ing along the streets Of this huge grind
inc METROPOLIS where I have been, OF
and on. for more than twenty years,
nevyspaper man. see many faces grow
ing older, Older-faCes that mean, per
maps. little 10 the passing throng, but
which mean much to me, for they are
a associated with the history or New
York and the later development OF a
great American city.