New-York tribune., 1909-05-24
SUNDAY JOY RAMPANT
NO LID ON CONEY ISLAND
OR OTHER RESORTS.
Shozcmen Nop Com plain of the Loss
Entailed by the False alarm
of Police Interference.

be found by the most assiduous searcher- IN
spectors Russell and Kelley We're there WIN
the twenty-odd plainclothes men that are at
Coney Island every Sunday, and that was All
Late at night only two arrests, and these 'ii''
usual excise ones, had been made, but promptly
at l o'clock Captain Palmer, accompanied oE
afty detectives and like number of uniformed
men. closed every place on the 1slano,
was disorder.
= ,ros the same old Coney Island up to MO
rfob+ The hie marks we're wide open and along
the RoNerv and the walks that cross II All llie
small shows were running and crowded Inc
concert halls were jammed, and the regular stage
shows We're given.
Fred Thompson stopped his open All -.
IN Luna Park and labelled his place an lhS'i,"'I
of Sciences" All his attendants ana 'he wv
alanbants wore red badges proclalmlhe ''''.,
..profassors Luna Park Institute of Sciences.
Even the police laughed at TINS anu o''
Insnector Russell when he met Thompson haL,eu %
t,tr, &C ..+be nresident Of the faculty Inc
1,,,+crino Wave was made the Institute TOT '',,
C.,d,. of Wave Currents: the Virginia fNe''
,,,as q Temperance Institute, to Prove pH o.
,.oz,ica+inp Ride the Effects OF Reehhs u
.I4eIter Sl,eIter was an Institute for the 9'uuS
of Lingerie" and so on down the line
COME OPEN AIR ACTS DISCARDED
1,rearo1and kept some of its open ar circus
acts hut discarded others-the acrooa''0 a.
and a Japanese group of tumbiers anu Juee
Aside from that every show in the park was Pu'
-, tho Same as ever The Village of BontocS
was run without any interruption as no Poice
,.a.or could figure it out as a costume exhibit
tion no matter what way they looked d' -
BahooIa. the ..balIyhoo' in front of Bostock s.
,,.b,, ,,.oare the same costume, with nose ring
thrown in for good measure, was Withdrawn
from nubIc view however. the police prooaplF
baking at the nose ring.
Steeplechase Park was in fun SWING from
.The Human Roulette Wheel TO The Shdlng
Stairs" George c. TilyOu said that he had had
no trouble with the police and did not expect 10
have any.
The showmen are indignant at the false alarm
of a wholesale closing of the place yesterday
for with the threatening weather, they figure
that It cost them together good many thousand
dollars in addition to the money they have had
to spend for legal advice and the protection or
the courts They do not expect any more trouble
for the next two Sundays. but after June l most
of the seven-day licenses which they now hold
VIII expire. and they are afraid that there will
be trouble in renewing them On this the fight
will hinge for the next fortnight. Sunday one
year go was the high water mark of the season
in attendance and receipts Yesterday less peO-
pie visited the place than week ago. the total
attendance probably not exceeding 10000 all
day.
FORT GEORGE IN FULL SWING.
Fort George was also running in fun bloom,
and with two or three exceptions the attractions
did a thriving business 1t is estimated that
more than three thousand persons visited the
resort The shows that were closed included
a moving picture show. a japanese ''roIy-poIy"
game and an attraction where canes and knives
may be won.
Many of the proprietors at Fort George were
I'D early to visit the West 152d street station
to ascertain if Captain Kreuscher had received
any unfavorable orders overnight The captain
relieved their minds by telling them that he had
not and that they could open their shows
Long before noon the crowds began to arrive
many of the people not wishing to venture
to Conev Island. At sundown the attendance.
looked larger than it has in many years.
Mortimer Randall, forty years old, Of No. SOL
West 1SOth street insurance agent, with Of
fees at Sixth avenue and saith street. dropped
dead at Depot Lane and Fort Washington ave
me With him at the time was his wife. NJ.
Randall had been in Fort Washington Park all
the afternoon. romping with some of the chill
dren gathered there. He departing for his
home when he suddenly complained to his wife
Of a pain in his side Before she could render
him assistance ne collapsed the sidewalk.
DIR Jacobs. of the Washington Heights Hospital,
said the man had died from heart disease
40 TROUBLE on STATEN ISLAND.
All the resorts at Midland and South beaches.
an Staten Island. which were open yesterday ran
,,aU within the law. according 70 Inspector Ho-
oar, and CAPTAIN Walling, who looked them over
several times in the course of the day me con-
,.erts we're run without costumes. The merry
eo-rounds and rO%er coasters operated "l'i'ou'
interference. Sandwiches OF the usual SuiludS
variety we're in evidence where peer was sun
,,,,e was only one excise arrest in the borough
Yesterday and that was made FAR from ''l-
beaches. ,, .
..-a-l,. a+ North Beach, Queens Borough
+ardav but otherwise the resort was "lde
orar The toboggan slides, chutes and merry
90 rounds were all in operation, and at the
Iaudeyine shows the only difference was tle
absence of stage costumes. The dance mans
,,.e,., crowded and the saloons did lively ousl-
ness.
The only person arrested was John Motifs
,,.bo has q Japanese ball game. He has six
dav license. the police say ana hau Ho iisi' ~
keep open yesterday
..Dt, pi,I,. Deverv gave his views at mis- home
last night regarding the present situation at
Gomez, Island and punctuated his remarks by
rounding his ponderous fist upon the desk
1T is an outrage young fellow" he said to a
,..,,ortar ..and YOU can take it from me that I'm
mighty glad I'm not jim Binghams place to-day
II I were at the head of the Department and
was ordered to close up clean and decent pleas
,,re places at Coney Island, the Mayor has or
dered Bingham to do, l would tell him that it
would be better not to try to rob the poor and
middle classes of New York of a days pleasure.
but to clean the city Of the army OF robbers now
in it.
"Tn give YOU a tip. young if you don't