New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-08-08
BATHING SUIT REFORM ON
Police Begin to Bar 0ne-Plece
Garb at Coney Island.
SEVEN SWIMMERS ARRESTED
ALI Men, the Crusade So Far
Not Seeming to Include the
Eternal Feminine

When vou pack your bathing suit, pat n
,,.o nieces for II you appear In one
niece suit you are more likely 20 lard Ia
the police station than the surf az COney
island. Then. again. don't tuck the TOP
piece in the lower piece. for that . asainst
the beach rules OF etiquette as interpreted
by Police Captain Calvin down at TIE
leisure isle.
II viii ne obvious that these little mat
tors of form are meant exclusively for the
nacst,1ine element No complaints 80 fas
have been lodged against the appearance
Of the eternal feminine" eltheT IN or out
Of the water. 1t would certainly De
shame 70 make the arrest IN that case, as
one of Captain CiaIvin's beach squad put It
yesterday.
To avoid trouble. Captain Calvin and
MAGISTRATE voorhees,. who holds court near
Surf avenue, both approve this adihonldoa
10 unsuspecting girls CT all ages;
Don't start for Coney Island with an
escort until you are sure he has a two
piece bathing suit II ne can't a1ord to
buv one. or rent one. make him one.
Otherwise he may be arrested and you
may have to hurry home alone to get
ball.
Seven "one-piece suits" fell into the tolls
Yesterday Five OF them had lady
friends" with them when apprehended. and
they got bail and went home early. One
wayward boy was led dripping into the po-
lice station all alone. He telephoDed 70
Brooklyn for his father, and had just about
time to rub down and get dressed in the
irnprovlsed rear room bathhouse at ths
station when his parent arrived Father
and son both promised the captain to BE or
hand in court this morning That seemed
to please the boy, for it meant another trip
TO Coney Island. and on a week day. too.
An Actor "Come to This"
The seventh culprlt was an actor, one Of
the team of Dahm Brothers. acrobats. He
told pathetfcaIIy how he had once played
at Hammerstein's and now come to this"
| His summer residence was at the Ocean
Parkway Hotel, Coney Island. he said, and
he thought some of the bunch over there
would bail him out He had nothing bur
the one-piece suit with him at the station.
| Later his Sunday clothes were brought 10
| him from the bathhouse and he put them
| on TO make a proper appearance before his
bondsuan Mr. Dahm was still languish-
| ing in prison at a late hour last night
The names which the bathers arrested
Yesterday gave to the police were as FOL-
/ lows: Moe HeIIman, eighteen years old. Of
| No. 1923 St Marks avenue. Brooklyn: Nor
ris Mandlowitb twenty-five, Of No. ZIG Nc
| Ribbon street BROOKLYN, Lawrence Sagona.
/ seventeen, of No IT East 10Th street. Man
| haitian; Hugh Dahrl. twenty-five. Of Ocean
/ PARKWAY, Coney Island; Russell Mackey.
/ twentv-one, of No. 104 Division avenue.
/ Brooklyn; Paul Stevens, twenty-one. OF No.
/ I Roberger Place. Coney Island. and Ernest
/ Kinscher, seventeen, Of No S35 45th street.
| Brooklyn.
/ Captain Calvin had a squad Of twenty
! two uniformed men patrolltng the Corey
Island beach yesterday looking for objec-
! tionabIes They were earnest looking
bIuecoats, with an eye to the sea and q
ready ear for what the wild waves might
say. Come on in. the waters fine" cana
[ a voice from the edge OF the rising tide
as Sheridan, of the beach brigade. started
| to pursue a fleeing one-piece suit Then
| the voice and the "decollette' sank IN the
I breakers simultaneously Sheridan fall
tered on the edge OF the ocean and al
lowed he would hang around until the
swimmer swan ashore
| "ObiectionabIes" EIude Police.
| But Coney Island bathers are a long
| winded species and remain in the water
| for hours at a time. For that reason
I Sheridan's Objectionable gor away, and
undoubtedly many more like him, who
scattered off shore like SO many pushcsrt
vendors at the approach OF the police
The thousands on the beach seemed 10 en-
| Joy the shore-to-sea conversation between
the officers and the bachers- An arrest
| was the occasion OF great demonstration
pro and con-
Most of the arrests yesterday were made
| in Seaside Park. at the foot Of West 5ta
street, where eight men were arrested On
| Saturday, the day on which the antl-one-
| piece-suit crusade began Two OF three
| of the offenders were gathered in from II
front Of the bathing pavilions near the
| Bowery. Warned by the arrests on SAT-
urday, many bathing house propr1etors
/ yesterday instructed their employees 70
| watch out for the questionable suits anu
not allow them near the water. Many
would-be narhers in the prohibited haoiIF
ments were approached by the bath houss
men. it was said. and had either 10 rent
proper apparel or forego a bath
| The eight men arrested Saturday wers
arraigned before Magistrate VOORHEES, In
/ the Coney Island court yesterday. At first
/ they all pleaded not guilty 10 the technical
/ charge of disorderly conduct made against
them Then the magistrate repriraanded
! the prisoners severely and said he intended
to hold them for trial IN Special Sessions
| in every case where the evidence war
ranted it, Three of the defendants huf-
riedly changed their pleas TO guilty ana
were fined s. each. The others were re-
manded on bail for further examination
before the magistrate on "Wednesday.