New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-05-29
1bev Went to See the Place
WI Where DreamIand Stood and
Called 1t a Holiday!
TAM CARS TO SUFF0CATI0N
-..r.ri Gives Animal Show in a
rent-Other Burned Out Pro
prietors Resume Busi-
ness in Open Air.


:. .se place where Dreamland had
"a .ortv-eieht hours before for their
'.st ,,r,snt At various times in the
80, of the afternoon al Of them got
,se Ave short blocks on Surf ave
on which the ruins faced and ell
80 there were at least one hundred
'r.ns.rd compressed in those five
80 while the other quarter of mill
:. forced. their way through the close
..,ssd mass like water dripping through
sand filter.
And they called IT a holiday.
rsnv NJ them had cared they could
..rs known what they were going 70
,..,-. the, left Manhattan, for the
...vds streamed across City Hall Park
,.s along Park Row and M the Bridge
,.,,,s al ire afternoon as close jammed
:, !, the rush hours at the end of any
,rs,nsss day. sunday in the season Is
.,v.vs busy dav a. Coney Island, but
moo IS the average crowd. and 10000
,.rs for special comment AT any time.
.resp, during Nsrdi Gras.
risp,Snsnt Burke. Of the Bridge squad.
.,..aV on Saturday what was coming
r..,erdsv and called for the men Of the
.ss,,re squad 70 help him out. He had
,.i-,v-three men on the elevated train
.,,,forms Yesterday afternoon and kept
-. crowd moving all the time. When a
.,.in was not on hand - be hlled the
,.,ss 70 the sta.rways were closed and
-. crowd had 70 wait below.
NO manic for mine" said Burke I'll
,..n these stairways clear"
Cars Crowded 70 sufoostion.
=, the crowds had infinite patience
ub., thev wanted was chance 10
s-+ter and nant for breath in that jam
:, Surf avenue. and no trouble was too
,-.., - get there They had foretaste
,ssn thev got in the trains. a delicate
,,ns,i7er-e9ch car of the Brooklyn
p,rid Transit crowded 70 suffocation
with the usual Coney Island crowd.
yrbslted and perspiring men clung oes-
-.-stsl, 70 cigars that had been allowed
:, yo o,lt but never 10 be thrown away.
,srle visps Of smoke from cigars slowly
md rankly expiring strayed through the
,.,onr Girls in hobble skirts and little
ess mopped perspiring faces. Smali
,,,,.s -asred for breath in their
mothers arms.
sample Of the conversation:
1ssvs 70 Chinrnie on Friday I'd meet
Yin in front Of Balmer's.'
You'll meet him all right.
sure III meet him. The first thlng
:ses in the paper yesterday was tha'
Coney was burned
Amt II fierce
snother sample-fron1 a girl;
~ fought was in danger 30
rEht trough that window
you wouldn't lose no time "oulu
you"
Issve II 70 me kid.
eettinu Ou. Of Station JOB
And what did they see when they got
% the island? Well. the first thing they
I'D 10 do was 10 get out Of the BROOKLYN
lspid Transit Company station ana '"at
e no small Job. Narrow runWaYs Ieau
ron the train platforms under the rioo'
Z. ths wooden station. Each PLATFORM
ard each runway is so crowded "heli
tain pours forth its load that the pas
ssrrers can move only inches at time
The sspsrate runways lead 10 announcer
re same width as those that empty iil'O
t. and that must take care OF 'he ei'i'0
,-oVd. A fight OF stairs must 'heh "e
climbed n the main floor Of the station
and the crowd must pass In single NE
between iron ratings 10 drop tne"
tcks,s in the choppers boxes. "eH''
minutes was the time from the trains 70
no street
FIRE on Saturday destroyed S3'Wo'oVo
worth Of propertv two blocks away. IN
he street was the crowd. East or "eS'
vas the crowd Slowly and patienuy
moving back and forth in front OF "ile'e
Dreamland had been was that vast anu
svsating mob-out for a holiday.
Automobiles buggies. carriages, sea-
going hacks and wagons Of all KiiiuS
erowded the roadway. Their passehsel9
s'ood on the seats 70 see over the hedu9
" those on foot Two wagons from
Fsrrarls burned out animal sho"
rsrsded the avenue Strange ahlHioi'
we're painted on the sides. but the III
,'riors were empty Men and women
dragging children behind them ooose"
among the vehicles TO cross the street
Perhaps one person in hundreo man
aged 10 get 10 the ropes that euai'
me burned area. and there they fouio
oordon Of police 20 save the ropes
hundred extra policemen from al pa .
Z" the city were sent 20 Captain Ma''he"
Robinson al the island yesterday 10 "e'P
him handle the inflow They were s'a,
toned around Dreamland Park and hel"
oack the crowds.
Still Pouring Water on RUNS
The park was a mass Of twisted a"U
distorted iron and pipes and oi 'si 80.
FlTred into wind devils by the s"s''
breeze from the sea. Down by the sho.o
m!rty hremen under Deputy cher La"'
hsyed streams Of water on half ooA'"
s''ll smoulGering piles All that stoou %
nan had built them we're the walls oi ''-o
poVerhouse and the chutes. The to"e'
~st had delighted so many thousSii'
'ss an unrecognizable mass OF s'ee
e'oers on which two streams OF "a'e-
we're being played
me boardwalk could be trsceo -,
psces by the steel columns that ha"
'pported IT, Nine hundred feet OUT