New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-07-09
With Nerves Well Steeled, You
May Survive the Latest
"Ticklers" and Come
Home Happy.

OF course they don't get paid for the work.
They are enjoying themselves-cant you
see their circular tickets dangling from
their coats? Well, you don't seem 70
grasp the idea of this place anyhow. Let's
go out this way down the packed BoWery
and see what we can see.
That's no way to do-sticking your fingers
in your ears. Who ever heard Of per-
son doing that at Coney Island? If you
aren't equipped with Bessemer steel ear
drums you'd better get some before you
come here for a second visit. These bark
ers have to earn their living just as you
end 1 have. We can't all be bank pres
idents Their voices are a bit rough, but
that comes from over use.
You say that some one told you good
"spieler" wears out a couple OF mega
phones every season merely by the vibra-
tons of his voice? 1 don't doubt single
word OF It.
You are right there--it certainly is hotl
What has become Of that breezeY Some
one has stolen It? Perhaps. Well, lets
duck In here, sit at one or the tables
and drink something cool. Listen 10 this
unshaved gentleman. He says that We can
go inside without paying, watch the NOV
ing pictures and listen to girls sing-all
Of them with good voices, he says Let's
take a chance. It's regular motion pict~
ure Foies Bergere.
Beer for two? Yes. Listen TO that girl
sing! And that man told us that they all
had good voices. | think he is innocent or
any wrong, for he has an honest face.
We will tell him better as we go out He
ought to be put wise" to his mistake.
Here comes the boy with our beers.
Here's looking at you. and we'd better hurry
out. for there's another one Of those good
singers clearing her throat
We haven't seen Luna Park. Come
along if you still have any sand in your
backbone Now. here's where they ride
you. They ride you any old way that's
faster. over there is the pneumatic tube
they shut you in little round cars and
blow you through a crooked steel piping.
It's Just like these cash carriers that You
hear popping in the department stores. IT
you don't care for that we can take shot
at the old-fashioned shoot the chutes. IL
is all over in a couple Of whoops and
splash. That is one of the amusement park
classics It's here To stay-lke the newt
able merry-g o-round.
They have all sorts OF scenic railways for
u, to select from. All Of them are fas,
and they flash you consecutively from inky
darkness into scenes Of waxwork beauty
Now. over here is the checker board.
You see the people in the little cars are sit
ting with their backs to one another and
are trying to steer straight course with
the two steering wheels at each end. Yes.
their chances are slight. Now across tho
crowded midway we have The witchng
waves-Some,hing on the same order NOu
will observe that the little cars are turned
loose on that leather floor that keeps wav-
| ing M and down with the movement Of tho
air under IT, All you have 10 do is to steer
in opposition TO the vagaries OF the cratic
cir currents.
! You don't? Just as you say.
! But rush along, There are all sorts oc
other queer things 20 do and sec and 1.-Two
through II you are lucky. Here IS one that
will drop you sheer FOR fifty feet. Then con-
slider the gay eggnogg That f. another
| on the order OF the witching waves You
go I'm with a sound mind and come out a
/ lunatic from trying to steer a crazy rolling
/ chair over a wabhly floor. We have also
! the human sausage machine. You enter
one end OF turning cylinder and come out
Of the other the experience being supposed
! 10 furnish you with all the torments tina;
/ the barking ingredient OF the DETAINED hot
dog goes through before he gets the hot
on to his name. If you are slow there -
the pneumatic tower that carries you 2
couple of hundred feet into the afr and lets
you take a look at the encrcllng geogra-
ply This one doesn't make your heart
stop beating. and is therefore supposed TO
be designed only for octogenarians and In
valids Nations nave rebelled for less than
these Coney Island patrons pay to go
through. +. ;. 1lSDAbb