The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1911-05-29
CONEY REAPS FROM HER LOSS
ONLY DOGS. &C., SAVED SELL
WE'LL ALL DAY LONG.
Folks Drank Beer and Cont en,piatcd the
Lawful Sandw iches Amid Sooty
Ruins Of ktubenbOrd's Rest taurant
-.vob With Candle One Little BOY HAD.

NUNS OF HtUOeuDOTON WestaurhUt
lob With Candle One Little BOY HAD.
Don't think for minute that the Coney
Island crowd-oue Of the biggest. il not
the very biggest Sunday crowd. the island
ever has had-upon arriving at the ten
acres Of black ruins where once Dream
land had been found lot Of showmen
sitting disconsolately with their faces
buried in their hands.
Policemen had had to shoot Col Fer
rar's most valuable lion. The Colonel
exhibited the body in a small tent at 10
cents look. Dreamland barkers had
loet jobs just at the very worst time Of
the whole year.to lose their kind Of jobs.
The crowd arrived to find them bally-
hooing back of new pine boards upon
which were arrays Of souvenirs OF the
FIRE"
Everything in Stubenford's restaurant.
even the table china, had been burned or
cracked to lumpydust. The two Stuben-
bords early yesterday morning had made
something approaching an accurate guess
a. to where their restaurant had been.
cleaned away some of the debris. got a
stock Of bottled beer and Raines law
sandwiches and tables and walters. and
all afternoon and night folks sat amid
the r,iins around these tables. with all the
hundreds Of thousands afoot. in trolley
cara. carriages and automobiles in Surf
avenue smiling toward them.
The carcass cf Little Hip. the half
grown elephant. was back some place in
the ruins. Out along the line of blue
coats Who we're keeping the sidewalk
crowd out OF the wreck a barker stood in
front OF little tent selling burnt photo
graphs Of Little Hip-at least Of a small
elephant-at cents a throw. Back OF
the tent q Sun man happened across a
small boy seated on a charred piece Of
timber with big bundle Of the elephan;
photographs piled neatly beside him.
The boy had a lighted candle in his
hand and was attending strictly to busi-
ness. He would pick ny a fresh glis.en-
ing photograph. char an eds.e Of il with
the lighted candle. rub a bit Of the ashes
scattered about on the back Of it. place
II on top of the neat pile and begin on the
next photograph.
'Gittir' 30 cents fer doin' lust this
here work. the boy remarked. The
charred photographs OF the elephant
saved from the fire at a simply tremendous
risl, Of life. went we'll at cents apiece
Col Ferrari WAS blithely running show
In a good sized tent with a Surf avenue
entrance all afternoon and evening. He
had hand. but their uniforms and in
struments oil had been burned up and
so there was no music i'm the show Capt
Bonavita stood out in front of the show
with Marguerite the six mont hs-old lion
csc tied TO his wrist with a strand of
clothesline. Bonavita wore the jacket
OF his uniform and an old pair of drab
trousers. Even his shirts and under
clothes had been burned up Just as the
personal belongings Of col. Ferrari and
his family had been all lost
Inside the tent was a jam Of folks all day
looking toward a stage made OF packing
boxes and enclosed with rusted sections
Of cage bars which hastily had been ham
mered straight and bound securely to-
gether by Col Ferrari and his men so that
the FIVE lionesses and four leopards saved
from the fire would stay put when once
led upon the little stage from the circus
wagon which opened upon the little plat
form.
""' was ''o '''''
sempahce oi stag" CLONES 10 he seen
about the tent show. Sometimes Bona
vita would take the lionesses out ,,pon IN.
.tasa and ..pd than ,h,ouyh ,h.ir roo..,
re ~ ,',.n ~. pa,o'
heil .iiIe; Aiure, wearing me ohly CLONES
ehe has 10y Nhi.e sIit "ais, anu plne
revolver and whip and send the lionesses
through their tricks again
Perhaps Col. Ferrari by way of variety
M ~ouiu coine T on i, ,i,1i' M,oh h his SIX trained
inare bGnars u;,h he', -, Win @ .ns "pp"aranee oi
Tnser9 WIN ,he Same five nohesse- and
ilcaruo WIN 'ne !our remaining leopards.
ooth trainers IN ru'hpied coats ana irou-
eefs 'hat looked as II 'hey had slept IN
them the programme would start all over
again
Bi' wall -aln to!' ferrari happily.
'h!l you sec me non we IL nave here to-
morrow honaVl'a VIII ne giving shows
with 1t hare tomorrow night We're
going 10 nav" lot more animals in Ia short
time and lent much bigger than this
our snow Will be open all summer as
usual
On me pihe counters which the two
1obless harkerS mad set w was an array
oi cracked nina vases IRON IN" runs of
me Japanese nan roliing games. bits of
iron ornanen'S crlisted with ashes and
rpst. anything winch the TWO statesmen
Thought the crowd might fancy as sou
Fen!rs OF the great fire
lhe best hargain OF all was the rusty
nean OF 'he hatche' WIN winch "Capun