The Caldwell watchman. (Columbia, La.) 1885-1946, 1915-08-27

Ell his country must hHO" It's
81 most characteristic summer
G playground, Coney Island,
which is thus pictured by
writer in the New York Evening Post:
There was an endless, surging tide
of people, a crowd which would be
described next day as record
breaking, for it was Sunday after
noon in June, and thousands had es-
caped from their hot city apartments
and were spending it at Coney Island.
There may be some persons left VINO
want to rest on the Sabbath day, but
not so those who journey down to this
fascinating place, where the sights and
the sounds are enough to keep them
perpetually stimulated. Many of the
people you pass upon the street look
as if they had worked hard for the 9TH
er six days of the week, but now they
are determined to have some fun to
make up for it, and have chosen the
noisiest, most crowded, and the gay
est place within reach.
"Wow," shouts man in red coat,
who stands before side-show the pla.
cards of which declare that it will re-
veal the wonders Of the Orient.
Wow, come in and have look. New.
er saw anything like it, ladies and
gents. Wow, come in and have a
look"
And he is only one Of ten in his i'm
mediate vicinity, each of whom is
blessed with strong eXpletives, strong
lung capacity and marvellous inclina
tion toward hospitality.
But it is only at first, before YOU
ears become accustomed to it, that yol
notice the bedlam Of the place. TIL
concentrated hubbub strikes the pei
son who is just getting off the trail
as almost deafening. But he soon re
allies that this is part Of Coney
charm, one of the causes of its excite
ment and thrill. 1t is on waves c
sound that one is borne along wit
the hundreds of others, that one enter
the side-shoW to see the lady VIII
could not possibly be as fat as she
pictured on the poster, or shoot at on
of those uninteresting wooden due
targets, hoping not to be SO unto
tunate as to hit one and thereby dra
pink china vase as reward.
Subtlety Versus the Obvious.
If Coney were place of silence {
of merely mild sound, the visitor wou
never be inspired to do the thing
which he finds himself nerved to
when excited by the roar about hill
It bears him along, he is deafened
it, and SON finds himself shoutiI
with the others, laughing uproarious
at the spectacle of a solemn man wes
ing a small red felt hat about as b
as a teacup over one ear, although
a matter of everyday choice, he pl
fers a somewhat subtler appeal to b
NOR.
The crowds take you along; "
laugh with them, you push and sho
with them. You feel yourself closer
human nature than ever before, ev
in the subway at rush hour. TT
crowding and pushing mob is very
ferent from the subway crowd, tir
after a days work, cross and hot a
lackadaisical This is gay and
cable and contented, uproarious ga
ering which bears you along on
wave of its enthusiasm. Even if y
come alone and join the 0Sowds, y
feel at once accompanied and befriel
ed.
In such a mood of comradeship a
boisterousness you love to watch {
man who is passing out bags OF p
corn to those who proffer the nee
sary nickel, while the popcorn It's
pops white inside a glass case, she
ering down like fountain. And +
Their on there is the attraction OF
smoking plate, on which hot dogs
being cooked till their skins burst,
they are laid between two rolls
laved with mustard. And certai
il is the most natural thing IN
world for the person who at OF