The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1916-05-22
EYED MEN FLOCK
TO LUNA,S "GYROPLANE"
Not to Ride, but to Get Pointers on Feminine Styles,
Including Spats and Bloomers-Coney Islands
Real Opening a Great Event.

II the good old Zeppelin luftkreuzer
L-b7. Capt. Otto Hassenpfeffer or his
brother Gus commanding. had selected
yesterday afternoon ms a jolly time to
mako an air raid upon the greater city
always supposing there is an L-57 luft-
kreuzer and tina Otto or Gus Is run
ming her). the sky skipper undoubtedly
would haze selected a blue spot above
Coney Island as the best place to begin
his bomb dropping.
And with German efficiency otto-or
even Gus, who IL not 80 efficient as his
older brother, but has his good points as
an air raider-would have picked out q
particularly blue spot just above the lit
tie plaza surrounding a gyrating con-
traption in the new Luna Park called
the "Gyroplane." one bomb landing In
that plaza would have beaned a goodly
proportion OF the male population Of
New York and environs.
Even II the "~Gyroplane' had been
thought Of back in the lays when great
big girls In their thirties and forties
wore long skirts, the machine, or the
feminine patrons Of the machine. would
have had "a certain appeal to mere man
standing on the plaza outside the rail.
The "Gyroplane" Is a sublimated aerial
swing. a noted improvement-from the
plaza viewpoint-being that when the
great big girls climb into a "Gyroplane'
seat and take the air there Is next to
nothing beneath them in the way of
foot rests.
Oirls' white spats Hans over.
They Just sit down OF q narrow scat
and let their white spats hang over. Lit
tie. therefore, remains to be told.
Taking ones place early In a good
position on the plaza TO watch the great
big girls fy around overhead one notes
nrs, of all that silk boomers seem to
be quite a 20 now. In fact any mere
man spectator might be led to make the
assertion. supposing he hadn't grown
speechless from the strain of trying Il
look straight into the sky for o M
stretches OF time. that boomers this
spring have become an important item IN
feminine interior decoration schemes.
Inasmuch as the crowd which went
down to the sea yesterday to celebrate
Conveys really and truly opening of the
season numbered. according to Police
Can't. John T.. I.indon. Conveys crowd en-
pert, more than $50. 900" everybody
couldn't get a good spot In front OF the
"Gyropkane' TO look W at the merry
makers and everything Everybody
tried. but as effort after effort merely
went to prove 10 late Corners the truth
OF the rumor that two bodies of matter
cannot occupy the same place az the
same time and get away with 1t. about
1900 700 had to move on toward other
objects OF interest.
Consequently sailors enjoying their day
Of shore leave bought tickets for "A ride
on one of the islands many "Witch!nG
Waves" attractions u motorrncn with
n day on rode on the Honeymoon EN-
press trains and steel workers out in a
sweaty afternoon swinging a thirty
pound iron bound mallet In an effort 10
ring the bell aNd get n good j cent
see-gar thereby a. a prize and doctors
paid to get into the incubator baby eN
hibit so that they could have half an
hour or hour talks with the nurses about
| their own work. which they had gone 70
Coney 10 forget and II there We're any
| millers in the crowd they probably paid
10 go INTO the Re- Mil" while miners
were buying tickets for the coal Mine
show and carefree telephone girls were
wishing they knew the wit hhoard
operators in Stauch's and Henderson
and Feltman's and Luna co that they
could get permission TO 's,t in Al TIE
switchboard for a quarter Of an hour
or SO.