The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1918-08-07
Able COHEN--16 OF
HIM--LOST AT COMFY
Rachels and Rebeccas Bring
Total of Mislaid Young
sters to 100.
BATH HOUSES sTORMED
Crowds So Great They Hide
the Beaches-Luna Open
All Night.

Cohens alone yesterday at Coney Island ;
before o'clock 2. NJ. sixteen Mama
Cohens had tearfully reclaimed sixteen
little Abies at the Coney Island police
station. The heat had made all Coney
the Island OF Missing Children before
the sun had set In the western murk.
leaving Police Matron Anna McPad-
den as the afternoon waned seated
nrnong a steadily growing family con-
ssting of assorted sizes OF Rachaels,
Jebeccas. Noes, Rosas, Patricks, Her
mans. NAMES and Giuseppis-but
mostly Rachaels, Abies, Noes and Re
y beccas.
II was next to impossible from early
forenoon until late in the evening for
the citizen not arrayed in a bathing
suit to glimpse the surf. Doubtless the
Coney and Brighton waves were roll
Ing inland as usual all afternoon, but
even from the elevation OF the walk
connecting Brighton Beach and Coney's
sands one was wholly unable to see the
tumbers smash backward owing to the
forest Of humans growing solidly down
10 the water line and beyond.
100 Lost and the End Not Yet.
More than 100 lost children had been
brought into the Eighth street station
house from Surf avenue and the beach
before the afternoon had half got Its
ttrde. And on the avenue there were
thousands still safely within reach of
their mothers apron strings and other
thousands in tie amusement places and
Tens of thousands wallowing like por-
)oises along the whole stretch of waves
from Sea Gate east to the last sands Of
Brighton and further
Since Monday some OF them had been
there. grownups and youngsters. maxi
ing their beds on the sands Monday
night and up with the dawn to seek
some food and then form into the lipes
tfat stretched away from the bath
houses throughout the morning. after
noon and evening. Eastward from the
municipal bath house, opposite Seaside
lark. were the men and boys the line
as the day progressed stretching east
for quarter of a mile OF sweating but
expectant humanity, then swinging west
again in a great loop and continuing in
a swirl which wound like a snake along
The Seaside Park walks until the whole
slow moving line was fully falf a mile
long.
And westward from the entrance to
the big concrete bath house built by
the city ran the line of women and big
and little girls in length and numbers
quite as appalling. That wasn't all
either. for at the Parkway Baths 1T
Brighton Beach--to take an average
example Of the volume OF business the
privately owned bath houses were doing
10000 human beings OF all sizes
passed into the building for bathing
suits before the afternoon had begun to
get into real action. with a record of
more than 5000 bathers accommodate ed
by the Parkway Baths alone before the
sweating management had decided to
call II n day. And all the other COM
,nercially run bathing establishments
likewise did business limited only by
their capacity.
Luna stays Open All Night.
Where rules once had been rules wen,
10y the board. The municipal bath
house, for instance, Is supposed to close
mt o'clock =. NJ. but not last night
ordinarily, too. Luna Park says, "Thi,
way out please" at some decent hour
or two after midnight. But yesterday
the Luna management, remembering the
sweltering thousands still in the amuse-
lnent park at the closing hour Monday
might. generously decided to put night
stan patrolling last night among the
lines OF sleepers who preferred sleeping
on Luna benches that caught n bit OF
IN their sitting fats in the tenement
houses.
1t was the first time in Luna's history
that the big park kept open house al
might. 1t should be borne in mind also
that real altruism was back OF the
showman's idea, inasmuch as Luna en-
ployees, a few at least. had to stay or
the Job all night. even though the man
asement had thoroughly grasped tn,
20 t Eat To
much as one-fifth OF two bits from ar
amusement park crowd all stretched ou
fast asleep.
The thing to do at Coney bright and
early yesterday morning was. first
II one had slept on the beach all night
10 get the sand out OF ones eyes ant
then bolt a nourishing breakfast OF ic,
cream cones hot dogs and mustard. Their
one fell into line, satchel or suitcase OF
paper wrapped bathing suit in hand, ant
plodded along, slow step at time, wit!
eyes hopefully fixed upon the door o.
the bathhouse. two blocks down tn,
street.
Police Win Broiled Glory.
Tn the biggest bathhouse OF all. TN
municipal plant, about 10000 bather
can be accommodated at given mo
1nent with lockers and omnibus dressinJ
rooms In which to change from stick.
street clothes to the ecstasy or sogg,
ocean raiment. By early forenoon tn
10000 had got inside the doors, thu
making 1t necessary for the line
stretching far to the east and west t.
slow down and wait with all the pa
Hence possible until there was room 10
more to shuttle indoors
Throughout all the sticky day the 10
lice, who were early on hand to kee
the lines In order. might have well beel
hardened under the circumstances
they had grown mentally het up n bi
and flown off the handle. They didn't
All day long the cops braved the bron
ing sun, and to their everlasting credl
may 1t be said they handled the thous
ands and tens OF thousands with a gen
tleness, brusque at times. but never peev
ieh which would have done credj
even TO the motherly Mrs McPadder
Mrs DUFFY and Mrs. Boyle-the thre
matrons at the Coney Island police sta
hn rali