The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1918-08-08

transportation homo would be foun,
| that large part Of Coney began I,
Storm the telephone booths to tell tn,
| Manhattan and Brooklyn folks how Ger
tain 1t seemed that there would b,
vacant beds in the homs fiat last night
Wherefore business men who triec
to telephone for more cooling supplies
and reporters anxious 70 telephone tn,
boss In Park Row what a laundering
big day and night Concy had had gen
| orally found themselves sweating
around a telephone booth for on hour
| before they could talk to Manhattan.
Nudity Not Uncommon.
As on Tuesday nudity was not un.
common, even on Surf avenue-stark
nakedness but haste should be made to
explain that the only potential bathers
absolutely and gloriously free from
clothing were the. tiny lads and lassies
with mothers who did not hesitate to
strip little Able or Moe or Mike OF his
trimmings right In the baby carriage
and then insert the baby into a bathing
suit with all the privacy Of Old 1ry
Cobb's celebrated goldfsh in a bowl.
Fortunate magnates who had achieved
the extreme heights Of great wealth
where they could go to the limit OF
owning a henryford. used their fivs In
countless instances as bath houses. For
miles s4apy the greater clty's only
stretch of real ocean beach one saw the
automobiles drawn up In lines. the COW
erings tightly drawn. and various rock
inRe ~
together with escaping giggles. which
clearly indicated that even grownup
Maize and Minnie and all the rest were
stripping to points below the cambria
and Isle line within and changing rap
Idly to their sassy sea clothes.
Folks quite as forehanded but NOT
quite in the henryford class came to the
beach armed either with small A tents
or, In lieu OF tent. sheet which could
be stretched downward from the top OF
a baby carriage and so used as hot
but effective beach dressing chamber.
Along the rocks opposite the Coney end
Of Ocean Parkway small boys were seen
to use umbrellas as modesty shields.
Cool Again, Hot Again.
And when every one had become de-
liciously cool by staying submerged for
hours they all became as hot as ever
again while battling a passage toward a
homebound car at night. There was a
near riot in the Coney neighborhood
early In the day when a hot subway
train was stopped for many minutes on
the trestle connecting Coney Island with
the mainland. A long line OF trains from
the trestle to the joys Of the minarets
and the Ferris wheel kept the train
baking on the trestle until the passen
gers decided that too much was plenty.
Windows were smashed in the cars as
the parboiled passengers tried to fight
their way to the trestle with It's dangers
of open spots and the ever present third
rail. A guard, Miss Margaret Rogers,
III Fifty-ffth street, Brooklyn, was
threatened by the crowd in her car when
she refused TO open the doors. Miss
Rogers caused the arrest of Mrs Nellie
Although. 90 Watson avenue, Newark.
whom she accused OF starting the dis
turbance. Mrs Stella Andrews, guard
in one fthe other cars. had Max Leman,
1881 Fifty-third street, Brooklyn. ar
rested also.
Our help. men and women. are laying
of on account Of the heat" was the B.
r. It's answer to the savage kicks made
against the Coney Island Service. "
Whatever the cause. It was evident at
an early hour that the company intended
to run trains at intervals as far apart
as on the ordinary week days of normal
times.
Three DrowninRs at COney.
Three drownings were reported at the
Coney Island police station during the
day. The first TO be drowned was Tony
Derrigalas. 81. tailor living at 81
State street, Brooklyn. He went under
while bathing at the Manhattan Beach
end OF the island. Two unidentified
men also lost their lives in the water,
one at the foot of Jones Walk and an
other in the big Jam in the waters OF
Seaside Park. At Bath Beach. further
TO the northwest, Dominick B. Ernano.
81. S7el Seventeenth avenue, Bath
Beach. became crazed while bathing
near the Buena Vista Hotel and was
removed. amid much excitement. 20 the
Kings County Hospital for observa-
tom
Lazarus Isselbacker, Sc, was found
dead In bathtub ut 163 Bay Thirty
fourth street in the afternoon. His wife
said the heat had killed him.
When night fell in earnest at Coney
Island and thousands still were unable
to get so much as footing on a sub
way or elevated train or surface car
hb'h'iVuS VI tic sbTdnueu ones TeIuC-
family set themselves back tire price of
taxicab ride in order to reach their
homes many miles away. Also big auto
trucks did thriving business. and the
pleasure automobiles winked their way
homeward in endless streams. For all
the departures. however. Coney at tho
end OF its greatest day still held thou
sands upon thousands, who slept on the
beaches. in Luna or wherever six feet
Of unoccupied sand or park bench could
be found.
17b Children Are Lost.
AS early as ! o'clock yesterday, after
noon 175 lost children had been brought
into the Coney Island police station
house by brow hopping cops. who re-
tained their good spirits under vast diff
fculties. And Coney, which always may
be depended upon TO lend an unusual
twist to everything, also had a lost hus-
band. woman from Chicago who re-
fused to give her name painted into the
station house In the afternoon to see IL
any fatherly policeman had led the miss
Ing Friend Husband in by the hand.
MY husband is IS years DID," the
woman told Detective Thomas Blake
when asked for description of her
wandering spouse. And you can tell
him. Mr.. Policeman. by his prominent
ears and rather large feet. II you
search him you will find he has all our
money and the railroad tickets"
At last accounts the Chicago per-
sonage was still trying to find room
for his feet at some point on the island
unknown to Friend Wife.
The hundreds OF thousands who
swarmed back into Manhattan and
q ~ 1ha Iat ..g-