The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-05-31
COMFY BEATS DRYS
BY STAYING SOBER
Crowd Of 10000 Tilts Old
Resort, but Only One Man
Falls From Grace.
FRESH FISH IN SALT POND
Five Cent Frankfurters Are
Doomed and Ocean Tempts
Very Few Bathers.

With patriotism approaching tender
ness and amid all that deep spirit Of
solemn reverence which the day called
for. coney Island stood on it's ear yes
terday, holiered and whooped. shot the
cEutss-and had itself pulled screaming
&c the tops Of those scenic railway"
devices where one drops. is catapulted
sixty feet Into the air again and leaves
ones liver at high altitude at tho In
slant Of being slammed to earth again.
Despite the confidence Of tho drys
that there viii be no more Memorial
Days on which Conveys surf and suds
will intermingle-not even another
Fourth OF July--no less an authority on
Coney's suds and surf than Alfred Felt
man told SUN reporter yesterday eve
ming that Coney Island was not worry
Ing about the coming dry spell because
there isn't, never was and therefore
never can be such a thing as prohibit
tion. From Coney's viewpoint the thing
Is unthinkable.
Doubtless among the 10000 or more
who tilted the ocean edge Of the island
slightly on end yesterday there were
thousands who, regardless Of what the
Coney restaurateurs and showmen
thought, believed they were spending
their last damp Decoration Day at the
island, Alphabetically speaking. and 80
one could readily understand It II the
visitors who jammed Surf avenue and
enyirons during the afternoon and night
set themselves about to get stewed. Lit
and plastered. But they didn't. Elk
plain as ono will, the crowds at Coney
Island this year stay all day and a good
part OF the night ana stu are able to
return to Brooklyn, Manhattan ana
points north. east and west with their
good conduct badges intact.
People Drink and Stay Good.
1.-The police records" proudly said ALI
Feitman. "are absolute proof that even
with the beer and other alcoholic drinks
running as freely as ever and then
some. people can drink and be good.
Three weeks ago we had the biggest
Sunday crowd the island has seen at
this time OF the year-and there wasn't
q single arrest made hero all that day.
Last Sunday the island was damned
again and only one arrest was made
among the tens OF thousands of pleas
ure seekers here. and that arrest was
for a very slight reason"
The visitor on the spur Of the moment
Joined the crowd and wandered into
Luna And the first outstanding fact
happened, upon at the entrance to the
big park was authentic news that Mrs.
Jcseph Drum Of 6 East Eighth street.
Manhattan. had caught a brook trout
Weighing two and three-quarter pounds
In the Luna Park lagoon during the fore
noon. or before the crowd and brass
bands and Buddie's Castle House Jazzers
ana the rest of Luna's disturbers had
orrSf tnh ", a1tfY1 NJ n
spoil the ny fishing.
In proof OF the fact that Mrs. Drum
had caught the brook trout In the park
lagoon 1t need only be said that Mrs.
DRUMS husband showed the reporter the
enact place In thu lagoon where the trout
had risen.
''But. listen. Mr.. Drum" said some
one, 'the water IN the lagoon Is salt wa
ter pumped in here from the meadows.
isn't it?'
Sure" answered Mr.. Drum, but
these Luna trout, We fnd, are particu-
larly fresh fish. They're so fresh that
their freshness counteracts all saltiness
In the water. In fact. no salt Is needed
In cooking them. Just pepper"
Wheels I'm Luna and Outside.
When II Is said that there was al
most as many wheels revolving along
the asphalt OF Surf avenue as there
were inside Luna one may get an idea
OF the number OF automobiles and near
autos that sputtered and chugged and
rubbed mudguards the length of Coney
during the day.
The Ave cent frankfurter has abso-
lutely disappearde from the island there
we're some to had there last year,
but now the uniform price Is a dime,
men, ten cents, then tenth paint OF a dol
lah; snd this despite the fact that the
new Cpney fodder. known as the Jelly
apple" and invented right on the island
by the emIatrt candy butcher. Johnny
Hoppe, has begun to back the hot dog
into second place even on Coney Island,
believe IL or not.
Still, there were hopeful signs De-
spite the ravages of the war among
the clam digging sections OF war
stricken New Jersey ALI Feltman and
his colleagues are charging only 20
cents for clam chowder this year where
as last summer the chowderers were
the fact that prohibition Is coming
apace-or may be because Coney insists |
there amt no such animal-the price
D; cocktails and hard liquors il not a
cent higher than last year. This last
Item the reporter learned at second
hand.
The sun blazed and the thousands
we're superheated. nevertheless there |
was no long line waiting for bathing !
quits at the municipal baths or the
ether bathing houses. A few hundred, |
mostly men and boys. did slosh and |
splash around in the rollers, but most |
Of the mon and more of the women and |
girls decided to sit on tho sand in |
fleir SUNDAY clofhaa