The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1920-05-17
CONEY IS AS NOISY
ASEVER, BUT.LACKS
ITSKICK, THAZ-ALL!
Resort Reopens to Jazz and Z
Jam, Sprinkled With Two
Legged Hounds.

loot, toot-whistles; clang, clang!--
bells; zum, zoom. zim--roasting pea
nuts; swish, swish--skirts: slzzle,
frizzle, sizzle--hot dog; bow, WOW.
wow--other dogs; Scandinavian snin
hounds, the peal and squeal Of organs
in the carouseis, spielers, peelers,
girls, screams, shrieks, movies, side
shows, popcorn, Ice cream, crowds,
mobs, rowdies-one or two-trains,
trolleys, suoways; one straw hat run
ming along Surf Avenue, owner chas-
ing It, Mother Hubbard bathing girls,
bands OF music, witchlng waves,
switching women, and the great old
Atlantic, sleeping and snoring on the
beach--Coney Islandi
The only Coney Is again IN full
blast. The peoples playground was
open for the summer play yesterday.
and the play was pretty good for the
sdeshows, the merry-go- rounds, the
beach, Luna Park, Stauch's, Steeple-
chase and Somers Garden. They've
got the newest thing down at Somers
| Garden. a Jazz loving band. It's a
band of forty pieces, all ex-service
men; boys OF the army and navy, led
by 'Izzy" Cervone.
tzzy Us He) was an ensign and led
the band on the big transport Man
churia, which was captained by Skip
per Saunders one OF the daredevlls
of the roaring ocean main. Three OF
the band played with Pershlng's Own;
twV used to be with Sousa. There's
a cornetist who can make his cornet
neigh like pony and trombonist
who can make his slide horn laugh
like a human being.
Imagine doing a fox trot, or a horse
t7ot, and having a cornet neigh at
you and the trombone giving YOU the
horse laugh! Did 1t stop those girls?
1t did not. On and on, round and
round, up and down, hippety hop.
| sliippety scop-they had 10 nail the
tables down 10 Keep them from fox
trotting to the music OF that band
And the bandanen! Every one of
them with soldier Of fortune face.
A GRACEFUL MAGICIAN OF THE
BATON.
And oh, girls! the baildnaster-a
magician OF the baton and a ;relodic
, Adonis and more graceful than q
ballet dancer. George Wilson. the
| manager OF Somer's Garden. 10 going
to put up an iron fence around the
bandstand to-day. He's just as sure
that some naiad queen is going to
| steal that lad off to sea--ah we'll
! Icy Is used TO the fortunes Of war.
The latest attraction among the
! sideshows is Shevlin's flock Of Stan-
! dinavian sniff hounds. They're two
! legged hounds, don't bark, don't lun-
Just snoop and sniif-cellar dogs they
are with a wonderful nose for booze.
| The morning World a short time ago
/ published big scandal about more
! booze being on the market than ever
| before. Up to that time the Atlantic
| Ocean wasn't the only thing that was
furnishing the water for Coney Island
But. then the sniff hounds got busy,
! and now the island is another Sahara.
It's a cruel World.
The Steeplechase Is afleld in Al, Its
new glory, but Louis Luther Stauch
Is selling pink lemonade. Louis didn't
| sell much lemonade yesterday, but the
| Steeplechase got some play. Vol,
well, we'll! The indoor theatre, the
human pool, the whirlpool and the
slide. Boys and girls seem to think
that the only fun in life consists in
being tossed about.
But the girls don't have to Truss"
their pretty skirts any more, and It
may have been with an eye to the
high cost of living that the manage
mcnt has provided them with bloom
ers. Before the girls go into amy OF
the games they adorn themselves with
the bloomers and put the kibosh on
| the "Peeping Toms" II they didn't
wear bloomers--gracious! Tho way
they are 'whirled about, slid obout
and skidded about--well, 1t would be
a sad thing for them II they had holes
in their silk stockings.
WHEN ON THIS BRIDGE, WATCH
YOUR STEP.
| Steeplechase Is without a doubt,
| la. gely responsible for the big sale
in silk hosiery. There's another
place where the poor girls get it
the indoor theatre. When they cross
the bridge of sighs-zip there's a
| draught of air from underneath and
the girl grabs for her skirt and hat
at the same time and set OF howl
Ing dervishes turn loose a gale Of
shouts and laughter. The place Is
filled with screams and shrieks and
laughs and shouts.