New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-07-04
100000 Crowd
Coney, and All
w ant to Swim
But With Bathing Accom-
mediation for but 100, 600
Many Are Disappointed;
Only One Arrest Made
Throngs Seek Relief From
Heat al Every Breathing
Space; One Prostration

Coney Island had its biggest crowd
of the season yesterday, estimated at
more than 100000 Almost every one
who went to the resort wanted to go n
bathing. apparently. but there were ac-
ccmmodationa at the lighthouses fo-
only about 100000, and after standing
in line for hours the others gave il
up and tried some other form of amuse-
ment
Long before dawn a line began to
form in front of the Municipal Baths,
West Fifth Street and Surf Avenue.
and at o'clock, when the doors were
opened, more than 1000 persons were
waiting. One woman, who insisted on
pushing her way to the front of the
line and who told patrolman who ad-
m onished her that he ought to be catch
ing burglars, was arrested on a charge
of disorderly conduct.
That was the only offense that the
police discovered among all the crowd
of nearly half million throughout the
day. They found an extraordinary
number Of sticky-faced, lusty-lunged
lost children, however, and more than
100 of them, whose parents were not to
be found anywhere in their vicinity,
were taken to Coney Island Police Sta
ton.
And They All Cry at Once
There they were placed in the care
of Policewoman Rose S. Taylor. Mrs.
Taylor spent twenty-five months over
seas as nurse, and thought at times
that it was far from being an enjoy
able experience, but there was many a
time yesterday when eighty-seven or
Lightweight of her charges burst into
disconsolate bellows that she wished
she was back in France working nine
teen hours day on short rations,
At the West End Terminal and at
the Steeplechase Pier, where the boats
of the Iron Steamboat Company stop,
there were constant throngs from dawn
until midnight. In the rush to get off
a Sea Beach train at the term NAL, Mrs.
Jessie Kickel, of 1853 Stanton Street,
was pushed into a gap between a car
and the platform, and her right leg was
broken. She was taken to Coney
Island Hospital
So large and turbulent was the crowd
on the Steeplechase Pier at O'Clock
tnac the reserves were<sent there from
the Coney island Police Station in re-
Spouse to an urgent appeal for help
from the company.
Mrs. Sarah Lanzon, OF 2936 West
Twentyfourth Street. Brooklyn. was
knocked down by ar automobile at Mer-
maid Avenue and Twentv-fourth Street.
The motor st drove on to the sidewalk
in his futile efforts to avoid her and
crashed into the show window OF n
drug store on the corner.
Life Guards Rescue Woman
Backing his car out of the mess of
talcum powder, soap and perfumerv, he
drove away, and although the scent
was strong when the police arrived he
was not caught. Mrs. Lanzon was able
to go home after receiving medical at
tention.
Margaret Quinn. of 664 Eighth Ave
nue.. Brooklyn, got beyond her depth
while bathing at Wards Baths, Jones $
Walk, and was rescued unconscious by
Samuel Barrows and Irving Bernet
life guards. With the help of Patrol
man McGuirk they revived her and she
went home
The first case of heat prostration to
be reported at Coney was that of Re-
becca Koeniger, thirteen years old, who
was overcome yesterday at S1b Park
Place, where she is visiting. She was
attended by an ambulance surgeon
from Coney Island Hospital Her home
is at 80 First Street, Manhattan.
Fully ten thousand persons slept on
the beach last night under the guard
OF patrolmen especially assigned for