The New York herald., 1922-09-25
silt TURNS CONEY
into BEAUTY BEACH
Pumps Send Forth Sub
stance That Costs Sl.2o a
Smear in Barber Shops.
CROWDS DAUB III ON
Lie in Sun as Gray-Green
Mess Cakes Upon Them
After Mud Baths.
WRINKLES QUICK TO GO
Filling In of Sands Makes
/ Clubman-Follies Girl Lux
ury Free to All.
WRINKLES QUICK TO GO

Thomas Kent Worthington. visit
Ing Englishman, solemnly doing"
Coney Island yesterday as an episode
of his American tour, satisfied himself
in ten minutes at the foot of West
Fifth street in that hurly burly OF ex-
travagant diversions that there was
much truth in the report that Amer
fcans are all mad-"quite balmy, il
you get what I mean." Even entire
understanding of the phenomenon that
caused Mr.. Thomas -Worthing-
ton to stare could not put him entirely
In the wrong.
He saw ENTHUSIASTICALLY hundreds
of men. women and children in bath
ing costume flocking eXcitedly at the
joints of the great silt pumping pipe
which delivers daily $4,000 cubic yards
of sand, silt and salt water from the
far out ocean floor to the newly form
Ing Coney Island beach.
He saw them fairly struggling for
handfuls of soft, smeary. blackish sub
stance which oozed constantly from the
joints of the pipe: saw them daub the
stuff upon their foreheads and faces and
chests and arms; saw them regard them
selves In hand mirrors with pleased sat-
isfaction, and saw the stuff slowly dry
ing as it caked upon them in a gray
green mess. giving them the appearance
OF devils that hadn't been cooked long
enough. Mr.. Thomas Kent-Worthington.
strolling along the beach. observed prob
ably 500--doubtless many more-of
these strangely afflicted humans reclin-
ing in the sun in attitudes which enabled
the smeary coating to dry quickly and
evenly. The sight was too much for an
nglishman--almost too mach for an
Irishman.
The facts are that Coney is now a
public beauty parlor on A grand scale
mud messages free TO a,f corners Cor al
No more than 10 cents when purchases
from forehanded endors)--freckles ano
wrinkles eradicated by nature with ths
help Of the Arundel Corporation, Balti
more corporation engaged in rounding
off and filling in the new beach which
Is to go with the new boardwalk. Some
body discovered that the curious soft
the sea bottom. along with sand, as ma
terial for filling was the same stuff. oil
mighty similar, that Tony the Barber
plasters upon the face of tired business
men Just before they head for the Fol-
lies; the curious stuff that. in drying
turns a queer green and stretches the
skin tight as a drum. getting rid oi
wrinkles for a few hours anyway. Since
that discovery was made there has beer
az much excitement off the foot of West
Fifth street as IL a gold mine had beer
located and claims were 10 De had for
the taking. Some young men and lot
OF middle aged to elderly men have beer
giving the silt great play. and women
customers, largely of that indeterminats
age which puts a premium upon tact
have appeared by scores to daub them
selves quite frankly and to lie upon the
sand to await the restoration OF youthful
bcauty-the skin you love to touch.
Vendors were selling the stuff at ter
cents a ball. ball of smeary, blackish
mud about as big as a baseball
Patrons bought. retired to their owr
square yard of beach. smeared them
selves thoroughly and lay down to
dream Of reappearing with the appear
ance Of those young chaps you see In
the collar ads. Robert Adler. one oi
the dealers along the beach, said thai
business was booming. Frank Sanzone
barbor. of Moneys Court introduced i
into his shop practice at cut rates such
treatments costing from rs cents tc
$1.25 in the Broadway barber shops
Everybody seemed to be pleased ano
prosperous except the beachcombers OF
Coney. those who begin in the early
fall. as the season closes to ransacF
the deserted beaches for rings and other
jewelry and for cash that had been lost
by bathers and loungers. Some OF thes,
prosper highly at this queer occupation
one man having. II is said. earned the
price of a small truck farm at II anc
another Paddy Coogan. preferring II q
the humdrum business OF housemovins
at SO a day. Their complaint is thai
the silt and sand being pumped in are
covering their private Go.conda and
that in a little while lost rings and
money will be buried several feet deep
They are talking OF going to a lawyei
to get an Injunction against somebody