Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1933-09-14
ETHIOPIA TO HAVE
ITS C0NEY ISLAND.
Prince, Thrilled by Visit to
U. S. Amusement Park,
Sponsors Project.

Merry-go-rounds, roller coasters, OLD
mills. Ferris wheels. popcorn stands
and swimming pools are in store Ior
Ethiopia (AbySSinia), in the heart OF
Northeastern Africa. So delighted YES
a prince of the royal house of Ethiopia
with the thrills afforded by a New Jer-
sey amusement park during his recent
visit,to this country. that he announced
his decision to build a similar play
ground in his native land.
Amusement parks, in one form OF
another. have long enlivened the out
skirts of great metropolitan centers In
both Europe and America. and the sale
of amusement devices. CONNECTIONS, ana
souvenirs has been an important item
of trade" says bulletin from the Ma
tional Geographic Society.
Coney Worlds Busiest Resort.
"During the latter part of the last
century and early in this century
amusement parks sprang up all over
the United States. Nearly all OF them
were reproductions, big and small, OF
Coney Island. Today, practically every
large city in this country has Ferris
wheel-land where thrills are built to
order and frivolity is king.
"Coney, a small island in the borough
of Brooklyn, about miles long and
from l.. to ;, of a mile wide. is the
most famous amusement resort in the
United States. The island. as the en-
trance to New York Bay. was one OF the
first landing places of the early Dutch
explorers of New Amsterdam.
'Steamboats began making trips TO
Conev Islands beach from Manhattan
in 1910. the steam railroad In 1873.
and, since the city's subway system and
modern highways were extended from
the heart of New York City to the
sesshore, Coney Island has become Oe
world busiest resort. AS many as
million merrymakers, equivalent TO the
entire population OF city the size Oh
Rome, Italy, have thronged Coney on
a single Summers day. Most OF them
come to swim or to walk the Board
walk, but hundreds of thousands pa
tronize the various amusement booths
and concessions.
"Other hundreds of thousands OF New
Workers in search of pleasure go to
Rye Beach, on the Sound. ana 10
Palisade Park, whose amusement de-
vices flash their myriad lights across
the Hudson from the New Jersey shore
Chicago Fairs Midway.
observation-disclosures are not surprised
whsM diplomats and Government clerks
Join the nightly throngS at Glen Echo,
the glittering realm Of escape for the
Nations Capital Baltimore has its
Carlin's Park. Philadelphia its Willow
Grove. while busy Pittsburghers man
age time for a jaunt to nearby Kenny
wood Park or to Westview.
"Chicagoans. in addition to their
ever popular White City attractions,
this year have the Century of Progress
midway. with two of the most ex-
citing roller coasters ever built. St.
Louis has several amusement paris.
one of them being Forest Park High
lands.
In the Far West Ocean Beach, in
San Francisco, dispels the occasional
gloom of sunny California and Venice
and Ocean Park render the same serv-
ice for teeming Los Angeles.
Paris and Berlin both have their
Luna Parks, where circuses, shooting
galleries and sideshows demonstrate
their perennial appeal. Viennese pie