The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-07-29

to six, all dressed in their pest and perspiring uncomfortably.
 Of course, a few New Workers do stay around, but they either barricade themselves in their apartments or go to an aircooled movie house and stay hidden until after dark. It is always a great mystery to a city dweller just what anybody sees in his town on a weekend and why visitors in- variably pick the stickiest day for their excursions.
 The English are supposed to have the reputation for being the most persistent week. -enders, but New Workers do all right in this respect.
 The broker of Wall Street flees the heat before anybody. He hops aboard his power launch at the foot of the East River Friday night and goes whisking up the Sound to Larchmont, Glen Cove or Greenwich. Very frequently he commutes via boat every day and one or two economic royalists reach their estates by seaplane. DETERMINED TO
 ESCAPE CITY
 The Saturday afternoon crowds are in the middle income brac- kets. They make up the first heavy contingent of holiday seek CTS and they load up the trains to Far Rockaway, nearby Connecti- cut and Long Island. Fisherman who will rise at 5 a. m. on Sun- day to go tuna fishing off Mon- tauk oPint, weakfishing on Pe- comic Bay or grabbing in the Great South Bay are off for a good nights sleep.
 New York is next to every where. The Sandy Hook boat that leaves Manhattan every few hours drops its passengers on the sandy beaches of New Jersey. Lit- tie cottages, inns and lean-to's profit by the grim determination of millions to escape the heat. The Mountains - that chain of foothills known as the Catskills -gets its weekly quota of stenog- raphers, stock clerks, office boys, salesmen and theatrical agents. CONEY ISLAND
 STILL A MECCA
 But by far the largest percent age of people who get out of town do so for one day only Sunday. This is the day when the BMT is packed with families wearing bathing suits under their clothes on their way to Coney Is- land and the two-and-one-half square feet of sand 1t will be their lot to occupy. There the boardwalk will be crowded with joyous kids driving their faces with frozen custards.
 The motor car owners are the most frequent visitors to Jones Beach, which is inaccessible to the subway crowds. It is beauti- fully handicapped and with the whitest beach in the East, the trimmest most nautically dressed attendants to pick up scraps of paper and the most sanitary chromium plated drinking foun- tains.
 As far as we are concerned, week-ends are best spent climb- ing the Palisades on the Hudson's opposite shore. There is always the chance that a rock might give way and a picnic party's hard- boiled eggs turn out to be scranl- bled. Also, when a = weary of week. ending, a slight climb will bring the picnicker to the top of the Palisades, road and a con- venient taxi which can take hin right back to town. Getting away from New Yorl is really a personal problem. Wt know one gentleman who ha! what he calls his Country Es' tate" on West 10th Street in thu Village. It faces a green bacl yard, is haded by trees and ar awning and for some reason Il cooled by breeze while the res of the city is gasping. Promptl! on May he closes up his apart ment in the 70's and retires to thu estate. He enjoys the unusual ad vantage of being in the city ant no having to come back to it or a Monday morning.