Year: 1870

While the unhappy denizens OF so many European
Cities are given up to unhealthy excitement lust
now with all the horrible fears OF invasionand ra-
pine and the scarcely less demoralizng passions Of
gmdictve triumph and general tumult, II must be
gratifying to the patriotic New. Yorker to witness
the effects OF true edem0cratc-republican government
as it Is exempided by the dcmeanor OF our citizens
every day in the week ard particularly on Sundays
As the warm freside OF a sheltered home on a cold
winter evening affords a double sense of comfort
ana peaceful security when is conscious that the
storm without innicts its rigors ON hundreds OF
less fortunate mortals struggling in the
darkness, so the tempest or horrors now
raging in the Old World only renders the happy
masses in New York capable OF realizing the bless
,ngs of peace ana prosperity at their true value
and OF enjoying themselves accordingly. Sunday
with honest working class Is not only the Sabbath
ol worship, but the holiday Of enjoyment also; and
while our churches or all denominations are mu-
eca with the hymns or the godly-gven In the
morning and again In the evening, the sunshiny
hours Of the day find the outskirts OF the great city
alive with swarming thousands OF our hard-handed
population who wait for the only day that is theirs
by human and divine law to rush forth from the
heated city into the pure air. through the woods and
by the sc ashore


The inland villages, the nondescript enclosures
called "parks" in our suburbs, were heretofore ex-
fensively patronized by Sunday pleasure seekers
more extensively thar they are now or can hope To
seashore has opened a new and nealthiul source of
enjoyment for our working classes, and they have
mot been slow TO embrace every opportunity given
them or spending the day oil rest on the shingly
beach and IN the midst OF the salt they
tumble up the slOping shore. Thousands VINO for
merly toasted themselves under a breezeess atmos-
phere III the 'parks'' or boiled themselves in bad
lager on the stOop OF some ''hOel' in dirty subur
ban village now, happily, betake themselves on
q
There luxuriate in the cool breezes and blue waves
of the Atlantic. Coney Island mas become highly
popular as


WATERING PLACE FOR THE MILLION.


IT e not place to spend every day OF three hot
months or one. month at wateringsplace need not
go to Coney Island. No accommodations for such
were specially created for the workingman Of New
York To take himself and his family there In the FORE
% noon OF holiday and come back with them In the
evening, cool, refreshed and healthy.


= At the gate OF Greenwood Cemetery yesterday
our reporter entered one OF two open street railway
cars which were attached to a dummy engine"
which, In less than three-quarters hour, trans
ported him and the cars to Coney Island The coun-
Try along the route was pleasant green, well wooded
and fair to look upon. The track was smooth and
even; but the Cars, though they suited the owner of
e III aHaneS 80 "a 1ha TO be
who were huddied together in quite dreadful way
every seat entirely 100 narrow ana no space at all
1of the ieet. The passengers themselves were va.
rious as they were numerous. Here honest and
decent looking Irish laborer, with his wife and har





looked down upon bya


N0BLE DRY GOODS CLERK,


WHO scornIuily tugged at cheap cigar and wanted
10 Dear striking rcsemolancet TO jim FISK, Jr. On
the next seat sat O pale but pleasant laced pair OF
young seamstresses trying to cut each other out OF
the good graces OF smart mechanic, who sat glo-
flOnsiy happy between them, wCle the other SIDE
an anxious mother held up the wan face OF her sick
child TO catch the cooling breeze. And SO the va
i1ety extended on to the back seats, where q num-
cer o overgr0wn boys chaffed one another III terms
fe1
gers. The "train'' stopped at depot
aorl formed BY M the side walls Of two large frame bqd
the track. From each pla door ied into either
OF the buildings. and at each door stood q man,
Wno with the assumed authority OF a railroad
official, bawled ont lusuiy, Passengers will please
pass out this way" Many OF the passengers-wno
picked as TO which door was the proper one to 20
through; but they finally came TO the correct con-
jim gaining the beach, when they discovered thar
each means OF egress led to liquor saloon, whose
wanted all to pass their way For two miles along
the COOL breezy, sandy beach the scene was cheer
ful and exhilarating Thousands of pleasure seek
erS were there, one nalf standing in


FULL DRESS ON THE DRY SAND,


and amusing themselves by watching the ludIcrOus
antics oi the other hal, halr naked In the water In
all the hundreds Of modern shanrie5. decorated with
every conceivable description OF bunting the lager
flowed freely and was absorbed rapidly by thirsty
citizens OF both sexes and all ages. Afew dlsrep-
utable and dangerous characters showed themselves
nov and then, and some three card monte tables
were up here and there In the shadow OF an old
bathing box but the latter failed miserably for want
OF flats, and the rOughs made no sign. A walk OF
some miles along the beach brought the reporter TO
the steamboat landing at the western end OF the
island where he found the swift little
her cargo Of ex-bathers. She had made Jnree
trips to the Island, ana the captain stated
that three more peaceable and gOod-humored loads
Oi passengers lie never transported out Of New York
TO any destination whatever. After delightful sail
mp the bay the pleasure-seekers landed on the
wharf at the foot OF Warren street, and all went
home thankful that they had spent their day Of
by the seashore instead OF in the hot city and feeling
refreshed and ready Tor the coming weeks toll