New-York Tribune from New York, New York • Page 21

Plan Huge Promenade Over aw-aw-awl aawlty-y! They're aw-aw-awl aawlty-y!" A You know that try. Ter now you do not re memb-r wl lis" yellower, greener, than any other lights can il build fairy Lights I ng with the pressure behlad i battering and booth and SsOrissg Th" dark It is driven Into Ika fsr back under at? is flung upward bodily when you look i gjiov of iron wheels on a Uta In the dis- lance goi gplpes with time and time. Still ssantly out of I 'nder the oth Bound that is not as but mon -the i rumbling MUttd thai 'rom the stir of a crowd. ci poun everjrwhen. it and "hot dOj Bd and warm human flesh.

We an- nudged from in front and trodden on from anap back at the of? laugh. But we i ovad. The Like it or lump it, or hold hands, my friends, the crowd bai i all re the atieet human herd I lulu and I of Portu at i ind. -y!" nd white bawls at table lied With a tlii. knife I mtty? The they a and thousands of them, row behind row like in th.ir rear I down from ii- flaring footlights.

tlantlc has refreshing for tired a 1 for- the t-r, i years, and we, if we aine out of our hu: look. I haps you bat: on a twsen pi- r. ou wslked Un lead to from the city h. i. ive tl eea, 'c' on in your hundn a then das i In till tl rlnoi of the 1 I that Ing.

i art ling scheme. 1 'hing 4 an avenue, to ataked doern the far fiom shore it ill be beyond the breakers, and so high air no wave can ever reach it. will atretch for more than a mile in ont of the centre of Island. his mi; 'tain. the un? xpt cted happens Will certainly reach westward a mile irther, to Bes Gate, at tl uthern it will anied th half mil? of i ark front to the ii the city can uad? to in Is work.

If not, it will Join the walk the sea wall, which the anon th clty'a prop? ty Brighton Beach, still rthsr a wall is ilng up along Manhattan peach. It ill with a which ill serve until II be later a footway and a boulevard. Manhattan Peach Impn la completed the shore will have pushed the flat tide lands most to island. Then the sum will five miles ol prom lade unbroken, faced full the t. from Up to of bland.

Ail this is surely coming. Already the are oui for the two main parts of work, th? boaruwalk prop? and the ich owm rs ol ach front, from Bteepleclwae Park, have themselves to walk and for it. i for foot in proportion to holdinga. Work In a month fir two. ow work, driving pllea In open but ho lana liev? a thai the of 'xt yeai the boardwalk A ctlon migbl I I if II nd the coining sinn? ier.

As i the Manhattan Beach do? elopment, thai is already Wort on the first atea wall. All this Is news for us who are I bl i taffy" that I i alt I iiii.k. it is ag id again we an al Cow island. Again star? at lights; we bawl to make inelves hoard; we step unexpectedly er (misplaced children; we nudge and nudged, and we follow tito crowd. Unexpectedly we come t-? a cross net i.ist year there a miserable lev too plainly dlsnputa to tempt us much.

Now it blasas ith light; Its booths ate larger, mm raner, and, in the swsggering Coney ON THE BOARDWALK IN BLUSTERING WEATHER. Sea Out Beyond Coney Island's Breakers This Boardwalk Will Be Wider Than Fifth Avenue and at Least a Mile-Perhaps Much More in Length, and Next Year, Maybe, Will Give Thousands, Wearied and Hot with Energetic Merrymaking, a Chance to Wander Out Across the Cooling I way, We might turn down here of our own but the has turned down already, we follow the "if a sudden we come to an end Of the. and there Is a of Ing undcrfeiot. The is brilliant, for lights hang across it In frateons, as they hang In avenue during the carnival. Now and again from WO hear the swish of waves falling on the sand.

Push np to the rail with me. Look but urn see it already. There is the ardwaik, stretched p.n enormous along sea. In this land Of ridiculous mfiKcbeufve we can think it is a silly great caterpillar, crawling in the on a mini nni by the tide. Then? must have been lightning in thai family, every hnlr on Ha monstrous back is apftngled with Are.

Rut this is only makebelievc. Really it is alive from Sttd to end. There, un? der the we can see a dark stream moving, moving steadily westward, as unintermittent as the westward set of the currents along this very Bhore. The eastward stream Is the other side, and so we catch only fUmpMS of it here and there. A closer look, and we can Sea and persons.

A girl In a yel? low dress stands out against the others. A drunken man gOSS by rks and halts along the rail. Befon we know it we are on the boardwalk itself. We thought we were frtandlng ami watching, and all the while the crowd was having its way and car rying us out with It. It has brought us an exact hundred yards from shore.

That is a long distance to watch a of sprinters in a race, but ben between tbs oosan ami the great lights it is only good elbow room. H. hind is the apiandor of Coney Islaml, with all its tnnsgnaslons hid? den and all its sins covered. It now as a city of wonderful light He fore Qeorge Ttlyou, only two men, Mil? ton and Saint John, saw a city. Befon the b-oardwalk, only .1 fa 1 fl I the millions who walked its ttreets evi saw it as wt all now.

The million cannot afford in steamers. ruer at band th- things that an worth wat. hing. The crowd isl the same Coney island crowd, saunter-' Ittgj flirtatious ami n.rvous. It amall Interest In the boardwalk Itself, though, like a true emueement crowd, it nd i to.

Ken Is sixty feel clear walking ipacc between the inner! and the outer rail, it is enough, but it be none too much for Sundays when the anger of th? dog is ua The a iocs underneath, fourteen feat below at low tide ami ten feet at Then ii never a curl in the waves, for they have two food fathoms wster be-! math them, it is twenty-two feet from I the planking to the sand at the bottom, and twenty-two foot wavee are not known in this part of the world. Bo long as the waves do Dol reach th? walk It aetf they run around the pllea as harm? lessly as they an running now on im aummer night DIAGRAM OF PROPO overhead there are lights in festoons Here is a boat swung over the rail on davits like a steamer's. It has the mark Of boardwalk lifesaving service on its bow. There is a bit of sand beach a.shore at this point and a few are struggling along the ropes in the light of a battery of orange lamps. The I "fit crew, two tall football men, lean the rail.

They have their let tered college blankets drawn around them, for the air is too for any one to comfortable in bathing suit. The air is cool, for a fact. It was in town; it must be the sea difference. We must move to the other side, and! at tin- Then it is, wide and ami silent. The breeze pours stead liy around fa? just as it ha3 1 into a hundred thousand other I all hours sundown.

All the sea was a thing to watch and wonder at; it is mysterious, dark. We must move on. NOW, all a the lights are tie. The boardwalk runs into the with a lantern or two to mark further end. The crowd has tliinm-l a its strength.

Put the rest! push on into and we follow crowd. Once the lights are out of our we see why they left the The ocean is worth watching by night, and they have given us our chance lights will not blind us. and for a long while. The hau tramped past us several limes, probably that I do not steal money you mine. We must not too much irritated With him.

A dark place this needs wabhing. It is time we Were moving, anyway. I think I a whiter place in the sky in and that th" is under it. Shall We Wail and watch the ninon come up? I i am good bul not enough to wat? moonrise over the water. There is time enough to-morrow, when the moon will be only an hour later.

You can bring her down then, and you two may watch it together with all hearts. und? the lights, we are in the crowd it is too to foUow the walk to the other end, we will go ashore beyond the Part the way there are shops SEO BOARDWALK. on the landward side. The board people have made a brave beginning keeping "barkers" away, and they havif. our best wishes.

roller chairs more plentiful In the eastward movlnaj' crowd, because so may people walked further than they Intended when set out. We meet many of them rolling' back empty. In front of their uniformed' attendants. Wa ought to sit down. Rut we do it on the boardwalk.

That la my one complaint, my fric they will not glvo us benches fronting tho ocean. Down on the Jersey coast there are)1 places, llko Asbury Park and Oceam (Jrove, where they do that much for? their guests. The boardwalk owners' say that benches would obstruet tha' walk too much. Between you and mo, they may want to get us Into their ho-! tels and beer gardens when wo want sit down and rest our weary feet Never? minil, tlM crowds may fool them by bringing camp chairs of their own, and sandwiches, too, and cake In bags and. drinkables in bottles.

All the space to landward has not been taken as yet, by any means. Ilerejl is another bit of bathing beach, will get surf as high as if tho waves had not run under the pier at all. Next to it a floating piledrivt-r is pufi fing and thudding, with its lights t-ring In tho black water under It. There Is need at night-and-day work: here, for they are to rush up a huga' hotel three hundred feet broad and, with a front half as long fac? ing the boardwalk. The lobby will run straight through it to the island.

I'n i math it there will be a swimming; set on the sand of the bottom, where ws can come in midwinter if we and get an ocean bath in a steam beated room. But yon I and the rest of tho millions do not want salt baths in Jan? uary. Ws want baths of salt air July and rest for oar eyes on open, lila? es where tin-re is a horizon and not a Skyline. That If the reason for tha We want nst for oar feet, And. if we clamor hard enough, its Will be provided j.ay seats at one penny each.

DOSS all this sound too to Il ij fsoher fact BIRD'S-EYE VIEW OF THE PROPOSED.BOARDWALK FOR CONEY.ISLAND?.