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14 THE BROOKLYN DAILY SUNDAY, JTKTE 7. 1898. line clean and wholesome, and this, together with the regular hours and pure air, produces a wonderful change In the boys' physical condition. With Thomas P. Cable, in 1S75, was the first hotel of importance from ito location at the ter rlders, to say nothing of the Midway Plais ance, the double dip chine and the bicycle race track, where bicycles of standard make are provided for all desiring to scorch on the 1,000 foot run.

The machines are ranged in rows, each being separate, and the speed attained is determined by the ability of the rider. A gratifying feature of the development of 1896 Is the fact that the entire shore front is building up rapidly. From the point at which the business section terminates Surf avenue Is lined with an unbroken continuity of hand eomo cottages, extending to Sea Gate, beyond which the evidences of improvement are even miore marked and significant. Upward of $250,000 will be expended In buildings at the West End during the season. The cottages "lu the Sea Gate section are eight thousand dol this Improvement the military drill has much to do.

It gives them a carriage which tney would not otherwise attain In months. Tho drill tho boys all seem to enjoy, even the youngest of them. Tho officers of thes two companies into which they are' divided are members of the. school and the knowledge of tactics displayed by Ihcm Is certainly remarkable. Some day it is tho Intention to provide them with make believe guns so that they can learn the manual of arms and become as proficient in that as thoy now are in marching.

Half an hour's instruction in music Is given every day and a large part of tho afternoon is devoted to wood worR and drawing. The boys cut pieces of wood into figures after models, making bracko's, toy sleds and such things with considerable cleverness. They sing as well, if not better, thau the ordinary lot of boys of their ago In the public schools. A favorite piece is a "Cuckoo" song, in which three singing and one whistling solists take part, the entire school singing and whistling the chorus. Miss Bardon has charge of the manual training.

Not only do the boys make articles of wood, but they also, in their spare moments, embroider table mats and darn their own stockings. Mr. and Mrs. French believe that busy hands are less likely to get into mischief than those that are not occupied, and tho youngsters take kindly even to the darning of the stockings. When a boy by good behavior has earned bis discharge, the authorities do not at once cease their watch over him.

Every week he is required to report at Mr. Maxwell's office with a card, showing what his record in the public school has been. It mustnot be supposed that no time Is allowed the boys for play. They have their outdoor games like other school children. On the first Sunday in each month they may receive visits from their parents or friends, and on the second Sunday In each month a Morrell.

the toll gntberer on the Shell read, greatly shocked the town folk, who bo minus cf the new Culver steam read, which was opened in 1S7S, on Gravesend avenue, a thoroughfare opened, regulated and graded by the taxpayers in the early seventies. All that now remains of the Cable house is in the rear of the present Doyle hotel, adjoining the Culver depot. The large structure occupying an entire block, conducted by Charles Feltman, gives no suggestion of the humble beginning of its proprietor, who came to this country in 185C, and long worked in a grocery and on a farm from 4 A. M. to 10 P.

for the trifling pittance of $3 a month and his board. Despite small wages be. managed to save enough to become a baiter and supply Coney Island caterers with bread, pastry and ice cream in Ibo early seventies. He next secured for a year's lease of William Hock's shanty, which he fitted up and ran at a handsome profit during' 1S7 I. The Ditmas property, now the site of the Sea Beach palace, was leased In 1S73 and conducted with equal success.

Later trains were secured and many improvements effected, among which was the innovation of seaside concerts by Wannamacher's Seventy first Regiment band, to which vocal music was added the next season. In 1S76, Paul Bauer, the tragic close of whose career Is still fresh In the public mind, after six years' service In the United States army, from lS63.to I860, secured twelve acres of ground, on which the West Brighton hotel was erected. To the remark of his wife that Coney Island was the worst place she ever saw, the Indefatigable replied that it might be made the best. The undertaking was a success from the start, and in 1886, the proprietor undertook the extensive scheme of the West Brighton casino, a structure of which the great fire of last year has left nothing but the ground. The opening of the Culver road was followed by the Brighton Beach In 1879 and the Manhattan Beach line In 1880.

An incident connected with the last mentioned enterprise may be recalled with interest. A wealthy New York banker, who had been recommended by his physician to give his young child the benefit of the sea air, at John J. Snedeker's Oceanic hotel, the old Coney Island house, was so pleased with the locality that he asked Mr. Snedeker It any property could be bought there. The latter responded In the affirmative and a tract at the east end was forthwith purchased.

The property thus acquired became Manhattat Beach, a spot which now needs no description. The late W. A. Engeman purchased the Brighton Beach property in 1S6S. calling it the Fair grounds.

Ten years later, Jacob Lorrllard secured from W. A. Engeman a lease of water front, upon which the iron pier was erected. From this time forward and following the construction of the above mentioned railroads, to which the New York and Sea Beach was subsequently added, improvements were continually made from season to season until the Coney Island of to day was established as the consummate result of this process of progressive evolution. The observatory, which was a feature of the Philadelphia exposition was brought to the Island through the efforts of Mr.

Culver. Thus has it come about that the old stretch of sand, less than five miles long, varying in width from a few hundred feet to three quarters of a mile, and separated from Long Island by a tide creek, half artificial and half natural, connecting Sheepshead and Gravesend bays, has become the scene of this extraordinary development. It all comes from the general desire for pleasure and recreation. Early In the century Brooklyn was popular as a place of country residences. From the beginning it was the home of farmers, fishermen and pleasure seekers.

Coney Island Is thus only a reproduction of old Brooklyn. Its existence led to the building of the various railroads to the seaside, which was so built up with suburban section districts that Coney Island is now of more consequence to Brooklyn than Brooklyn is to Coney island. Happily, both the older city and Its water side suburbs retain their old time charm and attractiveness for outside visitors. Perhaps this is the reason why the City of Churches is called Miss Brooklyn. She is so inviting and draws multitudes to spots along the sea, which afford so much pleasure and benefit to the visitor.

May the agreeable maiden long retain her proverbial and Irresistible attractiveness. The Eaglo has obtained opinions on this subject from three well known men, who all agree that the inauguration of the 5 cent fare has had a great effect upon the development of the suburbs. Tho men in question are P. H. Plynn, ex presldent of the Nassau Electric company, and a large suburban real estate holder; Henry A.

Meyer, president of the Ger mania Real Estate and Improvement company of Flatbush, and Percy O. Williams of the Eergen Beach Improvement company. Mr. Flynn said: "It is very bard to estimate the effect reduced fares have had upon the growth of the olty or the amount of increased valuation on suburban property that has followed the adoption of the 5 cent rate. Approximately, however, suburban property has already increased 25 per cent, since the 5 cent fare went Into operation last year and this is only the beginning.

The building and the population have also Increased in proportion and this means that within the next ten years the population of Brooklyn will be very nearly 2,000,000. It means that Instead of people dwelling In rows of houses, flats or tenements, there will be a class of detached dwellings built here, which will take up a large number of lots for that purpose. This building will naturally take place In the suburbs and will be entirely attracted there by the transportation facilities offered to the residents and the cheap fares. The effect upon suburban property has already been shown In all the outlying wards of tho city, which have been opened up by new railroad lines. These are being built up rapidly and as they are made more desirable and less of a wilderness they will be built up even more.

"Values all along the lines of the Nassau company's routes have gono up and especially In the suburban districts. This Is true to a great degree In Canarsie and on Ocean avenue lots which before the road was opened were selling for $1,600 now bring $2,500. Canarsie lots which sold for $150 are now worth $700 or $800, and in Flatbush and Bay Ridge the same In values prevail. And where are we to get the Increased population that Is going to build up these suburbs? From New York, of course. In any part of Bay.

Ridge, for instance, a lot forty five minutes from the city hall Is worth $400, and yet a lot over an hour and a quarter from the New York city hall is worth $4,000. The Bay Ridge property is more desirable in every way and with transportation facilities and a cheap fare, people will see this and will be willing to live there so long as they find they can havo easy communication with the center of the city. Yes, I think our suburban districts ore going to build up rapidly owing to the 5 cent fare and the increased transportation facilities." Henry A. Meyer said: "Cheap fares to Flatbush have done a great deal already for this section of the city, but nothing in comparison to the boom which must necessarily come. There are no sections which offer more convenient advantages than do the Twenty ninth and Thirty second wards, and where one can find so many points of interest within such a small radius.

With cheap fares one is able to go to Prospect park in five minutes, Manhattan Beach and Canarsie In fifteen minutes, and Ulmer park and Fort Hamilton in twenty minutes. It is also handy to the shopping district and about thirty minutes from the bridge. Since the cheap fares have been iu stitutod on the lines running to Flatbush mere houses ha been erected in Vandeveer Park than in the two years previous. I am a great believer in cheap fares and the adoption of the 5 cent fare In Brooklyn will have a most beneficial effect upon our suburbs. To show how much I believe in cheap fares I will sav that when the Brooklyn Heights railroad was" about to extend its Nostrand'avenue line to Flatbush avenue, the Germanla company, in order to expedite matters, opened that part of Vandeveer Park north of Nostrand avenue at an expense of over $8,000 and held out substantial inducements to the railroad company to continue their Nostrand avenue line to Flatbush avenue, and to take off the extra fare on the Flatbush line.

While tails was a heavy expense we were substantially rewarded as we did the blggestbuslncss we ever did before during the summer months. I can confidently prcphesy that, with the natural location that Flatbush has, coupled with the cheap fares, the city will pivot around this section in the near future." Percy G. Williams expressed his ideas as follows: "I am an advocate of cheap fares rn our system of local railroads, and think that since the 5 cent fare was started our suburban districts have grown more ranldlv than ever before. Of course I caunot speak with confidence to reference to all districts, but so far as Bergen Beach Is concerned I will say that If It were not for cheap fares Bergen Beach would never have been ooened. Our experience with the 5 cent tare "so far this season has been most satisfnetory.

especial aB It broueht us last Sunday some 50,000 visitors. Since the cheap fares were inaugurated the building of cottages in this section has Increased steadily, and we expect it to continue to grow." A CONSPIRACY and, commonly known as the West End. This fact as well as the five cent fare charged for going to either section of the Island, tends to make this system one of the largest factors In Coney Island transportation. This Is due. In a great measure, to the large area of population reached by the lines of this company and those leaccd or controlled by it.

It was In October, 1805, when this company laid a double track road from Churclf lane, Flatbush, through Ocean avenue to Sheepshead Bay. On April 4, 180G, It leased the entire system of the Atlantic avenue railroad company and has since connected many of that company's routes with its own Ocean avenue line, making it now possible to go over the line of the Nassau Electric company from Broadway ferry, via Marcy avenue; from Fulton ferry and the bridge; from South ferry, from Hamilton ferry. Thirty ninth street ferry and Fort Hamilton to Sheepshead Bay and Manhattan beach. Since the leasing of the Atlantic avenue system the Nassau company has also completed Its line through Eighty sixth street from Fifth avenue, connecting with the Brooklyn, Bath and West End railroad, reaching thereby the West End cf Coney Island. To accommodate the increasing number of people who are desirous of using these routes but who have been turned away on account of an insufficient supply of cars, the Nassau company is making arrangements to increase their rolling stock and has ordered altogether, this season, 600 new open cars.

These oars are to be of the best possible make and the most modern design and as each car will have ten rows of seats, it will hold comfortably fifty persons. Of the elevated connections with the Island only that of the Brooklyn Elevated company Is and Is running regular trains to the West End over the tracks of the old Culver route. Ten cents each way Is the fare charged, and up to date the company has been doing a satisfactory business and on a Sunday has carried as many as 30,000 passengers. The Kings County elevated's connection will be completed about the middle of July, when It will be prepared to carry passengers to Brighton Beach for a fare of 10 cents each way. The Brooklyn elevated's connection with the west end of Coney Island Is made over the old Culver road by way of the Thirty sixth street loop used last year to run this' company's trains to Manhattan beach.

The trains land in the old Culver depot in Coney Island. An effort is being made to make this route popular with the residents of New York, who take the Fifth avenue trains at the bridge and are landed in Coney Island twenty minutes later. People living on tho other lines of the road the Lexington, Broadway or Myrtle avenue ride down town to Bridge street, where they are transferred to the Fifth avenue line. Although this route has been open for several weeks and the business has been very good, the officials of the road expect to see It doubled when the height of the season is reached. This company is also completing another extension to Its system, which is a most Important ono and which will have a great effect upon the development and growth of Bay Ridge.

This is the extension of their Fifth and Third avenue line, which now stops at Sixty fifth street, to Fort Hamilton. A large force of men are now engaged upon the work of building the new structure, which will be completed and ready for use this summer, probably in August. A large amount of opposition has delayed the Kings County Elevated railroad's connection with the Brighton Beach company at Franklin avenue and now that the latest legal obstacle, In the shape of a suit to prevent that company from building across Lefferts place, brought by a resident of that street, has been decided in favor of the elevated company, the work of construction Is going ahead rapidly. Through trains to Brighton beach will be run at regular intervals as soon as the connections are ready and the fare will be the same as is charged on the Brooklyn elevated. Special trains will be run as far as Parkville.

during the winter as well as the summer months, and a 0 cent fare will be charged. This will be a great accommodation to the residents of that section and is expected to have the effect of booming the property for residential purposes. While the connections between the two roads are being built tho Brighton Beach Railroad company has reduced its fares from 25 cents for an excursion ticket and 15 cents for a single fare to 10 cents each way. In considering the present popularity of the suburban districts, as shown by the increased value of the real estate and tihe steady growth to population and In residential and business property, too much stress cannot be laid upon the importance of the system of cheap fares now in operation upon all the local railroads. Although the extension of the railroad svs tems to these suburban districts would ultimately have the effect of developing them, yet ohis growth has been quickened and enlivened to an extent that almost amounts to a boom, by the Inauguration of the five cent fare.

Outlying districts which have been almost cut oft from communication with the heart of the city are now reached by direct routes, and the cheapness of the tariff for this transportation has made them desirable for residential purposes. All suburban districts have been affected, and their growth, which began with the installation of the trolley in 1892 and 1893 has received a further and greater impetus! one end of which has not yet been seen. Real estaite values In all of the suburban districts have steadily advanced, and building lots by the hundreds and thousands have found purchasers, many of yhom have since become residents. Bay Ridge, Bensonhurst, Fort A Lake as Round as a Dollar. THE TRUANT SCHOOL OUT on Jamaica avenue, opposite Enfield street, surrounded by spacious and well kept grounds.

Is a three story brick structure of decidedly Imposing appearance. This is the truant school, one of the several institutions managed by the Brooklyn board of education. Formerly It was known as the truant homo and was under control of tho board of aldermen. But that Is another story. The local educational authorities came Into possession of the school by act of the legislature on July 1 of last year.

Every day since has recorded some improvement there and by tho end of the present year the board ex GEORGE W. FRENCH, pects to have an Institution worthy of the city. In the old days the school was a place of confinement for young criminals who were committed to It by the several police justices. To day none of that class is admitted. The worst that can be charged against any of the inmates is "playing hookey," an offense to which they were driven, according to tho unanimous testimony of the youngsters by the conduct of their teachers who were one and all "too sassy" for endurance.

The average number of boys confined in the school during the present year has been seventy five. In age they range from 10 years to 15, most of them being about 12. They are, on the whole, a bright lot who were never sub MRS. Q. W.

FRENCH, MATRON. Jected to proper discipline at hotoe and upon whom, therefore, the restraints imposed in the public schools are irksome. They are given to understand when they are brought to the truant school that good behavior Is the only key that will open the door for their release and as a result they soon become models of deportment. Superintendent of Public Instruction William H. Maxwell takes great Interest in the school, which is the special care of the attendance committee of the board, comprising Messrs.

Max Brill, Jome3 B. Bouck Samuel R. Seottron, Frank L. Babbott, John Har rigan, John J. Colgan and George E.

Nostrand. Says Mr. Maxwell in his last annual report: "The committee on attendance have, since October last, labored asiduously to make the truant school a reformatory In the best sense of the word. They found the building in a neglected and filthy condition; the dormitories without ventilation except by the windows, and with sleeping accommodations specially designed to promote discomfort; the bathing facilities not only deficient but bad of their kind; sewerage in a horrible condition; dlningroom cold, damp and cheerless; the school room devoid of everything required for effective school work: the food given to the boys of a miserable kind, while the table of the superintendent and servants was loaded with luxuries, and the discipline harsh and cruel. To get rid of all these abuses requires time, dfsrrprl.m nnrl a rrtaT, ,1 1 tJ, able amount of money.

Much has already beea accomplished. The buildings have been thoroughly cleansed. The sanitary conditions have been Improved, though they cannot be perfected until connection Is made with the city sawer system, which will In a few weeks from the present writing be extended to the neighborhood. The dormitories have been provided with effective ventilating apparatus. The school rooms have been furnished with proper books and teaching apparatus and the teaching force has been changed.

A temporary hospital, in which cases cf sickness may bo isolated, has been constructed. In all of this work the committee has been ably seconded by the principal and matron, Mr. and Mra. iree Fr6ncn whom it appointed, and who are proving themselves worthy of the trust." Chairman Brill In particular devotes much time to the school. Mr.

French, the principal, was for a long time head of No. 66 which is situated on Osborne street In the heart of Brownsville, and his experience stands him in good stead now. He. knows how to talk to boys and very seldom finds it necessary to resort to other than moral Bua slon to make them behave. Immediately on arrival tho boys are sent to Mr.

French's office and told Just what he expects them to do and what they must do to earn their liberty. Then they havo their hair cut, are bathed and. dressed from top to too In clean uioiiies. inose mat tney wore to the school are washed and put away until tho boy Is discharged. Mr.

French grades thom according to their ability and never puts them In a higher class than he thinks they will be able to stay in when they return to the public school. There are three teachers In tho school, Jennie M. Chase, Lillian Burden and Joseph M. Shochan. At o'clock In the tho morning the boys arise.

It takes them until 7 o'clock to wash and prepare for breakfast. At 7:30 they go to the dormitories and make their own bods. From 8 until 9:30 they have a military drill In tho big yard adjoining tho building. Their Instructor Is ox Sorgeant George Boyse of tho Marlno'corps. From 9:30 to 12:30 they spend In the class room.

At tho latter hour thoy havo dlnnor, From 2 to 5 they are in school. Supper Is served at .6 and at 8 they go to bed. The food is, of xourse, plain, but I' li WALLACE BRUCE'S HOME those who ask of Wallace Bruce, popular and picturesque poet and lecturer of this city, where Gets his inspiration, he Invariably replies: "At my winter home at De Fumiak Springs In Florida. Do Fumlalt is a place that Is yet to be discovered by the many. It Is situated In pine belt half way between the state capital TalahaEsca and the gulf of Mexico.

The Adliondacks of Florida, the region has been termed. It 13 300 feat above sea level, on the pine crowned spurs of the Blue Ridge, and it is famed for its fragrant breezes. Ia the center of De Fumiak is a round lake, mile in circumference and around it a landscape gardener has laid out streets la concentric circles, while from shores of the lake avenues radiate like spokes of a wheel. Many families Hying in summer in the Northern states havo bul'lt fine cottages here and move Into them in tho fall. Dream cottage is the name the poet, Bruce, has given to his winter home.

He owne forty acres of rolling land covered with all the fragrant tree growths of northern Florida and situated near bis Dream cottage. From a state of nature Mr. Bruce has constructed a fairy park, with miniature lakes, tumbling cascades, waterfalls and fountains. Scattered about in pretty nooks are pagodas, where the poet is wont to woo the muses. On all sides are quaint rustic benches and tyifiTmnMiUiii.miiiL..

i.iil chairs Jor visitors to the retreat. Mr. Bruce has Inclosed this park and given it the name of Alpine, from his mother's name. Mary MacAlpine. A model of the Parthenon at Athens has been built by Mr.

Bruce a8 an attraction for the Alpine Next year Mr. Bruce promises not only the arches dedicated to science, literature and art, but also the golden gate. There was a dedication of the Parthenon not to the heathen muses, as might naturally bo supposed from Mr. Bruce's favorite pursuit, but the Christian ethics as voiced by the Chautauquans. Mr.

Bruce read a poem written for tho occasion and suggested by the fifty fourth chapter of Isaiah. It is as follows: LIFE'S TEMPLE. Stretch forth the curtains, lengthen the cords. Widen the' temple, strengthen the stakes. Broaden the portal, let down the wards.

Hark to the song: that century wakes: Banish the sorrow, the care and the night Scatter the roses and sprinkle the light. Instead of the briar the myrtle shall bloom The fir tree shall spring; In place of the thon The earth creeping: nettle and bramble give room To dew laden roses that gtladden the morn. Out of the darkness, the chill and the clod Rl.ses the blossom that whispers of God. Temple. Onward and upward the song: of Brighter the noontide and higher the 'sun Though sect like prisms unravel the ray, And creeds are many, our prayers are one.

Swing back the shutters and let in the light Banish the sorrow, the care and the nlghtt Ifipe for the toiler and Joy for the throng! Hark to trilling of airs from above Tear down the pillars rust laden with wronft See in yon he avens the wide dome of love, "Do Unto Others," oh, brother of mine, "Inasmuch as Ye Did It," ah, precepts divine! List to Ills message, the vineyard is here, The moments are speeding, respond to the hour Give us a hand, spread sunshine and cheer. The sunniest heart Is the worid's sweetest dowf. Though cedar may nourish and Jaamlne twine. All passes for naught till the soul Is a shrine. So stretch forth the curtains and lengthen the cords, Widen life's temple and strengthen the etakee Broaden the portal, let down the wards, Hark to the song that the century wakeB.

Banish the sorrow, the cure and the night. Scatter the roses, sprinkle the light. As for the town of De Fumiak, on the circle and beyond Mr. Bruce's Alpine park are the white halls at the state1 normal school dormitories. Continuing around the circular street there are to be seen several hotels, fronting the lake like a little Venice.

There are no liquor saloons In the place and tho hotels have no bars. The air Is never really cold, neither Is it every hot. When It rains In De Fumiak it rains hard for dayB, but after a three cr four inch fall, It require but an hour for the broad board walks to dry. As for the soil, it was formerly considered 111 adapted for farming, but recently It has been found that it Is capable of producing aa abundanco of every variety of fruit and vegetables peculiar to a semi tropical climate. The pine trees that stand on the borders of the lake are giants of the forest and they stand like sentinels guarding the lake.

Nowhere else is the deep russet and emerald of the fragrant magnolia tree more abundant. Live oaks and water roals arc on every hand; the holly bush hlds up Its scarlet Werrles and nods invltlngl' to the passerby. RN OLD APB'S STR.1TE&. Used the Babies as a Mean; of Catting a Good Meal. In the Transvaal some of.

the fruit gardens are niuoh exposed to the ravages of large synocephallc apes, ard a gocd guard has to be kept or tho results of long labor would be lost. In some pf these gardens grew certain shrubs, which are much affected by wasps, the Insects liking to attach thereto their nests. These wasps, though Email, have a very venomous sting. Baboons have often been noticed eyeing with envious glances tho fast ripening fruit in ono crrlain garden, but feared to (gather, for fear of attracting the wasps One morning the fanner heard terrible qrlos and. with the aid of a gocd Held glass, hfe witnessed the follow ing trairedv: A large, venerable baboon, chief of the band, was catching tme younger apes and pitching them Into Jthe shrubs, weroupon hung the wasps' nefcsts.

This he repeated again and again, In snilto of the most cries from his victims! Of course, tho wasps assumed the dofensltt In swarms. During this part of the porftormance the old brute quietly fed on the fiJ ult, deigning occasionally to throw ragthecatary remains to some female and young babaupns a little further off. Westminster BudgetNi lar structures, surrounded by picturesquely attractive grounds, access to which is made pleasant and easy by Che streets and avenues, which have been regulated and curbed and flagged. A stage running from the i Culver depot conveys cottagers to and from! the dock at the point, whence the steam vacbt i Invicta transfers them to and from the Battery. A pleasant indication of the season's busl Bess is seen in the fact that the six Sundays during which Mr.

Tilyou has been opened show a net result equal to that of the entire month of July last year. Messrs Doyle, Feltman and 'other island business men speak In the same I rein. I The elephant, In his lofty solitude, silently contemplates a prosperity which he does not snare. Every effoTt to utilize the huge structure profitably has hitherto failed. The venturesome FhlSedelphians who built it a dozen years ago labored under the Idea that there was "money In the elephant.

In this they were right. There was money In It $175,000, in fact, but the money was In so tightly and securely float no one has been able to get any of Jt out again. The money Is there yet, and it is safe to say will remain a permanent investment. Mr. C.

A. Bradenburgh of the Ninth and Arch street museum gave his time to the elephant management in 1SS5. Those days Philadelphia boasted of a bartender famous as Che miser of a powerful potation known as cyclone punch or liquid blizzard. Tradition has it that there were only tihree men In the Quaker city who could surround a blizzard without succumbing, and Mr. Bradenburg was one of this remarkable trio.

They used to say that pertiaps he had encountered a second cyclone following too closely on the heel6 of Its predecessor when about to undertake the elephant enterprise. You only see the when you are outside and pay nothing Those within it see only floors, walls and stairways, and in these points one building looks very like another, and. after ail. seaside visitors want the open air. Hence the failure of a well stocked bar, concerts and other forms of amusement to draw a crowd within the elephant gate.

Passing along the inner line of the deep indentations made in the shore by the waves at and since the time of the destruction of the famous Ocean concourse, the eye encounters the old familiar strip or vacancy and sand which serves as the grand divide between West Brighton and Brighton, and which serves only as a passageway for pedestrians, stages, trolley ears and the Coney Island elevated. That noth.ng has been attempted where so much might have been ac complishod, arises from the city's ownership of an Intervening strip extending inland from the water front and made over to the munlci pallty of Brooklyn by the late Wl'Ilam A. Engeman, upon the express condition of its being utilized for park purposes. Up to date the city has confined its activity to accepting the gift and erecting a small pa villon with a few seats and a watering trough for horses near the shore. Even intelligent precaution for the protection of the beach against further incursions of the sea have beon neglected and the shore line remains undisturbed simply because nothing has happened.

At Brighton there is a hubbuD of well directed activity, under the management of Superintendent John Y. Fitchett. who is now entering upon his seventeenth season at the middle beach. The hotel, like its more easterly neighbors, the Manhattan and Oriental, has needed but little attention to prepare It for the summer. This is the third season for the proprietor.

William O'Connor, who is anticipating an excellent business. It Is the bathing pavilion, however, which is the scene of notable Innovations. By June 20, the date of the simultaneous openings of the Brighton and the Oriental. Colonel Fitchett expects to nave his new bathing pavilion ready for use. When finished, it will contain 1,008 bath rooms, including a number of hot salt water baths for the accommodation of those who prefer this form of ablution.

Of the two floors comprising the structure, the upper will be devoted to women and the lower to men. Two peculiarities of the pavilion will bo a popular price restaurant and the absence of a bar. The management decline to accept the Raines law with Its sandwich proviso and consequently have not and will not take out a license. Just what will happen when the tide of travel to and from Manhattan Beach) is cut off by the closing of the marine railway, it Is difficult to say. Whatever the event may be.

the Manhattan Beach company is preparing for a resumption ci traffic by putting new bumpers on the marine and otherwise placing thelktlcroad water in first class shape. If it succeeds in confining the Nassau traffic merelv to those desirous of going to Sheepshead Bay and thus forces the West Brighton travel into other channels, it will score handsomely. But as to all this, we must wait and see. Over the fence to eastward In the exclusive bailiwick so long associated in the public mind with the grand concerts of the lamented GUmore and the pyrotechnic achievements of Pain, everything is ready for midsummer: lawns ana nower beds are receiving their finishing touches and the Manhattan is waiting for the influx of guests which always marks i ut) approaca juiy ana hotter weather. Over at the Brighton race track everything has a look of business about it.

The diminutive form of A. H. Battersby, so familiar to Brooklynites, is very much In evidence as ho supervises the preparations for the summer meeting, which inoiude the erecMon of a new grand stand. The management, which of late, has. like Jennie, been waiting till the clouds rolled by.

Is now impelled by a buoyant hopefulness. They feel that racing is on 'the eve of better days, and that 1S9G will bo a grand success. Apropos of the decline of which race track interests have experienced during the past few years, it is interesting to the circumstance that the projectors of the Coney Island Jockey club track at Sheepshead Bay, when about to Inaugurate that turf enterprise, offered the late W. A. Engeman a million dollars for his Brighton Beach property.

It is now intimated by those who e'alm to knenv that the same property could be purchased for $450,000. As to this, however the latter does not speak under oath. A stroll along the beaches reminds vou of a belle feels that her charms are" waning and that something must done to retain her old admirers. Such widespread sprucing up was never done before during the jump from one season to another. And when vou think of it, Miss Coney Is a mature damsel of maflc hcr 10 waterside lovers in 1844.

In that year, when so manv of us were still to be born, Messrs. Eddy atui Hart er ct ed what was known as the Pavilion or the point at the westerly end of the islau'd. This initiative improvement was followed by the erection of bathing houses and other improvements on the spot, which soon known as Norton's Point. One or two hotel enterprise were then undertaken with varying success o.iiu a. siwai ranroau (wnicn was part stage line), as well as a horse road, were built between the Island and Brooklyn.

Three voars Jeter Dr. Allen Clarke and Judge JoSn Van oerbllt built two hotels, which speedily became popular. Both, however, mot the fato common to seaside structlres and were burned down In the course of a few years. These enterprises led to the building of the Brooklyn Bath and Coney Island railroad, at the terminus of which the place of the burned ho'els was supplied by the Tivoll. erected by Stephen H.

Bogert. This popular house duplicated the success and history of Its predecessors and ended In ashes. After the horse cars began running down the old Coney Island road George Green's restaurant was established at Jts terminus. Unfortunately, the cloud which as a legacy of the. colonial days, affected all landed titles.

In the extreme westerly section of the island, precluded all Improvements, and forced the development which beyun at tho point three miles further east. The late Mrs. W. H. Vanderveer, whose surviving husband, still conducts the well known Von deryeer house, began before the running a confectionery and fruit stand on the piazza of the old Neptune house, the profits of which business, subsequently enabled her to "erect a dozen bathing houses on the beach, since identified with her name, which number was in 1875 Increased to seventy five, and to two hundred In the following year.

In this same year the Vanderveer house was built and the Island began to be largely visited. This state of things pre sented an interesting contrast to the earlier times, when Gilbert Hicks, Henry Brown, tbe Van Slcklens and Voorhies families were theonly inhabitants, and the coming of Aire hundred vehicles on a single Sunday noted by Daniel 11 il 11 fil concert or other entertainment is given for them. Another building is badly needed to contain dlningroom, kitchen, lavatories and dormitories. The present dormitories could be turned into school rooms, work shops, gymnasium and drill room. Were accommodations provided it is.

believed, that considerable revenue could be derived from the school, the law permittingplaces, which do not have such schools to beard their truants In placo3 that do. Applications have' been received by the local authorities from a number of the smaller cities of the state to take their truants, but for lack of room all had to be refused. About all thai Is left to remind one of the old regime except the poverty of the furnishing is a marble tablet In one of the halls. This bears the following inscription: "Truant Home. Erected A.

D. 1870. Martin Kalbfleisch, Mayor. John McGroarty, Peter Tat its L. Guck, Burdett Stryker, Michael Campbell, Building Committee, Common Council.

tractors: Thomas Seery, Mascn; John Norton, Carpenter; Felletreau Hahn, Plumbers; Taylor Stryker, architects." While the aldermen were in control about $25,000 a.year was spent for the heme. There may have been $3,000 spent legitimately on the institution, che rest was eaten up in di The rides and providing "good times" for the al dermen, who made It their headquarters on Sundays. There were some lively scenes enacted there If only half that is told is true. The boys were ill fed and abused, and it is doubtful if one of them ever left the Institution any better because of his confinement there. Very different is the tale to day.

Mr. Maxwell says: "Those who have been feeling their way to the right management of this institution have often tried their experiments with fear and trembling for tho result. They are not without evidence, however, that their experiments havo been reasonably successful. Since February of the present year about twenty boys havo been conditionally released; that Is, because of apparent reformation they have been permitted to return to their day schools as long as their attendance is regular and their deportment good. So far, I am happy to there has not been a single case of backsliding.

Miss Augusta Beck, principal of No. 88, says of one boy: 'Since his return to us he has been a satisfactory member of our Principal Harding of No. S3 says of another boy: was a bad boy, a bad truant and not diligent in his work. I want to say that I regard the influence exerted over the boys at the truant school as the very best. has assumed an erect carriage the result of the military trajning he received; his manner Is more respectful, while before he went there it was Principal Stcbblns of No.

77 says of another boy whose record has been very bad: 'His record of scholarship and deportment Is good for the time that he has been in attendance Principal Murphy of No. 30 speaks of another boy as being 'regular in his attendance, well behaved and studious since his return. Principal Dunkly of No. 16 says of still another boy: 'I take threat pleasure in stating that his record with' us Is excellent. He is regular and punctual in attendance, studious in his habits, and In deportment, beyond If tho truant school does for all the boys committed to It what it has done for those above Its Influence, both reformatory and detorrant, will be most bonoHcent." WHAT WE SEE ON THE STAGE.

Speaking of gowns, there has been a young woman at the National theater this past week who possesses something, which is Infinitely rarer on the stage thau histrionic abiljty. She has a genius for dress. Now, anybody on earth can be stunning in able to standalone brocade cr overwhelming In nine yards of satin court train, but this young woman's gowns were muslin for tho most part, and as slmplo as could be. I knew at least six girls wtoo mean to copy one of them. It was a thin white affair, worn over pink.

It had black dots on it and a black gauze ruffle at the foot of the petticoat. It had a cape collar, edged with a pink ribbon frill and a black gauze ruffle. At the waist It was belted in with a wide pink satin belt, with a big bow In front. And then to finish all there was the one touch that might have done credit to a Parisian mllliuer. A narrow black ribbon went round the waist was fastened behind, not by a bow, but by a rhltio stone buckle, so that Its long onds hung to the frock's hem.

Washington Post. DIDN'T EVEN NIBBLE THE BAIT. It was a pretty little love scene the picture they were looking at, and tho title was, "The ollfl, old story." "What. Is the old, old story?" she asked, artlessly.) "Oh, I reckon it Is something about getting robbed by the umpire, or something of Che sortV be answered. Indianapolis Jour nal.

rW lllil'lli'llh da i T5 ri II .11 fl'l III II 0 nAQIC FIVE CENT FARES It is a well recognized principle that the greatest factor in the growth of a community is the transportalon facilities offered to the public. In a city so large as the City of Brooklyn, where the distances to be covered are great and the traveling time between different sections of the city correspondingly long, the truth of this principle is felt with multiplied force, and any application cf it in the shape of increased or cheaper transportation facilities affects the entire city, not only in the increase of residential and business buildings, but in a widely diffused development of material and industrial prosperity. Its wealth grows as its population becomes larger. Any change, therefore, either in Increased transportation facilities or In the che aper coat of travel. Is of the greatest importance to the community, not only in its Immediate effects relating to the personal convenience of residents or visitors, but of tar greater benent in its ultimate effect of building up new sections and increasing taxable value.

All of which tends to enrich the city Itself as well as its inhabitants, and, by increasing its resources, to make improvements possible. It opens up new fields for business enterprises and finds remunerative use for the additional wealth thus created. During the past year Important changes In the transportation facilities between the outlying suburban districts and the heart of the city have been made with, the most beneficial results. These are already plainly evident as is seen in the activity of suburban realty, which, by the way, is the only active real estate in the market to day, and almost exclusively attracts the attention of speculators and investors; the increase in the building operations and the steady and rapid Increase in the suburban population. Although a portion of this growth Is natural, it Is mostly due to the increased transportation facilities offered by both the surface and the elevated companies that the suburban districts of Brooklyn are having their bocm.

These increased facilities consist of the opening of new lines of travel, a system of transfers on the surface roads which makes It possible to reach almost any section of the city for one fare, and, last, but not least, the establishment of a uniform fare of 5 cents upon tne trolley lines. I Of the transportation changes which have been made or about to be made those affecting Coney Island are the most important and are expected to give the quickest results in the i wjy of attracting the public to the seashore during the present season more than ever be fore. Although last year the season on the island was. In the main, a bad one, it is expected from this present outlook that this year will be one cf the mod prosperous, if not the st prosperous, ever experienced. With new routes, extra accommodations and reduced fares, such swarming crowds of vis i iters are expected to be carried to the island i daily far the next three months that at the end of the season a balance on the right side of the ledger will greet the eye3 of the happy Ccr.ey Islanders and railroad Etock holders.

The changes which are expected to at tract these large crowds Include the run nlng of the Nassau Electric company's car3 i to both Manhattan beach and the West End, from all their various connecting lines In different sections of the city, and the ccn nections of the two elevated systems with che seashore, one with Brighton beach and the ther with the West End. With these additional facilities to the rail roads now running to the Island it Is confidently expected that the trip to seashore will I become even mere popular than it Is at pres 1 ent, both on account of the accessibility of the routes as well as the chea nness of the fare. Five cent3 is the rate on the Nassau com pany's trolley ll'nes and its popularity and drawing attractiveness has already been fully demonstrated during the opening weeks of the i present season. On Sundays ar. holidays, par I tlcularly.

the cars of this company have been crowded to an extent never seen before In i the surface railroad 'history of this city, and thousands of would be passengers have had to be turned away solely because It has been Impossible to furnlshi sufficient cars tfi 3cpfmmodn re rhe rh grows warmer the number of passengers seeking this route to the island will becotno larger, ami as scon as the extra cars, which have been. rJored, are put in operation, the lfil.440 separate f.ires that tbils oompany collected cn Its enf.re system a few Sundays ago may be almost The NassaiX company. In addition to running Its cars t.Sheepshead Bay, as It did last year, has alsownade connections so that It carries passengeu to the other end of tho lsl In Which Respectable Dogs Were to Be the Victims. Square Jawed and with a sinister trick of glancing out from under his eyebrows, tho boy who works In a livery stable looks a great deal like the bull dog who Is his pet and companion. Ordinarily the brute is unaffectedly plebeian In his appearance.

But he surprised the neighborhood recently by com Boys at Drill In the School Yard. lng out as clean as the most aristocratic pug and with a great bow of pink ribbon around his nock. "What In the name of common sense have you been doing with that deg?" asked the man who keeps the corner grocery. "Has he stopped fighting and started in to be a household darling." "Quit tigntlng," the boy echoed scornfully. "Mebbe he'll quit eatln' one o' dese aays.

When he dues I'll look fur 'im ter quit fightln'. What wus de name o' dat dero feller, long ago, dat whipped everyt'lng in sight and den sat down and cried cause dere wusn't no more vvcr.ds ter conquer?" "Alexander the Great?" "Dat's him. I'm goln' ter change dls dog's name from 'Bui' ter 'Alec' He's in de same fix. He's glttln' melancholy an' sour an' I've gjt ter do somethln' to help 'lm regain his bpirlts." "There are large numbers of dogs around here that he might whip, if he can." "He's showed every ono er dem what he kin do. Doy're ail so skycart of 'im dat dey'U put deir tails between delr legs an' run if dey sees 'im coinln'.

I ain't gut de slignte3' doubt dat day'll try ter bribe 'im by bringin' "im delr soup bones, if dey dared ter cume closte enough." "So you nave Just accepted the Inevitable and fixed him up to look like a decent, respectable dog." "Ye're wrong. I've got ter do somethln' ter keep 'im from pinin" clean away. So I got de scrub brush aa' give 'lm a bath an' put de ribbon around 'is nock in de hope aat his flghtin' qualities won't stand out quite sd plain. 1 know he feels Jus' as 'shamed u' dat pink ribbon as I do, but ho trusts me. an' re'lizes lis fur his own good, fra goln' up Inter de swell part c' town now an" see ef smo o' dem St.

Bernards or collies won't take blm fur a dude an' try tor lick Mm." Detroit Free Press. HOW HE FELT. Tho man who is alwayi complaining looked particularly doleful that day. "You Icok as though yeu had that tired feeling," remarked the solicitous frleud. "I have.

And I feel as It the tiro wore puncturedi Washington. Bteh tstiixmmmmMr 1 Hamilton. Canarsie and Flatbush and certain portions of East New York and. in fact, all of the outlying wards of the city have, through the Influence of these causes, grown wiiu iistouisning rapidity in the last two years. I An illustration of tho advance in values Ii i shown In Canarsie.

where property has risen several hundred per and where, last year. Park Commissioner Squler was obliged to pay $1,200 for lots that sold for $50 the year before. This, of course, Is an extreme case. uui it is not too mucn to say that the value of the suburban districts has advanced 100 per cent. In the last two years, and that their growth has been hastened at least ten years by the extension of the transportation facilities and the inauguration of obeap fares." The history of the 5 cent fare Is of especial Interest at this time and to the Nassau Electric road and to P.

H. Flynn. who was then president, Is duo all credit for its establishment In this city. When the Nassau company opened up Its first line to Canarsie in July, 1895. the 5 cent fare was adopted and Is now In operation on all the lines in the city.

The popularity of the new route and the new fare was so great that in the fall the same plau was placed In operation on the Sheepshead Bay line of the same company. Soon afterward the Brooklyn Heights Railroad abolished Us extra fare on the Flatbush avenue lino, and In February. 1SPG, the 5 cent fare went In operation on that company's Fort Hamilton and Bensonhurst lines. The next step In the history of the 5 cent fare was In May. when the Nassau company made connections with the Brooklyn, Bath and West End road by way of Eighty sixth street and Bensonhurst, Bath Beach and the West End of Coney Island were opened.

Previous to this, in the month of April, the Nassau had leased the entlro Atlantic avenue railroad system and by a system of transfers all sections covered hy all lines could be reached for a single 5 cent fare by the patrons of that road. The latest line opened to the 5 cent fare was that to Jamaica, which was put in operation by tbo Brooklyn Heights railroad about two weeks ago. Tbo effects of the 5 cent fare upon the growth of tho suburbs and tho Important results it will have In the near future are generally appreciated amomr the real estate men..