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THE BROOKLYN DAILY EAGLE. NEW YORK. THURSDAY. MAY 15. 1913.

SURF BATHING IN SUMMER ON CONEY ISLAND SHORES if MlIf il THE JENTZER BURIAL CO. Undertakers and Embalmers Every Convenience for the Burial of the Dead FUNERAL CHAPEL ON PREMISES 2875 West Seventeenth Street Opposite Church TELEPHONE 1893 CONEY JACOB C. JENTZER, Esq. Chambers' Central Drug Store SURF AVENUE (Opp. Culver Depot) The Most Artistic Drug Store in the World.

ALDERMAN POTTER'S TO HOLD MARDI GRAS THIS FALL AS USUAL Coney Comes Into Its Own Improvements That Will Transform the Island Into a Wonderful Resort. TO Six Famous CANDY Stands 0L0 PARK New Spring Carnival Will Not Replace Older Gala Event. (By Ch. It. Ward.

Chief K.itlr nt tk lUtotlyn Typographical Boreas) ILOWLY, but surely. Coney is comin? into lt o'n. I Island OLD DREAMLAND SITE oaeati. There la no section of tbe bor-ouirb wbtie. as many streets were opened In sveli thmx length of time.

Tw are xiutracts now under way for the rtsoUi'ui. grading, setting of curbs acd Irving of sidewalks on many of these streets, e.ui before the season is over Within tha past few tionti.s the initial steps bava been BUSINESS MEN IN CHARGE. AT CONEY ISLAND taken toward the realization AUTO ot improvements that will traniform the Island into the greatest resort of Us Features of All Sorts WUi Vary Routine Amusements During tha Entire Season. kind in tbe world. The assurance the boardwalk, which has so long been held up, will be built in the near future, is one of the WATER FEATURE NIGHT most important improvements.

While the ultimate plan to be adopted, has not been there win undoubtedly be contracts let for the physical improvement of all tbo Coney Island streets in this Bection. The history of the boardwalk agitation dates back to the first year of consolidation of Greater New York, when the Board of Public Improvements took up th matter with considerable vigor, not only favoring the boardwalk, but also a waterfront park. In 1908 the matter was again favorably considered by this board, but no action was takon other than referring It to a select committee for further investigation. Since then the project has been growing in popularity and the present committee has held many conferences with interested persons, repre OME people have an idea that the Spring Carnival itarting today at Coney Island is to supplant the annuil autumn Mardi This is not the case, however, ra Hotel Phone, Coney Island Restaurant Phone, Coney Island Gray's Hotel MEALS SERVED AT ALL HOURS aud when the windup of the season WILD WEST (Q 10 c. TO ALL 10c.

Positively No Other Charges comes about there will be the same big I carnival that has proven so popular ini past years. There will be no special Mardi Gras decided upon, tha fact that most of the property owners want a boardwalk, under one plan or another Is a hopeful sign that before long all will get together and clear tbo way for this lmprocment. The action of the city authorities In appropriating the initial sum toward the reclaiming of the beaches, is also significant, and it is reasonable to expect that before long the great projects for an occanside park, the Gravesend ship canal, adequate railway terminals and Improved streets will be put through. Committee this year, as the Citizens Committee which is looking after ths present carnival has been appointed to run the affair. This committee, which was the outgrowth of the Coney Island Business Men's Association, is composed Ballad Singing and Ragtime Piano Playing Contest STAUCH'S CONEY ISLAND Thursday Evening May 15 senting local associations, boards and property holders.

Tbe recent adoption of the plan enlarging Seaside Park by including the Dreamland property has given the boardwalk proposition Increased Impetus. It now seems a necessary part of the shorefront development. The Gravesend Ship Canal, 2ft0 feet wide, extending from Gravesend Bav to Sheepsheid Ray, is iso practically assured for the near future. This matter has been temporarily held up upon the request of the Army engineers, as thev believe that if this canal Is ever destined to be of any Importance es mi entrance to Jamaica Pay, It should be. 100 feet in 1527, Coney Island Discoverer! 'Tis Said, According to the old records, Island was discoverad in 1527.

visited by Henry Hudson. In of the leading men of Coney Island, and I has i large membership. After the car-1 nival of this week and next week spe-1 rial events will be held at least onei Coney It was 1665 a Cor. Surf Av. and West Twenty-second St CONEY ISLAND day during each week until the close of the season.

Arrangements have been made various steam railroads, and on these days there will be special excursions with reduced rates. Durine some of charter was obtained from Governor Don-gan securing the island to the Town ot Gravesend. Its name at this time was Cunny Island. It has two lnletB through it, making three Islands. The first, at the eastern end, now tho Manhattan Beach property, was known as "Sedge Bank Island;" tho second as "Guisbert's," or "Johnson's Island," extending from a point between the Brighton and Manhat To Dance and Dine tbe weeks there will be two days de voted to special features and on eacn A NEWMAN'S Delicatessen AND Lunch Rooms SURF AVENUE Near Henderson's Walk, CONEY ISLAND.

of these days all the amusement re eort3 will make arrangements to ac c-jmrnodato big crowds. Telephone 1178 Coney FrankJ.Byrne Contracting Engineer Power Plants. Steam and Hot Water Heating Ventilating. OFFICE: 1429 East Seventh St. Mid-wood, Brooklyn.

Open All Year wide instead of 200 feet. New Railroad Terminals Important to Coney Island. Another Improvement which is going have a wonderful effect upon the growth and prosperity of Coney Island, which has not been considered to anv extent, that is, the new raihoad terminals to accommodate the new rapid transit lines entering Conev Island. The tnglneers of the Topographical Bureau have been working several months with the B. R.

T. engineers In endeavoring to the present street system to provide adequate means approaches to the proposed terminals. These new transportation lines will require tho opening of Stillwell avenue to Surf avenue. We are also considering plans for extending Mermaid avenue to Ocean Parkway and across Brighton Peach to connect with the Oriental Boule- ADMISSION FREE There are to be numerous aeroplane exhibitions and several balloJU ascen WMHHUKiHaaUEl tan hotels up to Paul Bauer's, where the Piney lulcl was located. West of this Inlet was Piney Island.

At one tlmo it was much larger than it is now, and was well wooded with cedar and pine trees. There are several old maps of Coney Is sions. It Is now being planned to get the War Department Interested and to send army airmen to try their skill in dropping bombs tram aeroplanes on to land iu existence besides the United States Coast Survey maps, made in 1835 and 1S53, and a study ot these maps shows illimhiirrirrV a continued and consiutsrauie cuauB, the deck of the replica ot a gunboat in the Bay off Coney Island. The Citizens Committee of Coney Isl Telephone 1148 Coney Island It. contour.

JllttllJIUUl 5 VI Reports on record show that Piney, or the western end of Coney Island, extended and has been made a permanent miu, no Heacn. This ex tension of Mermaid avenue will he aization, and it Is proposed to run both feWfTirrrVV1 Wl" spring and autumn carnivals every year, a reiier street to Surf avenue, bes den. miles out to sea, baa niga ouues or bbdu billB near the coast and was well wooded Ladies' and Gent's as well as to provide special features making and fertile on the Gravesend siae. uuis-berfs. or the iniddla island, was quite direct connection from Sea Gate to Oriental Point, on Manhattan during the midsummer months.

Depot for Zimmcrmann's Celebrated Frankfurters. Heach. sre also considering plans James A. Nelson is president of the fertile and furnished grass for pasturage to the Gravesend people. It was divided into thirty-nine lots, the original number Furnishings If I install your steam plant, your house will be as William 0.

Ferris' Silver Dollar Hotel Kister is rice- tor extending Neotuno avenue to Ocean organization. Frederick W. president. William J. Ward i3 treasurer, snd Charles Sehlffmann is secretary.

as in of patentees in tne oia ion ui uma-end It had similar dunes along its sea-front. Sedge Bank, or Manhattan Island, was covered with sedge grass and was of warm in Winter Summer. faraway and connecting Sheepshead Bay road with It. One more improvement, which I consider would be of great benefit to Conev Island, Is the removal of all encroachments ftom Surf avenue and the intersecting streets. Surf svenno in i Agent for the W.

L. I i no particular value. Hnno-lac Xhnne nnrl tlin Half of Coney Island Washed Away opened, at a width of 150 feet with CUBAN PACES FAST Makes New Record at Matinee on the Speedway. by Great Storm, OPEN ALL YEAR ROUND tvvw unit tiiv famous Manhattan and I Cluett Shirts, Truly War- ncr Hats, Interwoven, i Not-a-Seme, and Phoe- History states that during a phenomenal storm one-half of Coney Island was washed away in a day. Its high ridges of Dicker Hotel 60-foot roadway and 30-foot sidewalks.

Ten feet of sidewalk space is at present, In many cases, occupied by encroachments, ff iheso obstructions could be removed and the roadway widened, the relief to pedestrians and vehicular traffic on Surf avenue would be surprising. Similar encroachment a nn tho sand that had been piled up by the wind were leveled: its iulots closed, and a GALLAGHER'S 1 nix Hosiery. Bowery, Kensington Walk and straight beach left. Fortunately, this nort of storm does not come often, but fortoin conditions will produce such I Cuban, the Speedway champion, owned and driven by R. Sncdekcr, established new figures for the season yesterday when the Pleasure Drivers As3ociatlon held Its third matinee.

He paced a half mile in in the Boroueh of Manhattan, have been disturbances, and as we never know how removed during the past vear at a nnt Company SURF AVENUE, West 8th St. near they are at hand, It is necessary to Surf Avenue CONEY ISLAND, N. Y. Surf bet. Thompson's I and Henderson's Walks.

consider them wnen recommending improvements along the shorefront. The concourse lands at Coney Island 1:02, bettering his own record of 1:03 1-5 and beating Princess Evelyn's mark of of mlllious of dollars, but the outlav las been well repaid by the Improved condition of not only the thoroughfares, hut also the abutting propertv, with a correspenrtinrly substantial in'c'reae In realty values. I have no doubt that results on Surf avenue would he originally contained seventy acres. They for 1913, also made yesterday. The events of the day were interesting.

The hava a. sea frontage of 2,750 feet and LOUIS WARSHAUER I summaries: CLASS A. TROTTING. r.lTorl. b.

m. (Rillmi) 1 Hocy h. 2 uniform depth ot 1,000 feet. The shore-front has materially changed at the eastern end, and for a distance of over five hundred feet the entire park lands have hon washed away. An area of over as great and effective and that existing If.nnditions nl ng this main street of Coney Island should be remedied at once before other and probably more eostlv and nermanent encroachments are con- Succenor to DANCING Moving Pictures rhh-tv acres has disappeared at the east Tune, l.MV Time, l.tMV CLASS Ft.

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HAMBURGER CAFE RESTAURANT BATHING The Coolest Spot on Coney Surf Av. W. 25th St. Telephone 1458 Coney SAGAMORE HOTEL CHAS. J.

WEXUELKEX, Trop. to the west end. These lands are intersected on the north 6ide, near tbe center, hv tha renowned Ocean Parkway. This A QUICK LUNCH AT CONEY drive, 210 feet wide and miles long, with the concourse lands and improve OPEN ALL YEAR ments, cost approximately Jl.000,000. The Dates Open for Entertain mcnts and Receptions.

Phone 787 and 1570 Coney Island EVERYTHING FIRST CXASS -r I DONT FAIL TO HEAR THE 1 1 ICH-CLASS PROFESSIONAL TALENT AT TOM SHARKEY'S William Hickey, Pianitt Iriih Reels and Jigs a Feature. THE remaining portion of tlie concourse land? aru alono worth many times this amount, and several million dollars would not compensate for the loss of these thirty acres of ahore property. The concourse was partly Improved and opened to tbe public in 1S76. The improvement consisted of a beach, concourse made of bituminous concrete run-ring the entire length of the oceanfront, 100 feet wide, for carriages and pedestrians. It did not prove very durable, as In 1SSI it was not fit to use and had to be replaced br a new covering, at a cost of $30,000.

It was located about five hundred feet from the northern boundary. This concourse was protected on the Bhore aide hy an Inclined asphalt surfacing 3 feet thick and about 18 inches wide, buried In the sand to low-water mark and connected wilh tbe edge of tbe concourse concrete. It protocied the concourse from being undermined by the waves when they came from the front, but proved useless when attacked obliquely at the side at the east end. During the slorm which prevailed on November 24. the ocenn face of the bi COLONIAL HALL 30th St and Surf Are.

CONEY ISLAND, N. Y. Near the Ocean and Sea Gate AMERICAN AND EUROPEAN PLAN. Under New and Efficient Management A new, clean, high-clas Family Resort, "NASSAU" Cafe, Restaurant and Moving Picture Pavilion SENATE HOTEL Surf Cor. W.

16th St. OppnnKe Mtecplerliaat Vark, CONEY ISLAND, N. Y. HlilMU Till: KIUDIKS VM) KSJOV THK SHOW StRF A COR. STH ST.

High clans accommodation for per manent and transient enrsts. for select people only, where fust-class food, large airy rooms, hot and cold running water, electric lights and all conveniences for absolute comfort can be obtained. tuminous concrete upon the embankment Rettaurant and Cat I of the corn-nurse was carried away for a END TERMINAL Thirty -ninth trft Ferry Cars Stop at hu Xoor G. WILLIAM NEUMAN Sort and Mlllr-rell t'OMSV JSI.AAD TOM SHARKEY, Prop. Your patronage is respectfully solicited.

MAX MILLER, Prep Telephone, 344 Coney Island NOW OPEN FOR SEASON. WM. C. ME1NCH Electrical Engineer Jackman's ISIDOR B. EHRMAN Real Estate Specialist in Coney Island Property Cor.

West 3d St. and Neptune At. SiK'kent 1 2 dr 1 1 i Ci'I'leon, b. m. 1 1 length of 250.15 feet In widtn at tne eastern end, Several schemes were adopted in an endeavor to save the remaining braeh front, but owing to the fact that, the Park Department was unable to secura a sufficient appropriation properly to protect thrs property, these schemes failed.

Engineers Club Offers Prize for Reclamation Plan. The Brooklyn Engineers Club, through the goiieroeity of Alfred T. White, has offered a prite to (he enslner who submits the best plana and specifieatiomt for the most economical method of reclaiming the lost, acres of ocean front. There are forty-eight, contestants entered lu this competition. They are scattered all over this rountry and Canada.

The Topographical Bureau will watch this contest, and there Is no doubt It vill be the means of developing a rational scheme for reclaiming thia beach property. Great progress has been made during tho past two years in securing the needed street improvements for th West Eud Sc-clion of Coney island. The city now has title to all the streets extending from street to Wejt Fifty-seventh I 1 lime, i CI TfiOTTtNG 9 -mm inr uier Connor's New Empire The Only Theater on Coney Showing All the European and American Feature Films on an Electrical Mirror Screen BOWERY AND JONES WALK Chief Electrician for Spring Carnival And All Mardi Gras OFFICE 2938 West Eighth St. Coney Island BOYLE HEALEY Undertakers CONEY ISLAND Surf Arenue and 20th Street SHEEPSHEAD BAY Shore Road Telephone Connection b. s.

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RIEMER ARTISTIC PORTRAITS Enlargements a Specialty. 2855 West 20th Coney Island. THOMPSON'S WALK ar.d trim Neptune avenua to the I.