Show SLEEPING ON THE BEACH EACH Men Xen 3 1 Make ke Beds in the Sand Crowds at Coney Island on Hot Rot Nights New York Tribune Nearly a thousand bivouacked on tha sands Bands at t Coney CO fY Island last Jast night to es ec escape escape cape the intolerable heat of the city The thunder of th the was their lullaby and the sky Y their only covering From Front the iron pier to the ocean parkway the beach was covered with them sleeping in t the cooling breezes in i all kinds kinde of pos poe turn tures r undisturbed s by the h police Wc There are no electric lights nearer than the con concourse concourse concourse course and after M i there is very little traffic on the beach to disturb their rest Occasionally a couple would wan der along the edge of the water out nut they did d not go near the recumbent forms The Mae police however passed pa frequently Keeping a watchful eye on suspicious characters There are no special orders about al lowing people to sleep on the beach said ald a policeman yesterday but we WP iye never neVeT disturb them unless we think they th y are not all aU right rl ht The sand is not a ing bug house and we are not here to keep k fp watch over lodgers but there can be no harm in allowing men mea who are apparently respectable to get a good nights night s rest in the fresh air instead of going to hot h rooms In the city and being bang overcome b by the heat beat the next day Most of them wake up between 4 and S 6 o clock In the morning and start for tor the city The Tho crowd was WaIl ao so great here a 8 few mornings moraines ago that extra cars were put on to accommodate those who wanted to start for theoRy the to their work But we do keep a careful watch for suspicious characters and keep them moving We cannot c o keep men away from the beach h hc who can give e a good ac account account count of themselves but we make sure that every man who spends the night here Is la able awe to satisfy us that he is re respectable respectable spectacle If It we did not there would be trouble and no case of robbery has been reported r so 0 far It was a record Saturday half halt holiday crowd that thronged Coney Island yes yea Estimates of the number of vis via varied all the way wa from to fire fi ot OC and there re was no way to prove the te correctness of any of the gu gue guesses Captain Rem Reilly who is in charge of a bathing pavilion ton said that at 4 In the afternoon about bathers were vere In the water wat r at his place There was a strong reon fn breeze breexe bf blowing off the water wat and antI even In the sun everybody was cool f The people came In every way In which It was possible to reach the ocean by trolley carriages bicycle and a boat All beats bOalS were late in arriving a and departing They came to the island packed to the rails raUs Long Lon after the supply of or camp chairs was exhausted the passengers crowded on the vessels until there was waa hardly roost JOn for the deck hands to attend to the work of placing the tile gangway y Sit Sitting Sitting ting room was not to be had bad for Jove 01 on money and even standing room roum was at a ag premium t So heavily laden Aden were the boats g that t the slight movement Dr the pea pas passengers were able to make toward the t shore side ide when the vessels ve els approached the landing pier at the island caused 1 a list that made it difficult to reach the th pier In th tha evening v when the crowds began in to 0 move the conditions were the same and an women and babies stood UK us the tho pier Jammed in the crowd waiting for the boats so close that even the strong breeze breexe that was wu blowing was wag s scarcely felt feltIn feltIn In Tn the th trolley cars It was the same mo old et pushing scrambling Tn quarreling p r and almost fighting for a seat or eves even standing room with the constant danger to life liff and ani limb that obtains at the loop Tt It wa was after midnight before the mess mass massof messof mA of people at the island Illand was appreciable thinned and aad the Ute ruh rush for ears cars continued d until the small hours of tim the morning |