FT. HAMILTON BATH BEACH SEAGATE W. BRIGHTON LUNA PK. DREAMLAND	 OCEAN p’kw’y	BRIGHTON MAN.	BEACH 	ORIENTAL
CONEY ISLAND, within eleven miles of the New York City Hall, has an unobstructed beach front of over five miles on the Atlantic Ocean,, is less than a mile wide, and is separated from the rest of Brooklyn by Coney Island Creek, which connects Gravesend and Sheepshead Bays.OCEAN PARKWAY, $4,000,000 boulevard, main approach to Coney Island; five and one-half miles long; 150 foot roadway. PUBLIC BEACH AT CONEY ISLAND at low tide, shelving gently into the Ocean. In the background is a park, a large public shelter, and the Brighton Beach Race Track, the grand stand looming up at the right. Here thousands of children may be seen any summer day.DANCING PAVILION	 LAGOON 	AND	 CIRCUS 	RESTAURANT	MAIN ENTRANCE	KELLY’S SLIDE	WHIRLING	 THE WHIRL
LUNA HARK, the great show place, with its three-ring circus, dancing floor, promenades and two score novel amusement places, including a fire show in which a building is destroyed and the occupants rescued by firemen. Thompson Sc Dundy, of the Hippodrome, Proprietors.LUNA PARK, looking from the Chutes to main entrance on Surf ave., main thoroughfare of Coney Island. Tower rising from the Lagoon is 200 ft. high. To the right is the illusion, “ A Trip to the Moon.”
LUNA PARK, showing famous Chutes from which boat loads of merry-makers dash down into Lagoon ; the great Dancing Pavilion and the Restaurant, with crowds of pleasure-seekers thronging Promenade.LUNA PARK, showing the Caff, the Old Mill, the Babbling Brook and the Band Stand. STEEPLECHASE, famous for Ingenious Races on Mechanical Horses, Razzle-Dazzle, Swimming Pool, House Upside Down, Gigantic See-Saw, from which a rare view is afforded.LUNA PARK, showing the Venetian Canal, since filled in, and an array of show buildings. DREAMLAND, showing great Chutes, and Entrance to Pier, on which is the largest Ballroom in the World and an enormous Restaurant. Aerial Performers are seen over the Bridge.LUNA PARK, the great amusement-park that changed the character of Coney Island, as the place appeared in the epoch making year of the resort, and erected this sumptuous resort in their place. From the opening day the enterprise was so successful that it was thronged with orderly lead to the great tower and at night the place is illuminated with two hundred thousand electric lights. The buildings^ and the shows i1903. Thompson & Dundy leased twenty-two acres in the heart of Coney Island, wiped out several hundred drinking places and questionable resorts, crowds and the disorderly element was gradually crowded oft' the Island. From the Court of Honor at the entrance a peristyle and promenades n them have changed from year to year, and now the canal has been tilled in and Japanese hanging gardens have replaced the dainty peristyle.DREAMLAND TOWER, pure white, 300 ft.	CREATION, at Dreamland, marvellous scenic representation of the six days of the creation
high, dominant architectural feature of Island;	of the world, culminating in a brilliant tableau picturing the rest of the Sabbath. This was
illuminated with 173,000 electric lights.	a feature of the World's Fair, in Chicago, and is reproduced here on an elaborate scaleHELL GATE ANIMAL SHOW TOWER DANCING PAVILION PIER CHUTES FIRE SHOW KELLY’S WALK LEAP-FROG RAILWAY
DREAMLAND, fronting on the Ocean, on the site of the upper part of famous Coney Island Bowery; popular family resort, with half a hundred novel shows; restaurant and largest dancing pavilion built over the breakers; elaborate fire spectacle; biggest chutes.THE BOWERY, looking west, showing tall steel observatory. Henderson’s Music Hall on left and Stauch’s Dancing Pavilion on right. Bowery extends from Steeplechase to Dreamland, is lined with amusement places and the booths of fakirs, and is thronged from 2 p. m. to 2 a. m.FRENCH VOYAGE, Steeplechase, an interesting illusion reproduced from the Paris Exposition. CONEY ISLAND BEACH, showing one of the popular bathing grounds, Scenic Railway, Carrousels, Circus and Ferris Wheel. A typical Summer-Day' scene at this resort.THE DELUGE; one of Coney Island’s greatest sights; recent stupendous production of Herbert A. Brad well, occupies Johnstown Flood Bldg., on Surf Ave. It is a vivid and realistic portrayal of the awful plague and God’s glorious promise, as told in the Book of Genesis. It will impress myriads of people. Altogether, it is a most daring production, presented with a tremendous cast. Is historical and entertaining throughout. Admission 25c.SHEEPSHEAD BAY RACETRACK, where Suburban and Futurity handicaps are run; course one mile; steel-frame grandstand seats 5,000 ; grounds cover 110 acres; owned by Coney Island Jockey Club, Wm. K. Vanderbilt, Sr., Pres. Across Sheepshead Bay from Coney Island. THE PADDOCK, AND CLUBHOUSE, where society folk and horsemen congregate; enclosure reserved for horse owners and club members.
CONEY ISLAND’S SIXTY-SEVENTH YEAR
By Wm. Wirt Mills
IT was the steamboat that made Coney Island a summer resort, the steam locomotive that gave it its popularity, and the electric motor that developed it into the greatest amusement place in the world. It was in 1840 that little side-wheel steamers made the long sand,dune accessible to parties wishing to spend the day on the beach. In 1875 a steam railroad made it possible for greater numbers to enjoy the place, but it was not till electric traction reached its high development in the past decade that 300,000 people could be carried to and from the Island in a day. Last Fourth of July the number was over half a million.
Now steamboats, trolley cars, electric trains and steam railroad trains make it easy to reach Coney Island at small cost (20 cents for the round trip), and a four-track rapid transit railroad is about to be built by the city, tunnelling under the East River and running in a subway to Bensonhurst, thence on an elevated structure to Coney Island. This will take passengers from the City Hall in Manhattan to the sea, in twenty minutes, for five cents.
Over $100,000,000 has been invested in amuse-
ment places to meet the demands of the steadily increasing throngs.
Coney Island includes :
SEA GATE, at the eastern end of the Island, the home station of the Atlantic Yacht Club, an exclusive cottage colony and the site of several charitable sanitariums ;
WEST BRIGHTON, including Steeplechase, Luna Park, Dreamland, Deluge, Bowery, a varied collection of several hundred resorts, and Public Beach ;
BRIGHTON BEACH,with its hotel, theatre, bathing pavilion and race track;
MANHATTAN BEACH, with its big hotel of that name, theatre, fireworks, music, beach, open-air amphitheatre, bathing pavilion, and the Oriental Hotel, at the west end of the Island, for permanent guests.
It is West Brighton that is popularly known as Coney Island, and there is where the crowds surge about, eagerly enjoying the almost endless variety of amusements. Each season sees marked changes in the buildings, which are becoming year after year more substantial and more ornamental, and the world is ransacked for novelties wherewith to amuse the gay, good-humored crowds and while away their nickels and dimes.