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# What This Page Means This page from *Judge* magazine contains two main pieces: **"Coney Island Down the Bay"** is a humorous essay satirizing the experience of visiting Coney Island from New York City. It mocks the contrast between the romantic *idea* of a seaside excursion (sailing, fresh air, romance) and the reality: seasickness, crowds, discomfort, and the chaotic stampede to board overcrowded return trains. The accompanying cartoon (showing a distressed figure) illustrates this gap between expectation and reality. The satire targets both the false advertising of leisure travel and the incompetence of transportation infrastructure—passengers endure hours of waiting, dangerous crowding, and rude conductors demanding tickets from people physically unable to retrieve them. The smaller items include publishing notices and an advertisement for *Judge* Publishing Company. This reflects late-19th-century anxieties about modernization: as railways made leisure travel accessible to ordinary people, the reality often proved uncomfortable and chaotic.
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THE JUDGE PUBLISHING CO, 34 and 36 North Moore Street, N.Y. PUBLISHED ONCE WEEK. » PUBLISHING Co,, 34 amt 94 North: Moore St NOTICE: send (0 us 6 ice We May OUFEIves HX), OF regarded as gratuit amps sho ones! for return postage, with name and address, tf writers hy to regain thelr declined articies, Coney Island Down the Bay ‘Turre are several ways of getting from York to this delightful city by the nearly as comfortable But you pays your money and you N any one of which is walking. takes your choic For instance, you t a sail down the be the proper caper, and you catch on. amers would The fresh saline breezes will do you good, you fancy. Onsuch a trip you ean draw in buckets ful ot ozone. lit, Your coustituti y too much ‘on one of the beantitu You feel that your been run down labor and confinement. ‘The music of a brass {will swell, and so will lager. Charming company will share these things with you, and what could nearer resemble the road to ba 1. But, supposing the ocean has its hack up, as it very frequently does; supposit plunges and pitches, as it frequently doe the stean supposing the musicians get s around, as Mr, Worth show k, and slop in his cartoon; supposing everybody becomes thus miserable, what becomes of your the upon tt one and your pleasure Well, maybe that will depend much state of your stomach. ch trifle dis- ip froth and eat roast clams, or flirt, or listen to the music, or take in the hundreds of attractions to be found there, until you feel like a new being, and that st h you, and feeling like a new being, you resolve on patronizing a new route when you return home, what is the result ? Ofcourse, you cannot think of walking. or still slower and more tedious rate by riding on the horse-cars for six or seven miles, so of course you resolve to take the st And we will suppose that you re Island all right, or perhaps a couraged, and that you of going at cars back. t idea no storms, no s thought! No billows, a-sickness, and quite as much ozone, and much more breath of flowers, as you are whirled through the beautiful country, fragrant with woods and balmy with breath of gardens and pastures. Of ¢ And when you bave had your fill of mites the ney | THE JUDGE. | and delights; when you fondly imagine that | you ha nd | you feel at peace with all mankind, including your landlady, then you make a break for the - enjoyed several cars, About a thousand hav 1of you, you find, and you wonder if thy railroad company has ea them all away in, Bat there will be w at all events, and if the cars ar it may be all the jolie, Finally, her waiting halt er the advertised time, the gates are opened and a big crowd Jet out to crowd inte exrs already full fron a for a train that should have | heen in New York by this time. ‘broke ” for them We rnough to stow i rkness crowde 1 hour previous loadin, But you jump on and do the best you ean and that best will most lik wre: Iy consist in hang aud whirling bot of being brushed olf by growing tees, And it isa asant situation to be in when the conductor | nmes along and gruttly demands vour ticket, | ont oward, While in theg pminent danger just as though he suspe ride, You try to explain that your ticket is in your pocket, but that at it while hand Leannot get He with both and when he calls you a beat, and holding on for dear threatens to push you otf, you calmly allow him to ts arity for your watch out of your pocket as yur ticket. Oh, itis real fant It is so pl a But such Island while going to and coming from Coney the season is at its height. » and come 1 before, you can go either way you lik As we y and takes y by the same route. pays your mon ir choice Ireland's Opportunity Now that England is at war with Egypt and may possibly be drawn into other com- plications, is the time for Ireland to. strike. Let her eall together, give every would-be king & command, and swoop down upon the British isle je its and navy are well away from it, ax they s will be, to protect British honor and the land of the Pharaoh be such another opportunity presented. They an capture Qu and the royal family, and bundle them off to. India (for urs Irishmen do not care to be bothered with that country), and at once set up she without trouble, Should any Englishman be presumptuous enough t¢ 5, L her s Won my 0 ns in ‘There may never n Vieto and start busines him as Irishmen have been treated for many years Of course there may be obstacles to over- come, but with the army and navy ont of the | way, it will only take a fraction of th that Irishmen can do to brush away | sition and enthrone one or more Irish kings at Windsor Castle. We repeat it, and em- | phasize it in our cartoon, now is Ireland's op- | portunity. A few hundred of them might possibly wish to be king, and perbapsa million or so of the victorious invaders might wish | to represent the reborn [rish nation in Par- liament. But those little ebullitions of patri- otism, so natural to the race, could easily be gotten over with by a wholesale confiscation of British titles and estates, when of course ighting 1 oppo- dd you were trying | object, why, proclaim him a rebel, and treat | You | | made during a fite-time | pugilists should | ments | Star Route nothing but harmony and good-will would fol low, “Down with the bloody Saxon,” and now is the time to down him, Whoop for Irish men! Where is O'Donovan Rossa? Lawtul Prize Fighting ‘The glove fight’ between Mr. John L. Sul- livan, of Boston, and Mr. Tag Wilson, of England, in the Madison Squar last’ Monday night, tion Garden, on was as brutal an exhibi as man could hope to see under the pro- tection of the police authorities, Gloves w of course, used, bat th are of suet kind that men with stout lists, can strike The gloves. are © soft,” armis, and heavy s though with sand clubs, recognized by the police as yet they are as elastic as paving » English pugilist, bis tr nexpert ing to work with The America, Mr. Sullivan, the tricks « pair of them to earn $1,006 went minute. chamy a in his op) little Englishmen who ever ‘shied his castor the Mr. Sullivan had nounced his intention to “knock out’ Wilson in the first round, but at the el the fourth round, Me, Wilson was still on ho and the referee very properly decided that he «by Me mn slugger of vere HE one of the into ring. had won the fight, the 1, and halfof the gate receipts, which Mr. Wilson is 1 Of more money than he would have hk el he lerably to his bank ac gh yiving exhibitions with Mr. Sel nor by engaging ina battle in t! with the young Bostonian, Both of these ful for the kind protection accorded them by the New York authorities, 1000 « Sulli fully $20,000, now Awl, will prol Ld cor count, thr liv ably a prize every g As soon ats they begin to ike arrangements in this city for a prize Lto take place here or Mr John McKeon, the District. Attorney, will re member, we hope, that there is a law on the atute hooks of this St Isewhes te, whieh, ifearrind out, will consign to prison each and every ing aught to do with such arr If there is no law forbidding such that ed on Mon } time that one should be en- glove with ‘Tue JUDGE congratulates some or less esteemed contemporaries which have uwakened to the fact that Colonel George Bliss, of this city, should not have been en- aged by the Government to prosceute the ‘Tur, JepGE opposed the selec- tion of Colonel Bliss from the start, and now he shall be retired from thes f its mor NGRESSMEN xhibit’ blackguardisin on the floor of the House should be placed on the retired list by their constituents at the fall elections. who ¢ Is Admiral Seymonr, of the British navy, happy, now that he is responsible for whole- sale murder in Alexandria, and the destrue- tion of some of the most beautiful property in Egypt? comicbooks.com