Excerpt from The Noon-Mark The mid-western Coney, the Coney that I knew best, was not an island; indeed, I daresay very few of them were. It was a strip of land lying along a slight elevation above the river, ankle-deep in mud or dust according to the season, with a landing for the steam boats, Queen and Princess, a thin grove of trees - nemorosa Zacynthos! - a restaurant, a dancing-platform, a carrousel, the entire equipment in short of its innumerable kindred Coney Islands. Pleasure-seekers cou1d reach it by a five or ...
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Excerpt from The Noon-Mark The mid-western Coney, the Coney that I knew best, was not an island; indeed, I daresay very few of them were. It was a strip of land lying along a slight elevation above the river, ankle-deep in mud or dust according to the season, with a landing for the steam boats, Queen and Princess, a thin grove of trees - nemorosa Zacynthos! - a restaurant, a dancing-platform, a carrousel, the entire equipment in short of its innumerable kindred Coney Islands. Pleasure-seekers cou1d reach it by a five or six mile ride out of town on the trolley-car or omnibus; the automobile had not yet become a common and uni versal vehicle in those early days of which I write; but by far the greater number journeyed Coney-wards on the two excursion-boats, victims of an illusion of space and coolness contributed by the river. As a matter of fact the heat and glare of a summer day were doubled by reflection; the shady side had a trick of becoming the sunny side all of a sudden just when one was well-established, owing to the curves of the channel; forward the breeze blew your hat off, and to the rear it came laden with odors of coal-smoke, engine-grease, everybody's lunch-basket, sundry sewers emptying in nonchalantly from the Kentucky and Ohio municipalities on either shore, and the Little Miami stockyards. It was crowded, noisy, comfort less, in a word, ideal; for who ever heard of an excur sion boat that was otherwise? About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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