. Bell's picturesque guide to American watering places . l is capable of providing rooms for 100 persons, and is for the ac-commodation of gentlemen only. Broad piazzas on the ground and secondfloors furnish facilities for feeding 6,000 persons daily. The various attractions surrounding it, and the polite treatment of itsguests by its genial manager, render it a favorite resort for are magniHceut fountains of pnre drinking water, innumerable andelegant lamps, which greatly enhance the beauties of the grand piazza, in front of the hotel and depot, is brilliantly
. Bell's picturesque guide to American watering places . l is capable of providing rooms for 100 persons, and is for the ac-commodation of gentlemen only. Broad piazzas on the ground and secondfloors furnish facilities for feeding 6,000 persons daily. The various attractions surrounding it, and the polite treatment of itsguests by its genial manager, render it a favorite resort for are magniHceut fountains of pnre drinking water, innumerable andelegant lamps, which greatly enhance the beauties of the grand piazza, in front of the hotel and depot, is brilliantly illumi-nated, every night, by improved electric lights, equal to 25,000 candles,which produce the feeling of being in fairy land, rather than by the seaside. We re-cross the piazza and after passing Dr. Jacksons neat drugstore, on the left, where the bi-st of medicine may be obtained by those whounfortunately need it, and a little farther an elegant pavilion devoted tothe sale of nic-nacks, cigars, and soda water, we cross over to WEST BRIGHTON WE8T BRIGHTON HOTEL. WEST BRIGnTON BEACH. BAUERS WEST BRIGHTON HOTELformerly Atlantic Garden, and remark a large Pavilion with an immensecow. The lovers of pure milk will be interested in this poor animal;beautiful dairy maids milk her at the request of the visitor, and lo, andbehold! milk as cold as ice is passed to their parched lips for live cents. Isnot this a case for Mr. Bergh ? For the proprietor is guilty of cruelty toanimals—the poor cow was opened and a large refrigerator was placed inher body to contain the ice, above which gallons of milk are poured duringthe day, doing with the necessity of a pump or well of spring water(rather difficult to be obtained on the Island); but the greatest outrage isthat the authorities should allow this poor animal to be tortured by a mechanical conrrivance by which milk is drawn by the same method aslager beer. WEST BRIGHTON BEACH HOTEL, formerly known as the Atlantic Garden, i
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