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lian Russell, Bob Fitzsimmons and | begun. It now has some 300,000 Al Capones year-around residents. Apartments There is talk now ¢f making a|are planned for on the site of Luna *'development" out of Coney. Sub- | Park, where roller coaster and ev- urbanization of the world's gaudiest | erythi else burned down for the seaside resort, in fact, has already !last time in 1945. Coney Island House, first hotel in the place, registered Daniel Web- ster, Henry Clay, P. T. Barnum, Jenny Lind, Walt Whitman. Other names out of Coney's past are Dia- mond Jim Brady, Jim Jeffries, Lil- and perhaps the world's most fab- | ey's parachute, jump tower, then ulous assortment of noises. i Tors 2 el. ill. i " ad e wo surpri some- SUBWAY *DRIPPERS ; body tried to tell him Coney was Subway workers call a certain : proportion of these low-budget va-|{or the rich and Iighty Tem hn cationers "drippers." They ride through the Gay Nineties. hs home with wet bathing suits under | their clothes. The average Coney visitor knows about drippers, but there are many things about his favorite resort that | have escaped him. For instance, he | wouldn't know that in. 1650 his, square foot of beach knew the tread of Indians come to snare rabbits, dig oysters and terrify set- tlers at nearby Gravesend. 80 THE DAILY TIMES-GAZETTE, Thursday, June 18, 1953 Flytraps Cmarter Than Average Fly The city of Wilmington, N. C., smartly and hungrily. Disappoint- moss-draped and azalea - bowered, (ed at not finding a juicy meal in has a unique fame, Martin Litton |its clutches, it opened again. Brooklyn's garish seashore king. writes in The Los Angeles Times. LEARNED LESSON dom of the hot dog and the pack- It is the Venus flytrap capital.| pp second touch brought a ed beach, once was inhabited only The Venus flytrap is & plant that| gio htly delayed, more wary re-|by rabbits, long gone to better catches and eats meat. Darwin pasture. Coney Island Was Rabbits' Paradise WASHINGTON -- Coney Island, called it "the most wonderful plant in .the world." All the native ones on earth grow within 75 miles of Wilmington. Back in the cypress swamp that surrounded the air base at Wil- mington in the spring of 1942 there was a pleasant little open space. When sub hunting was_slow, four or five of us would be sun bathing or just plain Snoozing. Or maybe annoying the flytraps. GREW IN PROFUSION Venus flytraps grew by the hun- dreds on the mossy "bank. They are tiny plants, at first glance simply three or four delicate, nar- row, wavy edged leaves lying al- most flat on the ground. action, with the opening process beginning even before the closure was completed. A third caress, no matter how careful and persistent, induced only a slow, suspicious re- sponse and a four try was wasted on a thoroughly sullen, unrespon- sive plant. But the next day the flytrap, rested and fresh, was ready and willing. to try again. Evidently fly- traps have short memories. And, of course, they do have to eat sooner or later. Flies are not as smart as fly- traps. You could release a trapped fly before he'd been injured by the plant's digestive fluids and five minutes later he'd be trapped again. | rabbit -- Its very name appears to be a corruption of the Dutch word for "konijn,"" by which it was called on the Vingboons map of 1639. It was a true island in those days, says the National Geo- |, grahic Society. Nowadays, thanks to the silting of a creek, it-is a peninsula on the south shore of Long Island, separating Gravesend He thinks the movies started in Hollywood. Wrong. They began at Coney's Vitagraph Studios, starring | John Bunny and Anita Stewart romping on the wide beach. He believes the hot dog has ale ays been the major item of diet at Coney, to which people were coming in iron steamboats and | horse cars during the Civil War. | Wrong again. Charles Feltman | Bay on the west from Seheepshead | brought the hot dog with him from | Bay to the east. hi Almost everybody knows that a blazing summer Sunday will s native Bavaria in 1871 when he opened his famous restaurant. | From Coney the hot dog invaded send 1,000,000 New Yorkers out to the entire nation. | Coney, which awaits them with roller coasters, freak shows, tons of food and drink, a boardwalk, two miles of Atlantic Ocean beach see when they come to America aboard steamers is the Statue of Liberty. No so. First they see Con- He thinks the first thing people Congratulations ! the opening of At the end of each leaf, however, there is an odd enlargement -- a succulent green disk, creased down the middle and folded slightly with a row of extended flexible prongs along each side. Whenever a bug alights on that inviting surface, the two lobes snap tegether and those innocent looking prongs bend | over, interlocking and making es- | cape impossible. The plant proceeds to digest the unfortunate visitor. | Then the trap opens, dumps out | what is left of the carcass and | awaits the next victim. | We discovered that the flytrap | would respond not only to the foot- | steps of errant insects but to arti- ficial stimuli as well. Anything | that the plant could feel -- finger- tip, pine needle or blade of grass-- would spring the trap. We lay on | our bellies™in the sun, tickling all | the flytraps we could reach. i PLAYING TRICKS The most confounding thing] about the whole silly business was | the sudden startling awareness that | we had come to look on the ob- scure plants as animate beine- with feelings -- with minds of the® own. We had delighted in playing tricks on them. Could it be that these alone of all the world's flora | were actually blessed with int']- | ligence "®ey could feel; anybody could see that. Their reflexes were light- ning quick. y could taste, too. When we dropped in a bit of twig or gravel, the jaws closed on it instantly but in a moment opened again and tilted to one side, allowing the unwanted object to roll off. But -- and here was the acid test -- could the flytrap really rea- son Experiments indicated that it could and that it was able to learn from experience as well. At the first ticket, the trap responded Metropolitan Stores Ltd. MODERN STORE IS AN INDICATION OF THE -PROGRESS OF BOTH THE METROPOLITAN STORES LTD. AND THE CITY OF OSHAWA th the BURN correct! See your grocer for details on Burns exciting new Contest! Just tell us in 25 words or less what you like best : about Burns Canned Meats and you have a chance to win a brand-new '53 Ford Customline Sedan or one of many other valuable prizes including 56 cash awards ranging up to $100! Send your entry, with a label + or a piece of the key strip from any Burns product, to Burns Contest, Box 1565, Toronto, Ontario. 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