ON THIS DAY IN 1878 , the Brooklyn Daily Eagle reported, “The weather yesterday was typical of Mid-autumn. The earth was bright with the fullness and richness of the harvest season. A sky of sapphire canopied land and sea. A few clouds, mere tiny specks of vapor, sailed lightly across it from time to time. From the clear blue firmament the sun shed a golding glow, bathing all below it with radiance. A stiff breeze stirred the leaves, seeming to warn them that they must soon change their hues of dark green for the coating of flaming scarlet, deepening crimson and the quiet tinge of russet brown. There was a slight chill in the wind that swept Coney Island sands and carried the fragrance of the sea almost to the city. In town it was cool morning and evening and at noontide the air was not o

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