The evening world., 1894-05-17
ACROSS TOWN BY TROLLEY.
Two Transfers and a Long Wait
at an Open Drawbridge.
Man-in- a Hurry" Won't Try tho
"Hucltlebcrry" Route Again.

Man-in-a-Hurry took one OF the new
"Huckleberry" trolley cars at Seventh
avenue and One Hundred and Thirty
fifth street lie had figured his trip
out rapidly. as men in hurries do. He
was bound theatreward. his destination
being In East Fourteenth street. The
papers had said that the "Huckleberry"
cars made the trip through one Hun
dred and Thirty-fifth street, over the
bridge and down to One Hundred and
Twenty-ninth street and Third avenue.
In thirteen minutes. Then there would
be for him a ride of twenty-five to
twenty-five minutes on the Elevated
road and-there he would be. A clean
saving OF several minutes over the old
way o! going down the west-slde Ele-
waited and walking or riding across
town.
=, The car bowled merrily eastward
through One Hundred and Thirty-hfth
street. Mamma Hurry sat compla-
Gently back, drank in fresh Harlem air
and thought that perhaps the trolley
was, after II. q bit OF a blessing. though
an ugly one. With bump and n grind
avenue. With more bumps it ground Its
way up to the drawbridge and then It
Grawled hesitatingly over into Mott
maxen' ~ yen VA Madis3n a avenue car got ou,
up to the New York Central tracks.
The fare register said seventeen people
had paid for the trip. AS the Central
passengers rema ained-Man- in Hurry
didn't count 'em-had to get out, take
transfer tickets. walt for an express
td tra,n to go by, walk across the tracks
The ride had begun to be less cxhil.
arating.
Perhaps 1t was good Intentions that
| has .I.,A A
pressed. Man-in Hurry hates even
n2w to recall the jolting he. got in the
rifle up to the main "Huckleberry" line
from Fordham, Port Morris, West
Farms ct al. He hates, to revive. too
the memory OF his awful state Of mind
down and out and accept the hospitali.
ties OF third 'Huckleberry" car.
/ That car. In which the last stage of the
journey to Third avenue was begun, wa,
full Of people before the transfers got
on. Afterwards, of course, II was fuller
! In the crowd was baby full of loud
lamentations. Altogether the fulness OF
things was extraordinary. To Man-in
a-Hurry 1t included that OF despair.
But the worst was to come, for the
overladen car had barely entered upor
the Third avenue bridge when 1t came tC
stop: The draw was opening. A SLOW
tug OF giant proportions, had demanded
passage down stream and had to get 1t
The tug eventually got through, but tn,
| draw didn't close. Moments fled as mo
! ments will. Car after car gathered be
/ hind that which bore Man-in-a- Hurry an,
! 1t was quite shut in. but the draw still
| stood wide open. Meanwhile that bab,
ceased not to lament Pleasantly hu
morous passengers began to talk Of jump
/ ing over the chasm. lima Hurr,
thought desperately OF plunging into It.
! Finally with groans and puffs and at
rate OF speed which would have made
snail appear like flyer in comparison
a New York Central tug came in sight
going up stream and pushing a float q
freight cars. The mystery of the lon
wait was solved. In the course of tim
the float and tug got by and the dra,
was closed. Not so the chapter of tn
babes lamentations.
When Mamma Hurry at last got
One Hundred and Twenty-ninth stree
he had been something over thirty min
utes on the way. He still had his lon
ride on the Third Avenue Elevate
ahead of him. He got to the theatr
fifteen minutes late. He will gather n
more trolley fruit of the "Huckleberry
cross-town variety. He can save tim
and temper by sticking to old ways
And there is profanity enough in tn
world.