The evening world., 1894-05-17
ACROSS TOWN BY TROLLEY.
Two Transfers and q Long Wait
at an Open Drawbridge.
4" Man-in- a. Hurry" Won't Try the
"Huckleberry" 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 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-side Ele
Iated and walking or riding across
The car bowled merrily eastward
through One Hundred and Thirty fifth
street: Mamma Hurry sat compla-
Gently back, drank in fresh Harlem air
and thought that perhaps the trolley
was after III, q bit OF a blessing. though
an an ugly one. With a bump and a grind
avenue with more bumps 1t ground its
way up to the drawbridge and then 1t
GTrawled hesitatngly over into Mott
Haven. Madison avenue car got out
up TO the New York Central tracks.
The fare register said seventeen people
had paid for the trip. AS the Central
tracks were reached whatever number Of
didn't count 'em--had to get out, take
transfer tickets. wait for an express
trnin to go by. walk across the tracks
arating.
the, the roadway at that point was paved
pressed. Mamma Hurry hates even
now to recall the jolting he got In the
ride up to the main "Huckleberry' line.
1ue 9,,, bridge run up and down, to and
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 a third "Huckleberry" car.
That car In which the last stage Of the
Journey to Third avenue was begun, was
full Of people before the transfers got
on Afterwards, Of course, 1t was fuller.
In the crowd was n baby full of loud
lamentations. Altogether the fulness OF
a-Hurry 1t included that OF despair.
But the worst was to come, for the
overlnden car had barely entered upon
the Third avenue bridge when 1t came to
tug, of giant proportions, had demanded
passage down stream and had to get 1t.
The tug eventually got throughAbut the
draw didn't close. Moments nef as mo-
ments will Car after car gathered be-
hind that which bore Man-in- Hurry and
1t was quite shut In. but the draw still
stood wide open. Meanwhile that baby
ceased not to lament. Pleasantly hu-
morous passengers began to talk of Jump
ing over the chasm., Man-in- Hurry
| thought desperately of plunging into 1t.
Finally, with groans and puffs and at a
rate of speed which would have made q
snail appear like flyer in comparison
n New York Central tug came in sight
going up stream and pushing a float OF
freight cars. The mystery OF the long
walt was solved. In the course of timt
the float and tug got by and the draw
was closed Not SO the chapter Of thu
babes lamentations.
/ When Mamma Hurry at last got Il
One Hundred and Twenty-ninth street
he had been something over thirty min
utes on the way. He still had his Ions
ride on the Third Avenue Elevated
ahead of him. He got to the theatre
| fifteen minutes late. He will gather nc
more trolley fruit of the "Huckeberry'
cross-town variety. He can save time
and temper by sticking to old ways
And there is profanity enough in the
world.