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

Man-in-a-Hurry took one of the new
"Huckleberry" trolley ears at Seventh
avenue and One Hundred and Thirty
NTH street. lie had figured his trip
out rapidly, as men in hurries do. He
was bound theatreward. his destination
being iE East Fourteenth street. The
papers had said that the "Hucklcberry"
cars made the trip through One Hum
dred and ~Thirty-fifth street, over the
bridge and down to One Hundred n
Twenty-ninth street and Third avenue.
in thirteen minutes. Then there would
be for him a ride of twenty-five to
twenty-five minutes or 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-
waited and walking or riding across
The car bowlcd merrily eastward
through One Hundred and Thirty-nfth
street. Man-in-a-Hurry sat compla-
Gently back. drank In fresh Harlem air
an ugly one. With a bump and a grind
ahe car swung ar9und into Madison
way up to the drawbridge and then it
crawled .hesitatingly over into Mott
Haven. A Madison avenue car got out
or the way. and the motor car numbered
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. walt for an express
train to go by. walk across the tracks
and take, another car.
arating.
Perhaps 1t was good intentions that
the roadway at that point was paved
D wis h II So, they We're roughly ov sx,
now to recall the jolting he got In the
ride up to the main "Huckleberry" line,
where the cars that cross the Third ave-
nue. bridge run up and down. to and
Farms ct al. He hates to revive, too,
the memory of his awful state of mind
when he was invited once more to step
ties Of a third "Hucklebcrry'' 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. it was fuller;
lamentations. Altogether the fulncss 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 upon
the Third avenue bridge when 1t came &c
a stop. The draw was opening. A slow
tub. u Gltnt pIDIbTllpnS, niu uelTlinltu
passage down stream and had to get It,
The tug eventually got through. but the
draw didn't close. Moments fled as mo.
ments will. Car after car gathered be.
hind hat which bore Man-in-a-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-a-Hurry
thought desperately of plunging into 1t.
Finally, with rroans and puffs and at O
rate OF speed which would have made g
snail appear like a flyer in comparison
IA New York Central tug came in sight
going up stream n pushing a float o
freight cars. The mystery of the lont
wait was solved, In the course of tim,
the float and tug got by and the draw
was closed. Not 80 the chapter of tn,
bane's lamentations.
When Mamma Hurry at last got L
One Hundred and Twenty-ninth street
he had been something over thirty min
utes on the n He still had his Ion,
ride on the Third Avenue Elevated
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.