New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1895-08-11
LOUER RATES TO CONEY ISLAND FAVORED
REAL ESTATE DEALERS SAY REDUCTION IN
THE FARES WOULD BENEFIT PROPERTY
AND INcREASE TRAVEL.

AND lNCkEASE IRANElA
Cheaper fares TO Coney Island are proving to be a
most popular demand :he part OF the travelling
public. Brooklyntes unusually interested In it
for the reason that the beaches are now within
city limits. and the present fare is regarded too
high. The workingmen OF the western and south
ern districts of Brooklyn regard the present con-
dtion of affairs especially hard. for the
that they Eastern Distric: people carried to
Canarsie Beach for five cents. while the fare to
Coney Island by any Of the existing routes is 25
cents and upward.
THE trolley will solve the rate question:" said
Controller Palmer to The Tribune reporter yester-
day. I'm Greenpont, where | live. I've had
opportunity 10 witness the practical effect of the in
PRODUCTION of the trolley 1t used TO cost 30 cents
for a round trip from Hunters Point Flushing
by the way of the steam road. The trolley
along and knocked the price down to r cents for
the round trip either he trolley the steam
road. | think all the steam reads running Coney
Island will be compelled to adopt electricity for a
motive power on account of its cheapness. If they
do not the two or three trolley roads will do al
the business. The present schedule OF fares il
inconsistent and perhaps excessive. but cheaper
fares will come in time.
Howard Pyle. manager for Leonard Moody. the
real estate dealer. said: Fifteen is enough
for a round trip ticket from Brooklyn Man
haitian Beach Coney Island. The railroads would
make just much money by reducing the rates.
as they would carry enough more people to make
up the difference. Some or the trains going
and coming from Manhattan Beach and the
West End carry only dozen of pas
sengers. 1t would be different II the fare
was five cents each way 10 cents for
the round trip Whole families would 20 to the
beaches where now neither the father nor mother
goes, because OF the expense People who go
to Manhattan don't severely feel the expense.
but frequenters Of the West End do. II would be a
boom to real estate all through the new wards If
a nve-cent fare could be had on all the lines Mr..
Moody is out OF the city at present, but / am
ne Is in favor OF l5-cent round trip fare from
the Bridge the Island"
Assembly lyman Friday, also real estate dea.er.
with offices at No 26 COurt-st said: IL went over
the Nassau system this morning II Is a fve-cent
road. | never was so surprised In my life as when
| passed through the thicky settled parts OF the
Eastern District and the people waiting to get
the cars. The company has not cars enough and
can't buy or borrow them fast enough. Whole
families 20 TO the beach. The hotel men at Canar-
sic told me that their busre ss had more than
doubled. in Canarsie Village | a lot sold this
morning, ~ by % feet. situated 300 feet from the
beach. IL brought $500. Two years ago the same
lot was sold at auction for 500 II Is all owing To
the hyecent fare The Tribune Is yolcing the senti-
ment OF the travelling public by advocating re-
duction In the fare 10 the island think shall
see II next year. | believe the railroad officials
the stu rates"