The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1897-02-12
A LONG RIDE.
One Can Go All Over New York for
Five Cents.
But One Must Know the Ropes and
Have Plenty OF Tlme.

| tho New York Commercial Advertiser,
board one of the cars in the vicinity of
the city hall or postofice, hand over his
nickel to the conductor and by aid of
his own ingenuity and the transfer sys'
| ten that is common among the different
lines throughout the city achieve perpet-
uai motion for dozen hours or so with
out any expenditure beyond the original
Ave cents. The same plan is practicable
to the woman also, but she won Id prob
ably undertake the venture out OF sheer
feminine economy. Few New Workers,
however, have either the leisure or the
spirit of adventure to prompt them
to the experiment.. In fact, it does not
even offer the attractions that the pastime
| Of riding.up and down in the elevated
road without change does. for the latter
amusement was born Of Iszipess, and to
derive tho full benefit from the transfer
system of the surface roads requires
energy, an alert mind and unlimited
| patience. 10 be candid, it represents a
hard days work on en- empty istomach,
for the man who delays to eat is taking
| chances. Without regard to ultimate des-
tination or route, let US stroll up the Row
| and BOARD haphazard any one of the cars
that run slong the boundaries of City
Hall Park, with the honest and lauds BILE
intention of accepting all that gracious
cone ductors have to offer in the way of
| transfer coupons. Over on Broadway
there is the cable, with its deafening gong
and it's hrong of idiots; on the east and
north sides Of the park the cars of the
| Center street and Cham pers street lines
are inviting in their mystery. Let US
| try the latter.
Rattling of to the east over Cherry Hill
toward the river we alicht at the corner
| of Madison aud Montgomery streets, and
| changing to the car OF the Avenue y line,
| running north along Ridge street, to
| Tenth street; thence transferring to
| Twenty-tbird street and alignting, take
the Twenty-third street cross town car to
Fourth avenue. Making use of the trans
fer to this line we are carried away north
| through the long tunnel from Thirty
fourth street to Forty-second, and turning
TO the left in front of the Grand
Central station, follow Madison avenue
north to Eighty-sixtb street. Here
q transfer carries US over to tire
Lexington avenue line, which We follow
north to One Hundred and Sixteenth
street. BY the cross town cars we are
carried to the point from which we trans
fer to the Columbus avenue branch of tre
Broadway line, and without further
change complete the circuit of the city
when we aiight by the City Hall Park.
Logarithms would probably be required
In order to compute the number OF COM
biuations to which the transfer traveller
may resort. Hundreds of miles through
the city's strests may be covered, East
Side and West Side may be explored, the
psig bornoods and people may be studied
by the platform philosopher. And all
for the mighty nickel.
About as picturesque a trip OF this
kind a. may he taken is to board the
West street car below Cortland street and
by means of the turns and transfers graf
uslly work ones way across the city from
the southwest to the northeast. Some i'm
terssting routes may be followed BY stat
ipg with the Belt Line road and pursuing
and accepting everything in the way of
transfers. The best ides OF the length
OF the city is to be had by boarding tie
I hird avepue cable Ger somew here among
the streets far down town, following the
avenue north az far as One Hundred and
twenty -ffth street, thence changing to
the cross town cable and riding over the
hills TO the north ofiwhat used to be Man
hattsnville beyond High Bridge and
Washington Bridge as far os the cable
goes. Then, toe, the stsrtling side-shows
and oriental palsce Of the upper terminus
Midway pl,isancs are said TO be alluripg.
Ther. are many who bowsil the passing
of the good old times OF the bobtsil car,
bot not the traveller Of an economical
turn Of mind. Brt the New Yorker seldom
makes uso of tho transfer for purposes of
mere amusement. In summer he uses he
opon cars OF certain lines for the ride
through the air at night. Then, too, 1t
is one OF his peculiaritios TO accept great
many transfers for which he can posi- oily
have no earthly use. This is probably
because he likes to nave in his vest
pocket something which feels ofiiein and
yet DOESN'T cost him anything.
Awfnl Experience With Heart Dis
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uosrt worxs like magic, and cures is
proven by the testimony oi Mr.. L.. j.
law. Toronto, Can. 81 was so sorely
troubled with heart disease that ! was
unable for IS months to lie down in bed
lest / smother. Aftcr one dose OF DIR.
Apnew's Heart Cure, | retired and slept
soundly, I uset one bottle and tine
trouble has not returned"
sold by j.. l.. Lot rop. 50 Westminster;
Handing A Blanoin 81 and IS weybos.
set; Geo. Z. Clsfiin q Co., 62 to T2 South
Main street.