The sun., 1897-07-06

Nostrand and Flushing avenues
Nestrand and Vernon avenues es..................l
Nostrand avenue and Malbone strcet
Nostrand and Gates avenues.
Nostrand and Putnhm avenues -. ..................A
Nostrand avenue and Halsey street
Eostrand and Atlantic avenues
Tompkins and Flushing avenues.
Tompkins and Myrtle avenues s........"...........9
Iompkins and Gates avenues .......'.....'..'''".s
Flushing and Classon avenues ...................t
Flushing and Throop avenues.
Flushing and Dushwick avenues.
Flushing and Knicko korbocker avenues ............a
Myrtle avenue aud Broadway way.................-..4
broadway and Drggs avenue e....................."a
Broadwa ay and Bedford avenue e...................1
Lorimer and Grand street.
Grand street and briggs avenue. nue................"9
Grand street and Bedford avenue o..............".s
Court street and Hamilton avenue.
Hamilton avenue and Richarts street ..........,.2
Atlantic and Columbia avenues.
Columbia avenue and Furman street.
Graham avenue and Meserole street.
Nassau and Manhattan avenues.
sixty street and Third avenue e.............p
Bay Ridge and Third avenue
This Is the list on the biggest road Of Brook
lyn which operates 250 miles of singie, ,5 track. *
fscs Of hcp Scps 0 policy Is in
figures just published. Those show that ne in.
come OF tho system for June was $3.50, 1880,
or moro than $4,000 greater than II was IN
June, 1896, and the income for the year ending
June 80 was bigger than that of the year before
There is considerable controversy between
the older railroad men and the younger ones
men nTe obssd to admit that bs
an enormous increase OF business, but they
question whether this increase pays for itself.
The number OF transfers issued on tho Brooklyn
Heights road and on the Nassau system shows
some interesting things. In cold weather It
noss than Il does %eaher This
to Indicate that considerable portion OF the
anss for C bs fS Sas
weather than Of the single cash faro people.
Tho transfer percentage OF the total business in
about 2s per cent. As warm weather approached
the percentage rose on each until II was about
Heights road the total number Of passengers
carried In January was s,642.ooo and 1879;
600 transfers were issued. In May tho total
number of persons carried was 1O9S3, 600, and
2,677, 900 transfers were given ont. According
to these figures the business of the road in
while the cash receipts of the ro1d increased 20
per cent This would seem to prove that the
bronshe in Gns Of f
fare, or 3ss cents in the case OF each passenger:
According to the reports OF the road, the cost
OF operating Is 80 per cent. OF the gross income,
or, in other words. it costs about three cents to
carry each PASSENGER. II would therefore ap.
3sh cents for each passenger pays profit which
can go to meeting the fixed charges of the road.
and that each h new PSsssHgeT sGs upon % IS SpSh
dend.
The Nassau Electric Company has been act
ing upon this belief ever since that company
was brought into its present shape by the con-
solidation Of the old Nassau and Atlantic aye
Of or single track road through about IS miles Of
streets and it's Toutes interWeayo with those
9f the kd aps
and while 1t has the great trolley thoroughfares
to Coney Island and Sheepshead Bay, It
this system transfers are issued at every cross
ing, but these are SO regulated that even the
most ingenious passenger cannot create for
limsaf n q
single fare. The manner IN which this is done is
BY limiting the issue Of transfers to two for q
ton, but they will take him to any point on
nickel to go from anywhere in Brooklyn to
Coney Island or Canarsie. and it is possible,
single fare to ride twenty five miles
The longest single ride on this line, without a
transfer, is from the foot OF Broadway, Williams MS
starting from Coney Island one could ride to
within q block or two of the broadway ferry.
take q transfer and ride to either Canarsie or
East New York, making the longer distance
mentioned; The manner In wi, which the transfers
fare has been paid and the passenger asks for
his transfer, he can get ticket for one change
without any explanation, but 4 he needs to
tion to the conductor and the conductor puts
punch mark in the ticket which authorizes the
the extra liberal Brooklyn Rapid Transit Com.
pany has found itself obliged to withdraw q lot
Sundays snd holidays PATRONS
in such numbers on these days that they were
simply overwhelmed. In place Of transfers,
cars. One Kind consists Of the regular cars for
short distance traffic and the other consists Of
through cars, which have special routes for
those days, running through the main lines Of
travel and then out to the summer resorts on
as ahH s By ats sa% oh hGS
also on such days, but It's transfers are issued
also. Previous TO the taking in of the Atlantic
r1nA In hta mat ftnn
cents TO get to Coney Island by trolley. Five
cents is the price now, and the effect upon the
gratifying The Increase in the cash receipts
OF the company for June over the same month
n last year was sh more r than and SUNDAY
The biggest amount ever taken in before in
day in June ecpsed this and exceeded it by
about 10 per cent July sundays arc expected
however, very easily affected. On one Sun.
day Of this year when the weather was fair
and the Thermometer r st stood st 73' the receipt.
$4,000. On the same Sunday OF 1896, with
the thermometer at ~, tho receipts were about
raining the total was but about $4,000.
The br9okSlyH Rapid Transis people have re-
Whose Whose head Is doyoins Himself al eine post e1cl
siyely to increasing the pleasure traffic Of tho
It Is under his management that trolley par.
ties are encouraged to hire the illuminated cars
for evening trips. buffet and parlor cars for day
or night trips and that trolley tea parties, troll
ley suhcre parties. and all sorts OF Social troll
the trolley business is growing rapidly and more
will be told Of 1t another time In THE Sun.
There is ono other trolley road in Brooklyn
which Is important as q pleasure road. TRiI
is the .Coney Island and Brooklyn road which
West BrRhton VICE. Ws Sa also ro@
the Hamilton Ferry 1t skirts Prospect Park
on its way and takes passengers all the way
out to west Brighton for o cents on week days,
but 1t charges 10 cents on holidays and Sun.
days. It cuts little figure, however In the great
internal business of Brooklyn. nor does the De
Kalb avenue line, as compared with tho two
big systems.
Tho weather.