The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1897-08-26
ENDLESS TRoLLY RIDES.
The Brooklyn Roads Give More Travel for
Five Cents Than Amy Other.
(From the New York Tribune.)

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limo place can one get more riding
for five eents-one car fare--than in
Brooklyn. In fact, one can ride con-
tinuously for week, with the exception
of changing cars in making transfers, for
one fare, if SO inclined. Previous to the
new rules by which the Brooklyn Heights
company abolished most of their transfers
on Sundays, person could by paying one
fare, swing around trolly road circle in
sort of perpetual motion that out
Keelyed Keely.
The drawback aboutsthe trolly endless
circle rides is that they do not reach to
the suburbs, and are therefore not yalu-
able as fresh-air invigorators. For in
stance, here is a circuitous ride on which
one can while away half dozen days
Take an eastbound Fulton street car,
transfer to Nostrand avenue line, thence
transfer to the Flushing avenue line at
their crossing, and from the Flushing
avenue line transfer to the Green point
avenue car, which will bring you back
to Fulton street, whence there is trans
fer to the Fulton street line again. Re-
peat this until weary. Changes can be
worked on this electric merry go-round
by taking Green or Putnam avenue cars,
also Crosstown cars and the Tompkins
avenue line. If one long ride is wanted,
with plenty of suburbs in 1t, start at
Jamaica, go to Ridgew God, transfer to
Myrtle avenue, to Court street. and at
Bush street to the line that terminates at
Ulmer park. This trip of % miles will
cost less than a quarter Of cent mile.
The Nassau electric company has sys-
tenn by which it makes circuitous riding
on its many lines impossible. The man
who pays five cent fare is entitled to one
transfer and no more. He gets his trans
fer slip when he pays his fare, and IL he
asks for another transfer when presenting
transfer slip the conductor will politely
decline. The officers say that no one who
is using their cars to go somewhere is
disconnected by this system, az they run
through cars from each terminal point to
almost every other terminal point.
There Is, however, a railroad company
in Brooklyn that will carry a passenger
for five cents until the passenger weakens
or until the company dissolves or changes
it's system. That is the Brooklyn Union
elevated company. Its between track and
junction sta lions enable one to step from
train to train without even going to the
trouble of getting transfer slips. For in
stance, few hours might be whizzed
away in the following manner: Pay a
fare at the station at the river end of
Broadway, go to the Gates avenue station
take the return train on the Lexington
avenue line to Bridge street and Myrtle
avenue, where junction platform en-
ables you to take a Fifth avenue train
from the opposite side of the platform
Ride out to Bay Ridge, and there mid
track station will enable you to take the
next train back to the city, after looking
out over the bay. This time get of at
and catch a Ridgewood train. Having
viewed the Ridgewood picnic parks, take
train back to Broadway. Walk down
stairs and take the Broadway train to
East New York. without having had any
more fares asked of you. At the East
New York terminal good view can be
obtained of Cypress Hills and its sister
| cemeteries, and, eastward, of Forest park.
Use the center platform again to catch
return train, for no one will ask any
questions. Ride back to the Bridge or
Navy street platforms and repeat in
tinitum. There is only one thing to
guard against, and that is not to run to
the bridge or Fulton ferry, as the ride
will then come TO an end. But at all the
other terminals there are center track
stations, and indeed there are many of
these scattered over the routes for pur-
poses of economy.
A railway man suggested yesterday that
if stranger struck Brooklyn at night,
with only five cents in his pocket, he
might have good seat and keep in out
Of the rain by travelling all night on the
Brooklyn Union lines.