The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-07-08
EASY WAYS TO BROOKLYN.
THE HEED or THOSE VINO LIVE
TEERk A vi THOSE WHO WANT TO.

oui sister lily OF Ooklyn has to offer as a
place for homes for persons OF moderate means,
who msiSe up 30 large n proportion of the popu'
iotion OF the mctr polls, the wonder 10 not that
Broo,dyu has grown to n population OF LAO
600. hut thnt she has not already passed the two
milliA n mark.
who is there that is not unpleasantly familiar
with tho worry, crush anddiscomfort OF the rush
hours whom working mon, and women are COM
inn to the lowcr part of New York to factories
and offices and getting hack again ut night,
nftor n worrying day of lal'or. How they crowd
the TRANSPORTATION lines Of every kind and de-
scription, Every working day in tho year great
streams OF people come into tho busy parts OF
tnia CITY from cvcry direction. There are the
tans of thousands from suburban towns in New
Jersey: other tho usands from the north, who
como by rail from the newly annexed district ana
tho towns beyond in Westchestera and out oward
Connocticut; thousands more from the district
which the Long Is, md Railroad taps, and another
inpour over the sta ten Island ferry. Then, most
important Of all, ara the hundreds OF thousands
who have homes IN New York city itself and
have to travel on the elevated trains and the
nurface cars of the metropolitan Street Railway
Company and down Third avenue.
whv Ia Il. then, that a large proportion of
these persons who now ride dangling from car
straps to and from their homes. and finally when
they are arrived at homo try to make believe
that they are COInlOEtdniOl III iuihbSu h"SS' "a
stoad of having whole houses to themselves. do
,ot migrate to tho houses of Brooklyn, where
every one may have II grass plot or n flower
garden TO themselves and breathe the salty air
from the nearby ocean.
There IA little doubt that the most important
reason Is to be found in the discomfort and eX-
pense of the present arrangements for getting
across tho East River. Once in Brooklyn, there
arc plenty of car lines, elevated. trolley, and
-ltl iii IL H. mr. m hn1
destination, and do the work for II single fare OF
Ave cents. At a casual glance it would seem as
IL there were already means enough to cross
the East River. Besides the great Brooklyn
bridge, there are ferryboats, which leave
from many parts OF the water 'front.'
There Is the Thirty-fourth Street Ferry to Long
Island City. the Brooklyn and New York Ferry
Company, which runs boats from Twenty-third
street, Grand street and Roosevelt street to
Broadway, williamsburg. and from Grand
street in this city to Grand street in Williams
burg; the Nassau Ferry Company, which
runs boats from Houston street to Grand
street.; the Tenth and Twenty-third Street
Ferry Company, which operates boats from
Twenty!third and Tenth streets to Green
point avenue; the Union Ferry Company, which
has lines from Catharine street to Main street,
from Fulton street, New York, to Fulton street,
brooklyn, from Wall street to Montague street,
and from. Whitehall street to ATLANTIC avenue
SnT from whitehall street to Thirty:ninth
street in Brooklyn. The ferry companies do
nSs tell how @ earFy ts Snily Of b shoq It IS Of great Past
army. Every one who thinks OF going to Brook.
Ign to live ,1 feels u however, NV ip rs nsar ta Z f enrE
such a way of getting home Is but a makeshitt:
It means an an S extra fare fare a and I ix this sac cSI waS. e sea
then there is a scramble at the other side Tor a
The natural route, and the one that should
have every advantage in its favor, is the Brook,
lyn bridge. This great highway. quilt as SONG
offer them a comfortable solution of the prob
lem; but does it'll Alas! it does not.
sengers, and no one can justlyeay now that the
tim - its duty TO the public so far as merely
getting tSe people across the great structure Is
ming at 81 seconds Roadway in the rush hours
and It viii be possible with the equipment now
provided to increase the number Of trains &c
the sn present schedule about 25,2oo, people
an hour can be be t II o5S s6 S boSr th With car !
45-second schedule. But when these PEG
pie, arrive at the BROOKLYN end of tn
them, except the few who walk home. has t.
take himself on his own legs to some other trans
bie in the busy hours is wild and w~earying
Those who 70 home on the e. elevated crn,Sd I ans
part part in hae% two direS Sue for sA' the s'S stairw %y1
leading respectively, to the Kings Count!
10 Snd db sT le2eI or e shs fourth f01 fooT aha Of fr ssrf S5tmIins
buildings, walk over long passageways, thr9ugi
the re std fea,l ways pysb T Sr pise sasf ie tb 5ef teain nol'
Those bound for to ley cars are even worse of
They tght their way to other stairwaEs; dGsce1'
where they wait, for their respective cars. TIL
scene at such q, busy hour at Fulton street, OF
posite the bridge. Is exciting. and a strange
car, and that somebody is not kille,
down, Fulton street in a string as clos
together as they can be run. and yet every pei
cars before they can, get aboard. It is better a
at the car yard beside the bridge. but there car
only with the flow of traffic reySrssf
persons cross the bridge in the ears and NOR
than 100000 of these have to make the labor
trolley cars, Roughly speaking. about, 5000
Of these climb to the elevated roads and 1000
That there Is no necessity for this interruI
ton In the stream of transit Is recognized by a
and the officials OF the elevated and trole
roads. Propositions have been made by I'll
rreaisp iG tha Ss S%% YorR end 70 Of fF eRs S4idse en whe =
tho people could enter them and be carried rigt
through TO their destinations.
More than this. the transportation companit
have agreed to pay al the expenses Of maxim
the the bTidss a Toll hi for every eS oG a IND to S1, SaEFy 20 Gv pa
passenger from New York to his destination
Brooklyn for the same 5-cent fare which the
minus. OF course, they hope TO make InOnG
out OF this through getting a vast increase
business. but the people would derive an IN
menso direct benefit from it at once in mont
saving, and Brooklyn could not help getting
great increase of residents. On the preset
basis of traffic. tho daily saving of money fl
bridge fares to 100. 600 persons would be So OF
a day or 81 100000 a yeas for working ia,
alone.
According to President William Berri of II
Bridge Trustees, all that nov stands in the way
bringing about this desirable result is "A solutiC
Of the engineering problems which the joint u
OF the bridge by its own cara, the elevated chi
and the trolley cars involves. Two months NJ
a.general agreement was. reached, whereby Il
elevated roads consented to pay II cents p
round trip for each car sent over the bridge al
the trolley roads were TO pay ., cents a car, al
President BeTri WIS authorized to sign contrac
with the roads. Then the engineering dihicu
ties stopped negotiations for the time.
u; At the irou bEook!F IN enc ayav 81 thG po bridge sI hhe re-
branches Ia Hillary street and bring their trail
upon tho bridge tracks there. Each of the