New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-07-18
ENDLESS TROLLEY RIDES.
HOW TO GET FRESH AIR AND KILL
TIME AT LITTLE COST.

ny WATCHING TRANSFER POINTS THE LIMIT
OF A FIvE-cENT RIDE is THE ENDUR-
ANcE OF THE PAssENGER-A vACA-
TON ON THE ELEVATED ROAD
There are worse ways Of keeping cool during
such hot weather as has ruled lately than riding
ON trolley-cars. Like the bicycle, the electric
car creates a breeze for the rider or passenger
as II tears along at law-breaking speed. The
air sweeps through the open summer car With
out let or hindrance, and ones blood Is not
heated by the direct rays OF the sun and by the
work of propelling, as Is true In wheeling
And in no place one get more riding for
five cents-one carfare-than In Brooklyn. In
fact, one can ride continuously for week. with
the exception Of changing cars In making trans
fers for one fare If so inclined. Previous to the
new rules by which the Brooklyn Heights Com
pany abolished most Of their transfers on sun
days a person could, by paying one fare, swing
around a troley-road circle in sort of perpet-
ual motion that out-Keelyed Keely.
The drawback about the trolley endless circle
rides Is that they do not reach to the suburbs,
and are therefore not valuable as fresh-alr IN
yigorators For instance. here is crcuitous
ride on which one can while away half dozen
daysi Take an eastbound Fulton-st. car, trans
fer to Nostrand- ave line thence transfer to the
Flushing-ave line at their crossing. and from
the Flushing line transfer to the Green
point-ave car which will bring you back to
Fulton-st where there is transfer to the Full
ton-st. line again Repeat this until weary.
Changes can be worked on this electric merry
go-rOund by taking Green or Putnam ave cars,
also Crosstown cars and the Tompkins-ave line
If one long ride is wanted, with plenty of sub
urbs in it, start at Jamaica, go to Ridgewood,
transfer to Myrte-ave., to Court-st., and at
BUSIEST TO the line that terminates at ulmer
Park This trip Of twenty-five miles VIII cost
less than a quarter Of cent a mile.
The Nassau Electric Company has system
by which it makes circuitous riding on its many
lines impossible The man who pays fve-cent
fare is entitled to transfer and no more. He
gets his transfer slip when he pays his fare. and
IL he asks for another transfer when presenting
a transfer slip the conductor will politely de-
cline The officers say that no one who Is using
their cars to go somewhere Is disconnected by
this system. as they run through cars from each
terminal point to almost every other terminal
point
The longest ride that he taken for five
cents on the Nassau lines is that from Canarse
to West Brighton, distance of about eighteen
miles. The transfer is made at Rockaway ave.
and Bergen-st
There IS, however. railroad company In
Brooklyn that will carry A passenger for nve
cents until the passenger weakens or until the
company dlssolves or changes its system. That
is the Brooklyn-Cnion Elevated Con pany. It's
between track and junction stations enable one
TO step from train 10 train without even going
to the trouble of getting transfer slips. For in
stance a few hours might be whizzed away IN
the following manner: Pay fare at the station
at the river end Of Broadway. go to the Gates
ave- station, take the return train on the Lex
ington-ave line to Brdge-st. and Myrtle-aVe
where q junction platform enables you 10 take
a Fifth ave 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 off at the Navy-st
and Myrtle-ave. station and catch 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
York terminal a good Wow can be obtained Of
Cypress Hills and its sister cemeteries, and
eastward Of Forest Park. Use the centre plat
form again to catch return train. for no one
will ask any questions. Ride back to the Bridge
or Navy-st platforms and repeat ad infinitum
There Is only 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 entre-track
stations and indeed there many of these
scattered over the routes for purposes of econ
omy.
A railroad man suggested yesterday that II a
stranger struck Brooklyn at night with only
Ave 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