The morning news., 1897-08-29
ENDLESS TROLLY RIDES.
Brooklyn Roads Give More Travel
For Five Cents Than Any Other.

From the New York Tribune.
In no place can one get more riding for
. cents-one car fare-than in Brooklyn.
In fact, one can ride continuously for q
week, with the exception of changing cars
in making transfers for one fare, if so
| inclined. Previous 10 the new rules by
which the Brooklyn Heights Company
abolished most of their transfers on Sun
days, a person could, by paying one fare,
swing around a trolley road circle in a
sort of perpetual motion that out Keely
ed Keey.
The drawback about the trolley endless
circle rides is that they do not reach to
the suburbs, and are therefore not valu-
able as fresh-air invigorators. For in
stance, here is a circuitous ride on which
one can while away half a dozen days.
Take an east bound Fulton street car,
transfer to NOstrand avenue line, thence
transfer to the Flushing avenue line at
their crossing, and from The Flushing ave
nue. line transfer to the Green point ave-
nue. car, which will bring you back TO
Fulton street, where there is a transfer TO
the Fulton street line again. Repeat this
until weary. Changes can be worked on
this electric merry -go-round by taking
Green or Putnam avenue cars, also Cross
town cars and The Tompkins avenue line.
If one long ride is wanted, with plenty of
suburbs in il, start at Jamaica, go to
Rs1gewOod, transfer 90 Myrtle avenue,
10 court street ana al BuSu street 70 lIc
line that terminates al Timer park. This
trip of p miles will cost less than quar-
ter of a cent a mile.
The Nassau Electric Company has
system by which il makes circuitous rid
ing on it's many lines impossible. The man
who pays a 5-cent fare is entitled TO one
transfer and no more. He gels his trans
fer slip when he pays his fare, and if he
asks for another transfer when presenting
transfer slip the conductor viii polite
ly decline. The officers say that no one
who is using their cars to go somewhere
is discomm oded by ihis system. as they
run through cars from each terminal point
to almost every other terminal point.
There Is, however, railroad company
in Brooklyn that will carry a passenger
for cents until the passenger weal1ens
or until the company dissolves or changes
its system. That is the Brooklyn Union.
Elevated Com pany Its between uack and
junction statb)us enable one 40 step from
one train with out even going 10 the trou-
BILE of getting Sransfer slips. For instance,
a few hours might be whzzed 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 re-
turn train OH tie Lexington avenue line
TO Bridge street and -dyrtie avenue, where
a junction platform enables you TO take a
Fifth avenue train from the opposite side
OF the platform. Ride out to Bay Ridge,
and there a mid-Grack station viii enable
you to take the next train back 10 the
city, after looking cut over the bay. This
time get off at che Navy street and Myr-
tie avenue station and catch a Ridgewood
train. Having viewed the Ridgewood pic
mic parks, take Uaiu back 70 Broadway.
walk downstairs and take the Broadway
train to East New York, without having
had any more fares asked OF you. At the
East New York terminal a good view can
be obtained of Cypress Hills and its sister
cemeteries, and eastward of Forest park.
Use the center patfod m again to catch a
return train, for no ona will ask any ques-
tons. Ride back to Tie Bridge or Navy
street platforms and re peat ad infinitum.
There is only one thing 10 guard against,
and that is not to run TO the bridge or
Fulton ferry. as the ride Will then come
10 an end. But at all the other terminals
there are center-traek stations, and, in
deed. there are many Of these scattered
over the route for purposes Of economy.
A railway man suggested yesterday that
If a stranger struck Brook Ign at night,
with only cents i'm his pocket, he might
have "A good seat and keep in out of the
rain by travelling all night on the Brook
lyn-Union lines.