Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1899-08-02


PECT PARK.
of New York, which is fairly correct
designation, yet not wholly So With
its population Of over million people
Brooklyn is city on its own account,
and has its own distinctive institutions
and landmarks, which no process of
consolidation can wholly efface.
Brooklyn is not inaptly referred to as
.'Trolleyville, and we who live here
are frequently called "trolley dodgers.
And that's no libel. We do have to
dodge trolley cars, for their tracks COM
pletely gridiron the city. Within the
borough of Brooklyn there are fully 400
miles of electric railway track. The
electric lines are mainly owned and
operated by the Brooklyn Rapid Transit
company, which also operates the ele-
waited railroads. With the exception of
a comparatively small independent line
the Coney Island and Brooklyn rail
road-this company has monopoly of
the passenger traffic of Brooklyn. I'm
der normal conditions the various sur
face and elevated lines daily carry $780,,
600 passengers considerable percent
age of whom are conveyed over the
bridge to and from the borough of Man
haitian. About 2, 200 cars are operated
daily, making Is, 900 trips and covering
in the aggregate 200, 900 miles. These
figures do not include the Long Island
railway, which does a large local pas
senger business within the city limits.
In the matter of parks and public
grounds Brooklyn surpasses most cities.
Within its corporate bounds 1000 acres
are set apart as public parks The most
noted of these is Prospect park, in
which there are $50 acres. A tract of
$50 acres between Ridgewood and Rich
mond Hill was recently acquired by the
park department at cost of about $s,-
600, 900, and is designated as Brooklyn
Forest park. An effort is now being
made, with fair prospect of success, to
establish park at Coney Island, COM
prising something like 400 acres stretch
ing along the seashore from Sea Gate to
Manhattan Beach.
Brooklyn might almost be called a
summer resort, as within its borders
are so many of the most delightful and
widely known seaside places-Manhat-
tan Beach. Brighton, Bath Beach, Rock
away, Far Rockaway and the always
''great and only" Coney Island.
Stretching from Coney Island to As
toria, on Long Island sound, Brooklyn
has over 90 miles of water front, along
nearly all of which the depth is suffi-
cient to allow the approach of the lar
gest ocean going ships. Its facilities for
wharfage and storage are unsurpassed
either in extent or convenience by any
port in the world. Just back from the
water front on the East river is Walla-
bout market, one of the largest markets
in the world. covering % acres of
ground, the site and buildings having
cost about $4,000, 600. The business
here transacted aggregates $50, 900, 600
year.
Brooklyn is termed 1.-The City Of
Homes and Churches, and the term is
not misapplied. Here is the most noted
church in this country-Plymouth.
made famous by Henry Ward Beecher.
There are in Brooklyn 500 churches, en-
bracing every shade of religious belief
1t is likewise city of schools and IL
braries and benevolent institutions.
Aside from the public schools. there are
here about 80 educational institutions
of various kinds. There are 1875 hospi
tails, dispensaries and asylums. Brook
lyn has doubtless the most historic and
beautiful burial ground in this country
Greenwood cemetery-where rest the
ashes of many of the most distinguished
people of Brooklyn and New York.
SAM II. Coon