The sun., 1900-09-30
long ISLAND TROLLEYING:
>TNDiY TRIP or 90 NILES: COST,
INCLUDING DINNER, SI5S.
Mary Jane and hickey Take an outing on
Long Island and study the History OF
the various Places Through which
They Pass-Incidents OF the Journey.

Arise, my soul, arise,
Shake on your gloomy fearA
And try the trolley. though
a cloudy sky appears"
7, was Dckey singing last Sunday morning
and although had some doubts about going
no against a cloud. | took my umbrella and
started forth with Dlckey to see what Long
I,land looked like from trolley car.
Taking an eastbound car on Fifty-ninth
street nj Eighth avenue we rode over to Second
avenue. where We transferred to car on that
classic thoroughfare and proceeded north
ward toward Ninety second street In few
minutes We had reached Ninety-second street,
and deharking there we walked block to the
forr M tho foot Of the street which was to carry
,. over the East River TO Long Island On
Tho way over | pointed out to Dickey the hand
some Fast River Park, established for the bene-
a. of people who are not able To own farms In
tre country. and | showed her Randalls and
BBrlvnl'S islands, devoted TO the public In
,,q.ous. rcformatory and otherwise.
aI''- getting them Of the earth. putting them
on, here In the middle Of the river. Isn't it?-
AID she
Not quite, said
aRut II improves them doesn't IT," said she
"Dh, ~ course" said with confidence II
there's ane thing a reformatory institution
n
what, that smaller is land over there1" she
asked. nut impressed by my keen sarcasm.
That's Hell Gate" said |. which Gen New
ton and other people have blown up until that's
I'll tN.ra Is lrft NJ Il Gen. Newton gave IL its
lss, blow A few years ago. and he let OF so much
.,rro-ive under II that the shock was recorded
h. tho -eismpgraph down AZ Washington,
nearly two hundred and nifty miles away"
By tn., time the ferryD had landed and
rre ear was standing outside waiting As
w. moved along through the somewhat dis
Notwithstanding village Dickey asked what
place II was.
Astoria" said I. named after the Astors
~ New York Of whom you have no doubt
hoard
Huh" she sniTed there's nothing Asto-
ran about II but its name, is there'"
There wasn't and I agreed with her on that
roinr. We iourneyed along now thinking We
were ro GO clear to Flushing in one jump. but
i wa, not 10 he and NJ Woodside we were
asLei tn transfer TO the Flushing car coming
up from Long Island City.
WHY didn't you go that way'' asked Dckey.
shr rc'tishly.
Because We get more ride for our money
the other way" said | and she apoogzed AT
once because II there is anything more than
another that a trolley rider wants II is dis
tanre FOR her money.
A. Woodside there is a car barn with a clock
tower ON IL and a clock in the tower one Of
whose faces showed half past o'clock and
the other half past 2.
one night" said a man sitting behind us
who looked "a II he might be truthful when
taking 70 anybody else but his wife, "a chap
with n ag on got IN an Astoria car here 10 go
n Flushing and he noticed what time II was.
Iis went in that place there TO get drink and
when he came out he missed his car and forgot
himself wandering around looking for another
IN his vandernGs he got around to the other
face ~ that clock and he had sense enough
lefr n tell what time il was and observed that
r. was half past :. 'Thishs the worst car line
ever shaw he mumbled. 'one car at half
rasht = an no more ain half pasht q
We got n car and seat in better time than
hat. and from here on 10 Flushing We passed
through pleasant land that looked as II il
flowed with milk and garden truck. The
farm were small. hut the Long Island farmer
has learned that it isn't always tho big farm
That carries the least mortgage. and he gov
ems himself accordingly and makes money.
Long Island. said for Dickey's instruction
a We howed along, used to be part Of the main
land hut when il broke away nobody knows,
because white people did not discover il until
len when Hendrix Hudson came this way 10
500 what New York looked like At that time
va- occupied by the Delaware Indians. who
Vere very nice people Indians went and who
hated tho Indians over on Manhattan with a
deadly hate"
Is that why New Workers love Brooklyn
o. now'' asked Dickey.
Don't interrupt me-" said !, severely.
adrian BLOCK discovered that il was an island
IN 1874 on a trip mp the East River looking for
III ...rH cuts
Wa, his ship loaded with beans or brains? :
s,A"i Dckev
Brains. said |. for this Block was smart
Dutchman. His ship was burned in 1914 and
he hljlt on Manhattan Island the first ship ever
built hy a white man in the United States. The
island was known by many names to the Indians
tne most common and appropriate OF which
was Natenwske. meaning Place Of the shells.
va Quantities OF shells being found every
where. The last Indians disappeared eighty
~" wears ago. In 1929 Wouter Van Twiller.
known In Knickprbockian history as Walter
n" pouhrer. owned the first plantation in
what Is now South Brooklyn"
suppose, laid Dickcy, he was called the
p1Nn''r hrcarISo he doubted whether Brooklyn
W., q good place 10 live"
T. 20" did" said l. more than a million fine
r"1r'' can tell him to-day that he was never
nNr" mistaken in his ltre."
Nhr don't vou move over there Yourself
~rpod Dickey
To" Dutch, I continued. Ignoring her en-
'-".y. called II I.angc Eylant. which the Eng
u-H mad. INTO Long Island their legislated
h,N' "' M" l-llnd ut Nassau having failed 10
'-'|N pU 70 ~" popular taste. and Long Island
! ht> remained 10 this dHv. II Is indeed a
Iyng l,aud. Tor with 10 miles mora or less,
a. - widest. and n narrow, away NJ both ends
more arr" numerous peat bogs, from which AZ