The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-05-29
TWO HOURS TO OCEAN
TRANSINSULAR TROLLEY LINE
 WILL DO IT.

Port Jefferson and Patchogue wiII Bo
 Connected by Trolley, and Fast
 Steamers Will Ply the sound and
 Great South Bay-Long Contemplated
 DenI Ready for Realization.
 The building of trolley line from
 Port Jefferson to Patchogue, L. T.,
 which has been talked of for the past
 ten years, now seems probable of real
 ization. The franchises necessary for
 the building of road such as that
 proposed are owned by the Port Jeff
 ferson Traction company, in which
 number of Bridgeport men are inter
 ested. A conference was held at Port
 Jefferson recently between the direc-
 tors of the traction company and the
 United States Contracting company of
 New York city, relative to the building
 of the road and the carrying out of a plan which designs the changing of the | long stretch of beach on the shore of | Great South Bay into series of sum- mer beaches similar to Coney Island, | Brighton and Manhattan beaches. The
 design is to make the South Bay Beach
 a pleasure resort for residents of Con- necticut
 | The road which it is designed to fol-
 low is practically parallel with the
 bicycle path now extending across the I island, and well known tOtcyclists. The l trolley road will go to@the south side
 of the island by the shortest possible
 route, accommodations for the resi-
 dents of the island being contemplated | by a series of branches running east and west from Port Jefferson on tha north shore andtfrom Patchogue on the south shore. The main idea of tho transinsular trolley as the present plans are laid out is to get persons from Port Jefferson across the IS miles of island to Patchogue in the shortest possible space of time. The road will be built for cars which will run at high rate of speed.
 Beginning on the south shore of Long Island, at a point near Quogue, and running westwardl to the south of Bay shore, shutting off the Atlantic ocean from the island is a stretch of firm, sandy beach 40 miles in length, rarely more than a mile in width and usually only half that. The strip is known as Fire Island or Great South Beach, and the water enclosed betwen the beach and the main island, a big body 40 miles in length and averaging about five miles in width, is Great South Bay Fire Island, not the settlement of that name at the western extremity of the island but the whole long beach, is designed as summer resort for the residents of the Nutmeg State, and plans as they are at present contem- plate trip from this city to Fire Is,- and, a distance of about 35 miles, in two hours.
 The plan is an extensive one, for it contemplates the running of line of fast steamers from this city, New Ha- ven and other places on the Connecti- cut shore to Port Jefferson, the con- struction of trolley road across the island and the running of line of light draught steamers from the trolley terminal to Great South beach. The ad- Vantages of the beach are many, and it is thought the project can be made eminently successful The bathing fa- cilities offered by the morrow beach are many. Those who enjoy surf bathing and wish to swim in the ocean can find that pastime on one side of the morrow beach while those who wish to bathe in quiet waters can find that pastime in the waters of Great South bay.
 A fast steamer can make the trip from the Connecticut shore to Port Jefferson in an hour. The 15-mile trip across the island it is estimated can be made in about the same length of time, and the trip from Patchogue to Great South beach will take about 30 n1n- utes
 In speaking of the project the Brook lyn Eagle says:
 Plans for the development of the cross island trolley line between Pat chogue and Port Jefferson and uIti- mate connections to the east and west on the north and south sides of the isl- and were discussed at a private con- ference here between the directors of the old Patchogue and Port Jefferson Traction company and the United States Contracting company of IS Wall street, Manhattan, who have the fran chises from the Patchogue village trus- tees and the Brookhaven highway com- nissioners for the building of the cross sland route.
 "The new company will not only run l cross island trolley between the shores of the Great South Bay, and Long Island Sound, but will eventually build lines of trolleys along the north shore, east and west from Port Jeffer- son, and along the south shore, east md west from Patchogue, with the in- ention in the future to connect with he trolley roads now building at the vest end of Suffolk county.
 At the meeting the incorporation of new company to be known as the Suffolk County Railway company with capital stock of about $S00,000 was lecided upon. Bridgeport Standard 3RITAIN'S SPANISH WAR POLICY.