New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-08-02

steel was laid from the end of the Kings Coun-
ty elevated structure at the old city line, near
Union Course, to Nassau but never place
was there in the grading across the meadows
for the widely heralded boulevard to Rockaway
Beach. Some unkindly disposed people said the
whole thing was clever scheme to get the rail-
road through under pretence of a great public
service and that the magnificent drive would
never materialiZe.
The city authorities began scrutnizing Mr.
Hymns grant with a view to ascertaining what
could be done to jog his memory about the drive
in case he should forget it in his enthusiasm
about the new railroad. There didn't seem to
be any way to make him think of this feature II
I should be inconvenient to remember II, and
tlen a question of the legality of the franchise
was raised and found its way into the courts IN
the form of various injunctions, public, quasi
public and private. Mr.. Flynn had become ac-
tustomed to such tri1es during the building of
the Marcy-ave. line of his Nassau electric rail-
road system, and he smiled eXpanslVely and
continued his task of making valuable land and
deeper water with his big pump. The decl-
sions were not wholly to his liking, however
and at last the aspect of the case became SO
doubtful that he stopped his pile drivers ana
pumps pending a final decision of the more I'M
portant suits.
years. and the decisions so far rendered are
said TO have pIucked the franchise of some of
its richest pIumage. Mr.. Flynn, however, has
left by the terms of the decisions it is said, his
right TO build the railroad and enough good
things on the side-in fact, on both sides-to
encourage him to proceed. Rumor, from one
end of the New-York Venice to the other, cred
It's him with having recently awarded contracts
presaging the completion of the line and the
opening next year of the new resort
Howard Station, hamlet on piles some dis
lance out in the bay, is the present terminus Of
Mr.. Flynn's railroad. 1t is a popular bathing
resort and has the most pretentious hotel and
cottages in the city's Venice. 1t has one long
planked street about eight feet above high tide,
and at extreme low tide boasts no dry land A
walk on piles nearly quarter of a mile in
length leads from the Rockaway Beach steam
railroad to this unique village.
The most picturesque Of the villages on stills
constituting the metropolitan Venice is Ram
blersVille, situated on a tidewater creek on the
north shore of the bay about half a mile east
of Nassau Beach-to-be When the tide which
there has range approXimating four feet, is at
its lowest, there is scarcely water enough to
float q punt, but at high water sailbOats of
pretentiOus proportions come to the back doors
of the villagers, all of whom fishermen
clam diggers, oystermen or caterers to the
whms and appetites of city people who want
to go fishing or grabbing. The principal bust
ness, however, of Ramblersville is fishing, crab
bling and claiming for the New-York market
and for that reason, if for other, its daily
walk and conversation are more interesting than
those of the other villages Its picturesque foot
bridge over the creek is worth going miles to
see. Every house has a Flagstaff, and some
have three or four but flags are hoated from
most of them only Sundays and holidays
Ramblersvile goes to work too early in the
morning and too far from home to wear a lively
aspect except when there are strangers in town
and they come in goodly numbers on days when
the flags fly, for the experienced fishermen of
the hamlet are good guides for the disciples of
Izaak Walton and not above turning an
honest dollar with their boats on their days Off
Rowing a pair of amateurs to good fishing
grounds is esteemed a profitable day of rest by