New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-05-28

Jake sharp cars, are now being used as family
residences. hen coops, dog houses. COW pens and
horse stables, II is a good deal Of drop for a
proud Broadway car; iguominious finish; but
there is one consolation the old cars have-they
are not the only things that have finished igno-
rniniously career begun in the glitter of Broad
way.
When Horsecars grew 10 be too slow for
Broadway a dozen Years ago. the Bridgeport
Traction Company purchased a number Of them
For a couple Of years those broadway cars gave
Bridgeport metropolitan appearance. for the
traction company did not take the trouble to
paint out the big yellow letters that extended
the entire length Of the car on the side Broad
way" and battery Park"
When the big trolley syndicate absorbed the
Bridgeport Traction Company the road was
equipped with electricity and the old Broadway
cars were run in the big car barn yards. never
again to carry passengers.
1t was then that sam Grcar~od who is a firm
believer in the doctrine Of utilizing the waste
material as path to riches. struck upon the
idea o. buying the old broadway cars and turn
ing them into structures for human beings and
also for domestic animals A. a nominal figure
Greenrod bought a score Of those old cars. and
he moved them over 70 several vacant lots he
had at Avon Park Heights. where with the as
sistance of his boys, n shaped them over so
that they were deemed suitable for living pur-
poses The cars were raised upon stills about
four feet high. and two were placed side by
side, SO that cottage Of two rooms was formed
by cutting out one side Of each car The win
dows in the sides We're bearded up. with the ex-
ception of one for light and the doors were fitted
to swing instead Of to slide to the side
In a residence built Of two old broadway cars
at Tsarl
man and his wife and six children. And they
paid IS a month rent for the accommodations
There We're only two rooms i'm this car house in
which the family of eight Hved-one a kitchen
and the other sleeping rooul-aud vet the
mother Of that family said they lived comfort
ably and suffered no Inconvenience from being
overcrowded
GreenrOd's own house, while not made of old
Broadway cars is surrounded with the cars
His cowhOuse IS made of two ears. one placed
on top of the other. The COW lives in the lower
one, and in the upper one hay is stored for her
winter fodder. Near the covhouse stands a car
on which the word broadway" appears dis
unctly Even the exposure To- the weather for
the dozen years the car has withstood the eIe-
mentS has not completely obIiterated the marks
or identification from il. In this ear the chickens
roost at night and i'm the day the hens lay eggs
for the Greenrod family. Where once the. silk
car seats ROSTERS crow and CackIe and strut
Greenrod s house was an old fashioned one
when he bought it, and ne wanted il brought
more up to date. The house needed = bay win
dow. That would be a great addition ne
thought and it would make the living rooms
lighter SO a hole was cut in the front of The
house lust the size Of one of the old Broadway
cars Then one OF those ears was sawed in hair
lengthwiSe. II was placed in the hole that rad
been cut in the front Of the house. and then
Greenrod had a bay window in his house There
was plenty OF light in that side of his house
then, for the whole side of the car was filed
with glass and the windows were not
changed for the bay window of the house
But there was half car still left. and there
Greenrod hit upon a plan to use the other half
Of the car. He would make another bay window
in the other side of the front Of the house and
have that side as light the first side So
another hole was cut in the front OF the bouSa
and the remaining half Of the old Broadway car
nlaced In the