The sun., 1908-04-05
PLEASURE TRIPS By FERRY
VZRH SUBA0UEOUS VALUATIONS
eHR0UGH TIE TUBES.


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d, DinAeF n Y0uro BOld EAOugh-HOw 70
Bullh Odd HOuFs by Tabloid Travelling.
You 90 to Chicago or New Orleans or
San Ffanolsoo and can II q pleasure trips
But It takes time 20 make the, jouTnt71
and maybe you haven't got the time sie'1ss
u may bo you have only q day or pafa
Of . day, and the impulse IL 10 20 on iour-s
nsy. You may do 90 and have fun and 4
not venture far beyond the city limlte.', ~
The fsrTyboats which are on the mova1
continually in the waters hereabouts an
SWer The call Of pleasure as we'll rs serve
the usual purpose Of helping the Staten
islander or Jerseyite or Long Islander (,
home to bed and back again In the morn-y )
Ing. The subAQueoUs subwayS now haven.
part In the citys pleasure making as, Is
well - In lts business life. You may NOT ~
like the trolley car when you've got TO -
ride In It 10 get somewhere, but X you 60 NJ,
trollsyinE for the fun Of the thing II Is worth
while. Js.' ..t '..H f y
These Iutradty journeyingS give oos ~ !,
enlarged view Of New York. Tho dWehsr :
In Manhattan knows little OF Brooklyn % >
Staten Island or near Jersey, and Jet ths 5
knowledge ls we'll worth acquiring. ~
OF courss In the summer time there =
arc Coney Island and other places byNtho '
Ssa 10 which the people rush, but tho polnh
! Of these remarks Is that ell the year u tol-'
! possible 10 add 10 the interest OF life hY7s
use Of the olty's transit facilities,
When the city took over the ferry 20.
Staten Island and put on big, oomfortSblsJ ..
fast boats, New York woke up to the fact
that here was fine sea trip. Return tickes =
only dime But there are other trips for 1,
even less money, or maybe none at aiis :
! which are fully - interesting. 80
Take q concrete example: Suppose you =
have been to the matinee with the insvts
table companion Of the opposite sex ans
are in no hurry to 60 home. 90 -
! She wants and you want 10 dine scutDs =
| where new. You are both tired Of the show y
places Of Broadway, with their glare ana 4
! hiRh prices; the tables d'h6te on the stue =
streets don't appeal, and you are aweaIy
| Of what Is called Bohemia. t'' ' ."
An insplrahonl Why not dine in Hoi rs
boksn1 Surel Why not' Doesn't rail- p
road land In Hoboken2 o..
II you have mastered the current adver-si
Using you remember Phoebe Snow and the r
road OF which she is the patron saint. Bus \
most Of ali you wish 10 try the new tubes. I
There might be new sensation In passing I
under the Hudson. .''
The decision Is made, and IN few min-5s
utes you are in the tube Hoboken bsuna.' :
Somehow you can't get away from the idea''s
! that YOU are in a tube, for there is httsN
space outside OF the cars and you wonder =
| what you'd do II anything happened Bot Z
nothing does happen, and before you real y
| ize il fully you have passed beneath the -
waters and are In foreign land.
| When you we're a boy In an upstate ..'
village il was one Of the daily excitemeuts -
10 10 to the station and see the train come s.,
in and depart snoring up the valley. 50 +
here, after you have climbed up stone stair '''
WAYS and followed cavernlike passage .
vays which echo to the hurrying feet.you y
NAV stand and see trains departing onvt
jourpeys long or Journeys short and sort y
OF half want to buy ticket and go some Z
where.
But Won remember and she remembers .
that it's dinner time, and you seek out the Z
restaurant and get table from which you :
see the river and the cleaning boats go up "
and down. The ferryboats in midstreaHn "A
look like floating palaces, and II your diges-' :
tiou IL good even the shrill shrieking of the =
busy tugs seems to be harmonious
IL would be giving the railroad a tree .
advertisement 10 record the impression
made by the dinner. When it's time 10 SO p
II occurs TO you that here ia good chancs =
to cheat the soulless corporation. Just g >
little cheat--merely the fare back to New +
York. re-
II YOU walk boldly out and onto the ferry-
boat which will land you nearest your dee| :,
tinRtion no one will stop you; at least no one !,
did Maybe the ride is thrown In with tho
dinner.
ANYHOW YOU are soon ahoat and have ths ~
big boat pretty much 10 yourself. New. 4,
Jersey has already gone 20 the theatre, and 4,
| t is the hour OF the evening when few trains
| arrive. There are secluded parts OF the
| upper deck where you may smoke In peaoe
desuite the "no smoking signs; ~
New York as seen from the North River
| In mid-evening presents an interesting
picture. That especially brilliant GLOW .,
| must be Iongaore Square. There aro huge
electric signs before and behind you. which
| make easy ~ yVN Ns'' aN'
tronomy there are the stars above You
might lie pardoued for breaking into verse:
They ARE SHINING above and before and hshind YOU
The stars In the heavens. the lights ou the shore.
The eyes OF the night, all aglow to remind YOU
That man like his God, is awake evcrmcre 'e'
Your muse just gets fairly started when
yol are interrupted Your companion has
discovered a new star. IL shines red IN the y
lower heavens and you wonder at its ap@
pearance 70 long after sunset -,. - -.
| And then you discover that II r merely
LIGHT on the top Of the tower Of the Singer =
\ building. Near Il the clock face on the
Tribune tower wlnks at you like blue
moon. The boat rasps her way into tbs
sHp and the journeys done unless yop 4,
haven't tubed 10 Brooklyn YET and feel
like trying that. -
Another example, Suppose you i've In i
Bruoklyn. The suppOFition Is more thana
possible, for the figures Of the last census }.
show that II you are New Yorker the
chance OF your living in Brooklyn u Just
about one 10 three, That's Mathematics
Now suppose you drew that one chance IN
three, there you are IN Brooklyn. J.st
Now for an evenings entertainment
vou want to get out OF Brooklyn. II you
live in Brooklyn you understand just 10,
vary the inevitable trip 70 Manhattan sup-tf
pose YOU 90 10 Jersey City. .f - 'ti
The Annex has been running 30 long
that Il In lust as much an institution OF the
n II. A NHaWN -.