Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1914-02-08
BROOKLYN IS A
Large EXPANSE
q o t h am Knickerbocker
Writes Interestingly of
Borough.
RUN BY THE "B. r. IT,
Brooklyn Bridge Has Made the City
Fam0Ns-AlsO Famous For Other
Things.
RUN BY THE "B. r. T."
B GOTHAM KN1CKERBOCKER

B GOTHAM KNICKERBOCKER
New ork, Feb. 7.-Brooklyn is a
large expanse Of territory lying ad-
jacent to New York and on the route
to Coney Island. At one time it was
City, (but now it is borough,
having been very anxious to sink it's
identity in that of New York Brook
Ign has regretted it ever since. The
Borough of Brooklyn is supposed to
be the property Of the Free and In
dependent Citizenry Of the Municipal
ity of New York, but that is a pop
ular error that is pardonab1e. In
reality Brooklyn Is the exclusive
property of the Brooklyn Rapid
Transit Company. sometimes called
the "B. r. r." but more often called
things that it would be poor taste
to repeat here.
Exhibiting undeveloped territory
should be a commendable deed. Men
who have opened up virgin lands have
been called pioneers. The Il. R. T.
didn't exactly find Brooklyn an url-
developed territory, but it has been
exploiting Brooklyn for many years,
nevertheless. 1stensibly the B. R. +.
is a corporation organized to run
street cars and elevated trains at
regular intervals through the streets
Of Brooklyn. 1t runs the street cars
and trains-also, it runs the Borough
Of Brooklyn-but it doesn't run the
cars at anything resembling regular
intervals.
The Brooklyn Bridge has made
Brooklyn famous. OTIS Of people
know about the Brooklyn Bridge, but
they don't know whether it runs
from New York to Jersey City or to
Staten Island. I can reliably inform
them that It does run to Brooklyn.
The Brooklyn Bridge has tracks for
elevated trains and street cars, and
! every once In a while street car
or an elevated train may be seen
crossing II. The Bridge has 9 wide
promenade. This is for the benefit
og Brooklymitas. compelled to alight
from all elevated train or street car
during q block. Brooklyn Bridge has
signal system known to railroad
men az block system" Every
time one Of the lamps lights there Is
a block. The lamps are lighted most
Of the time. Brooklymites are en-
thusiastic walkers, especially on
snowy days. when the B. R. T. gives
vent to an unearthly supernatural
groan and just sort OF lays down and
dies.
New orkers visit Brooklyn a great
deal, especially in the summer. when
they are compelled to pass through it
to reach Coney Island and Brighton
Beach. This. of course. can't be
helped, az the b. R. T. has q mon
opoly OF Coney Island traffic. There
is another line running to Coney Is-
land. but nobody ever rides 0 it, be-
cause it affords one Of the uncertain
ty and excitement attached to trip
on the B. r. T. The gambling in
stinct seems to be natural to Man
hattanites. Despite all this it really
is reasonably certain that If you get
on--IF YOU GET ON-a B. R. 7.
Coney Island Express, you eventu-
ally will arrive at Coney Island. !
say If YOU GET ON. because that
Is the hardest part Of the whole
thing, and ct the same time the most
exciting.
All great football scrimmages.
Mexican war skirmishes and New
York subway brushes pale into in
Significance when COMPARED to a
crowd boarding q Coney Island Ex-
press on a warm afternoon in Aug
ust. Only a futurist or cubist could
ever paint picture truly represent.
ing it.
! Besides the B., R., 7. the visitor
to Brooklyn should be shown the
churches. cemeteries and hreweries
for which the city is famous. Almost
all elevated and trolley lines in
Brooklyn end at . cemetery. On the
way they pass breweries and church.
es, and in one or two instances, the
end OF the route boasts brewery
with beer garden attachment as we'll
as q cemetery. This makes it con-
venient for those who visit the Gem
etery. Brooklyn is not much In the
manufacturing line. Its principal
products are babies and rubber
plants. This is because Brooklyn IL
essentially,a residential city. Newly
married couples who are not sui
ficiently well of to enjoy honey
moon aboard to hide their bushes