The New York herald., 1921-03-06

must use tho elevated service TO get
anywhere The receiver feels II to be
Just 10 ask second fare on the Broad
way line 80 Alabama avenue. This
would help the jamaica line, too. he
saws The Livonia avenue Eastern Park
way subway has brought some measure
OF relief 10 the southern part OF East
New York. Boards OF trade in East
New York are considering the situation.
The Franklin avenue and Smith street
lines do not pay The Franklin avenue
Is another crosstown line. running over
the Williamsburg Bridge through Wythe
avenue TO Franklin avenue, across town
to Ocean and Parks!de avenues and the
Prospect Park Circle at Coney Island
avenue. II brings carload after carload
from Manhattan to Prospect Park in the
summer months. In those months. II
Is run as a through service to Conoy
Island, two fares being collected. II
is used also by baseball fans to get to
Ebbets Field. 1t is used by Brooklyn
ties TO get TO and from business via
the Williamsburg Bridge, ard by those
who work n the Flushing avenue busi-
ness section. The deficit on the line
last November was 37,606.27. Its discon-
tinuance would strain the Lorimer street
and Nostrand avenue cars. The receiver
avenue case were followed, a second
fare could be charged on a Franklin
avenue line trip to Concy Island at
the Park Circle. the charge being cents,
or cents a mile. on the private right
OF way from Park Circle to Coney ISL
and.
What the receiver says OF increased
fares on the Franklin avenue line applies
to the Smith street line also. This line
operates over the Brooklyn Bridge
through Smith street to Ninth street,
over to Coney Island avenue to Coney
Island. Its summer traffic is or the
heaviest. This line and the Vanderbilt
avenue line. which Is also under fire,
are two OF the Park slopes roads TO
Manhattan, converging at the Brooklyn
Bridge after widely divergent courses
They run at deficit. according to the
receiver. The Smith street lines income
FOR November was S57,I92.31 and its
operating expenses sS0.57577, the deficit
being S22,7S3, the greatest Of any OF tho
losing lines.
The Eighty-slxth street line is about
two miles long and runs from Bath
avenue and Bay Nineteenth street, Bath
Beach, to Eighty-sixth street and Fifth
svenue. Residents OF the Dykcr
Heights section use this line to get to
the subway, as do the people of lower
Bath Beach II the line is taken away
residents will face long walks. as much
as q half mile, to the subway or the
West End elevated line, the Thirteenth
avenue car line being an unsatisfactory
service. Dyker Heights is composed Of
one and two family houses and property
values will drop II car service is not
obtainable. The residents realize the
situation.
City's Proposal Opposed.
And there are other lines whose with
drawal will be an irritating inconven-
ience to Brooklynites, such as the West
End line. which runs along New Utrecht
avenue, and the Eighth avenue line,
which goes through Thirty ninth street
to the ferry there. The Broadway shut
tie in Williamsburg, which operates be-
tween the ferry and the Bridge Plaza.
Is "a direct loss" Tho residents think
It Is no good. anyway.
The Ocean avenue line. which once
ran proudly from the Broadway ferry
across town and then sped along pleas
ant Ocean avenue to Sheepshead Bay.
is now a mere shadow Of its former self
and in a sickly condition, too. 1t oper-
ates between Farragut road. Flatbush.
to Sheepshead Bay. Thousands have
gone to Sheepshead Bay in other days
by this route.
The Utica avenue line. running from
Church avenue to avenue N. about two
miles, consists OF little shuttle car
which runs. according to people who
live in this open section. three times an
hour. A real estate concern advertises
at Church and Utica avenues that this
line is being rebuilt at our expense to
way subway to Hyde, Park, East Flat
bush and Rugby"
The Metropolitan avenue line used to