EIGHTH REVISED EDITION 3 TROLLEY EXP mm IN NEW YORK, NEW JERSEY AND NEW ENGLAND TROLLEY TRIPS TO BOSTON AND PHILADELPHIA Price, 10c. mm Brooklyn EaA.e Library, No 65 c» $1.00 Will Pa^y for ©l Year's Subscription to the Eagle Libraries They are Heing Issued at Frequent Internals And each one treats of some topic of essential interest to everyone •Send in your subscription nobv and receive them for a year TbrooKlytt Daily Eagle SUBURBAN TROLLEY LINES IN NEW YORK SUBURBAN TROLLEY LINES IN NEW JERSEY AND STATEN ISLAND Copyrighted by Bullinger's Monitor Guide 1904— 8th Revised Edition Trolley Exploring AN ELECTRIC RAILROAD GUIDE to Historic and Picturesque Places About New York, New Jersey, I and New England Compiled by CROMWELL CHILDE The Long Island Field Over New Jersey Through Revolutionary Westchester On Staten Island In Connecticut In Massachusetts In Rhode Island TOGETHER WITH THE TRIPS TO BOSTON AND PHILADELPHIA With Maps PUBLISHED by the Brooklyn Daily Eagle OL XVIII., No. 7, SERIAL No. 65, OF THE EAGLE LIBRARY Entered at the Brooklyn-New York Post Office as second class matter. (EIGHTH EDITION) Copyrighted, 1904. -p. 2 Trolley Exploring Hamilton Tru^t Company 191 MONTAGUE STREET Real Estate Exchange Building TELEPHONE Nos. 2935, 2936 Main BROOKLYN, N. Y Capital, .... $500,000 Surplus and Undivided Profits, 900,000 INTEREST ALLOWED ON BALANCES Higher rates of interest allowed on Certificates of Deposit payable on demand or upon specified dates. This Company is a legal depository for Court and Trust Funds, and is authorized to act as Administrator, Executor, Trustee, Guardian for Individuals and Reg- istrar of Corporate Stocks and Bonds. The Deposits of Individuals, Firms, Banks and Corpora- tions are solicited. Wills legally prepared and safely kept. SILAS B. DUTCHER, President. WILLIAM BERRI, Vice-President. WALTER C. HUMSTONE, 2d Vice-Pres. GEORGE HADDEN, 3d Vice-Pres. and Sec'y ROBERT S. GIRLING, Ass't Secretary. INDEX. Map of Connecticut, Massachusetts and Rhode Island, with side trips, and including the route from New York to Boston, and from Boston to Providence and Fall River page 68 Map of New Jersey Folded in front " Westchester County, N. Y " Long Island " Staten Island, N. Y The Route to Boston page 67 " " Philadelphia, with map pages 84 85 PAGE Acquackanonk, N. J 22 Albany, N. Y 89, 90, 92 Allenhurst. N. J 30 Amherst, Mass 81 Ansonia, Conn 74 Arliugton, Mass 83 Arlington. N. J ...12, 23 Arrochar, S. 1 87 Arthur Kill, S. 1 15 Arverne, L. 1 43 Asbury Park, N. J 30 Astoria, L. 1 89 Avon, N. J 30 Baldwins, L. 1 45 Ballston Spa, N. Y 89 Bartow, N. Y 54 Bath Beach, L. I. . . .31, 32, 33 36 Bayonne, N. J 15 Bay Ridge, L. 1 33 Bays water, L. 1 44 Bedford Park, N. Y 51 Belden Point, N. Y 55 Belle Haven, Conn 61 Belleville, N. J 12, 22 Belmar, N. J 30 Bensonhurst, L. 1 33 Bergen Beach, L. 1 31, 38 Bergen Point, N. J .11, 12, 15, 23, 86 Berkshire, Mass 81 Beverly, Mass 83 Black Rock, Conn 74 Bloomfield, N. J 12, 21 Blythebourne, L. 1 35 Bogota, N.J 28 Borough Park, L. 1 35 Boston, Mass. 47, 61, 69, 70, 81, 83, 84, 92 Boston Common, Mass 83 Boston Post Road, N. Y. . . . 52 Boston Subway 82 83 PAGE 51 Botanical Garden, N. Y. . .48, Bound Brook, N. J.. 11, 12, 17, 18, 85 Bowery Bay, L. 1 31, 39 Boy n ton Beach, N. J 16 Bradley Beach, N. J 30 Brain tree, Mass 92 Branch Brook Park, N. J. . . . 21 Brick Church, N.J... . 12, 21 Bridgeport, Conn. .71,74,75, 76 Brighton Beach, L.I... 31 37. 38 Brighton Beach Race Track 38 Bristol, Pa 13,17,84, 85 Brockton, Mass 92 Bronxdale, N. Y 48, 53 Bronx Park, N. Y 51, 53 Bronx River, N. Y 52 Bronx ville, N. Y 59 Brookfield, Mass 82 Brooklyn Jockey Club, L. I. . 34 Buffalo, N. Y 92 Burlington, N. J 17, 84, 85 Byram River, N. Y 64 Caldwell, N. J 12, 21 Caldwell, N.Y 90 Calvary Cemetery, L. 1 40 Carlstadt, N. J 25 Cambridge, Mass 83 Camden, N. J 84, 85 Canarsie, L. 1 31,32, 38 Casanova, N. Y 53 Castleton, N. Y 90 Castleton Corners, S. 1 88 Catskill Mountains, N. Y 90 Cedarhurst, L. 1 44 Central Bridge, N. Y 50 Charlestown, Mass 83 Chelsea, Mass 83 Cherry Hill, N. J 25, 26 Cheshire, Conn 76 Chicago, 111 92 4 Trolley Exploring THE INFORMATION BUREAUS OF THE Brooklyn Daily Eagle Will give information, routes and rates for Trips by Rati Trips by Water Trips by Trolley EAGLE BUILDING Washington and Johnson Sts. t Brooklyn 26 East 23d Street, New York City and all Eagle Branch Offices Index 5 PAGE Citv Island, N. Y 54, 55, 56 Cleveland, Ohio 92 Clifton, N. J 22, 25 Clifton, 8. I 87 Clovena, S. I 88 Clove Road, S. 1 88 Cohoes, N. Y 89 College Point, L. I 41 Concord, Mass 83 Concord, S. 1 88 Coney Island, L. I. .31. 32, 37, 38 Coney Island Creek, L. I 37 Coney Is. Jockey Club. L. I. . 37 Connecticut Farms, N. J 19 Connecticut Valley 78, 79 Corona, L. 1 39, 40 Cos Cob, Conn 47, 61, 65, 67 Coytesville, N. J ....12, 28 Cranford, N. J 12, 16 Creedmoor, L. I 43 Cypress Hills Cemetery, L. I. 40 Danbury, Conn 90 Darien, Conn 72, 73 Deal Beach, N.J 30 Dedhani, Mass 92 Derby, Conn 74 Detroit, Mich 92 Dobbs Ferry, N. Y 58, 61 Doylestown. Pa 85 Dunton, L. 1 43 Dunwoodie, N. Y 57 Dyker Meadow, L. 1 33 Eagle Rock, N. J 12, 20 East Brookfield, Mass 82 East Chester, N. Y ... .47. 55, 59 East Hartford. Conn 79 East Long Branch, N. J 30 East New York, L. 1 42, 43 East Rutherford, N. J 25 East Walpole, Mass 92 Eaton town, N.J 30 Echo Bay, N. Y 62 Edgemere, L. 1 43 Edgewater, N. J 28 Elberon, N. J . 30 Elizabeth, N. J 12, 15 Eliza bethport, N. J 86 Elmhurst, L. 1 40 Elmsford, N. Y 61, 65 Empire City Track, N. Y . . 50, 57 Enfield, Conn 80 Englewood, N. J 11, 28 Erie, Pa 92 Fairfield, Conn 72, 73 Fairport, Ohio 92 Fairview, N. J 25 PAGE Fall River, Mass 69, 84, 92 Farmington, Conu 78 Far Rockaway, L.I. .31,41,43 44 Featherbed Lane, N. Y 50 Flatbush, L. I 37 Flatlands, L. 1 32, 37, 38 Flushing, L. 1 31, 39, 40, 41,43, 44 Fordham, N. Y 48, 51 Forest Hills, Mass 82, 92 Forest Hill, N. J 22 Fort Edward, N. Y 89 Fort Hamilton, L. I .... 31 , 32, 33 Fort Lafayette, L. 1 33 Fort Lee, N. J 11. 12, 28 Fort Schuyler, N. Y 54, 56 Fort Wadswortb, S. 1 87 Franklin, N. J 12, 22 Freeport, L. 1 31,44, 45 Garden City. L. 1 44 Garfield, N. J 23 Garretson, S. 1 87 Garrison's Lane, L. 1 43 Glen Island, N. Y 62 Glen Ridge, N. J 12, 21 Glens Falls, N. Y 89 Gloucester, Mass 83 Grant City, S. 1 87 Gravesend, L. 1 34 Greenwich, Conn. 47, 61, 62, 64 67 Greenwood Cemetery 32, 40 Grove Street, N. J 21 Guttenberg, N. J 27 Hackensack, N. J 11,23, 25 Haledon, N. J 25 Hammels, L. 1 43 Harrison, N. Y 61 Hartford, Conn . . 71 , 76, 77, 78, 79 Hasbrouck Heights, N. J 23 Hastings, N. Y 47, 58, 59, 61 Hempstead, L. I 31, 44 High Bridge, N. Y 48, 57 Highland Avenue, N. J 20 Hillcrest, N. J 21 Hingham, Mass 83 Hoboken. N. J 24 Holland Hook, S. I 86 Hollands, L.I 43 Hollis, L. 1 43 Hollywood, N. J 30 Holy oke, Mass 81 Homestead, N. J 12, 24 Homewood, L. I 35 Housatonic River, Conn 74 Howland Hook, S. 1 86 Hudson, N. Y 90 Hunt's Point, N. Y 53 6 Trolley Exploring Summer Printing We print, in the very best form, every kind of work for hotels, boarding houses, bathing pavilions, including Bills of Fare Menu C^rds Tickets Envelopes Note Paper Booklets At special low summer prices= = Tlrooklyn Eagle Job Printing Department Eagle 'Building Fourth Floor Index. « PAGE Indian Harbor, Conn 65 Indian Orchard, Mass 81 Ingleside, L. I 43 Interlaken, N. J 30 Interstate Park, L. 1 43 Inverness, N. Y 59 In wood, L. 1 43 Irvington, N. J 12 Irvington, N. Y 58, 59, 61 Isles of Shoals, Mass 83 Jamaica, L. I 31. 41 , 43, 44 Jamaica Meadows, L. 1 43 Jerome Avenue, N. Y 50 Jerome Park, N. Y 50 Jersey City, N. J 15 Kearnev, N.J 23 Keyport, M.J 12, 18 Kinderhook, N. Y 90 Kingsbridge, N. Y 48, 57 Kings Highway, L. I 34 Kittery, Maine 83 Lake Compounce, Conn 78 Lake George, N. Y 89 Lakeview, N. J 22, 25 Lansing burgh, N. Y 89 Larchmont, N. Y 47, 61, 62 Larchmont Manor, N. Y. .47, 62 Laurel Hill Cemetery, L. I . . 40 Lawrence, L. I 3i, 43, 44 Lefferts Park, L. T 35 Leicester, Mass 82 Leonia, N.J 13, 28 Lexington, Mass 83 Little Falls, N. J 12. 25 Little Ferry, N. J 12, 26 Livingston, S. 1 86 Lie w elly n Park, N.J 12, 21 Lodi, N.J 23, 25, 28 Long Beach. L. I 45 Long Branch, N. J 30 Long Island City, L. 1 41 Long Meadow, Mass 79 Lowell, Mass 83 Ludlow, Mass 81 Lutheran Cemetery, L. I 40 Lynbronk, LI 31, 44, 45 Lynn, Mass 83 Mamaroneck, N. Y .47, 61 , 63, 65 Manchester, Conn 78 Manhattan Beach 31, 37 Mansfield, Mass 92 Maplewood, N. J 19, 20 Marblehead, Mass 83 Mariners 1 Harbor, S. 1 86 Marlboro, Mass 81, 82 Maspeth, L. 1 40 PAGE Maspeth Cemetery, L. I. ... 40 Matawan, N. J. . . T 18 Mauch Chunk, Pa 83 May wood, N. J £3 Meadow Brook Hunt, L. 1. . . 44 Mechanicsville, N. Y 8 l J Medford, Mass 83 Melrose, N. Y 5 J Meriden, Conn 76 Merrick Road, L.I 44 Metropolitan Jockey Club. . . 44 Metuchen, N. J 12, 17, 18 Midland Beach, S. I 87 Middle Village, L. 1 40 Milburn, N. J 12 Milford, Conn 75 Milldale, Conn 77 Milton Lower Mills, Mass 83 Mineola, L. 1 31, 44, 45 Montclair, N. J 12, 21 Morrisania, N. Y 50 Morris Park, L. 1 43 Morris Park Race Track,N. Y. 48, 52 Mosholu Parkway, N. Y 53 Mountain Station, N. J 20 Mount Carmel, Conn 76 Mount Olivet Cemeterv, L. I. 40 Mount St. Vincent, N. Y. . .48, 57 Mount Tom, Mass 81 Mount Vernon, N. Y. . .47, 48, 50, 51, 52, 53, 57, 59, 60, 61 Mount Zion Cemetery, L. I. . 40 Mystic Valley, Mass 83 Nahant, Mass 83 Nantasket, Mass 83 Narrows (The) N. Y. Bay. ... 33 Nashua, N. H 83 Natick, Mass 82, 83 Needham, Mass 82 Neponset, Mass 83, 84 Nepperhan, N. Y 57, 59, 60 Newark, N. J 11, 15, 20 New Bedford, Mass 92 New Brighton, S. 1 86 New Britain, Conn 76 New Brunswick, N. J. .12, 17, 18, 85 New Canaan 72 New Dorp, S. I 87 New Haven, Conn. .47, 69, 71, 76 77 New Paltz, N. Y 91 Newport, R. I 92 New Rochelle, N. Y.. . .47, 60, 61, 62 Newtons, Mass 82 Newtown, L. 1 40 Trolley Exploring. 8 PAGE Newtown, Pa 85 New Utrecht, L. 1 36 New York, N. Y ... 69,71 ,78, 85, 91 Noroton, Conn 74 Northborough, Mass 82 North Beach, L. 1 31, 39 Northampton, Mass 81 Norton, Mass 92 Norton's Point, L. 1 37 Norwalk, Conn 72, 73 Norwood, Mass 92 Nutley, N.J 12, 22 Ocean Crest, L. 1 44 Ocean Grove, N. J 30 Oceanport, N. J 30 Ocean Side. L. 1 45 Orange, N. J 12,20, 21 Orange Mountains, N. J 11 Ossining, N. Y 90 Overpecl? Creek. N. J 25, 28 Ozone Park, L. 1 43 Palisades (The), N. J 28 Palmer, Mass 81 Parkville, L. 1 38 Parson's Corners 60 Passaic, N. J.ll, 12, 22, 23, 25, 28 Paterson, N. J 11 Pelham, N. Y 47 Pelham Bay, N. Y 60 Pelham Bay Park, N. Y. .53, 54 Pelham Manor, N. Y 62 Pelham Neck, N. Y 54, 56 Pelham Parkway, N.Y.51, 52, 55 Pell's Point, N. Y 60 Perth Amboy . . .11, 12, 16-18, 87 Philadelphia, Pa. . . . 13, 17, 84, 85 Pigeon Cove, Mass 83 Pittsburg, Pa 11, 92 Plainfield, N. J 11, 12, 16, 17 Pleasure Bay, N. J 30 Plymouth, Mass 83 Pocantico Creek, N. Y 66 Point Lookout, L. 1 45 Portchester, N. Y.. .47, 61, 64, 91 Port Huron, Mich 92 Port Morris, N. Y 48, 53 Port Richmond, S. 1 86 Portsmouth, N. H 83 Poughkeepsie, N. Y 91 Princeton, N. J 17, 85 Prohibition Park, S. I 88 Prospect Park, L. 1 32, 37 Providence, R. 1 69, 84, 92 Queens, L.I 31,43,44, 45 Queens Borough Heights... 43 Quincy, Mass 83, 92 PAGE Rahway, N. J 13,16, 17 Raritan, N. J 12, 17 Raritan River, N. J 12, 17 Ravenswood, L. 1 39 Red Bank, N.J 29 Richmond, S. I 87 Richmond Hill, L. 1 42 Ridgefield, N. J 12, 25 Ridgewood, L. 1 39, 40 Riverdale, N. Y 48, 50, 57 Riverside, N. J 25 Rockaway Beach, L. 1 43 Rockaway Hunt, L. 1 44 Rockaway Park, L. 1 31, 43 Rock ville Centre, L. I. . 31 , 44, 45 Rosebauk, S. 1 87 Rosedale, L. 1 45 Roselle, N. J 16 Roseville, N. J 21 Roton Point, Conn 74 Round Lake, N. Y 89 Ro wayton, Conn 74 Roxbury, Mass 82 Rutherford, N. J 12, 23 Rye, N. Y 47, 61 Rye Beach, N. Y 47, 61, 64 Sailors' Snug Harbor, S. I 86 St. George, S.I 86, 87, 88 Salem, Mass 83 Sandy Hill, N. Y 89 Saratoga, N. Y 89 Saratoga Lake, N. Y 89 Saugatuck, Conn 72 Savin Rock, Conn 75 Scarsdale, N. Y 60 Schodack. N. Y 90 Schroon Lake, N. Y 89 Schuylerville, N. Y 56, 89 Scotch Plains, N. J 16 Sea Gate, L.I 37 Seaside, L. 1 43 Secaucus, N. J 12, 24 Sewaren, N. J 16 Sheepshead Bay, L. 1 37 Shelton, Conn 74 Shippan Point, Conn 72 Short Hills, N. J 12, 18 Shrewsbury, N. J 30 Singac, N. J 12, 25 Sing Sing, N. Y 90, 91 Somerville, N. J 16. 17 South Amboy, N. J. . . .11, 12, 18 South Beach, S. 1 87 South Framingham, Mass. . . 82 South Glastonbury, Conn. ... 78 South Greenfield, L. 1 37 South Mountain Reservation, N.J 12,18, 20 Index 9 PAGE ,. 82 . 73 20 73 18 80 82 44 92 South Natick, Mass South Norwalk. Conn South Orange, N. J «i Southport, Conn South River, N. J M> South Windsor, L onn Spencer, Mass • • Springfield, L.I 43, Springfield, Mass.. .78, 79, 80, Stamford, Conn. 47, 61, 6o, 67, 71, Stapleton, S. 1 87, Stratford, Conn 74, Steinway, L. I Swampscott, Mass Tarrytown, N. Y. . .47, 58, 61, Taunton, Mass Teaneck, N. J Thorn psonville, Conn Throgs Neck, N. Y • • • Tompkinsville, S. I 87, Torresdale, Pa Totteuville, S. I Totowa, N. J Travers' Island, N. Y Tremont. N. Y 5U, Trenton, N.J 13, 17 84, Troy, N. Y •• Tuckahoe, N. Y. . . . 47, 57, 59, Ulmer Park, L. I Union, N. J. ■ • • Union Hill, N.J 12, Unionport, N. Y Union ville, L. I 72 88 76 39 83 65 92 28 80 54 88 84 87 25 62 51 85 89 60 33 19 26 54 33 Vailsburg, N.J •••*••• 2? Valley Road, Orange, N. J. . 21 Valley Stream, L. I ... 31, 44, 45 Van Cortlandt, N. Y 48, 57 Van CortlandtPark,N.Y. 49,50, 53 Van Nest, N. Y 54 Van Pelt Manor, L. I 35 Verona, N. J 12, 21 Wallingf ord, Conn . . 67, 69, 76, 77 Walpole, Mass 92 PAGE 81 81 90 76 89 89 21 44 27 82 15 82 54 54 30 88 Ware, Mass 69, 76. Warren, Mass Warrensburg, N. Y Washington Bridge, Conn.. Waterford, N. Y Watervliet, N. Y Watsessing, N.J Wave Crest, L. I Weehawken, N. J Wellesley, Mass Wequahic Reservation. N. J. West Brookfield, Mass Westchester (town), N. Y.48, Westchester Co. Club, N. Y. . . West End, N. J Westerleigh, S. I ...... ... West Farms, N. Y. .47, 48, 51, 52, 53, Westfield, N. J 12, 16, West New Brighton, S. I West Orange, N. J 12, 20, West Palmyra, N. J Westport, Conn West Roxbury, Mass West Warren,Mass 69, White Plains. 47, 59, 60, 61, 6o, Williamsbridge, N. Y..47, 48, 51, 52, Williamsburgh, Mass Winchester, Mass Winfield, L. I Winter Hill, Mass Woburn, Mass Woodlawn Cemetery, N. Y . . 48, 50, Woodmont, Conn Woodside, L. I Worcester, Mass V/yoming, N. J Yalesville, Conn £7 Yardley Pa "5 Yonkers, N. Y . .47, 50, 56, 57, 61 York, Maine ™ York Beach, Maine 83 Zoological Park, N. Y. 48, 51, 52 54 17 86 21 85 74 82 81 90 53 81 83 40 83 83 51 75 40 82 19 Ex JStbrtfi SEYMOUR DURST Wky Written. VERY simple set of circumstances brought this trolley book into being. Ever since trolley roads began to spread out into the country regions around New York this compiler has been traveling over them. All these explorations he has had to make himself. Routes poor and routes indifferent he had to journey over to pick out the pleasant ones. There is no need for this ground to be gone all over again by man or woman. Trolleying has a thousand fascinations, and is the most inex- pensive of sports. It can lead the explorer into a hundred and more pleasant places, and make him forget his cares. He has scenery, history, fresh air for his objects. And many a tired woman and child who cannot leave town in the summer, it is hoped, will be made more comfortable from what is in these pages. To the average man and woman they are dedicated. Suggestions. NE thing must be impressed upon the Trolley Explorer, that no one trolley volume can be absolutely accurate on every point. Through cars run here where chang- ing was necessary yesterday, transfers are given at this point now where extra fares were demanded before, or transfers have been stopped. New portions of lines may have been built, or certain old parts of roads have been given up. Everywhere conductors and transfer agents should be ques- tioned. The latest news about their routes and their connections these men have been posted upon. This cannot be too strongly insisted upon on the part of travelers by trolley. The routes given here are little more than suggestive. Quite possible bet- ter or additional ones can be figured out. In Acknowledgment For photographs, descriptions, suggestions as to routes and his- toric details, the compiler is indebted to many people. He would most especially thank : Silas W. Niles, of the Newark Evening News. George H. Daniels, New York City. E. W. Bullinger, New York City. Alonzo Church, Newark. Andrew Wilson, New York City. Albert G. P. Speyers, New York City. Charles C. McBride, of the Elizabeth Journal, S. C. Stivers, Hoboken. James B 4 Irwin, Elisabeth. Over New Jersey. OR long and delightful trolley rides over well peopled country sides, through varied suburbs, amid handsome residences, over meadows and plains, up into hills and mountains and regions of a wild grandeur that would never be looked for on the very edge of New York city, New Jersey holds the palm. There are literally weeks of trolley journeying, by many routes, upon the plain that extends to the base of the Orange Movintains, up around the hills of Paterson, in the valleys of the Passaic and the Hackensack, south through middle New Jersey out to Ple^irvf ield and Bovind Brook and the very old Amboys, on the road to PKile^del- pr\ie>.. Lowlands and hills bristle, too, with spots of historic interest, and views of scenic beauty are to be numbered by the hundred. At Newark the start for practically all of these points must be made. At the junction of Broad and Market streets, Newark, cars may be taken for anywhere in New Jersey ; even, by a round- about way, to Ervglewood and Fort Lee and Bergen Point. There are more direct routes than by way of Newark, however, to Passaic and Paterson, Bergen Point, Hackensack and Englewood. SOUTH MOUNTAIN RESERVATION FROM NORTH END — ORANGE MOUNTAINS 12 Trolley Exploring. Though its maps make it seem a perplexing network of trolley rails, New Jersey disentangles itself to the tourist of an afternoon into a dozen distinct and separate fine trolley routes. From Newark (by way of Cortlandt and Desbrosses or West Twenty-third Street ferries, with the choice of two lines, the "Plank Road n and the "Turnpike, 1 ' both reaching the Broad and Market Street corner). To Elizabeth, Eliza^bethport (connecting here with Stat en Island by ferry), Cranford, Westfield (with a line along to Hahway and Perth Amboy), PI ©.infield, Bound Brook (here a connecting road along the Raritan River to New Brvirvswick, Metvichen, South River, South Amboy and Keyport), Somerville and. Ra^ri- tar\. To Trenton and Philadelphia. [Route 1.] To Irvington and Milburn, just this side of Short Hills, the entrance to the great South Mountain Reservation (Essex County Parks). [Route 2.] To South Orange and West Orange to the foot of the Orange Mountains. [Route 3. J To Brick Church, Orange, West Orange, Llewellyn Park, Eagle Rock. [Route 4.] To Bloomfield, Glen Ridge, Montclair, Verona, Caldwell» up in the mountains. [Route 5.] To Belleville, Nvitley, Franklin, Passaic, Pater- son, Little Falls, Singac. [Route 6.] To Arlington, Rutherford, Hackense^ck. [Route • .] From Cortlandt, Desbrosses and West Twenty -third Street ferries : To Bergen Point, a ferry connecting to Port Rich- mond, Staten Island. [Route 8.] From Christopher and Barclay Street ferries : Across the Hackensack Meadows to Secaucus, Ruth- erford, Pe^sseac, Patterson, Little FaJls, Singac. [Route 9.] From Fourteenth Street ferry : Along the old Bergen Turnpike to Homestead. New Dur- ham, Granton, Fairview, Ridgefield, Little Ferry, Hackensack, Cherry Hill. [Route 10.] Union Hill car to Fort Lee. [Route 11.] From Forty-second Street ferry : To Fort Lee and Coytesville. [Route 12.] Over New Jersey, 13 From Edgewater (ferry foot of West One Hundred and Thirtieth Street) : To Fort Lee, Leonia, Ervglewood, Hackensack, Lodi, Passaic, Hasbrouck Heights. [Route 13.] At the Cortlandt street ferry trolley tickets can be purchased into Newark (including the passage across the river) for ten cents. The trip averages about 50 minutes. On the car, upon the additional payment of two or three cents, transfers can be had from the Broad and Market street corner to anywhere within the Newark city bounds. ROUTE 1. South from Newark to Elizabeth, to Westfield, Sewaren, Perth Amboy, Plain- field, Bound Brook, New Brunswick, South Reiver, South Amboy, Keyport, Somerville and Raritan. Also Trenton, Bristol (Pa.). Philadelphia. Trenton and Philadelphia Eoute^ see pages i7, 8U, 85. As the Elizabeth car moves off from the Broad and Market street corner down Broad street southward the trolley explorer must not fail to catch a glimpse, fleeting as it may be, of two of the most historic and interesting points in all New Jersey. Both are in Broad street, but two blocks south of where the car is boarded, one a quaint and ancient church to the left, the other a business building to the right, three doors below the corner of William street. The latter is the site of the old Presbyterian parsonage, Aaron Burr's birthplace ; the former Newark's famous old First Presbyterian Church. The plot of ground marked by the church is the spot, literally, where New Jersey began. Driven out of Connecticut by religious oppression a handful of Blue Presbyterian Yankees from the town of Milford settled here in 1666, upon the invitation of Sir George Carteret. New Jersey did not exist until they came. The town they founded on the edge of the meadow, NEW ARK according to one tradition, was for many a long year only this congregation. Cleverly did these free- men and burgesses manage. The church members made up the town meeting, and the pastor was by far the most important Official. SOUTH ORANGE GOLF CLUB HOUSE — NEW JERSEY. 14 Trolley Exploring. The old burial ground yet remains, with rail- road yards encroaching upon it. The edifice of to day is the second church (enlarged) ; its cornerstone laid in 1787. It was first worshipped in 111 years ago. Its early ministers all be- came very noted men. Abraham Pierson, its second pastor, was after- wards President of Yale College. Another of its divines, the Rev. Aaron Burr, father of Aaron Burr, the statesman, went from this pulpit to found Princeton Col lege (in Elizabeth), later moving it to its present site. Dr. Edward Dorr Griffin became President of Williams and Dr. James Richards Presi- dent of Auburn Theo- logical Seminary. If the traveler can spare the time it w^ill be far better for him to ex- plore for half an hour about the Broad and Market Street junction. Much more than half an hour, indeed, might be profitably spent. This is the old "Four Corners 1 ' of Newark, dating from the earliest days of the town. The old church and graveyard by them- selves are worth more than a casual inspection, and there is much else to be seen. Down West Park Street, close to Broad, a block or so north of Market street, are the rooms of the New Jersey Historical Society, open to the public every day except Sunday. Here are many extraordinary relics— the old Colonial grants from King Charles the Second to James, and from James to Car- teret and Lord Berkeley, a portrait of Aaron Burr and another of Captain James Lawrence, Lawrence's hat and coat, and a marble bust of Pauline Bonaparte by Canova, to name but a few. A few blocks further on is the old Training Ground of the settlers, now Military Park. Two blocks north of Market street along Broad is to be seen one of the strangest mechanical plants in all America. It is the old "Incline"' that lifted canal boats up and down a hill, from one canal level to another. The canal is little operated now, just enough to hold its charter, yet the strange sight may occasionally be seen. The "Incline" is in full view, however. THE HISTORIC OLD FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH, NEWARK, N. J., OVER A CENrURY OLD. Courtesy of Newark Evening News. Over New Jersey. 15 It can be looked at from Broad street, standing on the bridge that goes over the canal here. The ''Incline" is to the west. The lane of water ends in a steep roadway with grass growing upon it. At the top of this the canal proper commences again. The boats are carried up and down this roadway in halves (each boat being made in two complete pieces) in a " cradle, 11 a great wooden framework that dips down into the water, clutches half of the boat, and lifts it out into the air. Turbine wheels furnish the power, and there are two "cradles,' 1 one going up while the other comes down. To the east of the Broad street bridge the canal passes under the old market, a distance of three blocks. Here there is no tow path and the horses have to be left behind. It is a practical tun- nel. The boat once inside is poled along or pushed with the hands against the stonework overhead. It is seven miles run ^ross country into ElizabetK, 55 min- utes' run, and the fare from Newa.rk is 10 cents. The ride is an uninteresting one, but it is the only way to reach the district of Middle Jersey with its high ground unless a very roundabout course is taken— from Jersey City to Bergen Point (Bayonne), across by ferry to Port Richmond, Staten Island, by trolley to Howland Hook, across on the ferry of Arthur Kill and thence two miles by trolley up to Elizabeth's centre. From New York, however, this is not at all a roundabout way. Its cost from Jersey City would be but 5 cents more (25 cents), and it would take even a little less time. (See R^ovite 57.) On the way to Elizabeth, while yet in Broad street, the site of the old Gouverneur Mansion is passed, where Washington Irving stayed with Archer Gilford and wrote his ''Salmagundi. 11 The car also passes (20 minutes' journey away from Broad street corner), just as the meadows are reached, one of the new chain of Essex County parks, Wequachic Reser- vation. This especial park has had less done to it than the others of the system, but it is even now a fine pleas- ure ground. It will have a speedway and a lake when completed. Elizabeth is one of the oldest of cities, brimful of Colonial and Revolutionary memo- ries. Princeton Col- lege, as has been said, Wallace house, somerville, n.j., Washington's was founded here. headquarters, 1778-1779, 16 Trolley Exploring. Here began the historic King's Highway that ran to Philadelphia. The old First Presbyterian Church in Elizabeth is very nearly as old as is that of Newark, and the Episcopal Church, St. John's, dates back to 1708. Its burial ground has been famous for generations for the graves of notable New York families its few acres contain. For Elizabeth was for many years a town of Colonial and early American fashion. Its traditions are the highest and the most ro- mantic. It was from Elizabeth that George Washington embarked for New York on the occasion of his inauguration as president. The landing stage was at the foot of Elizabeth avenue, then "Water street. There are still standing of the great Colonial mansions, Abyssinia (at the corner of Elizabeth avenue and Fifth street), and Ursino. Abyssinia is now appropriately named, since it has fallen through the years until it has become a negro tenement house. But generations ago it was one of the great man- sions of the country. Here came and built James Tharp Lawrence of Jamaica, West Indies, bringing with him his pack of hounds. There were famous days of fashion in the great mansion. Ursino (now owned by Senator John Kean) is likewise very old. It was formerly the property of the Livingston family, and John Jay stayed there. It was originally known as "Liberty Hall. 11 Many alterations have been made in it, however. Revolutionary romances abound within its walls. On leaving Elizabeth the meadows are behind, and the way leads into a country of fine trolley riding, gradually up into the hills until Somerville is passed, a region of pretty suburbs everywhere, From Elizabeth into Plev.ir\field it is fourteen miles, and the fare is 15 cents. FLoselle, Crawford. Westfield and Scotch Plains are the towns passed. TO RAHWAY AND PER.TH AMBOY. Before the little town of Westfield is reached, however, a cross country line joins the main road. This leaves the region that is now skirting the foothills of the Orange mountain chain, and stretches down to the shore, along the lower waters of the ArtKur Kill that bounds Staten Island upon the west. It extends to Perth. Amboy, twelve miles away, and touches Sew a. re rv and Boyrvton Beach on the Kill. This is a trolley line hardly known except by near-by residents, and yet it is a delightful trip. From Westfield to Perth Am- boy takes 68 minutes and the fare is 15 cents. From New York the time would be a little over three hours, if all connections were madt. and the fare would be 45 cents. This line leads to some very famo^js fishing grounds (Sewarerv) and excellent bathing grounds at Boynton Beach. The line touches RaLhway, and from .^erth Amboy the ferry can be taken to Totterwille, State Island. A train could be boarded from Tottenville to Grant City, Staten Island, and the rest of the journey made by trolley to St, George. There are no trolleys on the lower end of Staten Island yet. Over New Jersey. 17 Another alternative trip here is by way of Metucherv, Now Brunswick, Bovind Brook and Plainfield to Westfield from Perth Amboy. Or reverse from Westfield. See below. From Westfield a free transfer is given on this road as far as Rahw&y. Rahway is quaint in its older portions. It was known as Spank- town during the Revolution, and there was a scrimmage there. At PertK Amboy are still the remains of Revolutionary bar- racks. Tottenville has many famous old houses, and there is a ' local Revolutionary ghost of great repute. It is difficult to imagine it, but Perth Amboy w r as once a rival of New York. There still meet here, holding their meetings once a year, the " New Jersey Society 11 that claim ownership over New Jersey. A bridge is now being constructed across the Raritan River, join- ing Perth Amboy and South Amboy, and trolley cars will run over it. This closes up perhaps the most important " break " in the elec- tric car systems of Jersey, and will make possible much new excur- sioning. A fine trip hardly known to New Yorkers would be from Perth Amboy around by way of New Brunswick back to Perth Amboy, when this bridge is completed. BACK ON THE MAIN LINE. Few prettier residential towns are in existence than Plainfield. A spice of history adds itself to the town's modern charm, since it is known that on Washington Rock. betw r een Plainfield and Bovind Brook, Washington stood and watched the British encamped at New Brunswick. There is at least a two mile walk to the Rock from the nearest trolley point, however. By now hilly ground has been reached, and New York is far away. Any trips beyond this will need a long day for their accomplishment. There is much fascinating trolley territory beyond, nevertheless. The lines are given briefly : To Bound Brook (main line) from Plainfield 46 minutes, 10 cents, 8 miles. To Raritan (further up in the hills) from Bound Brook 36 minutes, 5 cents, 6 miles, passing through Somervillo. TO TRENTON AND PHILADELPHIA. Through service, New York-Trenton, has been this spring installed, the cars following the line noted above to New Bruns- wick. From Trenton the Trolley Explorer has a choice of three routes into Philadelphia., a steamboat ride down the Delaware River, a trolley ride by way of Bristol, Pa., or one via Bvirling- ton, N. J. For particulars, see pages 84 and 85. RARITAN RIVER— RARITAN BAY. The ride to New Brunswick from the hills to the west has been close to the beautiful Raritan River, through a most 18 Trolley Exploring beautiful country of villas and rural life. If time is no object this trolley land should most certainly be visited. From New Brunswick the lines run out yet further eastward to the shore. One road has already reached Key port, through South River, South Amboy and Matawan. The other bends to the north, stretching to Metuchen and thence to PertK Amboy (see PertK Amboy on page 16.) The first route can be covered in about two hours at a cost of some 30 cents, tbe second (into Perth Amboy) in a little over an hour for 20 cents. A road is now building from Keyport to Red B&nk, about 12 miles. ROUTE 2. To Irvington aLi\d Milburn, close to Short Hills, up on the ridge of the Orange Mountains. One advantage this short line (less than an hour in time from the Broad and Market street corner, Newark, and but 15 cents from New York) possesses — it whirls the traveler quickly up into the grandest region of the Orange Mountains, into a section, too, that is rapidly becoming one of the most beauti- ful residentially— SKort Hills. At the route's end, within a compara- tively short walk, is SovitK MovirvtaJn Reservation, on the ridge of South Mountain, the finest of the chain of new New Jersey parks, a region utterly wild, primeval and returned to nature, full of small game and with the last of the hunting lodges that wealthy New Yorkers have occupied for gener- ations now cleared away. Connecticut farms Presbyterian church In all the land on the at Springfield, n. j. outskirts of New York Courtesy of Newark Evening News, there is nothing like this. Over New Jersey. 19 The man or woman who can walk will find a pilgrimage to Union in the valley to the south no bad journey for a summer afternoon. Leave this trolley car at Maplewood. It is two miles to this old settlement that during the Revolution was known as Connecticut Farms. The story told here is of the old church that is still standing and its fighting parson, James Caldwell. When the British approached, Parson Caldwell was in the front ranks. The wadding for the charges gave out, and the dominie hurried into the church. He returned loaded down with hymn books. "Give 'em Watts, boys, give 'em Watts!" he called, and he tore the hymn book leaves into shreds that the muskets might be loaded. Close at hand is a tavern Washington is said to have stopped at, the "Old Meeker Inn." South Movmtain Reservation can also be entered by way of Wyoming, the town just beyond Maplewood, but the climb is too steep here. EAGLE ROCK, NEAR WEST ORANGE, N. J. 20 Trolley Exploring. ROUTE 3. To South Orange a.nd West Orange, Maplewood, connecting with line to Moun- tain Station and West Orange. A ride of 5 miles through pleasant residential sections of New- ark and Orange (fare 5 cents from Broad and Market streets), passing through Vailsbxirg. Between Sovith Orange and Vailsburg is the famous Seton Hall. At Sovith Orange, a connecting route skirts the mountain side at the end of the valley in a wonderfully fine run of 4 miles to Movir\tairv Station, Highland Avenue and West Orange (5 cents additional;. At this latter point there is a free stage transfer into Orange. At Highland Avenue another car may be taken to Eagle Rock. From South Orange, where a roadway leads up into South Movintain Reservation, the main line extends at the moun- tain's foot, in the opposite [direction (southwest) into Maple- wood. ROUTE 4. To Brick Church, Orange, West Orange, Llewellyn P^rk, E&gle Rock. Eagle Rock, the terminus of this 7 mile 5 cent line from Broad and Market streets, Newark, is the second in importance of the great Jersey parks that were only started four years ago, and even now are not quite complete. Eagle R.ock Reservation is somewhat smaller than South Mountain Reservation, but is of the same general character, wild, beautiful, still nature's own. From the top of this height a superb view of New York City, twenty miles away, is to be had. A. parkway connects the two reservations. This is the first of what is hoped will be an ad- mirable system of grand driveways over all of Essex County. The trolley line goes only to the foot of Eagle Rock, but the walk to the top is only about a mile. There is an electric car, too, that may be taken (fare five cents). Though, out and back, this trip may be made in an hour, it takes in many points of note in these handsome suburbs. A better general view can scarcely be gotten of the Oranges than by this line, with its glimpses of noble villas and delightful streets. Over New Jersey, 21 The Orange towns touched on are Hoseville, Grove Street, East Orange, Brick Church, Orange, West Orange, and Llewellyn Park, the latter a sort of miniature Tuxedo, where Thomas A. Edison lives, and just outside of which he has his workshop, on the Valley Road, along which the cars pass on their way to Eagle Rock, ROUTE 5. To Bloomfield. Glen Ridge, MontclaLir, Verona, Caldwell, up into the mountains. Through towns of no less charm than the Oranges the electric road to Caldwell winds, ten miles from the Market street corner, a trip of an hour and ten minutes, at a cost of 15 cents. It is not a region of history, but a modern land of the best of residential towns. The upland commences almost before Newark is fairly left behind, and the heavy cars pass through the well known centres of Watsessing, Bloomfield, Glen Ridge, Montclair (with a branch line to Mont- clair Heights 3 miles further north, 8 cents from Newark), Ver- ona, Hillcrest and Caldwell. By the time the up- per levels are reached the full rural beauty of the route is appar- ent, and it is realized that the State has few finer trolley rides. Verona boasts of one of New Jersey's finest sheets of water — Verona Lake. Caldwell has the honor of having been the birthplace of ex- President Cieveland. BRANCH BROOK PARK Of the seven parks the Essex County Park Commission has laid out in and about Newark these past four years at a cost of $4,000,000— Branch Brook, East Side, West Side, Orange, Wequahic, South Mountain and Eagle Rock Reserva- V - ■ * ' THOMAS A. EDISON'S RESIDENCE, LLEWELLYN PARK, ORANGE, N. J. 22 Trolley Exploring, tions— Branch Brook is one worth a special visit, just as South Mountain Reservation and Eagle Rock Reservations are. Since it lies in Newark's very heart, however, it is not men- tioned in any of the routes here that lead out of the town. Three lines reach it, all starting from the corner of Broad and Market streets. The Orange street car may be taken to its south- ern entrance, the Bloomfleld avenue car to its centre, the Forest Hill car to Mt. Prospect avenue and Ballantine Parkway, from which point there is a walk of two blocks under maple trees to its northern division. Though but 280 acres in extent Branch Brook Park is a fine stretch of ornamental and practical gardening. Its southern division contains a lake, a wading pool for children, a playfield of 15 to 16 acres, and an English formal garden. Throughout its northern division the ground is laid out in a plantation that will be grown into the form of a mimic, well trained wilderness. The park's lower end is in the centre of an artisans 1 quarter, but its upper section in a handsome residential district. ROUTE 6. From Newark up in the Passaic Hills, th ro\i^K Belleville, N\itley, Franklin, PaLSSQLic imo Patterson, a^rvd beyond to Little FaJls and Singac. Two trolley roads lead to Paterson, one from Newark, the second from Christopher street ferry (see Route 9). That out of Newark takes an hour and a half to make the trip, travels 15 miles and makes a charge of 15 cents from Broad and Market streets to the Paterson City Hall. Phil Kearney's birthplace still stands in Newark, a little less than a mile from the starting point. Any conductor can point it out, with its quaint, low eaves. General Kearney's daughter, Mme. D'Hautville, who resides abroad, continues to keep it up in memory of her father, though only a caretaker has lived there for many years. Just above Belleville, the old Dutch section, the road passes some noted brown stone quarries. It goes through the active towns of Nutley, Franklin, Acquackanonk, Passaic, Clif- ton and Lakeview. At Paterson it makes connection with the cars for Little Falls and Singac (for notes on these and further details of Paterson see Route 9). Over New Jersey. 23 ROUTE 7. Cross Country from Newark through Kearney, Arlington, Rutherford and Ha.ckensa.ck. For a ride for pleasure there is comparatively little of interest in this route, nor does it lead anywhere that cannot be better reached in some other way. It joins Newark and Hackensack through Harrison, Kearney, Arlington and Hasbrouck Heights, and the fares on the two lines to be taken amount to 20 cents. The distance is 17 miles, and the running time one hour and thirty minutes. (See Route 13.) ROUTE 7 A . New Connecting Mid- Jersey Line, join- ing Hackensack and Passaic through Lodi and Garfield, Will run to Paterson. An important link, for the first time directly connecting Hacken- sack and Passaic by trolley. In conjunction with the first half of Route 13. a second alternative trip, New York to Paterson (see also Route 9). This new line 5 miles long. Fare 10 cents. New York to Paterson this way (via Fort Lee), one change, at Hackensack. ROUTE 8. Cortlandt, Desbrosses, ai\d W. Twenty- third street ferries to Bergen Point, thence to Staten Island. This ten-mile journey to Bergen Point, the run taking just one hour, is one of the cheapest trolley rides about New York, its fare being but 5 cents. It connects with the boats over the ferry to 24 Trolley Exploring. Port Richmond* A pleasant afternoon trip would be to take) the Staten Island boat from the foot of Whitehall street, a trolley i car to Port Richmond, and then this line back to New York. , Its cost would be about 20 cents. The lower portion of the road leads through an attractive suburban section. By this line there is a good alternative route to lower New Jersey and Philadelphia. (See Route I, page 15.) ROUTE 9. From Christopher and BaLrcla.y street ferries over the meadows to Patterson, the "White Line Run/' going through Schuetzen PaLrk, Homestead, Secaucus, Carlstadt, East Rutherford, Passaic, Clif- ton, Lakeview, to Patterson, Little Falls and Singac. In all trolleying annals within 30 miles of New York there is no more romantic and picturesque journey than this. It divides honors fairly with the tortuous progress up and down the cliffs at Fort Lee, with the glcrious ride along the North Shore of Long Island Sound from Rye go Greenwich. For making this Paterson and Singac exploration 6 hours must be allowed from the New York side for the round trip, 3 hours each way, and it may take even longer than that. The distance traveled from the Hoboken shore up into these hills is 28 miles, and the round trip costs 50 cents a person, plus ferri- ages. At not very much greater actual expense it is possible to trolley one way and come back from Paterson by train. An alternative return route is via Passaic, Nutley, Belleville, Newark, and thence to New York, also 25 cents. (See R^ovite 6.) This trolley journey presents in rapid succession every variety of scenery. The car travels for nearly half an hour through uninter- esting Hoboken and Jersey City Heights. Suddenly, how- ever, it makes a sharp turn. In an instant there is spread out before the traveler the valley of the Hackensack far below him. The car shoots down the straight, narrow turnpike on the cliff's side, a mile and more in length. Here, on the meadows, are Homestead and Secaucus. Then it moves across the flats, a journev of over four miles. .tLJong the higher ground beyond are the residential sections of Over New Jersey. 25 ?arlstadt and East R.utherford (a car connecting with Rutherford proper, half a mile away). A little further on, and he line runs through the Passaic country, a. beautiful land in- ^ leed. There is a fine highway and many charming vistas and 18 cenes. Not a few of these centre about the old town of Passaic. 1 Seyond this the cars leave the highway and travel through the ields, romantically, until the outskirts of Paterson come into dew. There is a change of cars to be made in Paterson. The rolley explorer has now come 20 miles. But he should by no neans leave out the final half hour of this journey, but should push >n to Little Falls and Sirvgac, a route of surprising scenic jeauty, half an hour each way. (The extra time and the extra expense are allowed for in the figures given above.) Side trips of interest might also be made to some of Paterson's suburbs, to Lakeview, Clifton and Lodi (8 miles, 10 cents more); to Haledort, Riverside and Totowa (3 miles, 5 cents). Both of these lines are to be taken from the Paterson City Hall. In Paterson the trolley visitor must not fail to see the Falls of the Passaic (the Passyack River in old times), which are nearly 100 feet high. Several sensational jumps have been made off them. The watershed of the Passaic, a vast and valuable territory of water right, has a fascinating chapter of history all its own. Its possibilities, from a commercial standpoint, were seen more than a century ago, in the days of America's earliest development, by none other than the renowned Alexander Hamilton. Hamihon founded the u Society of Useful Manufacturers, 11 incorporating this body by Act of Congress and giving it a perpetual charter, with com- plete control over this watershed. This historic corporation is now the East Jersey Water Company, and it has disposed of a por- tion of its old water rights for an aggregate sum of millions. Under this charter of Hamilton's Paterson very early started her career as a manufacturing city, her silk mills being her first indus- tries. This summer it is possible to make an interesting " round trip " in Paterson touring. Take this route one way and Route 13, just now extended to Paterson, the other. Route 13's terminus is opposite 130th street, Manhattan. Its cars can be met by taking cars Route 11, changing at Fort Lee. (See also Route 7a.) ROUTE 10. Over the Bergen Turnpike from 14th Street Ferry to Ridgefield, Little Ferry. Hackensocck a^nd Cherry Hill. This line runs over the old Hackensack (Bergen) Turnpike, and in spite of legal complications, it has been completed well to the 26 Trolley Exploring. north of Hackensack, It runs through Hobokerv, crosses Overpeck Creek and the Hackensack River, passing through Fairview, Ridgefield and Little Ferry. The direct route from New York to Hackensack, though also see Route 13. Between Fairview and Ridgefield there are yet standing, •along this line, some interesting old-fashioned English houses. ROUTE 11. From Fourteenth street ferry to Fort Lee. OLD PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH, ELIZABETH, N. J. Courtesy of Elizabeth Journal. Take the Union Hill car from Fourteenth street ferry (5 cents) , changing at Fourth street and Broadway to the Fort Lee car (10 cents additional). The excuse of this route, not especially attractive to travel over in itself, is that it offers four interesting sights for the trolley tourist. Fort Lee may be far more conveniently reached bv way of the Forty-second street ferry (See Route 12). But along this Hoboken shore there are several points not to be missed. The first two of these lie close together— Castle Point, the residence of the famous Stevens family, engineers and fashion- ables of New York for genera- tions; and the great Stevens In- stitute, one of America's fore- most scientific schools. Castle Point may be readily seen from the river, from any of the up- town ferry boats, the one dis- tinctive object on the Jersey shore, perched commandingly and grandly on a bluff at the water's edge. The Stevens In- stitute is close to the Castle. These should be visited, to be exact, before the Union Hill car is taken. At the Fourteenth street ferry board a Washington street car. This car goes around to the Jersey landing of the Over New Jersey 27 Barclay and Christopher street ferries, and either of these ferries could betaken to reach these buildings. They lie halfway between the two ferries. Any conductor can indicate the cross street at which to stop, Returning to the Fourteenth street ferry and taking the Union Hill car the traveler should get off at Highwood Park. A short distance from the highway upon which the cars run is the historic RAHWAY RIVER, SOUTH MOUNTAIN RESERVATION, ORANGE MOUNTAINS, N. J. monument to Alexander HamiltOD, killed on this spot a century ago in his duel with Aaron Burr. All this high ground is Weehawkerv Heights ; Guttenberg lies just to the north of it. A walk to the edge of the cliff at Highwood Park will disclose a magnificent view of the river and of New York City. The castle-like structure built partially down the cliff is the studio of Karl Bitter, the sculptor. Just beyond this is a stairway by which the Forty-second street ferry can be reached, in 10 minutes 1 walk. 28 Trolley Exploring. ROUTE 12. From Forty-second street ferry (Wee- haw ken) to Fort Lee and Coytesville. The interest of this road is that in its seven and a half mile run from Weehawken it takes the trolley explorer into a wild region at its northern end— at Coytesville. Between Fort Leo and Coytesville there is fine trolleying. Fare from Weehawken 15 cents. ROUTE 13. From Edgewatter (by ferry foot of West I30th street) to Fort Lee # Leonid, Engle- wood, Bogota., H^ckensack; through to Paterson. Also Lodi, Passaic. For the city dweller nowhere is the change to the wildness of the country more rapid and complete than on the Palisades opposite West 130th street, New York City, and north and west through Ber- gen County, N. J. The 125th street Crosstown and the Boulevard cars run direct to the New York ferry terminal, and from the New Jersey ferry terminal at Edge water electric cars run up the face of the Palisades, past the interesting 64 Horseshoe Curve " into and through The Park on the Palisades. From the Palisades at Edgewater and Fort Lee (l}4 miles further north) can be had some of the finest views about New York. The Hudson River valley is directly below. Further west, on de- scending the western slope of the Palisades before Leonia is reached, the outlook is even more expansive, comprising the valleys of Over- peck Creek and Hackensack River, with the FLamapo Mountains beyond. The natural beauties of the Phelps Estate Park on the Tearveck Ridge are well known, and this district has many opportunities for the naturalist. At Leonia the line branches, one division running north to Engle- wood. where there are many handsome country seats. (Edgewater to Englewood, 7 miles, 10 cents, 40 minutes.) West of Leonia the line runs through Teaneck to Hackensack and Maywood (Edgewater to Hackensack, 7^ miles, 10 cents, 40 minutes) and to Paterson (14^ miles, 15 cents to City Line, 5 cents more to the City Hall). Transfers to any part of Peterson and Passaic. See Route 9. (See also Route /a.) The Palisades bluff at Fort Lee is the site of the revolutionary fort. It was at this point that Washington, having crossed his Continentals from New York City, marched them over the hills to Pompton aDd Morristown. Hackensack is one of the oldest towns in the neighborhood of New York, having been founded in 1640 by the Dutch and named after the Hackensacky Indians. trolley Cities of tbe Jersey €oa$t ROUTE 14. Red Ba.nk to Shrewsbury, Eatontown, Oceanport, Pleasure Bay, Long Branch, West End, Hollywood, Elberon, Deal Beaten, Allenhvirst, Interle^ken, Asbury PaLrk, Ocean Grove, Bradley Beach, Avon and Belmar. Though trolley connection with New York as regards the Jersey sea coast is still far from being complete, a gap existing between Keyport and Ked Bank, the summer resorts along this shore See page 18. N PALISADES, NEAR FORT LEE, N. J. 30 Trolley Exploring. have a highly successful trolley service of their own, stretching from R^ed Bank to Belmar, a 20 mile extent of electric rails. It takes nearly two hours to make the full trip, a pretty and varied one, skirting all the colonies at their most interesting points, passing the big hotels and traversing a well built up sea side. The total fare (Red Bank to Belmar) is 35 cents. Tne Red Bank line, going through Shrewsbury, Eaton- town and Oceanport, comes out on the coast at East Long Branch. The strictly coast line begins at Pleasure Bay* ou an inlet of the Shrewsbury River, and runs through East Long Branch, Long Branch, West End, Hollywood, Elberon, Deal Beach* Allenhurst, Interlaken. Asbury Park and Ocean Grove. A continuing line runs to Bradley Beach, Avon and Belrnar from Asbury Park. Through Route Philadelphia, pages 17, 8k, 85. QUADRIGA ON SOLDIERS' AND SAILORS ARCH, BROOKLYN. The Long Island Field. XCEPT for the lines that reach out from populous South Brooklyn, the Park Slope and Flatbush, in gleaming parallel rails, for the great system of ocean beaches and shore front— Fort Hamilton, Bath Beach, Coney Island, Manhattan Beaten, Brighton Beach, Bergen Beach, Canarsie, and for those that run northward to the smaller rivals of these resorts— Bowery Ba.y and North Beach, on the Sound — Long Island still cannot boast of many suburban trolleys. The summer of 1904 finds much more accomplished, however, than did the summer of 1903. Though at Queens, to the east of Ja- maica, the trolley traveler has to walk across the steam railway tracks from car to car, and may have to wait twenty minutes to go further into the rural regions, there is now a clear run from the New York end of the Brooklyn Bridge into Hempstead, Mineola, Freeport, Rockville Centre, Lyrvbrook, Valley Stream, By September 1st it is promised that the southern branch of this road will reach the terminus of the Kings County *' L," in Brooklyn, thus making possible a continuous trip through the Island's centre, and along its south shore. To-day, the cars after leaving Hemp- stead go north to Mineola, south to Freeport, and turn back to the west from the latter point, already making regular trips to Valley Stream (see Route 31). Also there is in operation a cross-country trolley, north and south, running through Jamaica, from Flushing to Far Hockaway and R^ockaway Park. (See Routes 30, and also 28.) Full details of these may be found on pages 41, 42, 43, 44, 45. The routes to Coney Island begin on page 33. Nominally, the most of Long Island trolley trips have their s'arting point at the New York end of the Bridge, the foot of Broadway, Brooklyn, or Long Island City. Some lines, however, start from Fifth avenue and Thirty-sixth street, or Third avenue and Sixty -fifth street, both reached by Brooklyn Elevated (Fifth avenue line), over the Bridge, 24 minutes and 41 minutes from the New York end of the Bridge, respectively. To the beaches through cars are run from the Bridge and the ferries throughout the Summer. 32 Trolley Exploring. The routes to Coney Island, Fort Hamilton, Bath, Ber- gen, Manhattan and Brighton Beaches and Cacne^rsie, take the trolley traveler through a land some 7 miles square that ten years ago was sleepy farm land, dotted with tiny villages, but now has risen into rapidly growing suburbs full of life. From Pros- pect Pa.rk and Greenwood Cemetery, 7 miles from the ocean shore, the actual city has crept very nearly half way down. All MARKET WAGONS ON THE MERRICK ROAD NEAR JAMAICA. this flat and level plain is historic, though few landmarks now remain. In this vicinity were the first Dutch settlements of Brooklyn. To a greater degree than any other district about here Flatle^nds has kept up her primitive life. Yet this is fast going. Separated from the maze of connecting lines that but join and patch the great system together the most interesting of the through trolley routes of Long Island are: ROUTE 15. To Fort Hamilton from Third avenue and Sixty-fifth street, through Bay Ridge. This starting point is to be reached, as stated above, also from Hamilton Avenue Ferry (Whitehall street, New York), and by connecting trolley cars over the Bridge. A 5-cent fare. One of the The Long Island Field. 33 prettiest of the shorter runs. The way leads through Bay Ridge, down Third avenue, shaded by superb old trees. There are fine views of New York Bay and the Narrows. Fort Hamilton, the terminus, is 8.J- miles from New York City Hall. The old Fort is one of the most interesting of American fortifi- cations. It is a somewhat ancient stone fortress, strengthened with modern earthworks. Its military reservation contains 96 acres. Opposite it, out in the Lower Bay, is Fort Lafayette, used for political prisoners during the Civil War ; of late years a place for storing explosives. ROUTE 16. To Coney Island from Second avenue and Thirty-ninth street, by way of Bath Beach, Bensonhurst and Ulmer Park. Over perhaps the most delightfully built-up section of Brooklyn's suburbs, the car passes through Dyker Meadow, Bath Beach and BensorvKvirst. At Ulmer Park (Vnionville) here is one of the most extensive of metropolitan summer resorts, r^iis is another 5-cent ride from New York, and may also be reached >y way of Thirty-ninth Street ferry (Whitehall street, New York) erriage extra, 5 cents. KINO MANOR, JAMAICA. 34 Trolley Exploring. NOTE.— In taking these Long Island routes the trolley traveler should remember that there are frequently many and diverse ways of reaching the starting points given here. He can best learn just what these are, in each case, by making careful inquiries of conductors and transfer agents. Many a 5-cent piece can be saved in this way. This is the case in all trolley riding, but especially in the heart of Brooklyn, where the lines are many and criss-cross constantly. It should also be remembered that the Brooklyn Elevated railroads are invaluable for reaching the suburbs quickly* and y in many instances, transfers are issued and there is no extra fare to pay. ROUTE 17. To Coney Island from T^ird avenue and Sixty-fifth street, through Kings High- way and Gravesend. The old " Sea Beach " line, 51 minutes from New York City Hall. A 10-cent fare. The open country until Kings Highway is reached. The line passes through Gravesend, of historic note. Gravesend was established by charter from the original Tutch setiik tiers to Lady Dorothy Moody and her followers, in 1632. ^ ROUTE 18. To Coney Island from Fifth averwie and Thirty-sixth street, via Parkville, Kings Highway, Prooklyn Jockey Club and Gravesend. Another good Coney Island route, the old "Culver" road, 4 minutes from New York, and a 1'0-cent fare, passing over Park ville. the Kings Highway, Brooklyn Jockey Clvib an Gravesend. Through service from New York. Also Vanderbil avenue trolley car from New York end Brooklyn Bridge. The Long Island Field. 35 ROUTE 18 A . To Coney Island from Greenpoint Ferry (West 23d street, New York), via Tompkins avenue and over " Culver " Line. A route worth taking for New Yorkers. 10 cents ; 1 hour, 15 min- utes. Passes over Manhattan avenue, Lorimer street, TompkiDS avenue, Bergen street, Rogers avenue, Church avenue, then on to the Culver rails. ROUTE 18 B . To Coney Island from Grand street and Broadway Ferries over Reid avenue and "Culver" tracks. 10 cents ; 1 hour, 15 minutes. Good up-town New York connec- ions. Through Kent avenue, Broadway, Reid avenue, Fulton street, Kingston avenue, Bergen street, then route above. Bead last paragraph, page 31. ROUTE 19. To Coney Island from Fifth avenue a , nd Thirt y-sixth street. This route goes through Blythebourne, Borough Park, Homewood, Van Pelt Manor, (New Utrecht), Bath Beach and Ulmer Park Chiefly interesting from its path through many of Brooklyn's new iburbs, BlytHebovirrve, Borovigh Park, Homewood, efforts Park, Van Pelt Manor. This region is the 36 Trolley Exploring. heart of the old New Utrecht farming plain, until of recent years one great market garden. New Utrecht is almost as interesting historically as is Gravesend STATUE OF ALEXANDER HAMILTON, BROOKLYN It figured in the Battle of Long Island, and until within late years has had within its bounds many dwellings of the early Dutch. Few of the old farm houses, of great architectural importance as early American types, now remain, unfortunately. Through service from New York end of Bridge, Fifth avenue Ele vated. Fare 10 cents, to Ulmer Park 5 cents. Time 47 minutes. The Long Island Field, 37 ROUTE 20. To Coney Island from Flatbush, through Flatlands and South Greenfield, past the Coney Island Jockey Club into Sheeps- head Bay, West End and Sea. Gate. From Sheepshead Bay a walk of a half mile to Manhattan Beach. A trolley ride (10 cents fare) of great picturesqueness and inter- est. Its starting point is reached by the Ocean avenue cars from the foot of Broadway, Brooklyn. The villa section of Flatbush. newly rebuilt, can be seen pleasingly from the car windows. From Flatbvish old Flaalo^rvds is entered, and the farming section of SoutK Greenfield. 54 minutes from the Broadway ferry the Coney Island Jockey Clvib is reached. From Sheepshead Bay the traveler may leave the car and walk across a foot bridge over Coney Island Creek, a distance of one half mile. The car skirts the Creek until the West End is approached, and then curns in upon Coney Island, running to its easterly point, Sea, Gate (Norton's Point), 13 miles from Broadway ferry, 73 minutes. NOTE— All the routes may be reached from the New York end of the Bridge or the Broadway Ferry. Inquire for transfers and changing points. R.OUTE 21. To Brighton Beach and Manhattan Beach from Prospect Park, by way of Flatbush and Sheepshead Bay. Practically a through electric railroad line running from the New York end of the Bridge and over the Fulton street elevated tracks, turning off at Franklin avenue and passing through Flatbush in a cut. Fare to Sheepshead Ba.y and Brighton Beach, 10 cents, Manhattan Be&ch, 15 cents. Could also be taken by Flatbush avenue trolley line and by Nostrand avenue line, changing to the route at Prospect Park, in the cut. Passes through Sheepshead Bay. 38 Trolley Exploring. ROUTE 22. To Coney Island from Park Circle, through Parkville, to the Brighton Beach Race Track, to Brighton Bea.ch, into the West End. Park Circle is reached from the Bridge by Smith street cars; from Grand street, and from Broadway ferry by Franklin avenue cars. A free transfer, and a5-cent fare (10 cents on Sundays and holidays). Touches Pa^rkville, the Brighton Bea^ch Ra.ce Tra^ck and Brighton Beach itself. See note between Routes 16 and 17. ROUTE 23. To Bergen Beach from Nostrand and Flatbush avenues, crossing over Flat- lands. A pleasing 4-mile ride from this junction. Flatbush avenue and Nostrand avenue cars may be boarded at the Bridge or Broadway ferry respectively. The road is a straightaway run down Flat- bush avenue, through Fla.tla.r\ds to Bergen Beach; a 5-cent fare. ROUTE 24. To Canarsie from East New York and elsewhere. Starting point reached by Hamburg avenue car from Broadway ferry, through Rockaway avenue, 5 cents. Road passes through the Jewish settlement of Brownsville. Canarsie is 4 miles from East New York. It is a good point to start from for a fishing trip. Canarsie may also be reached by way of Flatbush avenue, changing cars at Church avenue. Line goes down through Church avenue (a new route), or take any car that crosses Thirty-ninth street and transfer to Thirty -ninth street car going east. The Long Island Field 89 R.OUTE 25. To North BeeLch from Long Island City (through Ravenswood and Stein- way), and from Corona, by way of Brooklyn. NortK Beach, on Bowery Bay, is the Coney Island of the Sound. These routes pass through rather pretty country. There are two lines from Long Island City (Thirty-fourth street ferry), each 5 cent fares and of about 30 minutes running time. One line passes through Ravenswood and Astoria, the second through Steirvway. From Corona on the Flvishing line (Se© Rovite 27) NortK Beach is but a 12-minute run. This is the Brooklyn con- nection by way of Ridgewood (Se© again Rout© 27). R-OUTE 26. "Cemetery Line" from Long Island City, touching eJl the great cemeteries of the "ridge." QUAINT FARM HOUSE NEAR FAR ROCK AWAY, L. I. 40 Trolley Exploring. FRIENDS MEETING HOUSE, FLUSHING. BUILT 1695. Route 26 runs out a little* beyond Middle Village, and may be taken to these cemeteries, Old CaJva-ry, La^virel Hill, New CaJvayry, Movint Zion, Me^speth, Mt. Olivet, Lutheran. Fare 5 cents. This line goes up Borden and Hunters Point avenues, and connects with lines for all parts of Brooklyn at Ridgewood. NOTE.— Greenwood Cemetery in South Brooklyn is best reached by Fifth avenue trolley from the Bridge. ROUTE 27. Across the meadows to Flushing from Long Island City and Ridgewood. See also Route 30. Out to Flushing from Ridgewood, connecting with lines from Brooklyn and from Long Island City, through Maspeth, and Elmhurst, Woodside, Winfield, and Corona there are three ways of journeying. The trip from Ridgewood over the mead- ows takes 36 minutes. This line joins one of those from Long Island City at Corona. Ridgewood is readily reached from the Bridge and the Broadway ferry by elevated railroads and by many surface lines. The fares from New York are 10 cents (in the case «f the Broadway ferry plus the ferriage). The Long Island Field. 41 Two distinct roads for Flushing leave Long Island City, each charging 5 cents for the 9-mile ride (time, 50 minutes). Out from Long Island City these days, out from Brooklyn, there is little left of the old Dutch, or even the more modern farms. A mod- erately aged mansion is, indeed, a rarity. There are acreages of new towns. Even Newtown, the old village, has become Elmhurst, the new. On the North Shore the meadows must be crossed, and the limits of Flushing reached before there is very much of pict- uresque moment or historic association. Once in Flushing, however, the car is sure to be left behind, and an hour profitably spent. The historic is here, in rich pro- fusion. For this is a stronghold of the Quakerdom of the far dis- tant past. Few towns in New York State have more associations. Flushing goes back in its founding to 1643, and was first called Vlissenden. Its settlers were English refugees who had fled into Holland to escape the Quaker persecution, and two memorials of these old time " Friends " yet remain sturdy in their wooden frames. One is the Bowne Mansion (built in 1661), on Bowne avenue, the other the Friends Meeting House (built in 1695), on Broadway, both but a short walk from the trolley car. They are in well nigh perfect state of preservation. Another fine landmark of the town is St. George's Church, built back in 1746, and there are fine nurseries here, noted for their roses, that date in the past to 1729. Out of Flushing there is a line to College Point, 15 minutes away. ROUTE 28. To Jamaica, from Bridge wood and East New York. These are famous rides within the radius now being described. In the space of half a day Flushing, Jamaica and Far Rock- away, with their associations that reach beyond the Revolution — in the case of Flushing back to Colonial times— may readily be visited from either New York or Brooklyn. The real country trips on the Island are to be started in two ways: from Brooklyn, by the Broadway U I," the Kings County "-L," the Broadway trolley, the Fulton street trolley, taking Jamaica car at East New York ; and from Long Island City by the cars to Flushing. (See Routes 30, 31 and 27.) It is, approximately speaking, 30 minutes into Flushing from Long Island City by trolley, another half hour from Flushing to Jamaica, 43 minutes from Jamaica to Far Rockawaj and 33 / 42 Trolley Exploring. minutes from Jamaica into East New York. The fares are 5 cents to Flushing, 5 cents from Flushing to Jamaica, and 10 cents from this point into Far Rockaway. Jamaica, however, may be reached for 5 cents from Long Island City, a transfer being given at Flushing to through passengers. Through trip, L. I. City to Far Rockaway, 15 cents. Jamaica is reached, as described immediately above, from either Ridgewood or East New York. The line from Ridge- wood passes through Richmond Hill. From these starting points there are connections everywhere in Brooklyn and New York. THE BOWNE HOUSE, FLUSHING. BUILT 1661. In Jamaica, on Fulton street, the Plank Road and the " old high- way," but a few years ago marked by a toll gate a mile west of the town, the Flushing or the Far Rockaway car is to be taken. But a couple of blocks west of the changing point is a mansion of much historical importance. This is the King Mansion, now named King Manor, where once lived Rufus King, farmer, gentle- man, essayist, Minister to England and statesman, and later his son, General John A. King, Governor of the State of New York. The King Manor is now city property, and its grounds are known as King's Park of Jamaica. A fine collection of ancient furniture and ornaments (some of it on loan) has been gathered for its rooms. Officially the Manor is open to visitors but two days a week, but well dressed, well appearing people will be admitted by the guardian almost any day. Worth more than a passing glance, across the street and almost opposite, is a noted road house, now soon to be torn down (it is V The Long Island Field. 43 rumored) and a business block erected in its stead, Pettit's, formerly "Jim Remsen's House. " For fifty years one Jim Remsen stood behind his bar, and he is known to history to-day as the "father of Rockaway," having bought that Beach when it was merely a waste strip of land. To the east, along Fulton street, a mile away, at Hollis, is a hotei that has a Washington legend about it. Hoi lis is certainiy, however, historic, for it was here after the Battle of Long Island, that General Nathaniel Woodhull was made pris- oner. The townspeople speak of the spot as " the battle-ground," and it is known as Woodhull Park. R-OUTE 29. Queens westward to Brooklyn, connect- ing with a. line to R^ockaway, Arverne, Brooklyn. At Queens is Creedmoor, where the National Guard does its rifle practice. Thence to the old City Line at Woodhaven is an 8^ mile ride, through Interstate Park, Hollis, Jamaica, Dunton, Morris Park, Ozone Park, along Liberty avenue to Crescent avenue, terminus of the Kings County " L." ROUTE 30. Flushing to Far Rockaway and Rock- awa.y Pa^rk, through Jamaica,. See FLoutes 28 and 29. Change cars at Jamaica. One of the most picturesque and entertaining of Long Island trolley tours. It traverses in all 22 miles at a cost of 15 cents, taking one hour and a half or more, and the places it touches are: Flushing, Ingleside, Queens Borovigh Heights, Gar- rison's Lane, Jamaica, Springfield, Jamaica Meadows, Lawrence, Inwood, Far ICockaway, Edgemere, Arverne, Hammels, Hollands and Seaside, Rockaway Beach, Rockaway Park. The journey begins among the villas or Flushing, passes into the open, hilly countryside and finally develops into the 44 Trolley Exploring. sea shore country of Lawrence and Cedarhvirst, the car at Far Rockaway and beyond running its course almost on the shore itself. Coming out of Flvishlrvg the trolley road bends over the " hill " that, though it lies so close to New York, has practi- cally never yet been settled. Here the scenes begin to possess real rural interest and charm. Beyond Jamaica over the Rockaway Turnpike the trolley tracks strike the Merrick Road (afterwards the Great South Shore road), here at its beginning. It passes the new Metropolitan Jockey Club Course, between Jamaica and Springfield (leave the car at Locust Avenue). Skirting a quaint old farming country it passes through fash- ionable Lawrence* within sight of yet more fashionable Cede^rhurst. From this point it swings into Far Rockaway, carrying the visitor to, besides the points already named above, Wave Crest, Ocean Crest, Bayswater. Not much remains that is old in this region, though there are still memories of the Marine Pavilion of half a century ago, renowned among New Yorkers as a hostelry, later destroyed by fire. The Kockaways were settled during the cholera scare of the forties when a good part of New York ran to the beach and slept in tents. At Cedarhvirst there is the house and polo field of the famous Rockaway Hunt. ROUTE 31. Queens to Hempstead, Garden City.Min- eola, Freeport.Rockvi lie Centre, Lynbrook. Valley Stream. Long Island's centre, with Hempstead as its hub, and the famous South Shore as far east as Freeport has been successfully trolleyed, and is now conveniently connected with the outer world. Starting at Queens, the system extends to Hempstead, and thence has two forks. Queens is to be reached from Jamaica. Hempstead is one of the most fashionable of Long Island p summer colonies, and is close to the quarters of the Meadow Brook Hvint. It has many very beautiful country houses. The town was the very first settlement made in Central Long Island, in 1643. In its famous church, St. George's, there is %. communion service presented by Queen Anne early in the Eight- eenth Century to the old parish. Mineola is the county seat of Nassau County, and has an in- teresting Court House and Jail built of cement, "poured, M the most important noveltv in the erection of large buildings. These structures should be visited. Freeport is one of the most rapidly developing summer re- sorts of Long Island. The famous Merrick Road runs through it and there is excellent boating and fishing near at hand. li> is a town of much spirit as well as a summer settlement. But The Long Island Field. 45 an hour out of New York by train it is much visited. There are several capital hotels in addition to the maoy private houses. For the convenience of boating and yachting: people a caral has been cut through from the Bay well inland. Across the Bay is Long Beach. Garden City has a very beautiful Cathedral, a famous boys' school, and a large hotel that is a fashionable winter resort. It was made on the " barrens, 11 and was the creation of the merchant, A. T. Stewart. Few places on Long Island have more interest. Where this western end of the road ends now is Belmont Park, the new racing track and fashionable resort that is to be the succes- sor of Morris Park in Westchester. To reach Queens most easily, take " L " road to Jamaica, from the New York end of the Brooklyn Bridge. It will require a little over 2 hours to make Hempstead from here. Fare to Jamaica, 5 cents. At Washington street, Jamaica, " L " terminus, board trolley car for Queens, 16 minutes away, 5 cents. At Queens the passenger is given a transfer, walks across the Long Island Railroad tracks, and rides in a directly connecting shuttle car to the western terminus of the Hempstead system. There may be a wait here, as the Queens cars run on 20 minutes headway, and the Hempstead cars on 40, only meeting every other Queens car. The company has a franchise to build into Jamaica, and will soon do so. Qvieens to Hempstead is 5% miles, 10 cents ; 20 minutes 1 run. To Freeport it is 10 cents more, 30 minutes more, 6 miles further. Qvieens to Mineola-is 15 cents, Freeport to Mineola, 10 cents. From Freeport to Valley Stream is 10 cents, 9 miles, 45 minutes 1 run. The round trip. Queens through Hempstead to Valley Stream* back to Hempstead, to Mirveola, to Hempstead again, to Queens, takes 3 hours and 20 minutes, and costs 65 cents. At Lynbrook connection is made with Long Island Railroad trains for Long Beach. There is being built at Freeport, in time for this summer's traffic, a spur of miles to Woodclef t Dock (deep water). From here boats will run regularly to Point Lookout, on the ocean, and across the Great South Bay. VAN CORTLANDT MANOR HOUSE, VAN CORTLANDT PARK, NEW YORK CITY. Through Revolutionary Westchester. Y THE laying of a few miles of electric rails and the democracy of the trolley car, Westchester, with its many exquisite bits of scenery and its hundred and one points of historic note, is now everybody's own. These acres of hillside and varying shore line directly to New York's north, the city's pride, are no longer distance locked. The country houses, the villas, the charming towns, the private parks remain in all their beauty. It will be many a long year before th«y are turned into suburban building lots. Mean- time they can be visited, and the finest of air breathed on the Westchester hills and along the Sound's shores. If only a general view is wanted, a tour over beautiful country sides, practically all that is best of Westchester can be gone over Through Revolutionary Westchester. 47 in a single day, much of it in the space of an afternoon. Those who have comparatively little time and do not mind an extra expense of a few cents, will find it an excellent plan to go to Mount Vernon by steam railroad (from the Grand Central station, fare 28 cents) and take the trolley cars from there. It must be remembered that all trolleying in Westchester centres from Mount Vernon. From Mount Vernon each and every point above and below may be reached. The lines from New York City (W. 155th street and E. 129th street) make their termini here. Above here, reached from Mount Vernon, are Yonkers, Hastings, Tuckahoe, Peln^m, New Rochelle, Ea^st Chester, Larchmont, Larchmont Manor, Mamaroneck, Rye, Rye Beach, White Plains, Tarrytown, Portchester, Greenwich, Cos Cob, Stamford, and beyond to New Haven on the route to Boston. For trolley trip purposes Westchester is to be divided into two great sections, that below Mount Vernon (between that city and New York), and that around and above it. The Borough of the Bronx extends to the Mount Vernon and the Yonkers city line. North of this is Westchester proper, the present Westchester. The Bronx was once, in its entire- ty, Westchester County, however, and historically it is still consid- ered as such. There are three ways of reach- ing Mount Vernon by trolley (5 cent fares): One direct from 129th street and Third avenue, at the Harlem River Bridge, by way of Webster avenue ; a second on the West Farms and Williamsbridge car from the same point, changing to the Webster avenue car at Williamsbridge : the third from the Bronx Borough side of the Harlem River at Central Bridge— the old McComb's Dam Bridge— take the Sixth avenue elevated to 155th street and Eighth avenue (end of the line) and walk over the viaduct and bridge. This third car (from Cen- tral Bridge) goes up Jerome avenue. Once in Mount Vernon the trolley traveler has a goodly number of trips spread out before him. If historic points are to be carefully looked over and views enjoyed it would be better not to attempt too much at a time, but devote several afternoons to the journeying. Below Mount Vernon, in Bronx Borough, there is not so CURIOUS ROCKING STONE, BRONX PARK, NEW YORK CITY. 48 Trolley Exploring. much that is worth while, though charming little tours may be made, High Bridge, the Zoological P%vrk, the Botanical Garden, the new park system of New York, Morris Pa.rk, BronxdaJe, Woodla-wn Cemetery invite those who have no idea of the beautiful at their very doors. NOTE. — To reach 135th street and Eighth avenue, take Sixth Avenue Elevated {Manhattan). To reach 129th street and Third avenue, Second or Third avenue Elevated (Manhattan). Allow in each case about one hour from down town. ROUTE 32. From 135th street a.nd Eighth avenue to Port Morris. A convenient connecting line for those on New York's Upper West Side. Crosses the Harlem River at Madison avenue and gives transfers at Third avenue to all lines on the east side of the Bronx. At Third avenue the Mount Vernon, Fordham, Wil- liamsbridge, Westchester, West Farms cars, etc., may be taken. Port Morris (E. 138th street) is on the Sound. Fare, 5 cents. ROUTE 33. From 161st street and Third avenue to Morris Heights— take steam railroad here to Kingsbridge or VaLn Cortla.ndt, then waJk two blocks west for trolley into Yonkers. Another short line, of little importance or interest in itself, except that in 30 minutes it brings the traveler into the Valley of the Harlem. Eventually this line is to be extended north. Mean while a train can be had at Morris Heights, its present terminus, and Kingsbridge or Van Cortlandt reached in a few moments, at a cost of from 6 to 8 cents more. From these points a trolley runs up through RJverdale and Movint St. Vincent into Yonkers. Take Webster or Third avenue car from 129th street and Third avenue. High and Washington Bridges over the Harlem are on this route. In the masonry of High Bridge the 11 old aqueduct" of New York crosses the Harlem to Manhattan Island. The "new aque- Through Revolutionary Westchester, 49 duct" burrows under the river just at this point in a "siphon." Kingsbridge is laden with history. Frederick Phillipse in 1693 received a royal grant from William III. of England, authorizing him to put a toll bridge over the Spuyten Duyvil Creek. This was the "King's Bridge," and over it tne old Albany Post Road (now Broadway all the way from the Battery to Albany) ran. At Van Cortlandt is Van Cortlaudt Park, one of the most beautiful of New York's new pleasuring places. In its 1,132 acres it includes a golf course and a superb field for drills of the National Guard. In winter its lake becomes a famous skating ground. No bit of land about New York, perhaps, is so hallowed by Revolutionary memoirs unless it be Battle Pass in Prospect Park, Brooklyn, or Harlem Heights. It was until quite recently the Van Cortlandt Estate. Three points of note mark it ; one, the Van Cortlandt Manor House, a highly interesting colonial dwelling, built in 1748, and still in a fine state of preservation. This is eventually to be made an exhibition house of colonial relics. Another memory of a long distanced past is the old saw mill of Revolutionary date, close to the railroad tracks, a ruin. But a mile away from these is Vault Hill, a burial ground where Washington lighted his fires to deceive the British (who were across Spuyten Duyvil Creek), while his troops were quietly crossing the Hudson. In MoAjnt St. Vincent, not far away, there is standing, now part of the Convent of St. Vincent, the Edwin Forrest Castle, of gray silican granite, w ith 6 octagonal towers. Forrest, the tragedian, built it with the view of founding a school of actiug— a plan that was never carried out- -and named it Font- TOM PAINE MONUMENT, NEW ROCHELLE, N. Y. 50 Trolley Exploring. hill Castle. From its windows there is a view up the Hudson to Sing Sing (now Ossining). Riverdale shows many beautiful old places. For details as to Yonkers and connecting routes, see Route 40. ROUTE 34. From the Bronx Borough end of Cen- tral Bridge (McComb's Dam Bridge)— take Sixth Avenue Elevated to 155th street, walk over viaduct and bridge, car on the Bronx Borough side — to Mount Ver- non, past Tremont, Jerome Park, Wood- lawn Cemetery, Van Cortlandt Park, Empire City Race Track, Belmont. A 5-cent fare from the Harlem River into Mount VernoD, The car starting from Central Bridge does not go into Mount Vernon itself, but transfers to the line coming over from Yon- kers (see Rovite 40). For directions as to getting to this starting point see head line of this route. The way leads up Jerome avenue, some years ago a famed driving road for New York horsemen. Its road houses still continue, though they are shorn of much of their former grandeur. On the way are Featnorbed Lane and Tremont. Jerome Park is now being turned into a reservoir. This is the most direct trolley route to Woodla.wr\ Cemetery and Van Cortlandt Park (see R.o\ite 33), as well as to the Empire City Race Track. ROUTE 35. From 129th street and Third avenue to Mount Vernon, up Webster avenue, through Melrose, Morrisania (past Clare- mont Park), Tremont, Fordham, Bedford Park (Bronx Park and Botanical Gar- dens), Williamsbridge and Wakefield. The direct route into Mount Vernon from New York. Though a ride of nearly 9 miles, taking an hour, its fare is only 5 cents. The first half of this ride, over Melrose, Mot Through Revolutionary Westchester 51 rlsevrviev, Tremorvt and Fordham, is through rather uninteresting city streets, but at Bedford Park genuine country commences to open up. The little cemetery near Melrose contains the grave of Joseph Rodman Drake, the American poet, who wrote, "When Freedom from her mountain height." There is a mon- ument to him surrounded by an iron fence. Drake"^ home was the Grange, an old house in the Bronx close to Williamsbridge, easily to be reached by this car. The Grange was built in 1688. Of old Melrose and Morrisania practically nothing exists to day. Inch by inch these suburbs have been swallowed up and made a part of the continuous city. Bedford Park is the Western entrance for Bronx Park, its woods and hemlock grove, its very beautiful river and the old Lorrilard Mansion and snuff mill, the latter with its ghost story (for Eastern entrance to Park see fLovite 37). Rovite 36 also goes to Western entrance of Park. On this side of Bronx Park reached by this route and Route 36 are the great Bota rvical Gardens of New York, a reservation of 250 acres which have already arrived at a high state of beauty. There is a superb museum building and won- derful glass houses. Free to visitors. This is the northern end of Bronx Park. The new Zoological Park is in its southern end (see Rovites 37 and 38). On this line get off at Pelham Parkway, Fordham, and walk or hire a hack ^ mile east (see Rovite 36). After reaching Williamsbridge and crossing the Bronx the car to Williamsbridge on Route 37, via West Farms, going on the eastern side of Bronx Park is connected with. Beyond this point the road to Movirtt Vernon runs along White Plains Avenue, a distance of 3 miles. Woodlawn Cemetery is within ready walking distance, to the west. See note between Routes 31 and 32. ROUTE 36. From 129th street and Third avenue to FordheLm, along vipper Third avenue. See Rovite 35, A parallel route to Fordham, through territory of little interest. At Fordham (Pelham Parkway), however, is the THE ANDRE MONUMENT, TARRYTOWN. 52 Trolley Exploring, best approach to the Zoological Park. (See Rovite 35, 37 and 38). Or the Zoological Park can be approached on this Hue, transferring at Tremont Avenue (177th street, West Farms car to the East). See Route 39. The Zoological Park is speedily becoming one of the great insti- tutions of America. It is free every day except Mondays and Thursdays (when these are not holidays), the admission on these days being 25 cents. There are not only buildings for reptiles and birds, but ranges for the larger and wilder animals. ROUTE 37. From 129th street and Third avenue to West Farms and WilliaLmsbridge, over the old Boston Post Road (now Boston avenue and White Plains avenue). As charming a trolley journey as there is in the Borough of The Bronx, 45 minutes run, fare 5 cents, with transfers to Movjrvt Vernon at Williamsbridge (Route 35). Twelve minutes after leaving the starting point the commencement of the Bos- ton Post Road is reached. Here a fine avenue stretches out, of villas and landscapes. At this turn the city is left behind. This was the original Mount Vernon Route. At West Farms the traveler has only to walk 3 blocks up a well shaded driveway to get to the southeastern entrance of the Zoological Park. The Bronx River is crossed at West Farms (here is the boating section of it), and beyond this point the trolley curves for miles through winding country roads, pass- ing the Morris Park Race Track, skirting the eastern revolutionary st. Paul's church, side of Bronx Park, crossing east Chester, n. Y. PelKa^ m Parkway, the Through Revolutionary Westchester. 53 BY RAM RIVER, DIVIDING NEW YORK AND CONNECTICUT. great connecting driveway from Bronx Park to PelKam Bay Park as the Mosholu Parkway is to be between Bronx and Van Cortlandt Parks, through Bronxdale into Williams- bridge itself. ROUTE 38. From 129th street and Third avenue over Willis avenue, Southern Boule- vard and Boston Post R-oad to West Farms. An alternative route to the above, going no further than West Farms, but transferring there to Williamsbridge and Mount Vernon. It runs over territory much more to the east, however, touching Port Morris, Casanova and Hunt's Point, and is a somewhat attractive ride (time, 25 minutes) through a region of much new building. 64 Trolley Exploring Little more than a wilderness of railroad terminals and freight yards to-day, manufactories and u improvements " generally, this is, nevertheless, a historic land of great country places. Close to where the car runs, set on a slope south of 132d street, between Gouverneur Lane and Cypress avenue, within view from the new Willis Avenue Bridge (crossing the Harlem River at First avenue), is the colonial mansion of Gouverneur Morris, senator, statesman and builder of the frigate Constitution. The grant to the Morris family covered 2,000 acres and more. The old mansion, still in grand condition, built in 1798, is in the hands of a caretaker. It is quaint in its architectural fashioning. Port Morris is hard by. In the Sound off this point the British frigate Hussar was sunk during Revolutionary times with a goodly treasure aboard. On Randall's Island, below, a skirmish took place in 1776. Ward's Island, to the south of that, was in the very forefront of American history a past- ure ground for Governor Wouter Van Twiller's cattle. It is about here that the true Westchester begins, though recent years have leveled the landmarks at a surprising rate. ROUTE 39. "Loop Line** from Morris Heights, fust above the Harlem eit Burnside avenue connecting with Route 33 and at Jerome avenue with Route 34 across to the east to West Farms, Van Nest, Westchester, Unionport, Bronx Bridge (on Westchester avenue) — a break of 200 feet here — then Westchester avenue to 129th street and Third avenue; from here Washington Bridge line up Boscobel avenue. Walk a quarter of a mile to Morris Heights car (Route 33). From West Farms or West- chester station take steam railroad to Bartow for upper end Pelham Bay Park, City Island and Pelham Neck. An electric line encircling the Bronx, embracing much beautiful territory of the lower Westchester remaining. The points of import- ance touched are Van Nest, the old town of Westchester, Fort Schuyler and Throgs Neck and the Westchester Covmtry Clvib (though all these latter three are some little walking distance from the cars). Take train, 155th street and 8th av^. to get to Morris Heit»h f "- Through Revolutionary Westchester. 55 To the north are other spots of historic and picturesque moment, more easily to be reached from here than by going south from East Chester (Rovite 42), and yet far away from any trolley line. The upper end of PelKam Bay Park, Pelham Neck and City Island are the chief of these. It would be possible to walk over, at the north end of Westchester striking the Pel- ham Parkway and continuing on that to Bartow, a tramp of some 4 miles, but it is recommended that the steam cars be taken at the near-by sta- tions of West Farms or Westchester, reaching Bartow in a few mo- ments, at an expense of hardly more than 10 cents additional. A complete afternoon might be spent on a jaunt of this nature over this beautiful waterside. Its cost from 129th street and Third avenue, including railroad fares both ways, followed along these lines, would amount to about 40 cents. Here are the least known of New York's new parks, those of the water- front, and a shore line that is yet rural and untouched. Gradually the old country homes have gone from this region, but much that is quaint remains. City Isl- and, reached by a horse railroad line all its own from Bartow, running to Belden Point on City Island's furthest end (3 miles, 10 cents, making no connections with other lines), is probably farther back in the past in its life and character than any other district in or about New York. Almost every inch of this ground has its story of American history. This is truly Revolutionary and Historic Westchester. Here, during the Revolution, was a hotbed of Tories, organized under the name of the "Tory Westchester Light Horse. 1 ' Colonel De Lancey headed this troop. Westchester Creek was the centre of many a conflict. These were the the "Cowboys" of history. Thomas Pell was the first lord of the manor for all this region. He bought, in 1634, 10,000 acres (extending up to the New Rochelle LIGHTHOUSE ON NORTH SHORE OF LONG ISLAND SOUND. 56 Trolley Exploring. boundary) from the Siwanoy Indians, paying trinkets for them. Later English from Connecticut settled about here, and were at coustant odds with the Dutch of New Amsterdam. Fort Schuyler, one of the chief of the Sound fortifications into New York, with always an interesting garrison on its reser- vation, lies at the very end of Throgs Neck (named by the Indians " Quinshung 11 ). Quinshung was settled in 1642 by John Throgmorton who came here with thirty-five Baptist families under the leadership of Roger Williams, from Rhode Island and the Providence Plantations. The Westchester Country Club, one of the most beautiful about New York, has its location just to the north at Schuylerville. Out in the Sound from here are Ha^rt and City Islands. City Island is said to have been the place where oyster culture in America first commenced. It is also where for years now many of the Cup Defenders of international yachting have been laid up high and dry, interesting skeletons of past sport. Part of the hulk of the historic frigate " Macedonian,' 1 captured by Com- modore Decatur in the frigate " United States " October, 1812, now forms a portion of a curious old tavern, "The Macedonian. 1 ' Pelham Neck, on the main land, just before City Island is reached, witnessed a sharp skirmish on October 18, 1776, when Colonel Glover, with a brigade of riflemen, harassed the advance of Sir William Howe from his landing place at PelPs Point to New Rochelle. The British columns were twice checked at a cost to Glover of 21 killed and wounded. The British loss was somewhat heavier. This engagement preceded the battle of Whits ?Jains. ROUTE 39 A Fordham to Yonkers— A new line, Cross Country, skirting Van Cortlfvndt Park's north edge. Starting by St John's College this new line runs up Webster ave- nue, past Williamsbridge and Woodlawn, until the northern end of Woodlawn is reached, when it travel through McLean avenue to Yonkers, through Lowerre and Park Hill, 7y 2 miles, 5 cent& Transfer from 129th street, thus 5 cents to Yonkers, Upper Westchester— Mount Vernon, &nd Beyond. ROUTE 40. Mount Vernon to Yonkers, Empire City Ra.ce Track, Dunwoodie, R^iverdale, Van Cortlandt, Kingsbridge, Hastings, (Dobbs Ferry, Irvington and Tarrytown, by steam railroad), Nepperhan, Tuckahoe. From Movirvt Vernon over into Yonkers is a 28 minute run, a 5-cent fare, and the distance is 4^ miles. Movint Vernorv is a picturesque, suburban city of many attractive villas and many hillsides. The route to Yonkers is a pleasing succession of rural scenes, the country in between being half wild in great part, the way offering many surprises in the way of vistas. One of these, perhaps one of the most charming in all the course of country trolleyiug, comes after the Empire City Race Track and Dunwoodie are passed. A turn of the car sud- denly brings to view from a hill top Yorvkers itself, in the valley and down the slopes, the Hudson in the near distance as a back- ground. Seen either in sunshine or under clouds the view is a superb one. The car glides down the hills into Yonkers, and is soon lost in a maze of city streets. Several lines branch off from here, the changing point being on Main street at Warburton avenue not far from Getty Square. One Yonkers line extends south through Riverdale, Mount St. Vincent and Van Cortlandt into Kingsbridge (see Route 33— connection by train for Morris Heights, about 10 cents from Yonkers. A second line runs up and over the hills through a most romantic country, through Nepperha.n, well back from the Hudson into Tuckahoe. Though this is but a short ride few rural trolley trips can excel it. Yonkers is a very old town, Dutch, as its name shows. Now a big suburban city, of manufacturing importance as well as great residential charm, it started its existence during the days of New Amsterdam as the Manor of Colendock, the property of Patroon Van der Donck — Adriaen Van der Donck. Yonkers got its name in a strange way. Van der Donck, coming here in 1642, lived in so 58 Trolley Exploring, much fashion that his property soon got to be called "de jonk heer's landt " (the gentleman's land), from which the transition to Yonkers is easy. But Yonkers' pride is her very wonderful colonial relic and heirloom, the Phillipse Manor House, where Washington's first love, Mary Phillipse, had her home. A curious circumstance about her career and the history of this house is that, at a later day, during the Revolution, she was attainted of treason and her house was confiscated by the Government. Phillipse Manor is now in fine condition and is used by tbe municipal government of Yonkers as the City Hall. It remains as a visible evidence of one of the famous old grants of the first days of American history. The PHILLIPSE MANOR HOUSE AND SOLDIERS' MONUMENT AT YONKERS, N. Y., WHERE MARY PHILLIPSE, WASHINGTON'S FIRST SWEETHEART, LIVED. Courtesy of New York Central Railroad building is credited with having been erected in 1682. It stands on Warburton avenue, one block north of Main street, and the trolley car from Hastings passes its doors. To Hastings from Yonkers is a third branch line, and is but a short run of 4| miles, 30 minutes, for 5 cents. Here the trol- ley car system for the outskirts of New York City ends. Has- tings is an important point, nevertheless. Just beyond it lie Dobbs Ferry* Irvington and Tarry town, all to be reached Upper Westchester 59 from Hastings by steam railroad (New York Central and Hud- son River). The railroad fare from Hastings to Irvirvgton is about 12 cents. Irvington is best reached by train from TaLrrytown, one station above it. Like Dobbs Ferry, it has no trolley con- nection. Nevertheless, because of memories of Washington Irving, it must certainly be visited Csee Rovite 43, at end). It may, however, be approached by steam railroad from here. Dobbs Ferry, on the other hand, though it may be visited at the same time as Tarrytown and Irvington, is most readily approached from HastiDgs by train. In 1894, along by the old Livingston Mansion at Dobbs Ferry, a monument was erected in commemoration of the great events in the cause of American independence the old building had seen. For this strip of country was the theatre of much Revo- lutionary history. War swirled through Westchester in those days. In the Livingston Mansion Washington met Rochambeau in 1781, and there planned the campaign of Yorktown. In May, 1783, under this same roof, the papers were signed that re- nounced all claims of England to America. Two days later, out in the Hudson just opposite, a British sloop of war fired 17 guns in honor of General Washington, the American commander. The old house is still in a fine state of preservation. ROUTE 41. Mount Vernon to Tuckathoe, through Bronxville. A short line from Movmt Vernon up in the hills to the north, through Bronxville, 17 minutes, 5 cents; connections to Yonkers, via Nepperharv, and to White Plains. (See Rovite 42A.) ROUTE 42. Mount Vernon to Ea^st Chester a^nd Inverness. A short line that makes trolley entry possible into the very old town of East Chester. East Chester has its old church, built in 1764 to replace one erected 1698 and destroyed by fire. When General Howe marched on to White Plains he left bis wounded in this church, 60 Trolley Exploring. OLD MILL, TARRYTOWN, N. Y,, DATING BACK TO COLONIAL TIMES. R.OUTE 42 A . Mount Vernon and New R.ochelle to White Plains, through Nepperhan, Parson's Corners, Tuckahoe, Scarsdale, Hartsdale. Ten miles up in the hills from each of the two first points, an hour's run, fare 10 cents. The cars from New R-ochell© transfer at Parson's Corners to the cars from White Plains. A fine new line, in process of construction for several years. It passes, after about five miles, into a region of the fashionables, and fine country places— Scarsdale. The new short route to Tarry town. Upper Westchester. 61 R.OUTE 43. Mount Vernon to PelhaLm, to New Rochelle, to Larchmont, to Maimairo- neck. Here there is a. choice of two routes, one to Tatrrytown, the other to the East on the way to Boston. The former leads over the Westchester hills, through White Plains and Elmsford, into Tarrytown, with connections by train at the latter point to Irvington and Dobbs Ferry — train to Hastings and thence via Yonkers to either Mount Vernon or Kingsbridge. The second route extends from Mamaroneck to Harrison, R.ye, R^ye Beach, Portchester, Belle Haven, Greenwich, Cos Cob and Stamford. This latter is the way to Boston, to-day practically a, clear and most delightful road. For directions be- yond Stamford see Route 44, in Con- necticut and Massachusetts chap- ters. A through line to White Plains and Tarrytown, and another along the Sound shores beyond Cos Cob, Conn. — both direct from Mount Vernon. This latter is the road to Boston, which is being made more and more complete from a trolley standpoint every year. Now it is all but filled, but five miles remaining un- trolleyed, up in the hills north of New Haven. For the break hitherto between Cos Cob and Stamford, close to New York, is now a thing of the past. Trolleys glide down Put's Hill." There are no more exquisite rides anywhere about New York than these cross country runs to Ta^rrytown, over the Westchester Hills and through White Plains, and close to the varying, in- dented, north shore of the Sound. There are glimpses of very fine country seats all along the routes, and all this region is the most magnificent of driving countries. TO PELHAM AND NEW ROCHELLE. It is a run of 24 minutes from Movirvt Vernon into New Hochelle, 4 miles (fare 5 cents). Scarcely have the Movint Vernon city streets been left behind than the countryside com- 62 Trolley Exploring. mences to be a noble one. It gives promise of the series of beautiful rides that is to come. From Mount Vernon, too, a branch of this line extends to Pelham, 3 miles away and 17 minutes' journey. This latter point is away from the through route to the east, however, almost in the opposite direction. Pelham Manor, further to the south, is not upon the trolley lines at all, and is only to be reached by steam railroad. At New Rochelle transfers are given for a special car to Glen Island ferry. From here there is water communication with Glen Island and Trovers' Island (New York Athletic Club). The car from Mount Vernon emerges several times upon the old Boston Post Road. In New Rochelle a most interesting settle- ment is found. Modern as it is now it is of considerable antiquity in American annals. It is a town of the T. Liguenots, and was founded in 1686 by French families who became exiles from France in consequence of the revocation of the Edict of Nantes. There are not many towns as old as this in the State of New York. Another memory of the region is preserved in the Hutch- inson River which flows into Pelham Bay, named from Anne Hutchinson who settled here two centuries ago, driven from New England during the days of the religious intolerance. Anne Hutch- inson became kno \ n as a benefactress to the Indians, and here- abouts was a country of many thrilling incidents of savage war- fare long before the Revolution came on. In the Revolution New Rochelle played a somewhat extensive part. Tom Paine, the patriot writer of those days, lived here, and a monument still marks his grave. He was originally buried here, but the body was removed to England in 1819. The monument stands on the White Plains road, just off Main street. Tories abounded here, as they did in Westchester, during those troublous times. General Knyphausen landed with Hessian troops on Davenport Neck near by and made many reprisals upon patriot families. In New R^ochelle stands a battle monument, inscribed, 4 'To her Loyal Sons," with a figure of a soldier surmounting its pedestal. The 5-cent fare from Mount Vernon carries the traveler to the LarcKmont line. Excellent summer shore re- sorts to be visited in New Rochelle (change cars in New R^oc hello and transfer) are Echo Ba^y, Hudson Park and Dillon Park. The highway here is the old Boston Post Road again. TO LAR.CHMONT AND LAR.CHMONT MANOR. It has cost but 5 cents and 36 minutes of time to get to the Larchmont line from Mount Vernon. At Larchmont a car can be taken into Greenwich, 12^ miles further, 15 cents. From Larchmont Line the car at once makes for Mamaroneck, 3^ miles, 5 cents of the 15. A branch line runs down to the shore— Larchmont Manor, Upper Westchester, 63 In Larchmont, a country town that has an ideal system of self government, there is the famous Larchmont Yacht Club, with its splendid lawns upon the water front, its fine club house and harbor, and the Larchmont Fire Department, a band of amateurs who are in great part from the best families and have been trained into almost the skill of professional firemen. TO MAMAFLONECK, R.YE, POR.TCHESTER., GREENWICH AND COS COB. Mamaroneck was another Tory headquarters in the old days before American Independence was finally declared, and General Howe in his Westchester campaigns camped on Heathcote Hill there, not far from where the old Delancey mansion now stands. In the Indian language the name means, "the place of rolling stones.' 1 J. Fenimore Cooper once lived in Mamaroneck. WASHINGTON MONUMENT AND THE LIVINGSTON MANSION AT DOBBS FERRY-ON-HUDSON, N. Y. Courtesy of New York Central <£ Hudson River Railroad 64 Trolley Exploring, From this town the road to White Plains and Tarrytown branches off over the hills. From N&m&roneck in Port- chester, through Rye is 30 minutes in time and 6 miles. Now the country begins to grow even more beautiful. To the west there are hills, and exquisite country houses, to the east the shore of which glimpses begin to be caught. At R»ye there is a braDch running down to R^ye Beach which is being built up into a popular summer resort to rival Ulmer Park, LoDg Island. Free tranfers are issued to this from the main line. Rye was much over- run in the Revolution by guerrilla bands, and there were conflicts in old Rye village. The points, islands and coves along the Sound from Mamaro- neck are Mill Creek, Hen Island, Rye Neck, Rye Point, Parsonage Point, Manursing Islands. The trolley road goes fairly close to the Sound in this district, and it would hardly be too long a walk to visit any of them, returning to the tracks and again boarding the car. Portchester of recent years has grown to be almost a city, and for a mile or so much of the sense or rural traveling is lost. On either side of it, however, is a chain of really magnificent country residences on the Sound side of the old highway that is the Post Road. The other side of Portchester the By ram River comes in, the boundary line of New York and Connecticut, a singularly picturesque stream. Beyond lie Belle H&ven and Green- wich, where trolleying from New York has hitherto come to an end and the first break in the route to Boston has com- menced. But this summer this has been changed. The trolley no longer stops on the top of Putnam Hill, Greenwich, but goes plunging down into the valley, to the village of Cos Cob, and has been built into Stamford. There are not a few experienced trolley trippers who say that in scenery and in change of pictures along the route, the journey from the Byram River past Belle Haven into Greenwich, is the finest about New York, that it can only be compared with the SUNNYSIDE, IRVINGTON. Upper Westchester. 65 trip to Passaic, Patersorv, Little FolIIs and Singac, New Jersey. Roughly speaking, this trolley journey to Greenwich, from 129th street and Third avenue, Harlem River, can be made in 2 hours and 20 minutes, (at a cost of 28 cents from the Brooklyn Bridge by Third Avenue Elevated. ) Just outside of Greenwich Village is to be seen the superb country place built by " Bill Tweed " Milbank. 11 A quarter of a mile beyond is Putnam's Hill, a high steep overlooking the valley and Cos Cob. It was here that General Israel Putnam made his famous ride on horseback down the flight of steps when pursued by the enemy. Several of the steps are still half visible, though a century and a quarter has gone by since the ride was taken. A rough stone block keeps green the story of the feat, with this inscription : "This marks the spot Where, on February 26, 1779, General Israel Putnam, Cut off from his soldiers, Pursued by British cavalry, Galloped down this rocky steep And escaped, daring to lead where not One of many hundred foes dared to follow. Erected by the Putnam Hill Chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution, of Greenwich, Conn., A. D. 1900. Greenwich has Indian Harbor as its eastward water point, and all through this region there is especially fine boating and fishing. In Cos Cob is the old Holly house (now an artists 1 board- ing house), where General Putnam attended a party the night before his ride. The looking glass in which he saw (according to history) the reflection of the redcoats, is now in the collections of the New York Historical Society. The trolley cars go here within a few rods of the old settlers' burying ground where Cos Cob and Mianus, the Indian chieitains, are buried. This burial ground can only be discovered upon close inspection. It is but a few uncared f or mounds to-day. From Greenwich to Cos Cob is 2 miles. It is 3 miles further into Stamford. (See Route 44). MAMARONECK TO WHITE PLAINS, ELMSFORD AND TARRYTOWN, STEAM RAILROAD TO IRVINGTON. Over the Westchester hills into White Plains, a Revolutionary battle ground, a ride of 6 miles, taking 33 minutes from Mama- roneck, is another of fine tours of trolleying. The journeyer does not stop here, he k^eps on 7 miles further into Tarrytowrv, 66 Trolley Exploring. wherein are Sleepy Hollow church, the bridge over Pocarvtico creek, made famous by Washington Irving's " Headless Horseman," and a quaint and charming old mill. To get to Sleepy Hollow church and the famous bridge (which lie close together) requires considerable walking. Leave the trolley- car at Orchard street, one block from the railroad, and walk north one mile. There are no more old time spots roundabout New York. The old mill was built by Vredryk Flypse, who got a grant here in 1680. Tarry town is the village where Major Andre was captured. Its name, TARWEE TOWN, means wheat town. In the Indian tongues it was called Alipconck, the place of elms. Irvington must surely be included in the pilgrimage, for even though trolley cars do not reach it the railroad is close at hand. Here is Washington Irving 's home, Sunnyside, still occupied by one of his descendants, a country place of wonderful fascination, a house that far transcends all the modern mansions of the Hudson's bank. It was once known as Wolfert's Roost. At Elmsford (old Hall's Corners) is "Four Corners," of historic fame where the British attacked the patriots in 1780. South of the railroad station is the Greenburgh Dutch Church, built in 1770. in whose burying ground lie many patriots. Near by there was raised three quarters of a century ago a monument to Isaac Van Wart, one of the captors of Andre. Sleepy Hollow Cemetery is, after all, half the charm of West- chester, of exquisite countryside. Though small in extent and rural there are few other God's acres in America that can compare with it in loveliness. It adjoins the old Church noted above. Wash- ington Irving lies buried here. Connecticut and Massachusetts From New York to Boston very nearly a through trolley run to-day. But twelve miles open — between New Haven and Wallingford. ■™^T^T Stamford, Conn., 35 miles from the Harlem River, j\ trolleyingin New England begins for the New Yorker and ends for the people of Massachusetts and Con- necticut. With the exception of twelve and a half miles from New Haven to Wallingford, Conn., a gap that must be bridged by train, it is now possible to use no other locomotion than the electric car to get from the New York City Hall to the Boston State House. The trip may, of course, be cut even finer, and Boston may be trolleyed to all except five miles by going up from New Haven to Cheshire, and driving across the moun- tains to Milldale (see map, page G8). There is now a trolley from New Haven to Derby, and the trolley is creeping yet further up MEMORIAL BRIDGE, MILFORD, CONN. Courtesy of C. A. Tomlimon. 68 Trolley Exploring. Connecticut and Massachusetts. 69 the Housatonic Valley. New Haven will, in a few mouths, be joined with Waterbury Now there begins a long line of tours that with but one break embrace all New Eng- land, save in Western Connec- ticut and Massachusetts and up in the mountainous coun- try to the north. By trolley car through these regions scenery is to be had that would not be met with in rail- road riding, only in the course of long driving trips that would take weeks. The trol- leys of New England have opened up to the public the Housatonic and the Connecti- cut valleys, both of wonderful loveliness. For the traveler going north- eastward at New Haven, for him going southwestward at Mildale (see map opposite page) this 5 mile " gap " that remains must be taken into consideration. Traveling eastward one may trolley from New Haven to Cheshire, and then drive across to Mildale (cost, say $2). Better still, however, is the plan given here last year, simply take the train from New Haven to Wallingford (12^ miles, 25 cents). At Wallingford find straight trolley tracks through into Boston. Going westward keep on trolley from Mildale to Wallingford, then steam car to New Haven. Exact cost through trip, $3.21 this way, counting railroad fare. Four days had best be taken. From Bridgeport and Ansonia (see page 74) lines are gradu- ally creeping up the Ho vis atonic and the Navigatuck Valley that will in a year or so connect these cities with Waterburv. Then a line will be extended from Waterbury across towards New Britain. This will in time be the New England Route. All this is, however, in the future. The immediate extensions here are New Haven across to Derby, from Ansonia to Seymour. These are now being operated. There is no prospect of the Cheshire- Milldale " gap " being filled this summer. Made comfortably, everything being taken into account, the trol- ley trip to Boston may be figured as costing $20.50 for each person. This allows for a four-day trolley journey to Boston, a day to Fall River and the return on the boat from there or from Providence, If expenses are watched and inexpensive hotels and restaurants are 70 Trolley Exploring. chosen the journey could be made for several dollars less, probably for $15, especially if one of the cheaper boats was taken at Provi- dence. But $17 would be about the minimum of cost, even for a three days' trip. The boat need not necessarily be taken and the journey through Eastern Massa- chusetts need not necessarily be made. Upon arriving in Boston late in the afternoon, or, taking the trip the other way, in New York, a night train could be immediately boarded back. The charm of trolleying long dis- tances, though, is leisurely proceed- ing, getting a peep at each big city en route. The Trolley Explorer is earnestly advised not to hurry, and to take, if possible, five days for this most beautiful of tours and its return. One, and perhaps the only serious disadvantage of trolleying trips lasting over several days is that the baggage must be carried in the hand. As light weight grips as pos- sible are essential. For women the inexpensive straw telescopes are suggested. Jackets, top coats and umbrellas are advisable, no matter what the weather on starting out. For a four-day trip the journey had best be divided in this manner : First day, New York to Bridgeport. Second day, Bridgeport to Hartford. Third day, Hartford to Ware, Mass. Fourth day, Ware into Boston. For a three-day trip a good programme would be : First day, New York to New Haven. Second day, New Haven to Springfield. Third day, Springfield into Boston. Rovites 44, 46, 47, 49, 51 give the New York-Boston trip in detail from Stamford on. For the way into Stamford see Route 35 (from Harlem River, 129th street and Third avenue, New York, take Third avenue Elevated to this point), to Mount Vernon and Route 43 to Cos Cob and Stamford (see remarks Route 43, and pages 67 and 69). The return trip from Boston BUSHNELL PARK, HARTFORD. Courtesy of Elmer M. White. # Connecticut and Massachusetts. 71 will be found under Routes 53, 54 and 55. Persons traveling from east to west should study these routes noted here in the reverse order. By the use of some one of the many lines of Sound steamboats it would be possible to vary this Boston trip delightfully. A boat might be taken from New York to Stamford, or to Bridgeport, to New Haven, or even up the Connecticut River to Hartford, and actual trolleying commenced from either of these points. Sound boat fares are, in general, low, and a combination tour of this sort would cost less, take it altogether, than going all the way by trolley. Besides this there are, doubtless, many people who would not care for the entire Boston trip, but would enjoy being landed comfortably in new trolley centres. There is a fine day of riding to be taken about each of the cities mentioned, out from Stamford (Rovite 44), out from Bridgeport (Rovites 45 and 46), out from New Haven (Routes 46 and 47), out from Hertford (Rovites 47, 48 a^nd 49). All are accessible to those living in the metropolitan district of New York, as well as to New Engend- ers, by journeying to these cities by water. For those who have traveled frequently over Westchester lines and would prefer to reach the Connecticut trolley starting point for the East in a new way this Sound boat for Stamford is to be recom- mended. It leaves Peck Slip (East River) at 2.55 each week-day afternoon (Saturdays 2.30), and lands at the foot of East Thirty-first street for passengers. The fare is 35 cents and the time of the sail is three hours. (See Bullinger's Guide for changes in schedule.) STREET OP THE TRIPLE ELMS, STRATFORD, CONN. 72 Trolley Exploring. Two boats leave New York for Bridgeport each week day (at 11 A.M. and 3 P.M.; time of trip four hours ; fare 50 cents.) Both start from Pike Slip (East River) and stop at the foot of East Thirty- first street. There are two distinct water routes to New Haven. The after- noon boat, charging one dollar each way, leaves Clark son street at 4 every week-day, and reaches New Haven at 9 o'clock. The night boat starts from the foot of Dey street (North River) at 9 o'clock in the evening every day except Saturday, and takes six hours for the trip. Fare 75 cents. The Hartford boat's fare is $1.50 and it sails from the foot of Pike street each week-day at 5 P. M., being due in Hartford at 7 o'clock next morning. (See Bullinger's Guide for changes in schedule.) ROUTE 44. Stamford into Bridgeport, through Noro- ton, Darien, Rowayton, Roton Point, South Norwalk, Ea.st NorwaJk, NorwaJk, Sauga- tuck, Westport, Southport, Fairfield, Black R^ock, with a. Short "Side Trip" from Stamford into New C^na^n. Through the pleasant streets of this charming little Connecticut city of Stamford the trolley car starts off, for but the shortest of runs, however. In twenty minutes or so, having shot past many villas and afforded a glimpse of SKipparv Point on the Sound, but a mile away, its tracks come to an abrupt end. A short stone bridge spanning a narrow stream, the Noroton River, must now be crossed afoot. On its other side, in the town of Darien, the connect- ing car waits, and thence, though two changes are necessary, it is a straight journey into Bridgeport, stepping from car to car. If time allows there is an interesting " side trip " to be made here, a short pilgrimage into New Canaan, six miles to the north and a picturesque country place, twenty minutes in the going, at a fare of 15 cents. The view from the bridge over the Noroton but starts the exquisite series of New England pictures that are to come before the traveler's eyes. Besides ihe scenery he has a new interest— he is now beginning to traverse historic Connecticut. These towns along the shore were some of the earliest settle- ments of New England. All through the Revolution the British rampaged and pillaged through here. But Darien, Saugatuck. Norwalk and FaJrfield were in existence long before those days. Connecticut and Massachusetts. 73 Norwalk goes back, as a matter of fact, to 1640. A brisk Connecticut city (rather two cities, Norwalk and South Nor- walk, proud of their manufactures), it does not show its an- tiquity to the casual observer or to the passer through its main streets, save in the many quaint old cemeteries scattered every- where in the centers and perched on hilltops. These make the Norwalks somewhat interesting places. Norwalk is truly celebrated, Washington having written about it in his diary. A stone, easily seen en route, marks the site of the founding of the town, and there is a good red brick Town Hall, built in 1835, that should have a glance. Darien, too, is anciently historic. It is not until Fairfield is reached, nevertheless, that the historical climax is capped for this stretch of shore. Fairfield is not only one of the most beautiful of Connecticut towns but* it is filled with annals of '76. THE VALLEY OF THE CONNECTICUT. General Tryon, the Britisher, burned it. The old Benson Tavern was for many a long year a favorite hostelry of the Boston Post Road, and it still stands. Here there are memories of Peter Parley. Katharine M. Abbott, in her little hand-books, has written most entertainingly and fully of these Connecticut towns, and the small pocket volumes are to be had in nearly all the New England book shops. Fairfield's Court House was built in 1720, destroyed by the British in 1779, and rebuilt 1794. There is, too, in this range of towns Sovithport, whose at- traction is the extremely fine Pequot Library, with its many rare books on the Pequot Indians. Miss Abbott says: **The Pequots, whose day of power ended on the spot where the Library stands." From Noroton it takes two hours and a half to get into Bridgeport, and the fare is forty cents (45 cents from Stamford Depot, 25 miles). Much beautiful countryside is passed through, the trolley running along a shady highway, between fields, through ouaint villages, with glimpses now and again of the Sound. Be- 74 Trolley Exploring. sides the points of historic note there is much else to be seen. Following Noroton and Darien are Howayton and R^oton Point, the latter on the Sound itself, a splendid and popular pleasuring ground. Then come the Norwalks, a continuous, picturesque city for miles. Saugatuck, Westport and South- port are next on the line, and after Fairfield's main street is left behind the cars touch Ble^ck FLock, a district of many fashionable country seats. ROUTE 45. A magnificent "Side Trip" — up aJong the Housattonic to Derby a.nd Ansonia. out from Bridgeport. Noblest of all New England rivers is the Hovisatorxic, in its wind- ings from the Sound up to the hills where Derby and Ansonia stand, at least. Even the far-famed Connecticut can bring forward no lovelier series of scenes, and by trolley, in the space of less than three hours, all this may be viewed. The cars for this Housatonic trip of trips start from the railroad station at Bridgeport, meeting the cars that have come in from Noroton. This is a "side trip" that must, without question, be taken. The "Trolley Explorer 11 need not necessarily journey all the way to Bridgeport by trolley car. He can quite as easily, per- haps more pleasantly (supposing that he is not making the entire Boston trip), go by boat from New York to Bridgeport. (See details in introduction to this chapter). From Bridgeport the running time into Arvsonia. is 80 min- utes (20 cents fare, 17 miles) The car goes through Stratford (See Route 46), past Pine Rock Park, a splendid summer pleas- ure ground with a wonderful view, its buildings all of rustic fashion, through Shelton and into Derby and Ansonia, now a continuous city. These are two of the briskest echo bridge, newton, mass. and most interesting of the manu- facturing centers of Connecticut. These are the most superb views of the valley of the Housatonic from the car which runs on the hills above the river the entire dis- tance. The Jersey and Westchester trips mentioned in previous Chapters, those to "Patterson and Greenwich especially, hardly equal this short run in pure scenic beauty. Connecticut and Massachusetts. 75 PEQUOT LIBRARY, SOUTHPORT, CONN. ROUTE 46. Out of Bridgeport into New Haven, through Stratford, Milford, Woodmont and Sa.vin Rock. Bridgeport dates back to 1637, but for all that it is a modern factory city. A Soldiers and Sailors 1 Monument is its great sight for the tourist. The trolley traveler who stops there over night will find comfortable hotels, among which the Arcade and the Atlantic may be instanced. Into New Haven from this Sound city there is precisely a 2 hour run (fare 25 cents, distance 22 miles). Here there is fast trolley- ing. A part of the way, from out of Milford eastward for several miles the trolley rails are laid directly on the Sound beach, and a superb speed is worked up. The sensation of flying by electric car on the very water's edge is unusual and exciting in a high degree. The run is through Stratford, Milford, Woodmont and Sa^vin Rock. Here is another most extraordinary section of historic Connecti- cut. So picturesque and beautiful, so full of memories are Stratford 76 Trolley Exploring. and Milford that it will seem to most people a pity not to get off the car at the "Greens 11 of each and spend hours in these towns. The trolley passes along the Street of the Triple Elms in Stratford, trees well nigh 300 years old. This village was founded in 1639, and puts forward to the visitor the quaintest of architecture. In Strat- ford town among other sights is the Gallows Bridge on which Goody Bassett was hung for witchcraft in 1650. Miss Abbott tells the tale of one Birdsey, who was whipped (under the Blue Laws), because he was seen to kiss his wife on Sunday on his own doorstep. Milford Green is a paradise of itself. The car skirts it, and as it turns gives a glimpse of the Memorial Bridge, erected a year or so ago, on whose granite piers and balustrade are cut the names and the deeds of the worthies who figured in her romantic and stormy Colonial and Revolutionary history. Milford has many old elms too ; it was Wepowagee in the Indian tongue. Savin Rock is a famous Sound-side resort for New Haven people and for many others. F ive cents can be saved by the Trolley Explorer to Boston if he but passes through Bridgeport and does not stop. On the car coming into Bridgeport a transfer can be had which will carry the traveler through Stratford to Washington Bridge at the mouth of the Housatonic. New Haven into Hartford, first by rail to Wallingford — there being a "gap" here — then through YaJesville, Meriden, New Britain, or trolley to Cheshire, then drive to Mildale, At New Haven the first important 4 'break " in the journey from miles away. Wallingford can be reached readily by train from New Haven (12 miles, 25 minutes, fare 25 cents). At the station in Wallirvgford the trolley car to Meriderv can be picked up. ROUTE 47. ON THE SHORE AT NORWALK, CONN. New York to Boston is met with. It is true that a local line can be taken at New Haverv to Cheshire, 16 miles to the north, and it is possible to drive over to Mildale, 5 miles more, but tour- ing in this direction is bootless, though it has been advised. The objective trolleying point from New Haven is Wallingford, from which the trolley rails now lead unbrokenly up to Boston, 175 Connecticut and Massachusetts. 77 Going to Movirvt Carrrvel or CKesKire is without purpose. It simply means a long, hard drive of five miles over uninterest- ing hills, costing at least $2.00, with perhaps a rig difficult to get. New Haven has many things worth looking at, the chief of them being the buildings of Yale Univer- sity, chartered as Yale College in 1701. The New Haven "Green" is the most imposing in New England. From the wonderful elms there old Quinnipiac (as it was called origin- ally) gets the title of the "Elm City.' 1 The fine new buildings of the University and the remnant of the old yet remaining must have a few moments given them, no matter what the hurry. There should be a walk ovei the " Green 1 ' (under the Elms) and through the 1 'Quadrangle. " At New Haven, for a stop over night, Moseley^ and the Tontine can be commended. Wallingford into Hertford is a matter of 40 miles by trolley, the road winding interminably through a country by no means un- attractive to speed through, however. The journey takes a trifle over three hours, and its cost is fifty cents. The way leads past Yalesville and 41 Silver-plate " Meriden, important in manu- facturing annals, then it bends into thinly settled hill and dale country. Tell the conductor of the car into Meriden that you are going through and get a "Hubbard Park transfer, thereby saving five cents. After Meriden there is nothing but open countryside until New Britain is reached. From MilldaJe (see map) a line will, within a year or S3, be extended to Cheshire (see above). This is a distance of 5 miles. Then there will be a short trolley run, 20 miles due north, from New Haven, connecting with the present road here. These five miles might be bridged by carriage direct, but it would not be advised unless a carriage should be telegraphed for in advance. There is a capital road house at CKesKire, Walter Scott's, however, a famous resort for some years past, with a menu ranging from a five cent sandwich to a ten dollar dinner, the Waverly Inn. At Meriden there is the Winthrop, at New Britain the Rush- win, at Hartford the Alleyn House and the Heublein, all good inns of New England for the trolley traveler to pass a night at. New Britain is an attractive town, especially when it is trolleyed into in the early evening. Here cars are changed for Hartford, a ten mile run, a ten cent fare. 78 Trolley Exploring. ROUTE 48. Trolleying aground Hertford. There is no city in New England, not even excepting Boston, that offers greater possibilities for entrancing little trolley trips of two, three or four hours' duration than does Hartford. Beauti- fully situated, with fine parks and a superb circling of countryside, Hartford offers tour after tour. It would be an excellent scheme for those who are fond of trolley- ing and want new sights, to take the boat for Hartford from New York late some afternoon, trolley about Hartford the following day and return late in the evening, again by boat, reaching New York the second morning (see introduction to this chapter) . The trolleying possibilities of Hert- ford can be but touched upon here, but below are suggestions for trips : Up the Connecticut Valley to Springfield, Mass., en route to Boston (see Rovite 49). To Manchester, a great mill town (a splendid trip), 9J£ miles, 49 min- utes from Hartford, 15 cents. To Sovitn Glastonbury, 10 miles, 15 cents, one hour's run. Here is the Hollister House, built in 1675, south glastonbury, conn. said to be the oldest wooden house now standing in Connecticut. To Farmington, settled in 1640, where Miss Porter's noted semi- nary for girls is situated, 9 miles, 15 cents. To Lake Compounce (a famous pleasuring ground), 20% miles, 28 cents, or 22^£ miles, 31 cents, 2 hours' run. Very full details in regard to these and other tours about Hert- ford and in fact all over Connecticut, etc., with much historic information, capitally arranged, is to be found in the admirable little handbook, " Trolley Trips Through Southern New England," by White and Warner, Hartford, Conn., price 10 cents, which should be purchased en route as a supplement to this volume. Connecticut and Massachusetts. 79 All the cars of Hartford, over one hundred an hour, pass in front of the " Square, 1 ' which goes back to 1637. The City Hall, once the State House, was built in 1791 Two points of notable interest are the Centre Church (1807), with its old burying ground (1640), and the white marble State Capitol standing in Bushnell Park. There is a famous Memorial Arch likewise, and along by way of Farmington avenue is Hartford's literary centre where Mark Twain, C Maries Dudley Warner, Harriet Beecher Stowe and William Gillette long lived. In Hartford bicycles, Colt revolvers and Gatling guns have been famous products of manufacture. ROUTE 49. In the Connecticut Valley. Hartford to Springfield, through EeLst Windsor Hill, Warehouse Point, Enfield, Long Meadow. Until quite recently there was a "gap" between these two cities, but recently this has been filled, and the Explorer can now make his way from Connecticut's State Capitol into Western Massachusetts without delay, in the very finest trolley cars in the East, each hand- somely plush seated, a genuine railroad car for comfort, each with a glassed-off smoking compartment in front. But what is more than this, the way is indescribably lovely. From Hartford into Springfield is close to 30 miles; its fare is 30 cents. The trolley run niug time between the two cities is 2 hours and 20 minutes. This summer it is to be reduced to 1 hour and 50 minutes. First there come the great elms and " street" of East Hartford, then through a beautiful country the trolley road stretches, the superb Connecticut much of the time in view. Just after the State line is crossed the town of Long Ne&dow begins, an immensely wide highway bord- ered by old houses, this continuing for two miles and more, a lawn in its centre, smooth cropped, overhung by ancient trees, the trolley track in its midst, the rails half hidden by grass; finally the valley of the Connecticut again, approached sud- denly, seen in all its glory from the hill- tops, with the roofs of Springfield in the distance, a panorama of scores of miles ahead, magnificent in the sunshine of an afternoon. There is nothing else in trolleying like unto this, a never-to- be-forgotten picture. Many a point on the way arouses atten- tion. Sovith Wind- sor, just beyond Ee^st Hertford, was the homestead of Roger Wolcott. About here nowa- days much tobacco growing is going on. All through this long ' ' street, 1 1 especially about Enfield and Long Meadow are colonial man- sions, enviable in their unrestored architecture. This Connecticut land is ?nany a long year old. You are in New England's very heart. Tnompsonville. a step further than Enfield, is the greatest town of carpet manufacturing in this country. The old homesteads of Long Meadow are all but perfect. It is said that when permis- sion was given the trolley company to lay their tracks through the lawn of this wide street alongside of the roadway, the condition was made that the turf should be kept in perfect condition between the rails. The trolley people have kept the pledge. ROUTE 50. Springfield, and a " side trip ** from Springfield to Holyoke, Mount Tom and Northampton, then to Williamsburgh at the foot of the Berkshires. Springfield will ever have a warm place in the memory of trolley travelers, because of the beauty of the approaches to it and the exits from it. Historically all this valley is crowded with re- minders of the savage Indian, King Philip, and the cruelties of his war. The Court Square of Springfield is an ancient place. This is one of the most bustling of New England cities, and the latter day residences on its outskirts are delightful. The journeyer may not wait over here, perhaps, but he should walk about between cars; better yet rest for a few hours and dine at the Worthy House. As indicated above, there are some admirable trolley " side trips " out of Springfield. The road to Boston runs to the East, these Connecticut and Massachusetts. 81 *' side trips " are to the West. One is to Holy ok© by way of West Springfield— Holyoke, that splendid water power city, wherein everything is made, paper especially— and to Mount Tom. Holyoke is 50 minutes away, 10 miles, 10 cents. Movint Tom, the most famous mountain in Western Massachusetts, 4 miles further, 5 cents additional (half an hour). Mount Tom should be climbed, by a connecting trolley car, for its view. From Holyoke also one can trolley to NortnaLmpton, where college girls abound and Novelist George W. Cable lives (10 cents), and from Northamp- ton to WilliacmsburgK at the foot of the BerksKires (one hour, 10 cents), or to Amherst, of great renown (seven miles away). In Springfield there is the historic United States Arsenal, de- voted to the manufacture of small arms. This can be visited on application to the commanding officer. It is a wonderful place. These buildings are passed on the route to Boston (Route 51). Ask the trolley car conductor. ROUTE 51. The Last Stage into Boston. From Springfield over the mountains into Ware. There is no longer a •'gap" at Ware, cars now running from here to West Brookfield and thence through Spencer and Leicester into Worcester. From the latter point, though the old route of last year may be taken, it will be best for the tourist to board the new high-speed trolley cars direct into Boston. 40 miles, 2 hours. It is about two hours from Springfield to Ware (cost 20 cents), and from Ware to Worcester something like 2>$ hours more (40 cents additional), through a country not particularly interesting, save between Waro and Springfield. Indian Orchard, Ludlow, Palmer, West Warren, Warren, Brookfield. East Brookfield, Spencer and Leicester lie along the route. Unless Springfield is stopped at for the night good accommoda- tions can be had at Ware. Worcester is one of the attractive cities of New England, and its public square is interesting. The trolley traveler will not, however, find it worth while to stop over here, as he might very profitably in Hartford or Springfield. 82 Trolley Exploring. The High Speed line, Worcester to Boston, runs very largely over a private right of way, and is planned to be a trolley road of the highest type yet reached in America. The building of this is the beginning of the making of Worcester into a great trolley centre. Another High Speed electric road is to extend across from Worcester to Hartford, a third from Worcester to Provi- dence. The journey over the new road takes about 2 hours, cost 35 cents, 40 miles. The steam railroad is being competed with for frequency and convenience of traffic. The points touched comprise : Worces- ter, Shrewsbury, Northboro, Hudson, Westboro, South- boro, Marlboro, South Framinghevrrv, Framingham, Natick. Wellesley, Newton and Boston. As an alternative, taking over four hours instead of two, the old route of last year is given from Worcester. To Marlboro, through Northboro, 15 cents, 16)£ miles, \y% hours ; to South Framingham, 10 cents, one hour : to Natick, 10 cents. Here is a choice of routes. By way of South Natick, Needh&m, West Roxbury, Forest Hills. Roxbury and Elevated into the Bos- ton Svibway. 15 cents, 2 hours. The second route is through Wellesley and the Newtons, 1^ hours into the Svibway, 10 cents, the more attractive run— in Natick there is a walk of three blocks to the Newton car. OLD JAIL (1653), YORK, MAINE, REACHED BY TROLLEY FROM BOSTON. About the Rub ROUTE 52. Suggested Trips Around Boston. Aioand Bostorv there is many a fine trolley trip. All lines start in Boston Subway under Bostorv Common. At the end )f Route 51 two lines are mentioned out to Natick that are fine >nes. Other possible trips are : Through the Mystic Valley, boarding a Medford car. Through 2harlestown over Winter Hill, Medford, Winchester, IVoburn. This trip could be extended -o Nashvia, New Hampshire, taking Lowell in on the way. Return from Winchester by way of Arlington ,nd Cambridge. Out to Concord via Lexington, >erhaps the most historic of trips. To Plymovith, 4 hours and 46 min- ites, 65 cents — into 11 Pilgrim Land." lake car to Milton Lower Mills. To Portsmouth, Kittery, York, p into Maine. An 85V£ mile tour into fork Beach from Boston, costing 1.10, taking 7 hours and 36 minutes. This is one of the most beautiful rolley trips in the country. York is full of quaint buildings, in- luding a jail of much and notable interest. Along the South Shore through Q\iincy, Hingham and Nan- \sket. Take car marked k ' Neponset Bridge. " Along the North Shore to Gloucester (a Boston and Lynn car), ast Chelsea, Lynn, Nahant, Swampscott, Marblehead, alem, Beverly. Beyond Gloucester to Pigeon Cove. A iew of the coast and the Isles of Shoals and the mountains of aine that is surpassing. BETSEY WILLIAMS' HOUSE, PROVIDENCE. / Through. Rhode Island And Boat Connections. There are two excellent roads into Providence from Boston, and a line from Providence to Fall River. For details Routes 53. 54, 55. see page 92. NOTE —From Providence or Fall River the night boat should be taken into New York, and the traveler should dine aboard, lhe best 14 liners" make the cost of this nighVs travel about four dollars a verson, including stateroom, but not including dinner or break- fast. On the cheaper boats this expense can be reduced very ma- terially, however. Consult daily papers. New York to Philadelphia. ROUTE 56. To Trenton by direct Trolley, and then connecting boat down the Delaware River, or the choice of two trolley systems into the Quaker City. Trolley and Boat, $2 the round trip* Trolley travel into Philadelphia, from New York has at last come to the first stages of practical perfection. A trunk trolley line is to leave Jersey City this summer, making four trips each way a day The cars will run to Trenton, where they will meet a boat that will excursion down the Delaware. Trolley trippers, who pref ei to go by electricity all the way, can have a choice of routes fronr Trenton, one through Burlington into Camden, all the waj upon Jersey shore ; the other across the river in Pennsylvania through Bristol and Torresdale. The trolley and boat fare, single, is $1.10. The return fare, Nevi York to Trenton is $1.50 ; single fare 80 cents. From Trenton t< Philadelphia, by trolley is about 50 cents, and it takes, allowing for changing cars, from two to three hours. This trunk line runs over the suburban Jersey tracks to Nev Brunswick, through Newark and Elizabeth. Plainf ield an< Bound Brook (see Route 1. pages 12-18), 5 hours and 25 minute is to be the running time. New York to Philadelphia 85 TIME TABLE, LEAVE A. M. A. M. P. M. P. M. New York 'Cortlandt St.) 8.20 11.20 2.20 5.20 Jersey City 8.35 11.35 2.35 5.35 P. M. Newark 9.28 12.28 3.28 6.28 Elizabeth 9.58 12.58 3.58 6.58 Westfield 10.29 1.29 4.29 7.29 Plainfield 11.06 2.06 5.0G 8.06 Dunellen 11.24 2.24 5.24 8.24 Bound Brook 11.54 2.54 5.54 8.54 P. M. New Brunswick 12.30 3.30 6.30 9.30 Milltown Junction 12.47 3.47 6.47 9.47 Trenton 2.00 5.00 8.00 11.00 LEAVE Trentorv A. M. 8.00 Milltown Junction 9.13 New Brunswick 9.30 Bound Brook 10.06 Dunellen 10.36 Plainfield 10.54 Westfield 11.81 P. M. Elizabeth 12.02 Newark 12.32 Jersey City 1.25 New York (Arrive) 1.3) A. Iff. 11.00 P. M. 12.13 12.30 1.06 1 36 1.54 2.31 3.02 3.32 4.25 4.30 p. iff. 2.00 3.13 30 06 36 54 31 6.02 6.32 7.25 7.30 T/touty MAP TO PMLADftPW p. v. 5.00 6.13 6.30 7.06 7.36 7.54 8.31 9.02 9.32 10.25 10.30 On Stescten. Island HOUGH its trolley roads cover but a small portion of the island, Dot as yet touching the southern section at all, they admit of interesting even if brief rides and in several cases little trips of great beauty. On them superb views may be had of the Bay and the Kills and glimpses of the interior of the island. All are approached by the ferry to St. George from the foot of Whitehall street. Cars may be taken from St. George to anywhere on Staten Island. Any point may also be reached by ferry from Bergen Point and from Elizabethport (see FLovite 1 [Elizabeth] and Route 8.) Staten Island has not a little of Colonial memory, but little that is historic remains to-day. Its trolley charm is a scenic one. ROUTE 57. St. George to Holland Hook and How- land Hook (ferry to ElizaLbethport and thence to Elizabeth and beyond), through New Brighton, Sailors' Snug Harbor, Liv- ingston, West New Brighton, Port Rich- mond (ferry to Bergen Point and thence to all parts of Jersey), Mariners' Harbor. A little trip of six and a quarter miles, taking: 45 minutes (fare 5 cents) along the Bay and past Bergen Point, then along the lower shores of Newark Bay. A prepossessing journey along the water. The fare from New York (ferry at the Battery) to St. George is 5 cents. The points passed through are New Brighton, Sailors' Snvig Harbor, Livingston, West New Brighton, Port Richmond— ferry to Bergen Point (5 cents across)— and Mariners' Harbor. At Howlarvd Hook and Holland Hook on the Kills there are ferry con- nections with Elizabeth port. On St at en Island. 87 ROUTE 58. St. George to South and Midland Beaches a. rid to Richmond, through Tompkinsville, Stapleton, Clifton, Rose- ba^nk, Fort Wadsworth and New Dorp. This excursion offers, in the time of one hour, if all connec- tions can be made, a splendid series of pictures of Staten Island's South Shore, New York's Upper and Lower Bay and Narrows, Fort Wadsworth, and the ever popular beaches, Sovith and Midland, and thence across into the country by way of New Dorp into the island's very centre, along a charming rural road, into Richmond, the sleepy county seat of the old island, where it seems as if civilization had scarcely penetrated. This trip runs over portions of four lines, and its journey of miles will cost at least 15 cents, probably 20. Cars will aave to be changed, probably at South Bea^ch for Midland Beach, and at Gra.nt City (here taking the Richmond car). k 5 cent return trip is possible from Richmond to St. George direct (see FLovite 59). But the combination routs *iven here is far preferable since it includes bay and country- wide views. The road skirts the Bay much of the way down, passing rompkirvsville, Ste^pletorv, Clifton, FLosebevnk, Fort Wadsworth and Arrocha^r. South Beach and Mifjl^nd Beach are interesting. At Grant City a train could be aken to Tottenville, and thence a ferry to Perth Amboy See Route 1, near end). The country about Richmond is lelightful. St. George to Midland Beach and Rich- mond, through Tompkinsville, Garret- son, Grant City and New Dorp. This direct line, 7% miles long, 45 minutes, 5 cents, has been tlluded to in Route 43. It has no especial advantages except ts shortness. The water trip (Route 58) is far preferable. ROUTE 59. 88 Trolley Exploring. ROUTE 60. St. George via. Richmond Turnpike and Clove roa.d to Port Richmond. Since last summer this route has been practically made into two lines. Some of the cars run along the Richmond Turnpike to Cloverva on the Clove road, others keep on the old tracks around by Concord. Tompkirvsville, Clovena, Castleton Cor- ners, Prohibition Park and WesterleigK are points touched by both lines. Silver Lake, the new Staten Island Park, is on the first named line. The Clove road is very fine scenically. Other Near-by Trolley Roads. OT connected with any of the preceding systems there are yet a half dozen famous trolley trips that might well be taken if opportunity should come. All lead through fine sections of country that can be seen better this way than in any other. ROUTE 61. From Albany to Caldwell on Lake George and Warrensburg on Schroon Lake. A branch to Ballston Spa and Saratoga. Seventy-one miles from Albany into the Lake George country and touching the Schroon country, with a side trip into Saratoga aud over the historic Sara- toga battle ground, does this electric line run. The single fare over it from Albany to Lake George is $1.25, and the time consumed in making the trip about 5 hours. The liue runs through Watervliet and Co- hoes, Waterford, Lansirvgburgh, Troy, Mecharvic- ville (here branching to FLovirvd Lake, Ballston Spa, Sar- atoga Springs and Saratoga Lake), Schuylerville, Fort the surrender tree, 11 on trolley to Edward, Sandy lake george. Hill, Glens Falls, 90 Trolley Exploring. Caldwell, Warrensbvjrg. The cars are heavy, handsomely ap- pointed, and all have smoking compartments forward. The cars of the Hudson Valley Railroad Company should be inquired for in Albany. This country is rich in picturesqueness and historic traditions. The cars run, for part of the way, along the old military road from Fort Orange (Albany) to Canada. Up towards Schuyler- ville marched in Colonial days the warriors of the Five Nations. Close by here was the Revolutionary battle of Bemis Heights, in 1T77. Near here, also, Fort Saratoga was surprised and Cap- tain Philip Schuyler massacred. The old Schuyler Mansion is still standing. Too, there is the spot, marked by a great tree, where Burgoyne surrendered to Gates, and a monument whose cornerstone was laid in 1877. Fort Edward was the scene of many frontier romances, and its life as a trading post began in 1709. All through this region there is a vast amount of history to be pleasantly unearthed. At Glens Falls is Uncas' and Deerslayer's cave (''The Last of the Mohicans 1 '). Above the village is Bloody Pond (French and Indian War. in 1755). ROUTE 62. Albany to Hudson. New York connection with Albany is far from complete by trolley. An electric road runs, however, down to Hudson. It is one of the very finest of trolleying trips, and many people have journeyed to Albany for the express purpose of taking it. A 30-mile journey, it makes a famous jaunt of an afternoon, and leads through a grand bit of the Hudson's valley. Much beautiful scenery is on every hand. Points passed are Castleton, Scho- dack, Kinderhook of historic note. The Catskills loom up across the river. Half way to Hudson from Albany is a lake with a miniature high-class Coney Island upon it. including a summer theatre. R.OUTE 63. Sing Sing (Ossining) to White Plains. This line is well under way from the point of building, but it is impossible to say when it will be in operation, hardly at any time this year. A very important link, however, of the near future. Other Near-by Trolley Lines, 91 R.OUTE 64o Da.nbury, Conn., to Sing Sing. Eventually to link the Connecticut systems and the Hudson. Its first 44 piece " will be DaLnbviry to Golden's Bridge. N. Y„ 14 miles. 12 miles have already been grade d. Then it will come down to Pleevsa^ntville, 13^j miles more. Not a possibility for at least a year. ROUTE 65. Poughkeepsie over the raJlroaLd bridge across the Hudson to New Paltz. One of the most charming of electric road trips. The view after leaving Povighkeepsie, from the bridge over the Hudson, is superb. From the west side of the river the line runs through a fine rural region. Fare 25 cents, excursion, 40 cents. Time, 50 minutes to an hour. ROUTE 66. New York to Portchester. A through line, operating rapid electric trains, on four tracks, that has been planned. Construction not started yet because of ltigation. The plans include a road, 24 miles long from the eastern end of the underground system to the Connecticut State line. It will be twenty-four miles long, with stations at One Hundred and Seventy- seventh street, Mount Vernon, Pelham, New Rochelle, Larchmont, Mamaroneck and Port Chester. A maximum speed of sixty-five miles per hour is promised. Fares, cne-third ordinary railroad fares. No grade crossings. Rhode Island Trolleying See page 84. ROUTE 53. Boston to Providence by way of Forest Hills, Dedham, Ea.st Walpole, Walpole, Mansfield, Norton, Taunton. Into Providence by way of Dedham is an agreeable bit of journeying through Eastern Massachusetts and an admirable return from Boston. It is a run of close to 7 hours, through attractive countryside and towns, past Forest Hills, Cast Walpole, Wad- pole, Dedham, Norwood, Mansfield, Norton and Taunton. Fares 75 cents. Take Huntington avenue car, Boston Subway. ROUTE 54. Boston to Providence or to Fall River and Newport, by way of Quincy, Brain- tree, Brockton and Taunton. An alternative route to the above, a little shorter in time, through Neponset, Quincy, Braintree, Brockton. Taunton to Fall River, 58 miles, 5^£ hours, 78 cents fare; to Newport, 76 miles, 7J4 hours, $1.03 fare. ROUTE 55. Providence to Fall River and New Bedford. A short "electric train 1 ' journey, 20 cents. Pleasing water views along the line. From Fall River a trolley car can be taken into New Bedford. Important Trolley Trips IT ROM 'KVXKT VORK Tn DISTANCE, MILES. 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