. Book of the Royal blue . York Trans-portation Company, con- veys one or two personsanywhere within a radiusof a mile from the ferryhouse for fifty one dollar two per-sons may go from thefoot of West Twenty-third Street east to theferries at the foot of EastThirty-fourth Street,north to the Grand Cen-tral Depot, south toWashington Square, orto any of the hotels, thea-ters or shops that liewithin the territorybounded by the pointsnamed. The samepoints, or indeed anypart of the city, may bereached more cheaply,if not quite so quickly,by taking one of the crosstown cars atthe door of t
. Book of the Royal blue . York Trans-portation Company, con- veys one or two personsanywhere within a radiusof a mile from the ferryhouse for fifty one dollar two per-sons may go from thefoot of West Twenty-third Street east to theferries at the foot of EastThirty-fourth Street,north to the Grand Cen-tral Depot, south toWashington Square, orto any of the hotels, thea-ters or shops that liewithin the territorybounded by the pointsnamed. The samepoints, or indeed anypart of the city, may bereached more cheaply,if not quite so quickly,by taking one of the crosstown cars atthe door of the ferry house and trans-ferring to the proper uptown or down-town car. One of the new features since the jointterminal was established, is the running ofthrough street cars from Twenty-thirdStreet Terminal to Grand Central Station,via Twenty-third Street and Fourth run on a four minute headwaybetween 7:30 a. m. and 7:00 p. m.,making the distance in about min-utes, without transfer, on a five cent HANDLING MilliSKS Al IIIK NKW HOUSE. 16 THE NEW GATEWAY TO THE METROPOLIS. More than 000 electric lamps are usedin lighting the new ferry house of theCentral Railroad of New Jersey, not count-ing those employed to form the hugeinitials—C. R. R. of N. J.—on the facadeof the building. An illustration on preceding page shows how balky horses are handled at the newferry house. When for any reason a teamsticks fast, one end of a rope is hitched toa shaft, the other end wrapped a coui)le oftimes around an electric winch, the poweris turned on and in a twinkling horse andwagon are hauled out onto the landing stage.
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