. The street railway review . 0 per year, which is per cent for the four years. •-•-♦ WHEELS WILL RIDE IN BROOKLYN. The Brooklyn City & Newtown Street Railway Companyhas equipped two of its cars with hangers for carrying bicy-cles on the front and rear dashboards, with the view ofdetermining whether the facilities thus afforded will betaken advantage of by cyclists. If experience shows thatthe convenience is sufficiently appreciated all the cars ofthe company will be provided with the hangers when theseason is farther advrnced. NEW ELECTRIC LINE TO CONEY ISLAND. The New York & Sea Beach R
. The street railway review . 0 per year, which is per cent for the four years. •-•-♦ WHEELS WILL RIDE IN BROOKLYN. The Brooklyn City & Newtown Street Railway Companyhas equipped two of its cars with hangers for carrying bicy-cles on the front and rear dashboards, with the view ofdetermining whether the facilities thus afforded will betaken advantage of by cyclists. If experience shows thatthe convenience is sufficiently appreciated all the cars ofthe company will be provided with the hangers when theseason is farther advrnced. NEW ELECTRIC LINE TO CONEY ISLAND. The New York & Sea Beach Railroad, as announced inour December issue, has passed under the control of theBrooklyn Rapid Transit Company, which purchased a ma-jority of the stock and bonds. The Sea Beach road extendsfrom the foot of 65th street (Bay Ridge), Brooklyn, toConey Island, a distance of six miles, and the object of theRapid Transit Company in securing the line was to give afrequent and high-speed service to Coney Island from all. MAP OF LINES TO CONEY ISLAND. parts of Brooklyn for a 5-cent fare. The only changes nec-essary were to put up overhead wires and bond the bonds were used for this purpose. Motive powerwill be obtained from the South Brooklyn plant of theBrooklyn Heights road. The accompanying map from the Railroad Gazette showsthe several lines running to Coney Island; the three electriclines are those of the Brooklyn Heights Railroad, the Nas-sau Electric Railroad and the Coney Island & BrooklynRailroad. For through service from Fulton Ferry, Hamilton Ferry,South Ferry and the Bridge, connections have been madewith the Brooklyn Heights road at 65th street and 3rd ave-nue: from other lines transfers are made at this point. PROPOSED ELEVATED FOR CHICAGO. The Chicago City Railway Transit Company was incor-porated February 9, by parties connected with the ChicagoCity Railway. It is stated that the new company proposesto build an elevated road extending north from 39t
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