Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 63, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 March 1914 — Part the Bronx Plays in Greater New York City [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Part the Bronx Plays in Greater New York City

NEW YORK. —Greater New York consists of five boroughs. And if yon should manage to squeeze into a Bronx express in the subway you probably would conclude that all of New York’s millions live in the Borough of

Bronx and only go to the other bor* oughs on business or for social purposes. “ There are several ways of reaching the Bronx, but the most unpopular route is via the subway. Both local and express trains run to the Bronx. The local trains stop at every station on the way and take about an hour in'transit. - The express trains stop between stations and take about an hour and a half. But, as was stated,

New Yorkers are natural born gamblers, and most everyone traveling to or From the Bronx tries to get into an express on the chance that it will make better time than a local. Sometimes the expresses do beat the locals by, about two minutes. People who reside in the Bronx sometimes move to Harlem. Ip the social climb, the route begins, for example, in a clothing store in the East side, where push-cart markets decorate the streets. Prom the lower East side the 'prosperous retail merchant moves to the Bronx. He has thus elevated his social status. When he becomes sufficiently wealthy for his daughters to resign their positions in the department stores w'here they sell ribbons, and for his sons to attend the City College of New York instead of continuing their study of the tailoring trade, he moves to Harlem, and the family craft is launched upon the social sea.