Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 November 1902 — BY TROLLEY FROM CHICAGO TO BOSTON. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

BY TROLLEY FROM CHICAGO TO BOSTON.

D. O. Stoekbridge of Boston has returned from Chicago, having made the entire trip by trolley car with the exception of five gaps. From Chicago he took a steamer to Muskegon, Mich. From that point to Auburn, N. Y„ he rode in trolley cars, being there obliged to take a train to Schenectady, where he rode In trolleys to Hudson, X. Y.. thence by train to Hastings, N. Y., where a trolley car took him to New York City, a total distance from Chicago of about 700 miles. Between New York nnd Boston he was obliged to take trains covering two more short gaps, the mileage being 226 from the metropolis. Unfortunately Mr. Stoekbridge did not keep a memorandum of his fares. Between Toledo nnd Cleveland he rode many miles at the rate of sixty an hour. The principal cities he passed through en route were Chicago, Muskegon, Grand Haven, Grand Rapids, Jackson, Ann Arbor, Ypsilanti, Adrian, Detroit, Monroe, Ashtabula, Cleveland, Toledo, Painesville, St. Catherine, Buffalo, Loekport, Auburn, Albany, Schenectady, Hudson, Hastings, Yonkers, New York, Stamford, Conn.: Norwalk, Bridgeport, New Haven, Hartford, Springfield, Mass.; Worcester and Boston.

DIAGRAM OF THE TROLLEY TRIP.