A HONEYMOON IN A SUBWAY
ON the other hand, a wedding or a "honeymoon" trip in a subway brings
up certain problems of etiquette which are entirely different from the
above. Let us suppose, for example, that the wedding takes place at high
noon in exclusive old "Trinity" church, New York. The nearest subway is
of course the "Interborough" (West Side) and immediately after the
ceremony the lucky couple can run poste haste to the "Battery" and board
a Lenox Ave. Local. Arriving at romantic Chambers
St. they should change at once to a Bronx Park Express which will
speedily whizz them past 18th St., 23rd St. and 28th St. to the
Pennsylvania Station where they can again transfer, this time to a
Broadway Local. In a jiffy and two winks of an eye they will be at Times
Square, the heart of the "Great White Way" (that Mecca of pleasure
seekers and excitement lovers) where they can either change to a
Broadway Express, journeying under Broadway to historic Columbia
University and Harlem, or they can take the busy little "shuttle" which
will hurry them over to the Grand Central Station. There they can board
the aristocratic East Side Subway, either "up" or "down" town. The trip
"up town" (Lexington Ave. Express) passes under some of the better class
residential districts, but the journey in the other direction is perhaps
more interesting, including as it does such stops as 14th St., Brooklyn
Bridge, Fulton Street, Wall Street (the financial center) etc., not to
mention a delightful passage under the East River to Brooklyn, the city
of homes and
churches. Thus without getting out of their seats the happy pair can be
transported from one fascinating end of the great city to the other and
when they have exhausted the possibilities of a honeymoon in the
Interborough they can change, with the additional cost of only a few
cents apiece, to the B. R. T. or the Hudson Tubes which will gladly
carry them to a thousand new and interesting places—a veritable
Aladdin's lamp on rails.
