New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1878-06-06
TRAINS RUNNING IN sIXTH-AvE.

TRAINS hDNNlNU IN c1Ai I-AN lie
THE GILBERT ROAD OPEN TO TIE PUBLIc-GREAr
CROWDS OF PAssEYGERs-A SLIGHT ACCIDENT
AND DELAY-CHANGE OF THE CoMPANY's
NAME.
Rapid transit began on the Gilbert line with
n rush yesterday morning which Kept mp all day.
The regular trains started at o'clock The uptown
stations we're filed with business men at very early
hour and as the tickets had not been distributed III Tie
upper part the city them the earliest passengers rode
free Even when the tickets did arrive the Ten cents
fare caused no percep tibe shrinkage OF the crowd
Women and children took the places OF the business men,
The trains overowed with people until nearly noon
Generally thev were comfortably filled untll ABOUT
O'clock. Then the evening rush began .,
During the morning there was slight mlsunGeIsttnu-
ing about tickets Those sold at the ticket booths We're
taken up the station by the gatemen. Ilckels
were also demanded from the passengers When my
left the train Having given them mp already tey ha9
give to the second applicants ana ms eaqsSe
friction until employees understood me rue my %
were TO be collected only when passengers lett te a
Considering the excitement ana the Groves inc en
poy6s didvery well. Only few seemed 10 lose IhoH
presence of mind.
Twelve engines with two three or four cars attached
10 each, made up the trains IheY ran Win iaIr LEU
larty about in five minutes The time from Irn,
ty Church to Central Park was between ana
thirty minutes The stops were haIuay dons1 a sf,
they will be in few DAYS About one hundred ana MY
crowd Of people Some estimates we're as high as 20
900; others as low az 5000. ,--.-.- A.. 49,.
Only one slight accident occurred during the Gay.
Just before four o'clock In the afternoon traln was
leaving the station at Fiftyninhst and either ahroug
the switch machinery, the forward wheels OF the
engine were thrown of the track On both sides Of each
mat what they were intended foT-exceent guards
against accident The wheels OF the engine were on He
place by the guards and easily put BACK in posi-
ton The train was not full and having Just started
was going slowly Two OF the coaches were laneG To-
gether and the platform OF each was somewhat dam,
aged. Nobody was frightened or hurt Inc damaseu
was 6 sT m an Of hour and before the
ri
those the road had collected there MAKING sOmennE
of blockade For nearly hour therefore from 10 D
No trains left the downtown stations. Crowds of bust
ness men living up town we're cOlecuhS at al ihese
places, and made many comments In regard TO
fbe deiay The perfect confidence that everybody has
shown in the safety of the road was hen conspicuous
The delay generally ana correctly attributed 10 d
Tie crush was greatest from 5 until 1880 o'clock
when the fare was live CENTS The downtown stations
were SO crowded that the trains were filled before
they made the third stop at Chambers-St The crowd
was composed not only OF business men going home
but also OF boys labOring men and women who had
waited for cheap trip The boys ana not STOP 10 enter
the through tho doors but crawed thrOugh the WIZ
dows spite Of the efforts OF the employees Nobody was
did not happen. Everybody good natured; even
the passengers whom the boys crawled over.
IL was during these two hours that the streets below
were most crowded by persons watching the trains
Corners windows and dOorsteps were thronged by men,
women and children who eheered ana waved napq 1
chiefs at the passengers above Inc horses PAID ntie
attention the noise which, indeed. was not great
cept when two trains were passing at the some time
Two runaways were reported in Sixthave. The horses
attached Sxth-aYe car broke away from the car at
Thirty-fourthst but were stopped within block. Inc
Dtber runaway was no serious. The street cars
going uptown during these hours generally crowded
Yesterday evening they comparatively deserted.
Everybody preferred the and rapid mode OF
travel
The trains stopped running about halfpast o'clock
There was no Gas any the stations, and after
O'Clock the ticket agents bad difficulty IN making
change.
the Gilbert Elevated Railway Company 70 change It's
name to the Metropolitan Elevated Railway Company
He hesitaed at first, in doubt whether there was any
statute giving him power TO make such change. The
CHI ef WAS he
In giving mis- decision Judge Lawrence says: do
NOT regard the Metropolitan Transit Company having
any such particular property IN the word metropolitan
as TO warrant them in opposing the granting of the
prayer the petition There does not seem 10 be any
danger that the Metropolitan Elevated Railway Com
pany would be mistaken for The Metropolitan Transit
COmpany."