New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-05-25
CROWDS COMING TO TIE CITY.

CROWDS COMING TO TllE CITY.
The volume of travel that poured ID to the city over
the Hudson River was unusually large, even for a
holiday All the railroads had granted excursion
rates and though there were few special excur-
.ons tho regular trains were crowded
The Pennsylvania road had a special
excursion train from Philadelphia of 800 persons in
addition TO their regular trans. of which over a
hundred arrived during the day lllled with visitors.
All the employees of this road that could be spared
were given passes and holiday On tho New
Jersey Central Railroad there were several
excursion as we'll as regular trans.
One carrying several hundred persons
started . from Easton. Penn. and another
OF ten passenger coaches came from Long Branch,
Ocean Grove and adjacent points The Erie Rail
road brought are number OF persons from Pat
ersou y. j.. aud the Delaware. Lackavanna and
Wcstern through trains were all crowded. An
agent of the New Jersey Central Railroad
sand that at the lowest estimate two hundred
loaded trains como to the city from New jersey and
he thought that 800 passengers TO a train would be
= low estimate
At the Grand Central Depot the trains that
arrived had few cars with empty seats.
Tho stream of people that pours out of the
exit in Forty-second-st and divides TO tho
east and the west IN tho face of the breakv1tor of
bowling hackmen. swollen larger than
usual. The day travel. incoming. however was
not a. great as the railroad officer, had locke for
No special trains had been put on but the reyu ar
trains were Increased by the addition of extra cars
HE longer trains came In well filled The New
Haven road brought in about 500 people intent
upon attending tine East River wedding. / he super
lntehd1ht Thought that the numbers carried would
hlvo been heavier had 10 not been for the
competition by boats. About 1000 persons he e,-
tlmatcd, had come by water from Connecticut
port. one from New-lllVcn and one from NOrwalk
The New York Central and the Harlem railroads
did good incoming business on their regular
trans. 1t was estimated that the number of sight
stcls forming part of the travel WAS about 1000.
larger volume OF passengers wont ont of tie city
on these roads than came IN. Many business men
whose trade affected by the partial suspension
OF business took tho opportunity to mako holiday
trip 10 tnc country.
The trains which arrived between and o'clock
were crowded to their utmost capacity. although
each train had several extra cars. The rush of
slghtsecrs to the city not large, however as
some of the railroad officers had anticipated Ii WAS
not considered necessary TO run special trains 10
carry the visitors homo. Tho regular trains were
depended upon 10 accommodate the whole of the
traffic on all OF the lines. The tide Of travel turned
about O'clock although the outgoing trains at
that time were not heavily laden.
The ,ravel on the elevated railroads was unusu-
ally heavy all day, hut the usual time was kept
until late III the afternoon, when special trains
were added Officers of the Manhattan Railway
CompanV said that they had made arrangements
than usual, and that they anticipated difficulty
IN the matter of transportation. Trains were run
at short intervals later than usual
As the hour for the display of fireworks ap-
preached the travel increased rapidly; but while
trains were run in sufficient numbers to accommo-
date the travel there was some delay, especially on
the Third-ave. lines, account of
after O'clock there was an almost continuous line
Of trains on thc Third Avenue limo from Canal-st.
up TO Nuth-st The trains were moving slowly
but persons III the last trains saw the fireworks
only from the windows. When the tide turned
there less delay in the moving of the trans,
which were filled rapidly. Until L O'clock ali the
uptown trains were packed closely.
number OF pleasure seekers came to the city by
boat, but mostly from the immediate vicinity The
Mary Powell had large crowd of passengers
when she arrived IN the morning
from Rondout. The Fan River Line
steamer arrived at o'clock with over 600 passen-
gers, and the Stoningt0n Line and other sound
steamers had nearly many. There were beside
many special excursions. The Harry Hill came
from Flushing l.. l., chartered by tho Sirius Club,
e ena1nnr po over 800 persons The iron
willis, Of New Haven, to bring a
party of thousand people in time
TO see the fireworks. The barge Walter Sands
brought nearly 1909 persons from Perth Amboy,
South Amboy and keyport. and about the same
number OF people was ON board the W. H.
Morton from jersey City and Hoboken. party
from fonkers on the steamer Caroline A. Peene
900 persons ana "a party of 200 persons
came on the I0rrytOwn propeller
While thousands of visitors returned TO their
homes by boat and train, hundreds remained in
New York over night at the hotels The Aston
House. by virtue of its position. was
oyerrun early in the day, and something of