New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-12-12
BROADWAY TANNED AND DAMNED.
HARD WORK TO GET IN THE STREET. BUT WHEN
MAN is IN HE CAN'T GET OUT

MAN rs IN HE CAN'T GET OUT.
Ono tbonughfare, ought to be posted in big letters
at each end of Broadway The street is a narrow
way and suffering citizens, grown facetious In their
bitter irony suggest that 1t should be rechrstened
Subway" Broadway and the city are " in hole''
The slowness with which the subway work is being
done Is outrageous. 1t is a mockery to speak Of
traffic" in Broadway during these days. IL Is
literally at standstil most Of the time. Long lines
of trucks cars cabs carriages, wagons and vehicles
of all sorts and stretch the street and down
the street How they get there IS puzzle but there
they are at any of the business hours of the day
The drivers display singular adroitness in getting
into an apparently inextricable tangle. The rude
and involved chaos Of Ovid is outdone. There are
wheels within wheels locked In fond embraces Poles
cross poles and patient seeds rest their heads on one
anothers necRs. like Miss Evangene's cows in Acadia
Every prospect dNpleases. and man is. sure enough
VILE
All the victims Of the blockade put together couldn't
make Job. There isn't patience enough in all the
groaning suffering Of humanity lodging among
the stranded chariOtS to furnish 1.-THE Of that pos
sessed by the of w. But the patriarch. in the
expressive words of old historian. had great
gift of the CAB" and in that respect the Broadway
blockade runners are his peers. The language that
ascends from that congested street Is awful. From
trckbox and from carriage seat, from the socalled
crossings and from the muddy pavements ascends
a constant discOrd of wicked sounds.
AT time yesterday 1t looked II there
stationary line of from the Battery 10 Central
Park There were certainly sixty below Cortlandt-
ST., by actual count. Grouped In inharmonious
fusion about this their yellow Ine" hundreds
of other things wheels People who wanted TO
the street had to Chamber plat
forms. and scale trucks and dodge beneath the
necks of horses and find little for gratitude
in considering that they at least spared the
trouble and ndigniy of crawling between the horses
legs
1t Jared badly with the women. They gathered In
tmorous hOcks at the streets, and waited for
weary minutes before the attendant police officers
could pilot them across Presently a somewhere,
far off, probably up by the Park, would a foot,
and the motion rolling down the long street mo-
mentarily affected the jam all the way. Hey up :"
called the drivers I'm chorus not unmarried by pro-
family. Forward plunged their chargers and the
fortunate who happened 10 be in the middle OF the road
during the CONFUSION had TO fee for his life
The only really and truly calm. composed, self
collected witnesses of the scene the gentlemen
who are called by the ingenious. the saircal Sub
way laborersD They toll not, and, If they spin al
ALL they spin yarns about sunny Italy and the sham
rocks OF ireland to while away the time Otherwise
Il would hang heavy their hands. Occasionally
the boss" comes around and encourages them. In
cited TO noble deeds, they delve shOvelul Of EARTH
but the effort eXhausts their intermittent enthusiasm
what are you doing, Patrick" asked a passer-by
The in the ditch looked up and slowly
replied
That's what most OF them doing all the day
ong II is hoped that the subway Will be finished in
lime for the Worlds Fair of 1892.