New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1890-08-10

employes. and the SARATOGA Special scheduled 20
depart at 9 O'Clock. started at 0:20. Train No.
PSI. known as the NOrihern and Western EN-
press, left the station at IL 80 with orders 20
stop at all stations north of Spuyten DoyNH
The Saratoga Express. which should have gone
out at IL O'clock not ready until ii 'oo'
and IL then contained only four day coaches ana
Wagner drawine-room car Ever scat was oco'-
pied, and if more cars had peeh
Immediately available as would have been
the case under ordinary circumstances a IAuo"
larger number of passengers would have pceh on
board
train No. 10S known as the Troy and saratoga
Express, was made up of eight day coaches ana TWO
Wagner drawing room cars, and started oU 'o'
o. m No 10, the North Shore Limited express
left the station at 4 so si0lariy equipped. NO
8 the fast Chicago and ST Louis Express, went
on time at p ID
The largest and most anxious crowd OF pas
seneers was at the station in the AFTERNOON Wal'-
ing for the Saratoga special. The walung-room
was crowded. there being hardly standing room
for those who were there to take the train Inc
.mutv cars were drawn up alongside the platform
long before the schedule time for the train to de-
part It was nearly 80 o'clock when the doors
were finally opened and the wild rush for the
train bcrnn Lucky were those who had been
able TO procure seats in the Wagner cars, but loG
those who could not there was nothing bnt inc
ordinary coaches, which were hot, stuiiN ana
crowded almost 10 sufOcation. For three-qu'I-
ters OF an hour the train stood upon the track
before an engine was backed down from the Nard
and fastened 10 it. Finally the signal was @lNen
and the heavily loaded train dragged Slowly OUT
Of the station.
This train MANAGED to clear out the statlon
considerably but it not long before IL WAS
almost as crowded again with people waiting IoI
local and way-trains. Later in the afternoon ViIc
scene in the Ncw-York and Harlem ana Ne"-iorA'
Ncw-Haven and Hartford stations was one OF great
h,.,,a ,nd confusion So crowded the
waiting-rooms that it was almost impossible for
one 70 elbow way through the crowd either
to the ticket-offce to the gates IL was "
question of Observation-Disclosures, and when the
oates were opened there would he severe strus-
ole 10 get through them to the CARS III Delng
hahholiday the early evening rush was not So
treat as it usually is, and by O'Clock the great
bulx of commuters along the line of the New-lo rK
New-Hayen and Hartford and the Ncw-York and
Harlem was on its trains. The Jam on THESE
roads was caused mainly by the irregularlty III
starting out-trains allowing mass of people TO
rot together in the stations before tram WouIu
be ready for them.
There was not so much grumbling ard fault
finding among these passengers as there was
among those who were on their way 70 Saratoga
and other points up the State. To them came the
unpleasant and disagreeable anticipation of miss
ing connections, and in place of spending Sunday
with their families and friends many OF them
Looked forward 20 day Of killing time at waySldc
stations This prospect induced scores Of people
who expected to join their friends ana 1anlIeS
last night to remain in town, and they coud DE
seen coming from the station In twos ana unIees'
their faces expressing no small amount Oh III
temper The announcement that the newborn
Central tickets would he recognized on the west
Shore sent large number Of passengers 70 'hat
road. and the trains there were unusually
provided The Michigan Central train when
should have left the station at 4 80 O'Clock dlu
rot Get away until 5 80. Every seat in the sleep
ing cars and the day coaches was taken lheTe
was another anxious crowd OF people at the station
for the o'clock Western Express. This train
rurs in two sections, one to Albany and the other
through 10 Buffalo Both sections were packed
with people when the trains drew out OF the
station considerably behind time.
There was rather more uncertainty as to the
incoming trains than as 10 the outgoing Some OIL
tho incoming trains were on time and some OF
them were several hours late. The South Shore
EXPRESS due at o'clock. was run in over the
West Shore Railroad tracks, and the Southwest
Limited due az 3 40 o'clock, was three hours
heb;nd time At O'Clock it not known az
the station whether or not the . :4o Albany local
train was on the road No report of it had been
received
Hundreds of people who were expecting friends
on the late afternoon trains waited for hours
around the station, and the little waitlng-room
was crowded all the afternoon
Along toward dark the yard Just north OF the
station began 10 look more natural. The aban-
doned trains had been moved away and there
was the customary hustle of moving trains and
hurrying switchmen
All dav long men looking for the officers oil
the company hung around the station looking Tor
work. and in point of numbers there were many
tines more applicants for positions than there
wore nlaces for them During the day railroad
men poured into the city from many quarters
Large numbers of them started for New-York on
Friday night, the moment that tic mystic Signal
ordering a strike had been given out Of these
men number were employed, but they were
mostly men green TO the Centraps sys tem ana
they did not break in rapidly,
Early in the day General Superintendent Noor-
bees posted a bulletin that local trains wonId
be sent out often as 1t might be iouhu heces-
sary Every effort was made. however, 70 get the
through trains cleared away first using item, how
ever. as accommodation trains for way stations
on tie main line The local schedule was almost
completely abandoned. Up to noon the only Local
train that went on schedule time was the FeekS-
kill Accommodation, which left at l2.5o uhoci
orders 10 make all stops from High Bridge hoIlh
Late in the day notice was given that tram NO.
13. the Niagara Falls Express, due TO start al
1880 D. IN; No 7,tthe st. Louis Express due -
20 at OBS p. H., and No. 30, the night express
due to start at 12 midnight, would 20 ont Oh
schedule time Afer noon, at intervals oil aoou'
two hours, tIains sent out to stop at al
stations between Ncw-Yor] and Croton' PecNskul
Poughkeepse and Albany
During the entire day there was no possibility
of maintaining the schedule for arriving trains
owing to the blockade at Mott Haven. EmptI