Milford chronicle., 1891-07-24

The sireets Ia tho Lower Part Of the oiey
During the Busiest Isour

The Streets la tho Lowhr faft OF t''' 10y
During the Busieat Lsour.
Look
Eaw York; 6 O'Clock has arrived II BE-
,,;ne u r This is tie beginning. The
.treets were seemingly thronged before,
~ now almost before the last strokes Of
~ Z o'clock bell have died away, hutter
~ excitement runs up and downthe stfee5
n he seen tie length OF EroadWayi
Vaa Fulton, Park row, Pearl, -Four
feenth--of every down town street ana
court in great New York
Here they comel
II Is the broker, the lawyer, the agent
the clerk, the typeNriter-men OF every
Profession, men Of every trade, people OF
IN deprees-leaviug the Office, the counting
raoro the laboratory, the workshop. Inc
t;de ~ travel on the streets before was huf-
rcd lint regular. Now it is broken-a
rnsb n seeming disorder, as if some disas-
80 bad happened. What a mlngllngl
What a tide OF humanity What a gath
e,ino Of costumes, compleXions, ages ana
nationalitesl And co-equal with the rush
III feet is the increased number Of vehicles
and the stony roadways send up a roar ana
n elatter to almost deafen You.
A quarter past 81
mo rusb increases. The surface cars
have sent extra cars down town. The -
-9o5s am. switching on extra trains. There
a hardly elbow room along Broadway from
Rowing Green to Union square, ana rom
the Pulitzer building to Ann street man
without feet would he carried by the crowd
Half past 81
Push. surge. elbow-pushl The dark
columns marching leugthways OF Manhat-
tan Island seem rtsisticss, but they must
I III broken. The tide of humanity march
! inc across the island makes n mighty rush
~ Cortlandt street, at Barclay, at Cham
/ hers at Desbrosses, NJ Twenty third, az
Tbirty-fourth, and it pours across to the
.sI5 roads and surface cars and Terry
! boats of the north side.
And second tide pours across Broad
way headed to the east, intent on car OF
| ferrvboat. and you look down rs upon
men fleeing from some dreadful epidemic
| Men. women and children-old and young
| rich and poor. broadcloth and rags, virtue
and vice. There is a jam OF vehicles OF
| broadway at Wall street, another at Parf
Mace. a third at Canal, a fourth, fifth anI
| sixth between there and Fourteenth.
The surface cars are loaded until TIT
! horses can hardly start them, and here an'
i there on every street they run into the Jam
i of wagons, carts and trucks and are orough
to a stop.
Six oclocsl
Tbis is the climax. A sort Of frenz
seems to have caught the people now am
Tie rush is like a mighty torrent. UP ant
= down Manhattan, across Manhattan
mob which would sweep an army corps on
of its way and make no halt. Look IL
. the ferrvboats headed to the west and IN
cast and the south, each one loaded dow
2 with humanity IIark II is the clatte
of ten thousand pairs Of feet rushing II
the steps Of the station to take the bride
trains. How quickly four cars are ioade
and pushed away, to be followed III INC
s ment by four morel
The iron gates opened there is Il rush
they shut with a bang, and 4C0people spec
AWAY. It is like loading and firing car
] non It seems rs If the tramp! tram
? trampl would never cc&se-as if the multi
8 tlde could not be diminished. Steam an
electricity and horseiiesh and human mu
Gle and ingenuity are put to their utmo'
TO move the crowds, but it Is done with
r raDiditv and system to astonish you.
q must be so done in city where minute
4 are often counted for hours.
1 And vet as look down upon the stree
Z. again after o'clock, after the mad rush
9 over. there is still lets hurrying, surgil
u crowd, which seems to have only secure
e elbow room by the departure OF that va
n multitude.-M. Quad II New YORK "orl