The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1892-11-25
IEiJ'T.NG THE Field.
!. Was Good Two iIouIs' Wort, for the
Crowd To Get ~ Start Down Town.

Crowd To Get ~ start Down Town.
The second half of tho game was about
three.,luar'rra finished and tho very prcttiest
part Of the rihyin;: was being done when the
crowd began to leave the field They were
satisfied that lule had won. and did not seem
to care whether she piled M Il bigger score.
TO a man watching the main gateway 1t
looked during tho last fifteen minutes Of the
game as it the whole. crowd mus: have gone
out. but lookins: around at the stands from
below they still seemed t. DC packed with hu-
man LcincS.
The instant the whistle announcing the
close OF the game sounded there Didn't seem
TO DO II yard II vacancy on the whole field.
The rrow,, spread uut ana covered everything.
They went over fences. women as well As men.
1t looked to be twic" rs lii. Il crowd as it had
been at any time dnrin. the game.
There was ~ immediate giut at every en-
trance. the greatest. o! course" at the main
entrance at 10th -:reo.. which opencd at the
stairs ofthe elevated road These s:airways
were already damned with the people who had
come ont before the game was over.
The grounds ar" below The level OF tho street.
A dozen wood steps. on other side Of which
was a guard. led upto the level. These guards
were smashed in the first rush ami half
dozen men got n tumble The police tried to
get to tho stairs AMI were swept aside lik.
''hnfl. hnl after tho first fail the crowd held
We'll together.
lkF"r ,'nren-quartcrs IT an hour the neopls
flowed up this stairway in II steady stream.
No ono {, ,ull stop. The police at the ton could
TANNED The elevated PLATFORMS and stairs
were nmmed. The new viahnct mad" an out-
let COR thousands. who went over TO Washing
ton Heights t" take Tie cable cars
while he big lart Of the crowd was getting
"nt at tins @ l ma "th"r "r"w1s
halt II d"z : crowds Of Nfty or 50 each attacsed
some Of the locked gates. There were half u
game. One was in Eighth avenue Just around
the corner from Tooth ,tr"ct.
sxY the ei saa rn rn Tnm and at
twenty-f fly" ieet and came full forc.. against
it. 1t stood the hammtrinC IN hal dozen
IN the street. who promptly tosse i: back on
tho beads Of the rushrr-:
Through this exit hundreds got into the
street only to to pushed and mau!ei by the
crew nlren,.y there.
end. Will" The last half Of III" gu me- was
The i55th street station The Yard Mt IA il
street and the rnntr- tracks down to l.i1th
street we're also nllrr with madp.up trains
They ,Agnn to movn ut the first sign 81 Ia"
rush. The rnin- That cam" IN wrr" sent on,
Jammel l.!l larlIy y minute after thu" ar
Little hole IN the crowd Tine ticket sellers
ana tn" ch"' perS were -wamred. ana Appealed
Tire" "Nrrrs clninbored up cnrh stnirwav
in IN" crowd. and hall way NJ they Turned aud
! raced thcUlsr NrS and hrli back tn SO behind
thom Wien H." stairway ahov" Was iinuiIy
cleared thry lot up "nn,Ight to M Il uur:nin.
and repeated hat until the crowd WAS Trimmed.
\ ."pnl many Of the crowd VIII, got out "f the
grounds and could not get M tn" r'"ya'cd
stairs wHhrG down to 18th ST &c, nj crowd
cd tho PLATFORM iii"rr.
They could not board train for nearly an
hour. Others walked over to the Eighth ave-
M. surface road aud rod" down, I" l3Jth
street. That station WAS "rrwdra too. and
crowd 1T l+5,n street. The I."op" who took
the cable cars I" 145th st,tet lAnim"h that
station. Harlem tlii not begin (" get ever tho
congestion unit, ~ "ut y u'cl""k, and nj 7
O'Clock rho crowd movn. down town VA, s.ill
unusually large.
81. Pctersburg's police force hn. declared war Of
DETERMINATION .a,n.t he street masiers Many no
lircm-n arc sent oUt nightly N ct'y'us c.otI"s with
instruction, TO arrest every man theY aidr"ssn
rosp,c abe woman whom hr does ut know. on tie
hr,t nigh; sixty w"l!ress-d anl ,crtahc ctaens
were taken 30 tn poles helnQUar 'r,, Those WHO
gave ih.ir n,n.- lui addresses correctly were pei
United TO 60 with ue warning that rrp" ton Of their
offences would Ice IEnishel with = w,c,- tm.ris6n.
mspt Those rriusiug tell their mrE and addr