New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1892-10-11
relatives crowded around them and threatened 70
make IN ineXtrCable Jam had they not been Kept
away by the police.
EXTRA CARS TO CARRY THE PEOPLE.
RAILROADS AND FERRYBOATS CROWDED-CHOss
TOWN TRANSFER TICKETS.

TOWN TRANSFER TICKETS.
While not taxed TO their utmost capacity. az
was the in the Centennial celebration OF
1889. the transportation lines within and leading
TO this city undoubtedly coined several Of the
prOvcrbial barrels of money carrying the people
Yesterday who wanted TO the parade OF the
children. All the railroads had extra cars pro-
vided at points along the routes, which were
picked up by the regular through and local trains
ard hauled to the city. When 1t is conSidcre"
that fully sevcnty-fve trains get into the station
Of the New-Jerscy Central Railroad at Communipaw
before noon that as many as sixty trains roll
into the great new shed of the Pennsylvania Rail
road in jersey City between midnight and noon;
that as many more arrive at the station Of the Erie,
while the Delaware Lackawana and Western, the
West Shore and the Ontario and Western, which
strike the North River at Iloboken and Wee
hawken, bring nearly 90 trains in the morning,
and the roads entering the city through the New
York Centrals tunnel land passengers from more
than 90 trains at the Grand Central Station, 1T
can he seen that these trains, all crowded ana
heightened by from two TO five extra cars bring
an enormous number of people TO the city.
The fcrryboats from Staten Island seemed to
have transported all the inhabitants of Erastus
Wiman's realm across the bay, so heavily laden
were they. All the ferryboats the North and
East rivers were az crowded they well could
be with humanity from Brooklyn, Jersey
City. and the suburbs. while stream
Of people flowed over the Brooklyn Bridge
at the rate of IL 900 an hour for several hours
in the forenoon They were all crowds on pleas
bent. and the worn and weary lace OF the
ordinary every -day-in-the-year cOmmuter and sub
urbanitc was lost in the of smiling, happy and
cxpectant countenanceS of women and children
70 hp a
treat. and big aud little old and young, mothers,
cousins sisters, brothers, uncles and aunts were
10 be seen hurrying aboard the boats for the
city. The mothers were almost as frantically
excited as their offspring
"!t's long time before there's another 400
years and they don't want 10 miss thls'n,' re-
marked sood-natured decllhand North
River fcrryboat to The Tribune reporter as the
people came rushing on board.
Within the city the surface cars and elevated
roads did big business but the elevated equip
ment WAS able to take all the p&Ppie without mis-
hap, if not entirely without delay and the as
comfort Of crOwding. Colonel Hahn had made all his
prcparatons carefully for the rush. days before and
at the breakup of the parade cars were trans
fcrrcd from the East Side 10 the Sixth and Nlnth
ave lines 10 afford additional facilities for the
transportation Of the public %es C Ybs sra'f fGc
children were paradng adopted the plan OF ISSUING
transfer tickets When the car reached the line
Of the parade the passengers were maze
TO get out and each was supplied WIN
n transfer ticket. which. however, he could only
utilize by getting through the paradels ana me
crowds that walled them IN on either sue Inns
feat was well nigh impossible. so that purchasers
of rides On crosstOwn lines Of cars dld NOT as Il
rule get more than half of what they PAID Tor
There was considerable crumhling among these
lucklcs, passengers as they found IN most IN
stances where they tried 10 break through the
lines TO make their transfer, that the ponce Kept
them back ,,.
The incoming trains on the railroads brought
large numbers of people in the afternoon also
from suburban towns. anxious to see the IRE
works In fact the officials on the Ere SAD that
almost as MANY people came 10 the city IN thc
afternoon 10 witness the pyrotechnic display ana
thc illumination of she Bridge in the evening as
were brought in hy their road in the morning.
At all the railroad Offices much heavier travel Is
expected for to-day than seen yesterday
while nreparatiOns arc being made by them TO
carry a still larger traffic tomorrow.
As the parade broke up the crowds at the stations
NJ tbe SiXth-ave elevated road between Fiftieth
and Fourteenth SIS. were enormous. The plat
forms were struggling masses or humanity
pushing and struggling IN an effort 10 board the
trains Half dozen policemen were on duty al
some of the stations. The worst block was at
the Fortv-second-st. station, where three police
men were on duty AZ the uptown platform ana
six nj the foot of the steps. 1t took passengers
on the uptown trains nearly an hour 10 gel
down TO the street at this station.