New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1892-10-14
TRAFFIC RECORDS BROKEN.
LNoENous NUMBERS OF PASSENGERS.
now THE COLUMBUS CELEBRATION CROWDS

An PNOuuS Vi J1e iDOushiluS anu Hu'u'eN' Va ''O
sands OF strangers who have gathered In this city IL
tho past ten days had TO come. But It was not ex
pectcd that Il would start with the rush II did on
Wednesday night. over 100000 people, IN their DC
sire get TO their homes, acted as though the city
Of New-York was infested with ten plaques. The
rush began Mt 10 O'Clock at night and lasted until
In the morning. The ferryboats running to jersey
CITY Brooklyn, IOboken and Staten Island were
loaded to their utmost capacities and they were run
at intervals Of seven and ten minutes each. The
enormous waiting rooms Of the Jersey Central and
81 the Pennsylvania railroads, for hours ana fours
we're jammcd and crowded Notwithstanding that trains
OF ten cars each Starting every fifteen minutes
This was also the condition Mt the Erie station, al
tho Delaware, Jackawanna and Western ana also al
tho West rborc At the New-Yorh Central on the
Hudson River branch. heavy train OF ten cars was
made lid after half past 1 O'Clock at night, ana, III
fact after the station had been closed for the night
an tho Harlem b.anch and on the New-fOrk, New
Haven and Hartford Road there was no cessation III
the demand for transportation until aiter ociocA
ON the Pennsylvania Railroad trains ran at Inter
walls OF half an hour on the local DIVISIONS. NO o'i-
culation had been made OF how many people would
come and no thorough arrangements had been made
Ia handle the enOrm) crowds, ana yet this roau
brought in to Jersey City go carloads Of passengers
sIxt; pcrson, to n car. from points almost entirely
euburlon st 7 o'clock IN the evening, there was
lull which lasted until about 10 o'clock Then there
poured into the station thousand, OF people Inc
nine ferryboats cwncd by the company endeaVored u
rim on the day schedule OF ten minutes 10 Trip Out
this time gradually stretched out t. fifteen mihu'es
There was no help for the delay simply because the
boats were so crowded that they could not be
cnptled I'm time Tho extraordinary crush continued
until after O'Clock. After that hour there were only
"A few straggers who did not seem to care whether
they got home not. Besides the sghtseer'' there
were several regiments OF Pennsylvania militia ana n
brigade Of NcwJers,y National Guards. winch were
taken of By this company. Ordinarily the move
ment 81 passengers I'm Jersey city station Is between
5000 ard 80, 900 day. On Wednesday 1t was over
10000.
IN tho rallroad system Of the New Jersey Central
tho same condition Of affairs existed. After o'clock
I'm tie afternoon II abandoned It's regular Schedule
and ran trains from Newark mt intervals OF hitc"h
minutes each. Every train had eight or ten coaches
Of sixty passengers to Il coach. From > O'Clock TO
midnight at least thirty trains heavily loaded VIVA
people standing on the platforms and In the aisles
were sent ont Of Jersey CITY. IL WIS eS'iiha'eN
Yesterday by ore Of the officials of the road that
at least GOOOO people were carried. u was alter
10 O'Clock a; night when the mob broke loose fouF
forryboats were put on the regular service ana ran
every seven and One-han minutes. AS thls oihcIai
OPPRESSED H. the crowd came down on them Ike
cra..,oppcr, on a field But there We're no ac-
cl!cut, and everything moved we'll Most OF the
travel dli not 90 beyond hiry-hvc or forty miles
ON Ia, Erie road the arrangements were cxccIIiht
The regular schedule WI, not altered, but trans
vcir divided into four and five sections Inc u'i
DC ON tbs road was. Il was on Others eh'ireN
.uAurlan on the main line Of the EHe. jo2
nassrngcrs were ta.rl,d on the NOttl,rn ana Ne"
Jersey branch 0,GsS, and on the GREENWOOD LAKE
blencL 1870. making in all 1927. All kinds oil
cars were used and many a fashionable young man
and his sweetheart rode to their homes In Nyack IN
m Immigrant car But the misery OF the crowd was
ended about 80. The last through train lOr al
point, west started at 2 30 o'clock.
on tho Delaware Lachawauna and Western there
wa, also large crowd carried. II has been e'u-
mated that the crowd numbered 10000. There was
considerable difficulty In getting cars u
Accommodate n, Ia scngc's Tut not much
,,or, 50 than was experienced by other roads
on the West shore the Hudson River traihc was
heavy. and reached sbout $4,000. 1t was nearly =
o'clock In the morning before all OF the passengers
were sent their way home. ON the New iork
Central and Hudson River Railroad all the conmuiA'
ton trains were run. These trains are laid on usu-
ally ON sundays and when they are run on those
DAYS or holidays. they run n extra trains. lhere
were about nifty OF them Of twelve coaches each,
besides eight ten Others. II Is estimated thit on
all branches there were about GOOO0 people carried
mi, number not include those on the New YORK.
New Haven and Hartford trains. which carried almost
rs many more. The NcwYork Central gives an
Of the state. This began last week. over 1000
persons brought in from Northern Newlork
last saturday. and 1000 moro on sunday.
\ proof ~ the enormous crowd that was in the
city on Wednesday is saown in the record OF the
number OF passengers carried by the Manhattan Ee-
waited Railway Company ON the three days Of the
celebration beginning with Monday. follows
PASSENGERS CARRIED
1t, u.s. OcOacr IL. ......... J0l3-j
" ,dne ~lly. october l---.. 90 j31
Total 'or thNc 292l s64
Tai. list compare, with the highest record Of pre-
vlous day, a, follows:
PASSENGERS CARRIED
Centennial day, April 80 1883 $50 10
Cut'nli1 dst, MAJ l. $50 90 2vl
binary caj, I,Diua =, l-o .tSd -
Ordinary day, Apul l., l-;'- 30 dSb
The following figures show a comparison Of the
passenger traffic the BrooMyn Bridge tho open
Ing day uhe cars did rot this day. the days
Of the Washington C>atcunlg and on Wednesday
May a. 1873 Geo 90 lns IN
Api.l 80. 1882 ............ 40 eco Of passengers
Apr.l -, lrSA lNuup 1.uOld la- tn:"r'
october y. l-9.............. - coo It pas GO
octob T. is91 90 "a lr' plsscnrer-
The ferry boat companies estimate that a. least
100000 passengers were carried and this number +
10000 more than the record established on the
day Of the Washington Centennial. The surface rail
road, also carried more passengers on Monday, ~tay
nnd Wednesday than at any similar period In their
history. Tn" road, operated 10y the Metropolitan
Traction Company carried on an average "Oo.opo
passengers day. lErSiuN th" dny OF the Naval
Parade "a" largest day ever known In their
history The Belt Hines carried 10000 pa, >cngcrN
for the hrcc days. the Forty Second street Manhattan
ana the Third Avenue street Railroad Company
icd almost double It's usual number OF passengers.
SUPERINTENDENT RNK\rS SATISFIED