New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1892-10-12
TRANSPORTING THE CROWDS.
RAILROADS BRINE IN AN ENORMOUS Nun
Der OF PEOPLE.
EXTRA TRAINS To SUBURBAN TOWNS GENES IL
AXD ABOUT IIE sTArlNNs-JAMS on THE

EXTRA TRAINS TO SUBURBAN TOWNS~-CINES IN
AyD ABOUT lME srArlNNs-JAMs on THE
ELEVATED IoADs-Xo MIsHtr % FAR.
thousand extra carloads of country people
and suburban jewellers were cmptied into the city
YESTERDAY before neon 10y the hundreds Of trains
on the various railroads, and by nj ,htfall FULLY
500 additional cars had brought in the rural
population eager to witness Tie gorgeous display
Of fireworks AMI all the other wonderful things
that are happening in Gotham this week. Reckon
ing about fifty persons 10 o cur and mixing
conservative estimate for the crO"dei CONDITION
Of the regular trains il will be seen that in round
numbers about 100 900 visitors we've in the city
YESTERDAY, in addition to nearly rs many morc
who have been arriving from lone distances out
Of town for week. Especially since last Satur-
day have the REGULAR tIails been taxed TO their
limits to accommodate The class OF people who
have come from long distances to sec the whole
show and intend to remain TO The end. The
heaviest travel Yesterday was the caS' on Non
day was over the several roads wiuch land their
passcnecrs az the jersey CentIAiS station. nj Com
munpaw. In addition 10 In" Contra. III" l'al'i-
moro and Ohi0, the lrhigh Valley an the Rcld-
ing come into Communpaw ana the total number
Of trains arriving and departing daily AT this
caDaclOuS GcDOt on postwar Occd~lOnS, Su'H If
this. reaches 300, many of them being trains of
ten T. thirteen cars. To accommol late ycstcr-
davis rush. an extra train was kept going between
Co,nmunipaw and Newar, and one between Com
urnipaw and Elizabeth all day, a. fast as the
trip. could be made Last night and tie night
before. in addition 10 the regular equipment. three
cytra trains were brought into use 10 carry the
pcoplc home who had come from nearby towns
to Sc, the day pageants and the determinations AT
night.
TIE Pennsylvania Railroad doubled up yestcr-
day on ali their local trains between jersey City
and Trenton, the usual trains OF three cars being
increased to sA Extra cars were attached to
all the regular trains besides. and this road brought
TO jersey City fully $1,000 people whose only
object was sightseeing. The regular trains were
oil filed 70 the limit before they had left Broad
ST. station IN Philadelphia,
The extra cars and regular trains on the Eric,
Delaware, Lackawanna and Western and Ontario
and Western also brought In a great many people,
hut the officials or these roads expect their great
rush to be to-day.
At the Grand Central Station the TACT that
there was local celebration at New-lllven re-
Iieved the pressure on the rolling stock and depot
facilities greatly but fJr all that. the pcopl" from
north OF the city flowed down into the city
through the Underground TOut" Oh tH' -""-i"ih
Central all tho morning, in a steady AMI much
swollen stream. Between the hours Of and
10 a. IN. is the busy part of the day at the Grand
Central Station, and twenty-siN long trains arrive
and deposit Their loads OF passengers in that time
Yesterday these trains all had extra ears attached
and all were flied with people. The Local trains
dragged as many cars from the nearby towns o.,
the lines Of the New-lork Central. Harlem aud
New-IIaven roads AS they could haul and still keep
up the speed needed to get out Of the way OF the
rapid knowing expresses, with their powerful loco
motives.
OF course all these strangers and country pco-
ple filed up the streets and blocked the entrances
to the depots 0verran the fcrryboats and secthed