New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1895-07-23
PREPARING FOR A RUSH.
STEAMBOAT COMPANIES TO CARE FOR
SUNDAY CROWDS.
OFFICIALS OF DIFFERENT LINES TELL WHAT
THEIR PLANS ARE-THEY WERE ,uNfhH-
JARED TO HANDLE LAST SUNDAYS
HEAVY BUSINESS.


A. c. Washington. president of the Iron Steam
boat Company. was seen yesterday by Tribune
reporter and asked 10 tell how the company p'o
posed 10 handle the crowds OF next Sunday al us
pier. No. !. He said:
Sundays crowd was the largest we ever nan
died since we began running boats TO Cohey iS'
and We were unprcpared for so many people anu
some things took place that will not occur again
We carried 81 2S5 people from this city ana proush'
2es77 back. The stories published ABOUT t"e "'
orders on the pier were greatly eXnsse'"''u
was present Sunday. and. so far as Know nv
body was hurt The crowd at the west or river e,o
of the large waiting ROOM on the upper moor OF 'he
nisr .urved against the fence surrounding the
stems leading TO the landing place below some reck-
less spirts BEGIN 20 climb the fence. In spite
OF all the special officers could do and we had hard
work restrain the others. AT no time were tnete
more than 1000 people In the waiting room' WHICH,
as you see will hold about twice that NUMBER.
There was no disorder the seven boats we
do not have special officers there. We have b'g'
brawny deckhands. and when several or thehi
surround boiserous passenger and say, NO
more Of that why, there isn't any more OF IL.
None of the boats were loaded TO the hcehseu
limit.
AT Coney Island land the people at pier
1900 feet long At the ocean end OF that pier sun
days crowd. when returning. broke down the
fence and scrambled aboard the boats"
Mr. Washington, when asked whether the ar
were as perfect they could be made. said:
They are. will be next Sunday. We have
10 have the runways.' or narrow-raed passage
ways to break up the crowd by letting people
pass In single file. Next Sunday shall not use
the Twenty-second-st. pier at all. and so we can
make. hope, twenty-mirute trips between mere
and Consy Island. That will. in large measure:
relieve the congestion of passengers on the pier.
Mr. Washington was asked whether the abandon
pSos Of the sssr Pr n srs than
last Sunday. and whether the pushing and showing
and camor might not recur Mr.. WASHINGTON sad
pany couldn, help 1t. try Ii might. If the
crowd wasn't In the waiting II would be IN
the street.
Captain j. S. Ludlam. superintendent OF the
Ocean Pier and Navigation Company. was at the
company's landing at the Battery. and said:
I'VE have two steamboats,. and carried about
six thousand passengers to Coney Island Sunday.
The crowds on our boats were within the number
we are allowed TO carry. The crowd here eXtendei
outside the gates and there was no jamming insidc
.he nclosure.
= the Office OF the Staten Island Rapid Transit
Railroad Company II contende1 that there
was no trouble caused by the large crowds on sun
day. and that the arrangements for handling crowds
are nearly perfect. At the barge Office 1t was said
tina; the reports of the steamboat; inspectors on
duty last Sunday could not be seen until to-day.
4. Hermann, treasurer Of the Iron Steamboat
Company, said tina; the company knows nothing
about the case Of Mrs. Hens. who was injured
Sunday night while 'rying TO get on the companys
steamboat Taurus at the Long Branch landing.