New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1896-07-27
CARS PACKED AS USUAL.
rI.cRANr VIOLATIONS OF THE LAW BY
TROLLEY ROADS YESTERDAY
No APPARENT ATTEMPT TO KEEP THE NcMsEt
OF PASSENGERS WITHIN THE LEcA"
,J,frr-RED TAPE REPORTS.


1JNrr-RED TAPE REPORTS.
The suburban crowds were out as us""' yes
,crday as they are on every pleasant SUNDAY
Coney Island and all the nearby oeacn Resorts
were thronged, and even those miles away.
reached only by the steam RAILROADS. co"''iieu
,orsa crowds Those who believe in going out OF
town early in order to get as much OF an oa'"'e
as possible start soon after an early breakfast
But the less anxious ones and II seems as tho"eh
this class was in the majority. straggie along
from the early morning hours until iate III '"e
afternoon There is only one way to keep TAP
on the coming and going OF Brooklyn outing
r,owds and that is to watch the cars TO the
various resorts 1t need not be told that the
Coney Island cars carry the most fares py
large majority but II is surprising 70 note 'ne
increasing number OF people who traVei oo"h
TO Canarsie Bergen Beach, the bensohhurs'
and Bath Beach shore. Fort Hamilton ana 'ie
North Beach resorts Manhattan Beach Is not
named in this category, because Manhattan Is
UNIQUE in ITS own individuality. as all good
Brooklynites know and is the one spot not ar
fected by the rabbe.
But as 10 the rab5le and the cars affected by
tnem-that is the question which interests many
citizens because OF the overcrowding ana the
consequent danger from accident. There was
overcrovdng Yesterday on other sundays
the only difference, If any being that there was
more of il than on some Sundays not SO pleas
ant 1t was not confined TO certain hours IL
was lust as noticeable in the morning as In the
afternoon and the returning crowds at night'
beginning at shutdown and lasting until almost
daybreak this morning. made the conductors
wish that Sunday out OF the calendar ana
the rabble at the bottom OF the sea.
The Nassau line was without doubt. the great
est offender but only by virtue OF its having
more cars on the road. The Brooklyn Heights
road was a close second. and It's offences against
the ordinances were Just flagrant as Its neigh
Dor To make short long story of cooperative
sin. there was no apparent attempt the
part OF any OF the surface roads ir the city
20 curtail the number Of passengers on any
of its cars. From early morning until late
at night men women and children packed
the aises Of cars. stood the steps and
rear platform projections and even invaded
the front platforms, hampering, In most in
stances the notorman to the point where, In
cases Of emergency, his usefulness must have
been impaired
A SAMPLE CARLOAD.
4 sample car of yesterdays crowds was one
ia which q reporter rode to the island, leaving
the Bridge al 800 o'clock In the afternoon. A
crowd principally of East Side NEWCOMERS,
filed the seats before the car started. At Court
square and Fulton-St. many were standing on
the narrow step, and, although there was room
iD the asles between the seats. the autocrat who
IAN the made no attempt whatever to clear
the step. Al Fifti and Atlantic AYES the regis
ter showed seventy passengers. TWO or three
blocks further on the car stopped Tor announcer
waiting mob. and the horror of all horrors 70
those who ride got on--a fat woman with a
train of children and many -baskets-and
iiiled the remaining available space. Thus the
car sped TO the turn at Thirty-ninth-st Another
crowd and the remaining available space which
had already flied up mile so down the road
seemed in some mysterious way TO expand for
the benefit of the Nassau stockholders.
This mob wedged itself in and the car pro-
ceeded laboriously ploughing its way up the
steep Thir,y-ninth-st hill. 1t is worthy of COM
mendation that the Nassau company has. since
the recent accident the Hill. more men sta
toned at the throw-off switches in case or a
motorman losing control of his car. The car on
which the reporter rode had at this time over
a hundred passengers. Its seating capacity is
sixty; Il is allowed leeway. "by law, OF nfteen
passengers additional Not at any time did the
conductor OF this make a protest; nor even
when the aisles We're only partly filed did he
collected fares and no could deny that he
had his hands full How he managed TO crawl
back and forth over the mass Of humanity on
the narrow rail without making false step was
a marvel 10 timid passengers. but he did it, and
he sweated and perspired and he sNore a. the
Messengers and the company and everything
cIae Darticularly the institution Of Sunday and
holidays.
Put it's 10 use kicking said he, when his
Vocabulary Of profanity had given out and its
repettion palled, IF We fellows want TO keep
ON jobs. all we have 70 do is TO coiiect the
nickeis ana say nothing the company doesh
car. for this overcrowdinR. All they want Is
the money Don't you suppose II their orders
were imperative that we could clear those steps :!
Certainly we could, Its
Look out there" he yelled sudderly al
small boy on the rear guard who nearly loSt
his balance The conductor grabceo the BOY
just as he falling off He picked nm up anu ia
sufYocation That's the way accidents happen,
le added griinIy land that's what we get ar
rested for-for things we can't neip
ONE OF THE CITY's FARCEs.
Another farce one in which the city INDUCES
IS the stationing OF policemen at certain corners
To report all carrying more than the legal
limit Of passengers. Two were stationed yes
terday at Fifth-ave. and Thirty ninth St. and
one a, Ctica-sve. and Thirty-ninth-st Thes>
three policemen had hundreds Of violations notsf
IN their books which they had beer nstruc III
10 turn over To Superintendent Mckelvey.
What becomes of those repor,s. vas ask zee
1T don't do any good whatever. They are
pigeonholed and that's the last any one ever
hears Of them. Overcrowding cannot be stopper
"a, least that is my opinion. The conductors
tell the people to get in the cars or get on. but
they never pay any attention to them Thc
Nassau company ought 10 go back 10 the ora
oO-cent round trip rate TO Coney Island. That
would shut of a large part Of this mob which
comes out this way on Sundays. But this other
business is all bluff on the part of the surface
roads and the city"
FUNERAL Or HRS. CASHORE.