New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1896-07-04
RAILROAD AND FERRY oOH>r'

~rrv PEOPLE SOUGHT COUNTRY AIR AND 'oO''
TRY FOLKS CAME TO TOWN.
Mon and women big, little and meo'u''. a,.,.
all sorts and conditions o. en- inreii' ..' ,,
YESTERDAY to spend the four'h =" '"o o, -
srhev were ready to go in any way "
.be s,inng heat and intolerable noise OF inc "0'
~ps and into the fresh ali and qu'e' oi '"o ,.
'.. TN. crowd that left the city yesterday
.r,s a larger one than is usual for lHoei"i''
nav AS the holiday falls this year on SATURDAY, a,n
An CONSEQUENCE there are two ho1daSS III s"0''''0'
Instead Of only one Ia. - -r,,,rsdav
-. ~. @errv-houses and the railroad stations
ion, the North River In NeWJersey were 'a'''''ioi
,yi,b crowds OF suffering humanity eager ~ g.
.wav from New York and into territory WIZ
4bcre was something new 10 see
ouas were composed .or the most part OF men
-, ,.o-oen who could afford TO take snort Va'd-
slr y, more than two days. No particular summer
-.a,r, or country town had any advantage over
- o.hsrs for the crowds scattered all over ana
~ceuJersey the lower part OF this state ana rei"-
,,an,a were the favorites, with Dg odos.
es.~,,,-s ,brongs were peculiar ones. that can
-, 80 f,,,nd I'm the long calendar or the year
,ben Independence Day draws near Women anu
.hi,aren were in the decided majority, anu VI.
s,,,r3hss carried by them were or all Shapes anu
60 ond probably contained all sorts OF thihss'
pr,ae1v women who were evidently grai'hiho'iei''
-. ,,,acsd,y I'm the ferry houses and in the railway
stations. surrounded on both sides with Val'seS
go bundles and with two or three and sometimes
larger number OF Youngsters h'sging pac it
go I'm nine cases out OF ten. looked ps!
III Areworks The little ones were eViuei,i!
In ~ rho immense Potentially Tor nose tnat uese
ns1ndies contained and they mad no eyes OF dt'. II
49, Cor ANYTHING else All their aHectlOhS Iof wy
ssraa h.rg we're wrapped up in these pdrkaseS' am
~ u,atched and guarded them with tchdef ca''
" careless man happened 70 come near WIN
Sy,sted cigar or cigarette. there Was az once ="
..ernful edglng away from possible uaheei .o
~ course q good many or the uaVeiicrs WI
sound Tor Chicago on account OF the Democratc
Eational Convention, that meets there next week
"a The round-trip tickets that have been issued
Nv The railroads for a single fare, but these were
a. The decided minority. Niagara Fa.is was
~ "a. traction for many AS excursions were run
there Yesterday by the Lehgh Valley Railroad
reich viii be good for return passage as late as
Monday evening Mauch Chunk Glen Onoko ana
The switchback also drew IA good many people 70
she excursion trains Of the Central Railroad or
Hew-Jersey The Pennsylvania Railroad station
reosiyed a steady stream Of passengers throughout
sha day and most OF them took the trains on the
long Branch division that TO the seaside re-
aorts on the eastern coast OF New-Jersey. Sho-
So,a Glen and Greenwood Lake were favorte
-,o;nts OF destination on the Erie road. ana var
ppvs resorts on the Hudson took a large num-
Ser OF people into the country by way OF the
Waet shore The Delaware Lackawanna and West
en- howeyer was not sighted. Not a train taat
gent anywhere near any OF the resorts with whch
Tew-Ycrkers are acquainted either by personal
contact or by reputation. that did not take out
o'E wSe this exodus Of Workers was going on.
overall Of the railroads were running vcursion