New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-04-25
PREPARING FOR HEAVY TRAFFIC.

PLANS OF THE ELEVATED AND SURFACE ROADS
TO TRANSPORT THE CROWDS on TUESDAY.
The managers OF elevated and surface railroads
in the city have made preparations to carry enor-
nous crowds OF people to and from the route OF
Tuesdays great parade and they believe that II
the weather is fine there will be somewhere near
million people to carry in the From the best
information they have been able TO gather they
have decided that the facilities OF travel In the
city will be taxed Tuesday az they never have
been taxed before 1t is said that more than three
hundred thousand persons will have seats on stands
and In houses along the route OF the parade. and
for every person who can get seat 1t is expected
that there will be three four who will go and
stand in the open spaces the sidewalks TO
watch the parade. To get such multtudcs If peo-
pie to and from that part OF the city near the
Riverside Drive between Seventy-second and One
hundred d-twenty-hfh SITS. the railroad man.
ayers have planned to draw upon all the resources
at their command. The burden and the profit OF
carrying the crowds will be divided between tho
three great corporations-the Manhattan PailWay
Company, the Metropolitan Traction Company and
the Third Avenue Railroad Company.
William J. Fransoli. the manager OF the Man
haitian Railway Company. has declared that the
elevated railroads will do their share in transport
Ing the public Tuesday The force OF en-
ployes will be Increased for that day. and every
effort will be made to turn the tide or travel IS
strongly as possible TO the elevated roads on
the Sixth-ave. and Nnth-ave. lines the cars VIII
kept running all day and all might II necessary,
at the maximum schedule. Trains will run con-
SANITY at n little less than one minute headway'
There will be extra gatemen and platform men 81
all the stations along the line. TO ala IN hastehhs
the rush OF travel. At the stations between ana
including those at Fftyninth-st. and One-hundred-
and twenty -hfhst. there will be men to assist in
closing and opening the gates of the cars ana
helpng people on and off the trains. At those tta-
tons also will be extra booths for the sale OF tick
cts so that persons wanting to get on elevated
trains will not have to walt and buy their tickets
on the stations. BY such an arrangement block
AIDES on the stations Will be prevented.
The trains in Third-ave also will be run as fire.
ouently as the needs of the travelling public re-
ouIre Mr. Fransioll says. and the maximum sched-
ule on that line may be maintained all day There
will be no express trains on the west size lines
on Tuesday but it is expectcd, that some express h
trains will he on the Thirdave Inc IN tne
morning and in the evening. IL Is expected ina
there viii be heavy IaVel on ,s AND orders
have been issued for the running OF many extra
'Prnsdont vreeland OF the Metropolitan Traction
Company, said yesterday that his company would
TUESDAY to get people within easy walking dis
lance OF Grants tomb and the KlSersidd T ARK
delighted because he had been able 10 put In opera
ton double track for hoTsecars '6r nh D 0nn
t'oiumbus-ave.. with the horsecar line In Amster-
dam-ave. -, .,no, ,rs,ood n making neo
ple ride al the way up on the horsecars IN Am
sterdam-aVe we can carry them up In the cable
cars running through Broadway and Columbus-ave.
In One-hundred n nd-siXth-st.. and transfer them
there 10 the horsccars which will run through
0ne-hundred- n nd-sixth-st, Amsterdam-ave and
One-hundred -and-twenty-h fth-st to the boulevard
The transfer OF passengers VIII be made without
The payment OF extra fares, and there VIII be so
nv horsecars on the ne-hundred and sixth
A. and Amsterdam line that people VIII not
lose time In going to Grants tomb that way
The horsecnrs connecting with the cabie-cars nj
e-hundr red "A nd sixth-s and Columbus-ave. arc
m he kent running to-day and tomorrow 10 allow
The travelling public TO get acquainted with that
way of approach TO the tomb, ana on tuesday
about one thousand horses win cars and con-
ductors and drivers Will be transferred from lines
Controlled by the Metropolitan Traction Company
In Inc lower east side OF the city TO strengthen the
ssrvic, ON the Onc-hundred-a nd sixth-st and Am
a,crda m-ave line. The cable line In column save.
a. IN have the service of about 10 per cent OF the
cars usually running In i.cxIngton-ave. Inc power
~ Tho cables In broadway and In Columpus,uve
win he used 10 tho utmost limit Extra employees
are TO be kept on duty along the lines TO preVent
accidents. particularly at dangerous curves ana
crossings. - A., r.,, A.o,,. = auroaa
Comnany said Yesterday that the parade WAS cx-
I"tarfArs with the operation OF the FortS-