New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1899-10-01

The crowd came to town early. probably one-quar-
ter Of # before O'Clock. and many more between
that hour and II o'clock while thousands more
trooped in until o'clock. So far as could be
learned from police returns ard statements made
by the railroad employees nothing more serious
than few minor casualties resulted from this
unprecedented influx Of visitors. although the out
going rush was attended with considerable dis
comfort.
The New-York Central road ran only two special
tralns-one from Peekskin and the other from
Poughkeepsle-but number OF special trains had
TO be made up TO accommodate the outbound crowd
This condition applied TO all the other roads, and
the capacity and ingenuity Of the train dspatchcrs
were taxed as they had never been. The outbound
tide set In about o'clock. and from that hour
until late into the night the railroad stations and
ferry houses fairly teemed and buzzed with tray
ellers.
In the waiting rooms OF the various stations were
some individuals who had celebrated not wisely
but too well. Few dsorderly. and such as
behaved themselves permitted to sleep off
their stupor. There were also countless tired chill
dren whose cries added TO the din and confusion.
No freight was moved on the Pennsylvania and
Jersey Central lines, the officials attending strictly
10 passenger business and little freight came in or
went out from the stations OF the other roads As
result the stations and freight yards were heaped
high with a miscellaneous assortment Of baggage
ana freight OF all kinds.
FERRIES HAVE THEIR BUSIEST DAY.
A large proportion Of the visitors who came into
the city Yesterday entered by way Of the West
Side ferries Most OF them me IN by the various
railroads terminating In Jersey City but the troll
leys and streetcars running TO nearby towns and
cities in koW-Jersey brought their quota. and for
four or five hours of the morning boatoad after
boat,oad was dumped on this side Of the Hudson.
From estimates gathered at the various ferries
from the Jersey Central IN to and including the
West Twenty third-st. ferry the number which en-
tered the city by ferry yesterday morning was
! 10000 This did not include. Of course, those VINO
| had come that way the day night before and
! remained I'm the city. The ferry authorities how
! ever experienced little difficulty in handling the
| crowds few extra policemen were stationed at
! each ferry to keep the people moving. but there
! was little need of their presence The homeward
trip began about o'clock, as soon as those on inc
west side Of Fftk-aye. realized that they could not
/ see all that they desired. Crowds Of visiting sol
! dicrs from other States made for the ferries az
soon as they got out Of the line OF parade. some
/ OF them maintained their formation until they
! reached the ferry but many or them broke dho
ran along in twos and threes.
SOME DIDN'T SEE THE PARADE OR DEWEY
'"rhe only thing saw were few mounted po
| licomen," said lone Pennsyiyanian who came
all the way from Frankfort to see Dewey but die
not see him HIS story was pretty much the same
as that Of most OF the others. They rushed into
New York by train and ferry, got stalled severa
hundred feet west OF Fifth-ave, and returned with
out either seeing Dewey or the parade.
The following estimates Of the number brought
into this city yesterday morning obtained al
the different ferries. The number carried away wa:
l In rlv