The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-07-27
MANY COME And MANY Go
TWELVE THOUSAND ExCURSIONIsTs
IN AND OUT OF THE CITY.
More Could Not he Handled by the
Railroads Because of the Ar
rival of Troops.

There was something new, something
seen only once a year, about the excursion
scenes at the Union Station yesterday. This
variation was the sight of the dark blue
uniforms of the hundreds Of members of
the Indiana National Guard who came to
indianapolis yesterday for the encampment
at the State fair grounds. These blue uni
forms scattered all through the large
crowds lent a variety to the citizens
clothes of the men and furnished a pretty
contrast To the light-colored summer gowns
OF the women.
indianapolis did not entertain many
excurdsionists yesterday as the previous
Sunday. on account of the railroads not
having enough cars to run the usual large
number of excursions here. But, notwith-
standing the fact that the roads were han
dicapped In this way. they brought in
nearly 5000 people from Cincinnati and
Indiana and Illinois towns and cities, which
Is only few thousand less than the record
breaking Sunday excursion crowd OF the
year.
TWELVE THOUSAND PEOPLE.
Twelve thousand people. in round num-
hers. Is the estimate of the crowd that
passed through the gates of the Union
Station yesterday. About 1900 Of these came
20 the city and the remainder left town
for the day on the six excursions that were
run to Cincinnati and various pleasure re-
sorts of Indiana. Every excursion train to
indianapolis was we'll loaded or fairly
packed with country pleasure seekers.
The roads were handicapped in the excur-
sion traffic yesterday because they had TO
run n large number of extra cars on all
the regular trains for the transportation of
the State troops who came In from every
part Of the State, and on account of having
10 run heavier regular trains from the East
for the Elks, who are returning from Bal
timore. Only six excursion trains were run
here yesterday. This is about three trains
less than the usual number, and in three
Sunday excursion trains the roads usually
run about thirty cars. Being short thirty
cars means that the roads were unable TO
furnish transportation for fully 1900 peo-
pie they otherwise would have carried
The six excursions to Indianapolis were
the c., III. & D. from Springfield. ILL.,, the
@, H & d. from Decatur. ILL.,, the Big
Four from Louisville, the Big Four from
Cincinnati the Big Four from Mattoon, ILL.,
and the regular Lake Erie * Western eX-
cursion from Rochester and Michigan City
The excursions out of the city Were: L. e
Erie & Western TO Michigan City, c., III. &
ID. TO Cincinnati. two trains; the Vandalis
to Greencastle and Terre Haute, the Penn.
sylvania 10 Madison and the Big Four tC
Lawrenceburg and Aurora.
There was nothing unusual about these
1000 people who came to the city TO SpenC
the day and who went TO Cincinnati and
force at the Union Station has had so much
experience In handling large crowds, anC
especially these crowds of Sunday visitors
who come mostly from the small towns ovel
the State. that they handled withou
accident or delay. And the handling OF
yesterdays crowd was not departure from
the past good records the Union Station
force has made In dealing with large crowds
WENT TO THE PARKS.
Most OF the Sunday excursionIsts ant
thousands of Indianapolis people went {,
the parks yesterday, and to various camp
ing and pleasure spots on White river
Broad Ripple Park and Riverside Park
where boating can be done most easily an,
where people seem TO find more pleasure
from the river. were the best patronized o
the parks. AT Broad Ripple there wer
more than 10.0Oo people, and the crowd a
Riverside was estimated at fully I5OOI
Fairview did not seem 10 have the usua
attraction to the excursionistS and the In
dianapolis people yesterday, and the crow,
there was small all day. Fair Bank had IL
usual crowd OF pleasure seekers, and abou
LEGO people were at Garfield Park in tn
afternoon TO near the weekly band concert
There were concerts at both Broad Rippl
and Riverside Parks in the afternoon an,
evening. but the music was not nearly $
great an attraction To the majority of tn
visitors as the river The weather wa
TO these river resorts seemed 10 be thinkin
more about finding some place where the
could spend few hours in cool Shad
spot b. the side OF water than I'm listenin
10 the music or amusing themselves in an
way