The evening world., 1904-02-24
The Great rowd That Daily
Pour Over to New York Make
an Inferno Of the Brooklyn
End Of the Bridge.
CONDITIONS AS BAD AS
NIGHT RUSH FOR HOME.
Outrageous Scenes Enacted in
the Scramble to Get to Work
A Good Suggestion for
Commissioner McAdoo.

BY the 1udicious placing Of a few po-
ucemen in uniform on the elevated sta
lions built over the bridge platforms at
the Brooklyn end Of the bridge. and In
the long aisle leading from the staten
OF the Kings County elevated road, tho
~disgraceful crowding and pushing and
jostling which occurs every morning at
the Brooklyn enc OF the bridge car In
q great degree be avoided.
1t present no police are stationed on
tho several platforms leading to the
bridge station, and at times most dis
graceful scenes are witnessed on the
upper platforms upon which the pas
sengcrs alight from the incoming ele-
waited trains. What is characteristic
of one platform is characteristic of all.
On the single bridge platform to
which the passengers from all the ele-
waited trains descend the only crowd
ing occurs when the trains are being
boarded. and this is comparatively in
significant as compared to the condi-
tions which exist Immediately after the
passengers alight from the elevated
trains overhead.
For instance, when a train load of
passengers leave the train at the Sands
street elevated station-a large, commo-
dious n unobstructed area-a rush is
made for two narrow entrances equipped
with swinging doors which time and
time again have been carried off their
hinges by the great pressure OF the
surging Grove at that point. The crowd
Is brought to an abrupt halt at the en-.
frances by the sudden choking up OF
the narrow leading IN tbe
narrower entrance to the steps descend
Ing IN Tho hriaoo ,,..,o,-
'"' o''use pia'iorm'
Like MS Through a Funnel.
The entrance to the steps is partly
surrounded bv an iron railing pbIcb is
curved IN a manner that makes It wider
at its exit end thar the entrance end.
Under ordinary conditions il lie nossibIe
only for two or tire. persons n wsIt
through abreast. so arrow is II Rut
,yh.n = -. -, Du.
49, Ia ssauit Wy .he morning crowu
forced through the openInR. struggling
.I,o,.... o' ''uee"'s
.nnoo3 % Keep their rect as each
ST. d nvrieq tmrougn me openlns:
81 S.oS ~ ptosfess MADE oy me crowd
.eavnl.s the prluee pla' q rm beioW
Ia n anot.rr LIainIosd OF .S~assenee,s
ts4, ~ 49,. l,.nt t..-t -
IN anu lnis croWu nuris l,scIt sgainst
the narrow entrances.
cess,veiv ,wn hours 6aiIy ,inr,ns "u ~,
mornina rush. The crowdins ts t"1rInncr
Strnnr men nre carried n1ong NM,
nowerIess to resist the tremendous nrss.
ssure behind and on ali sides, ana eorisI1v
incenahie Of renderina assistarcs ~
,gonnnn nr child camsht IN the n,aaiS ~
or To- hsin n weaker neiehhoT ""e9''oni
vpan 'p Ne ~ rr,od ILL., -
: U"e er 70, nee ~ % bb, H toWard
i iieL ,hnts he MAJ he ~ d"c inerest
iuGh maj ne MAY De scored straight
.yMTu aI u y fnat n" &c "nuhSei OF IL car
lieu ~ M, nas anenine ,I IuI hn IrresIstDiE
peyonu the ope"ias aI'u tIen must night
niS way pack AGAIN by sheer force;
DurIns .htHe lilies woneh are buitetSd
naoout III lme siaceiui Iostlns. ana
t,hot nts SAP h oeihg lumrned asainst
are sre iticetty rhey wSt II Si I'm, me rhllins rmey
iii suenS 10y VIII ufe olner strus-
the narrow entranc q 10 ihhe rar riro odSa
~ 70 nrecini,o,Ss stans ~ y 'TS TuSe
ieadin,s 70 the hridca n,o fam hh"i6S"
A an iIInstr.tio5 ~ tho aopsitv
tho crowd dnrinS thasa o",tracsous