The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1904-10-28

| was TohVe liiepee'or "aisH' VIM ""' ."
Sorry said Conductor Harrington, who
Ia positively the politest conductor on any
surface or subeurface road in these parts
but those are my or Si,n sar Dick whom
the conductor didn't know from Adam,
you obey your orders, and thank you for
your courtesy
bouquet for the Mayor.
At 122d street, where the open viaduct
begins, small boys--the railbirds,' Con-
tractor Mcdonald called them - were
tracks cheering for all they were. worth.
But they were not half SO lusty In their
demonstrations as was woman In red
petticoat and red hood on q roofsnear by.
looked like a laurel wreath in the other,
and she waved both frantically, scream-
ing as she waved. ,
At Fourteenth street a woman rushed
up to the motor box and through the open
window tossed huge bouquet to the motor
man. For the Mayor. she said, smiling,
and Pooler, the motorman. said THANK
YOU as the section moved on downtown: .,
The section got back into the City Hall
station at 3:48, having taken forty minutes
to make the return TIP as a local" The
special guests piled out, and the police hus-
| tied them above ground to make room for
the hundreds OF men and women who were
already. waiting in the station to take the
| ealbc u ~ III tHf very hfiiHc tIdil.
The Invited Troop In.
Other guests had been riding in the sub.
way In the mean time. After the official
train got safely away from the City Hall
station there came the public-not the
bona f1de paying public but the invited
who did not have pull or pressure enough
20 get pass that threw open the subway
TO him or her between the hours Of 2:30 and
o O'Clock yesterday afternoon was in
sad case indeed.
The company's original plan was to throw
open the road for an hour and give any
body and everybody free rint that wanted
it. That had to be modified. The police
! didn't like it. 1t meant rush which they
feared they could not control without
| somebody getting hurt. SO the company
revised Its first. generous propoosition.
From free ride for everybody during the
space of one hour the plan was changed to
a free ride during three and one-half hours
to everybody who could get a pass, But
pretty nearly everybody could get a ride
for the asking. Passes were given out by
! the bushel
Tho result was that the subway trains
| between 2 80 and a o'clock In the aftern Don
| presented about the same appearance that
/ they will when the underground railway
gets to he an old story--which means IN
about ter days at the outside. The trai,..s
express and local. were filled pretty nearly
| To the elevated railway star dard In the
rush lOII. ftCIplt were HdtlGliH INV
straps. trampling on one another's feet
| and brraping into one n ether II the sta
tons in the good old socierla We.
Comments OF Those Who Rode.
ITS the sa;ne old strap said q IA, ,:ar.
suspended by or 9 hand and swinging 70 a,d
strap, only just a little s:ir and rev vet,
But It will get over that.
4 "iss the nice sticky grease, though,
that's or the old STRAPS, said fault finder
OF another strap.
""oh, give 'enl a week: give err a wsek''
thirg i, the frst day. you krow
Il wonder what makes the guards 50
nice and polite. said bright faced little
woman who got on local trs in at Twenty
say step lively, can't YER and they don't
even glare when you ask a question:
They have been carrying guests OF
the company for the last six weeks, said
resigned expression Of 4 E-11!!;,yn. trolley
pany manner. They assume a pleased
expression Of oountenanoe. It's habit with
EN-. But they'll get over 1t: IT isn't 3"
dare say they'll keep forgetting them
selves and dropping into ordinary civility
for two or three days to come: But the
crowd at O'Clock tonight ought to do
good deal to knock the polite covering
There's one thing notice. Some OF
them are doing just as they do on the Gle
vated. They are whispering the names
Of the stations down into the front Of their
Then again some others call out the names
OF the sta tions in Russian or something.
l suppose they're OLD elevated men and
have brought the hnhit in With them
it?s sci alotier I'VE New Workers
will learr the road after while. but even
We have t. be on the alert. You
ca''7 81; rut CT Tire window and see whether
y-rrs getting there ihe way you car on
the "+vateJ."
wy dont t.'e,' ru;nt tfoae ir.r lIcsts
Hutteriog W make me dizzy. Ir- eot a
heada"hc fr,m Il alreeiy.'
We'll, ny tea-.- sail the marriej look
trg mar with her You know tho under
ground railroad wsn't built 30 much with
the idea Of furnishing scenery aa 1t was
t. enable people to get there. The moral
OF the futterinR white uprishts is that you
mnstn't look out Of the window. 1t may
cost many headaches for people to find
that out, they'll but learn it In time.
Nhatn the subway Hog BE LIKE:
sNcv here's social problem said q
young man Ia spectacles. What hind Of
hog will the under ground Develop OF
course. we know the end-seat hog, the
stand 10 the Oh oss-a.le hog, the shrinking
feet out tor people to stumble over. They're
starosrd varieties Thew are always with
us and, OF course, they will follow US under
ground. But are there not new condi-
tions in this sulterrauean transit to develop
some new kind Of travelling hog' That's
the question"
@oh he'll come all right, replied fellow
passenger. 'It's hard TO see how the
travelling hog can be a hog in any new
way, but he'll find out how fast enough.
The underground hog will be here and
roofing in less than a week. Take my
word for It,"
1T took us just seven minutes to 60 from
the Bridge to the Grand Central Station
by an express train" said a man on his
way back downtown on a local. THAT
was something like. For getting there In
short order. the subway Is great. But all
the same, give me the daylight for nine.
L,ordl what relief when we shot out into
the sunligh. up there above the viaduct!'
That's because you would rubberneck
it all the way up. said the man who had
been over the line many times. People
keep straining their eyes expecting to get
out Of the tunnel all the time-thin king
they are going to be out OF the dark into
the light the next minute. They'll get
over that and get over looking for land
scapes under ground
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