The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1904-10-29
THE SUBWAY CARRIES 100000.
Continued from First Page.

This stretch % now covered by the subway
with local trains running on three minute
The Sixth avenue cars showed a notice:
able falling of In travel last evening, and
even the Second, Seventh and ighth avenu
lines were Apprecia bly, affected.
Mr.. Vreeland, " no was seen late yeeter-
day afternoon, declined To give any figures
as To the loss in travel on the cars OF the
Metropolitan and refused to discuss the
question at all, except TO say that while
there might be some effect Just now, IN
a short time things would settle down TO
| their normal conditions.
FIRST NIGHTS RECEIPTS TO CHARITY.
The lIl,ssl persons who travelled on the
subway trains between Z O'Clock and mid
night on Thursday paid for their rides
the sum OF s5.sai.9 This amount a,t,d M !.
given by the marlborough, COMPANY 70
the cause OF charity. Mt. belmont's formal
statement on the subject vas:
"tor tie benefit OF u,ose who were SUI
| fering Yesterday wi lie tie rest OF us were
rejoicing, the Peterborough company will
send tie receipts from tie operation OF the
subway yesterday to the city hospitals.
Just how ills sum is to lie apportioned
among the various hospitals Lad not. up TO
| late yesterday afternoon, been determined
MINOR MlsaAPs ON THE LINE.
There were three blookades Of the line
yesterday Which for the time being brougLt
accidents to motor cars. Tie first one was
| a little before noon and held up train for
twenty-G rec minutes at Ninety-sixth street
| Tie motor car of Il is train was 81 ort
circuited" and the train came to dead
standstill.
Meantime trains behind 1t piled up In
the resi- ective blocks until there were seVen
or eight Of them stalled. The crippled train
u 4 All hA
sidetracked. The other, two breakdowps
occurred between 4 and o'clock IN the
for about fifteen minutes.
These delays said Mr.; Hedley last
things are inevitable incidents to operating
new road The arrangements un der
| a motor car are very delicate and more or
less complicated, and the least derange-
ment in any instance brings things to
standstil.
such accidents occurred several times
| when we were operating the road In the
weeks before it was Il rown open to the
public. They will, Of course, be less and
wears of. The subway trains will be
operated with quite as much freedom from
such incidents as are u g elevated trains.
Tie troubles to-day lad nothing to do witt
TIE power station. They were entireiy
local to tie particular motor cars involved.
| YACLfb OF hAFhnod pG-hNASh'
But the delays were not ali confinsd TO
the blockades caused by accidents. There
was almost continuous delay to tie express
trains going uptown between Ninety-sixth
street and 145tl street. At Ninety-sixtG
| street tie express trains take tie local
tracks, and it was quite tie exception Wen
an express train was not held up by block
| signals from three to four times between
these two stations.
II is said that when the Lenox avenue
line is OPP NJ d next month thus trouble VIII
| be In -r, at ms ASSURE done away with
The f. allure Of the subway service over
which there Is the most e nuine enthusiasm
ia the exprss 81 rvicc to Ninety-sixth street:
The scht dule time is twenty-four and half
minutes, and though the trains yesterday
did not quite come up to it. they came
M ar enout.h to warrant the conviction that
VIII, the newness WI ars off they can be
relied upon to come very close to this time.
But there are many important points
below Ninety-sxth street at which the
exprcsscs stop and whore, their service
even now is counte d real blessing. From
the Bridge you can. get TO Fourteenth
street, for instance, In three minutes a. a
Bridge " st rday. went to Fourteenth
street, chanred over and was back to tho
surface of the ground at the Bridge again
in little less than ten minutes after no
started. w
Then, again. fifteen minutes will be ample
| time for a man at the Bridge to allow for
catchinr a train in the Grand Central Sta
ton. The up-north commuters are in
high feather over this bocn'
CROWDS AT THE STATIONS.
The crowds about the stations yesterday
| at times became rather formidable In 81 9
basis. When they got to comm 8 too thick or
when there was delay Of traf s the police
stood them of until the cor gestion on .
station platform was relieved Tins nap.
t. - l. Nkn nrtS n In
evenir G and several times durir 8 the day
prior to the rush hour, both at the Bridge
and at the City Hall stations.
There was general outc1y among
passengers over the threatened INVASION
ments. The gold framed plaoards, which
on Thursday were OF a uniform height
Of about three feet, had grown In size yester-
day to over five feet They had greatly ATTY.
are not fixed to the walls They stand on
the platforms lean ing against the walls. The
pu bile doesn't like them. 1t had fun with
them in the early hours OF Yesterday morn
ins them on their heads and what not
There IL nothing in the contract to pre-
vent pla ing the most hideous Of them
over the tile panels Of the stations, provided
they do not cover the name ., o. frame me s'a-
One suggestion made yesterday was
that the signs be put in panel along the
bottom Of the walls next to the noor.
Another Is that they have great frame
all by themselves somewhere. Inc most
opular proposition Of all seemed to be
that they be kicked upstairs and kept there.
POLICE GUARD TO BE CONTINUED.
Police Commissioner McAdoo said yes
tere,ay that to-day and tomorrow the
police arrangements In the subway would
be similar to what they were on Thursday.
Since the opening day the number OF
creased. On Saturday ard Sunday the
subway will probably have the biggest
crowd vet. There are excursions from
out Of town, and many persons living In