New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-10-29
FIRST SUBWAY TIE-UP.
Many in Disgust 60 from Tunnel
to Other Lines.

New-York tried to lay aside the subway as a
toy last night and put it to practical use in the
homeward rush hours between . and Z o'clock.
Unfortunately for those who had planned TO
test it as a method of rapid transit from Their
work to their homes, an accident to one of the
motor cars caused tie-up of the southbound
trains.
The crowds last night were double those Of
any time on the opening night. Both local and
express trains bound for the Brooklyn Bridge
and City Hall stations were packed with large
numbers of people standing.
The travel in both directions was so heavy
that every train in the rush hours was crowded.
Scores had to clutch the straps.
The accident that caused the suspension of
traffic on the southbound local track occurred at
the One-hundred- -and-third-st. station. A for
ward car was disabled by an accident 10 the
motor. The car was detached from the train
and sent to the One-hundred-and-th irty-seventh-
st. underground yards
This meant delay of thirty minutes to the
local southbound trains, The accident occurred
shortly before 6 o'clock. when the local down.
town traffic was it's height. The express SER
vice was also delayed about fifteen minutes At
the Twenty-third-st station this tie-up caused
an immense jam. The company was forced TO
suspend selling tickets AT O'Clock the ticket
offices at the bridge were closed for over ten
minutes For half an hour no trains reached the
City Hall station. only southbound local
trains run into this station.
A large number of people, when they found
that the subway trains were not running
smoothly, left the stations and took either the
elevated or surface cars to their destinations
The tie-up caused considerable discontinue and
the people generally were inclined 10 complain.
The narrow sliding doors considerably DELAYED
the loading of passengers and delayed the trains
to a great extent at all the stations A common
spectacle all over the subway was of two ner-
sons attempting 10 crowd into a car door al
the same time TO become wedged together
neither able To move in or out. The pressure
of the people crowding behind ONLY Wedsed them
tighter. 1t became the common duty az the no
Hcemen detailed at the stations 10 drive hack
the crowd and eXtricate the two passengers
Before and after the tie-up the servica of tbe
local trains good, there being three trans
to every express train. Delays there we've how
ever at the Brooklyn Bridge station oyIine 10
slowness in emptying the trains. AT nearI- an
stations the force Of platform men ana e~Ia r1s
was far too small TO handle the crowds and the
men were forced TO rely mainly on the notice
In the late afternoon rush OF nOrthbound ma g
sengers motors and other appliances on several
trains became deranged OF broke down and II
was necessary TO discharge the passencers ~
those trains at Ninety-stxth-st and sbInt ort
individual cars entire trains TO The tracks
that eventually will lead 10 the northeasteTn
Bronx region
The dslav hit Harlem hard 4 Tribune v,,or,e,
who boarded a northbound local train az Ethan.
ST. at o'clock sharp reached One-hundred-and nd.
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