New-York tribune., 1905-01-05
THE TIE-UP OF TRAFFIC.
Subscay Saves the Day-Stean',
EIeUated and Surface Roads Suffer.

Two or three hours delay of all trains from
the West interference with every suburban
schedule. Generalization Of the surface car ser
vice In the greater city. especially In Richmond
and The Bronx. dislocation Of the Brooklyn ele-
waited service. the temporary discontinuance Oh
/ horsecar traffc. and. as consequence, an uh-
preeedented onslaught OF the Manhattan ele-
waited and underground trains. all these were
among the effects OF yesterdays storm
The New-York. New-Haven and Hartford
Railroad between New-Rochelle and the one
hundred and twenty -ninth-st. station OF the
Third-ave. elevated road was tied up In the
morning by a freight train which ran on the
track between Port Morris and the Casanova
station Passengers bound for New-York were
compelled TO walk to the Jackson-ave station
of the West Farms branch OF the subway, a
distance of more than a mile. across the fields.
Drifts in Fourth-ave. early In the day were
such that before daylight string of fifteen cars
was tied up behind stalled sweeper" The
few passengers prepared to go to sleep
Traffic on the second-ave. surface line was en-
tirely at a standstin In the early hours. and
during the usual rush hours not wheel was
turned AS a result. Third and Fourth aves
had to bear the burden of the increased tax,
and they proved unequal to the strain There
were times when not a passed for half to
three-quarters of an hour. On Broadway. the
cars ran doubled UP. the first car acting as a
plough for the rear car,
No crosstown cars on the Eighth-st. line were
operated in the morning. There were many de-
lays on the Twenty-third-st- crosstown line
Oren Root, jr, the general manager of the
New-York City Street Railway. declared 1t was
the worst storm in ten years.
Such crowds gathered at the uptown elevated
railroad stations all lines that there was
danger of some of the people being pushed 10
the tracks. Policemen were sent to the sta.
tions TO keep the passengers from the edse OF
the platforms and TO prevent entrance 10 tne
stations until the crush over.
The service on the subway was increased 70
its fullest capacity, trains OF six cars running
on all Of the Broadway expresses. To make up
time lost on account Of the crowds. trains IN
many instances did not step at all stations The
stations at Twenty-eighth and Eighteenth SITS
were noticeably slighted
The storm seriously delayed the mails. trains
from Chicago the West, the South and New
England being many hours late.
The surface and elevated lines Of The Bronx
and Harlem were completely demoralized in the
early portion Of the day. No cars were run on
the Fordham-ave and Third-ave- lines, the West
Farms. Westchester and Willis-ave lines, and
the One-hundred- and -thirty-hfth-st. crosstown
surface lines.
The blocking OF the Amsterdam-ave. and One
made IL impossible for thousands of people who
live downtown and work in Harlem to reach
their destinations without walking mile or
more through the streets
One-hundred-andz ztwenty-ffth-st IT Is de-
clared. is in the worst condition that it has
been in since the blizzard Of 1888. Business has
suffered noticeably.
BROOKLYN STREETS BLOCKED.
The local railroad companies in Brooklyn
found the storm of the worst they ever ex-
perienced. The entire force Of the Brooklyn
Rapid Transit Company was put to work on the
lines where there was the heaviest traffic. and
other lines were temporarily ignored. Some of
the local lines ran cars throughout the night
and early morning hours. but many of the sub
urban lines were completely tied up all the
morning.
The switches were frozen in the yard at the
old Culver terminal at Coney Island and could
not be moved Consequently the Brighton Beach
trains ran very infrequently. The elevated SER
vice, however, fair during the night and
early morning, especially on the Fifth-ave. and
Fulton-st lines.
The surface lines tied up included the Ham
burg-ave.. beyond the Canarsie depot; jamaica
ave-, beyond the East New-York depot; Flush
ing-ave., beyond Maspeth. and the Cypress Hills.
Richmond Hill and Lutheran Cemetery lines. be-
yond Ridgewood. The Church-ave. line was
entirely closed till late hour and the Reid-ave.
Calvary Cemetery, Lorimer-st.. Tompkins-ave.
and Grand-st lines were tied up all the morning.
Beyond Rockaway-ave the Douglass-st. line was
closed, and beyond the Flatbush-ave. depot the
Flatbush-ave. line was not operated till late in
the morning.
For several hours the Williamsburg Bridge
and plaza %~-o snOwbound.
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