The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-03-08

means OF getting home. Before that time
tho station had kept its normal appear.
ance After that time II was the theatre OF
almost riot
When one OF the bulletin boards flashed
up the White Plains local, which stops at
10th, l25th and l3sth streets. Mclrose.
Morrsania, Caremont Park fremont and
ls3d street, the concourse filed ma gically.
| Before O'Clock the place was jammed.
| The train did not start on time and the
crowd wanted to know why A Central
employee mounted the iron fence and an
nounced that the gates would not be opened
until the people stopped showing. The
crowd cheered, jeercd and jammed on
A man with meghphone mounted the
| top of the information bureau and cried
that the White Plains local would start from
Gate T. seventy feet away A rush worse
than any ever seen on football field started
east from Gate 10. There were dozens of
police on the concourse but they might as
well have been in the street The rush OF
two thousand people for Gate was not to be
trified with The women did not have to
run They were carried along, squeezed
and screaming. Simeon Ford. sitting at
hs desk in the Grand Union Hotel compos-
ing an after dinner speech, was disturbed
by their yells
The sign ovcr the gates, Show your
tickets. became a Joke Gatemen and the
policemen detailed TO assist them were
swept aside. It was Harlem or bust
with tho crowd
Inside the gate women and children were
crushed against the rails and when they
lost their grip were knocked of the walk
and onto the roadbed
This train the first of the evening. was a
sight a. It pulled out. IL was case OF three
in a seat. with the gi7lcs packed. the plat
forms crowded and mon hanging onto
tho steps and rails. man with a gray
beard climbed up on the tender. in spite
OF the firemans protests,
i came in on the cowcatcher this morn
ing" he yelled, and I'm going to have
a moro comfortable scat tonight
Meanwhile a great crowd had collected
at the gate. now closed. and was bowling
for home. rumor came that the next
local would start from Gate 10 and there
was rush. 'lha, meant a collision with the
mob already collected at the regular wait
Ing placs, but there was no help for it.
Hardy commuters fought the greatest
battle Of their lives, holding their precious
bundles over their heads and striving 10
worm their way toward the gates one
Of the morr experienced climbed tho four
foot iron fence and fell into the arms Of the ,
cop who wanted TO keep him back There /
was no remedy for this To throw the adj
Nenturer rack would have been to break D
an innocent neck. The act was contagious /
Tho Central man who was bossing things |
Kept making speeches 10 the crowd begging
II 10 be patient; but it pressed on and on
cheering Tor hls every speech. Women
screamed mat they were fainting but they 7.
could not escape. Men vho had fingered
by the bar-ide on their slow way uptown
howlcd vaguely about the injustice of
things The rnegaphone man. seeing the
iutlity OF his job, did fancy step on his
perch and the crowd screamed with delight
Az 6A5 o clock IT was all hands 10 Gate
No /, where another local was waiting and
the disorderly scenes Of the first rush werc
repeated
II was O'Clock when the first woman
scaled the ience II cheerd every one up
and there WIS a roar Of delight She was
suspended for an instant on the top Of tho
laing and tbon dropped upon the shout
ierS OF fneud on the other side Within
I've minutes dozen other women had done
he deed Strong men wept
The cops bawled in protest against tho
ealing Of the fence, and got the ha ha for
heir pains. Some OF them We're stationed !
It the entrance from the waiting room for
had been seen that the concourse vas
dangerously crowded. The newcomers
TODD forty deep in tho waiting room and
urged again and again toward the con
'ounse.
That same concoune never was 30 warm
'eiore Not one Of its 10000 square feet
Tas to spar There mingled the cdors
I Harlem iatchouli Bronx jockey club
nd Melrose violet, &c. particularly the ,
ist named
Tho last and greatest rush Of the night n
anne at 1850 o'clock Swooning women Z
ere dragged along. those caught in the
ash fell over pieces Of baggage, which !
ere lost in the shuttle and men were whirled
)und and round in the whirlpool An q
allan who carried his violin in a bag got n
ght in the middle of il all He yelled !,
nat this was free country and that ne $
louldn't lie treated 30 When it was over a
2 lay on the edge Of the torrent. moaning a
yer his fiddle which was in flinders q
just before clock d man dropp. q dead u
the crowd. lie was William T Northrup
4s Walnut street Buffalo. Papers in his y
)ckets indicated that he was Pullman
II conductor lie was waiting for the Ii
o o'clock train for Buffalo
The officials Vid they never had handled
lch a crowd before. There must have
zen about 1900 extra people, but there r
as no way Of making an exact estimate, NJ
only sulnll percentage bought tickets. =
az nhIttu Ipal had nara uine oil * Z =,
the morning with the people who got on : r.
the Bronx and Harlem stations and Of
me- to the Grand Central there TO board / 81
rface cars for their places of business. a.,
bout ten extra trims were run at nil ht
The railroad had called for help frc m the o.
lice early in the day and two policemen
ch we're sent TO the stations in the sub e
ban districts. Pickpockets were busy In %,
e crowds, and Chief Detective Humphreys -.
lied in twenty-eight detectives Of the ~
W. York Central who were working M y
p state 20 help maintain order on the /,
iins. n
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