The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-03-08
ELEVATED ALMOST OUT OF 1T,
nut FtRLElrS MEN PROMISE A
BETTFR SERVICE TO-DAY.
nst side Lines were OF No Account In
Guy Travel-The West side Little
Dctter-Passenker Rode Free From
Some stations jam at city Hall.

The elevated railroad service during the
greater part Of yesterday was almost a
neglig BILE factor in the up and down town
/ travel. The West Side lines, particularly
! the Sixth avenue. had better service than
I the East Side lines. Conditions varied on
the different lines and at different times
/ from train every fifteen minutes or so to
a train an hour.
! Between and 9 o'clock in the afternoon
the company practically ceased TO operate
trains on the elevated. During that time
orders were sent out to the police at the sta
tons that everybody wanting to ride was TO
be forbidden entrance to the platforms. This
was TO hold good till midnight, when the
company believed that trains could be
started again with safety. The precauton
was taken because of the many reports of
small outbreaks Of hoodIumism which
reached the company
The order practically tied up the elevated
lines during most of the evening rush
hours While it was in force the COM
pany's officials had talks with the police
and learned from them that if the COM
pany wanted to run its trains they would
receive ample protection. Inspector Cross
promised that each train should have four
policemen. Mr.. Bryan and Mr.. Hedley,
when this offer was made decided that the
elevated lines could start up again and
orders we're given TO this effect about
O'Clock
Trains were run irregllarly from that
time on till midnight, police manning each
train
Better service on the East Side elevated
lines to-day was promised by Farley's
men They declared that the ele vated
lines on the East Side were neglected for
those on the other side OF town yesterday
but that this morning between 500 and 900
men would man the trains on the Second
and Third avenue elevated and that fairly
good service would result.
Last night the East Side elevated lines
below the City Hall were out of business.
Al 8 30 clock the ticket agent at the South
Ferry terminus of the Second and Third
avenue elevated lines shut down his window
and announced that no more tickets would
be sold there. Passengers who struggled
In were turned away by the police on duty
No Second or Third avenue trains left South
Ferry after p NJ, and only eight trains
went north from South Ferry on the Second
and Third avenue lines all day
Up to midnight trains on the West Side
lines left South Ferry under ten minutes.
Roadway, but most of them started empty
except for policemen.
There was much trouble at the CITY Hall
station owing TO the desertions of strike
breakers. An attempt was made TO start
trains under fifteen and twenty minutes
headway, but no train was allowed to 20
out without n full crew so this schedule
was poorly kept. Sometimes train would
come in with only one guard. although the
fun crew had left l25th street. When that
happened the ticket Office closed down !
and passengers were kept out till a new
crew WAS provided
Sometimes a train would be filed up /
with passengers before il was discovered /
that the crew was incomplete, then the /
police would clear the train and the passen-
gers would file down TO the street to wait.
When another train came in full crew /
from both trains would be made up, and a /
train sent north again.
From TO p. NJ. however, not a train /
oame in at the City Hall station The first
that appeared had several windows smashed
After p. NJ. the service improved till trains
we're running on about ten minutes head
way.
A sun reporter took a trip from the City
Hall to Bronx Park and back again on the
Third avenue line at O'Clock in the after
noon. No tickets were sold at the City
Hall station until the train came in Then
: was announced that the train was for
'trk ebreakers only Sixty of them piled
n. and the train ran express to Bronx Park
The run uptown took two hours
From every street corner and from the
windows OF tenements along the road men
vomen and children reviled the men
,rowds Jeered at them whenever the train
topped, and II stopped often enough After
stop it would lurch suddenly forward
md then stop again.
At loeth street strikers came aboard and
lied 10 induce the crew 10 join them They
.rgued in this fashion:
Lot us talk reason to you; no one is going
o hurt you. Join us and We'll pay your /
iotel bills till you're ready TO leave New !
FORK, We took siIty-seven men Of this
DAD to-day
A few did desert. On the Harlem River
ridge trains were stalled for long time i
'sssengers chiefly school girls on the way =
ome. courageously braved the third rail- r
nd walked from one mouonless south bound :
rain 10 another and 40 managed to get !
n the bridge At the Bronx Park station
'ere seventy policemen. who sat around :
ne Waslng room, hllng IT completely. The /
trike breakers were left there q
ThY trip back was similar To the trip IA
p Capt. Hurley sent policemen on the
TaiiS with orders TO punch in the eve" /,
ny ~strike smasher attempting to desert a
is train before he brings ii back To where =
e got IT, The round tnp lasted five hours. ;
Soon after the last afternoon trains on !
1e Second and Third avenue lines left
ity Hall, thousand persons were packed :,
lere and down the steps on each side 2
t 595 o'clock Capt. Hodgins Of the Oak II
rect police said There's not a train this II
de Of Harlem, and drove the crowd away ~
Trains moved feebly on both the Sixth \
I'd Ninth avenue lines all day There n
as no attempt at a regular schedule and ! ;,
aims ran all the way from fifteen minutes ~
an hour apart. At the Rector street 4,
alton the ticket seller lighted a CIGAR ~
I'd turned HIS back on the world. Passen
ira rode free. -
As the Wall Street closing hour an.
cached the crowds Mt the downtown
atoms grew larger. and when a train did
rive il was rushed with a deterrninntion m
at swept guards and policemen OF their o,
et and prevented any sembance Of order :,
Apparently there was no general order
10 whether tickets should he sold or NOT az
the elevated Some stations had no u
'ket chopper and others no ticket seller W
the Park place station tho chopper was n,
duty and would let no one by without n
'kct but the ticket seller closed IN 4
adlock followed which nearly ended In n uf
IT, A little after S O'Clock trains bacer "
run more frequently. There were Few In hf
ON. Most OF tho people had got tired If liz
liting by that time
The ticket agents on the elevated were ny
,stly frank about the conditions to
-Oh. Lord, one OF them kent saving to "
ospective passengers. there hasn't been ",
train along in forty minutes and can't -,
omise you there'l ever be one. VI
4RLEN R4TIRO4D 81 tHpFD ~
,men jump Fence al Grand Central q