The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-09-05
KICKS OYER BELATED TRAINS.
THEY CANE IN FASTER THAN
THEY COI'LD DE UNLOADED.
Grand Central station TiIrOngs Make "
Lively for the Bulletin Board Chalk
Artist -COngestlOn May be Over To-
morrow Mighty Mounds OF Baggage.

SovCr did a crowd OF PARK row bulletin
board baseball fans watch n chalk game
with half the earacstaesS that was ex-
hihited by the throng TINT ell day yesterday
stood IN front Of the big blackboard labelled
bulletin Of arriving trains" up at the
eastern exit Of the Grand Central Station.
And Charley Hitchcock, the chalk artist
VINO marked the trains and is new 20 the
job, got a heap Of experience before the
day was over.
Every year almost all the summer hotels
practically shut up shop on abor Day.
d to this the holiday excursionists and
the result Is an enormous amount OF traftic
into all the railway terminals and an ac-
compnnying swamping OF the baggage de-
partment. This year has outdone It's pre-
decessors in willing the collars OF the rail-
road mon and although the Grand Central
people declared yesterday hat they had
made eyCry preparation possible for the
influx. the schedule ives knocked heller
skeltcr. they promise. however, that after
the big run Of yesterday things will return
20 normal.
II was difficult to find an official in his
Office around his station last evening. be-
cause most of them we're running up their
laundry bills while hustling around the
railway yards under their own steam.
General Superintendent {. F.. Smith OF tho
New York Central Lines aud Ira A. McCor-
mick and r. f.. Slater, general superinten-
dent and superintendent respectively of
the electric division" of the combined
lines, spent almost the entire day and
evening out among the rains trying to
straighten things in the yard.
Because of improvements being made
this ia the last summer we hope. hat we'll
a " this excitement" said a clerk in Mr..
Slater's Office, who spoke for his absent
chief. Most Of our trouble here in the
yards is due to the fact that trains come in
faster than we can unload EN-. Incom-
ing trains are stalled from the terminal
here to High Bridge on the Hudson division
and from here to Melrose on the Harlem
division. and perhaps much further north.
These stalled trains lose from twenty to
thirty minutes between here and I4eth
street because Of h trouble in unloading,
and, or course, the general confusion de-
lays the outgoing trains also"
At Mr. Slater's Office it was said that the
trouble was really slight, ilasmuch az mo
trains bad to be abandoned, > but out around
the st ttton where the baggage was piled
mou1tlia high and the crowd sat in front
Vi Jth5 llCQllllHk JIdlH ITdCdS WtbTHy waiting
for friends almost two hours overdue there
were different opinions about the matter.
"ThTpe-thirty New YORK and New Eng
Ian ENpreS' as arrived on track three!'
bawled Charley HitohcOcH through his
megAphone about three minutes to five, or
an hour and a half after he was expected to
make the announcement. Then the weary
walters Rhp, had been sitting in the benches
Ike a snoring mob in Msdi son Square on a
hit midnight came to life and climbed over
the baggage toward track 3.
Griih 20, popularity known as "the New
Ior. er" and due at 3 O'Clock in the eve
ming, and the Easter Express, due three
quIrtsrs7oS ain hour later, were marked on
time on Charley's board, but they we're
exceptions. or a long tins the Boston
xpress, which should nave arrived at 4
o'cloci IN the afternoon, was marked one
hour and thirty inutss late. When the
extra hour and thirty minute were up there
W = nothil z DING in Boston expresses, how
ever, 40 Charley got out his eraser and chalk
an ! ch iaged the thirty to forty. This time
Ie gu9 ed light.
Inc Second section OF the METROPOLITAN |
express :oF train So, which ought TO nave
arrived Gb5;40 O'Clock. was marked twenty
minutes late during the first few innings,
but somebody made a three Dagger along
the limo and 4 harley changed the twenty
minutes TO one o u and fifteen minutes
amid Ioid and enthusiastic jecrs.
Mister Marker began the 'steenth
t~housEndth anxious old lady to harley !
!: S9sEi lt'sr ]sS Sl%eT SIST h .nsss r Ha. riIv
well. II that there clock is rigut, this
hers board " wrong.
-Yes'm."
-non,t Be insoIent, ,ir, TO me- That
forty minutes late, and according to the
CLOCK ito forty-tNe minutes overdue now
and no tTs,I IN sight
Well III haze you discharged, sir. III
60 9ght Nh end see Mir. --.wel, whoever
] ought 10 &c, and have You discharged"
The Information bureau and Charley
HitChcock got more abuse than an UNI
pires A. Tor the crowd around the infor-
nation bureau, all il needed was a few
InOUptsd policemen riding slowly up and
down 90 make the waitin room look like
the east sias pt City Hall Park at the ninth
inning. ~----
well, it's very strange. yornr man -
the burisn- cthE told heatedlv many times
by a graz haired, sharD messed woman
whenever she could work her way through
the crowd. it's very strange YOU can't
tell me WHERE my trunk is when ! sent il
from Saratocn two hours before I boa ded
the train. This il the only blessed waist
] have with me. Oh. don't you LAUGH at mo.
hea1rr
In the train desrntcher's Office il was
ssid-lsst evening that the outbound trains
especially IN the Harlem division. were
having a Dreat deal Of trouble in keepin0
to the ~sChedule. brt that from = O'clock
on the Incoming trains we're practically
on ti1e,' 1h9 biggest crr'sh was in the
morufn-. Tho Atlantic EXPRESS from the
West 1hich il dive at Z o'clock A. NJ. and
IN usually run sin9ly, came along in five
big sections. all crowded. The COMPANY
says thht they haze scrared M all the cars
and ehSinSE POSSIBLE for milea. and thew
added that -rCbablv TO-DAY. ut the latest
tomorrow. she CONGESTION will have rssaed
The rTeaaeEt-crrs came around 8 O'Clock
IN ire afternoon AT the eastern end Of the
platforms while the Merchants Limited.
for Boston. v1sbeinR made up on Track ~
and fhe sos New Rochelle local was posted
at tho entrance To the next track. Both
crowds ran into ea"h other. and although
there wns not much excl tement the best
70 gel through the combined crowds.
" one were in a hurry. was 10 take a local
train on ono n the other tracks. get of M
125th street. Cross the tracks there and
catch a southbound train scheduled 10
come in on track 0 or 8.
4 number Of Italian baggage breakers
we're added during the last two davs TO
the regular station squad. The old force
and the reenforcements delved all dav at
the skyscTapers of trunks that filed the
incoming baggage department. but faster
than the old trunks were piled on wagons
labs new ones arrived. There we're
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