Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-07-12
new YORK BRIDGE SCANDAL
PUBLIC SERVICE MEN SEE
CRUSH FROM SAFE PLACES.
Officials Looking for Solution Of Jam
Problem-How Women Are
Treated by Seat Hogs.

NEW YORK, July 12.-Enveloped by a
battalion of reporters and camera men and
escorted by Chief Engineer Ingersoll of the
bridge department., Public Service Commits
sioners Bassett and McCarroll of Brooklyn
and Eustis of the Bronx went forth last
evening to consider the bridge crush Just
inside the entrance on the Park row side the
party came to halt and Engineer Ingersoll
began to point out to the commissioners
how the new terminal would be built A
huge policeman came up with fire in his
eyes.
HI, there, you fellow move onr' he cried
This is no place to collect a crowd"
Some one whispered into the tall blue
coats ear and he suddenly found plenty to
do in other spots.
Watching Proceedings.
Inc party then went to the northern plat
form upstairs. where the trains come in
from Brooklyn. 1t was comparatively quiet
mere, as the rush was all the other way
After watching the loading of trains from
this point of view Engineer Ingersoll pro-
posed that the commissioners mount to the
eIain dlspatcher's cage. about twenty feet
ABOVE the platform. The ONLY way TO get
to 1t was by a narrow upright ladder of
iron Inc commissioners hesitated for a
moment but led by Mr.. Bassett and Engi-
ileer lnsersoll they began to make the trip
one by one. This was meat for the nho-
toeraphers and they Immediately unlim-
oered for acton. The result was various
views OF the legs OF the climbers
from the train dispatcher's Office the
commissioners were able to get an unin-
,errupted view of the loading ana unload
ing OF all the bridge trains which were
mere running under a Roadway of less
~ man minute. The system was working
IN perfect order and there was no hitch
Oh any Kind in the operation of the cars
Is matter of education with the
people OF Brooklyn" said Mr.. Ingersol
an, al .hls was green crowd unused to the
daily congestion there would probably be
panic every day These people have sim
ply grown used to the system by long ex-
perience' and in the main they are like a
trained army
The Foot Ball Rush.
When the commissioners descended from
their lofty perch via the narrow ladder
they were photographed in group Then
they visited the trolley loops, where a jam
OF people, many of them women, waited
patiently to get even foothold on car.
AS each car turned from the northern road
way there was the old familiar foot ball
rush on the part of men for seats before
the car stopped. Men Swarmed aboard
from both sides, under the rail and over
the rail and through the windows, SO that
by the time the came to stop there
was no room aboard for even the eye
lashes OF a waiting passenger AS for the
women, they were entirely ignored and
stood patiently as car after car passed
without taking them on
That said Commissioner Bassett, sis
the disgrace of it all; that these lusty fell
lows should be allowed to board the cars
haphazard before they STOP thus shutting
out the women who are waiting. These
are conditions that should have been fore
seen and provided for years ago.
When the inspection was over the COM
missioners declined to give any views on
what they had seen or what changes they
would recommend to the full commission
They have no jurisdiction over the bridge,
but they have jurisdiction over the Brook
Ign Rapid Transit.