New-York tribune., 1908-01-11
sftv-four. as should have been done accordin
to schedule.
Rig CROWDS IN SUBWAY TRAINS.

nftv-four as should have been done ACCORDING
to schedule.
RIG CROWDS IN SUBWAY TRAINS
Each train was made up of eight cars, WHICH
in almost every instance came into the bowling
,,rean station with the vestibule platforms
TANNED with passengers completely that not
even naper weight could be squeezed in Each
car has seating accommodation for As people,
or 3s4 for train of eight cars. According
to the calculation of the official OF the Fuho
Service Commission every one OF the HaihS
leaving the Bowling Green station between o:oo
and s: IS last night carried at least three nun
dred standees. The train which left the station
at sos had more than five hundred passengers
who were unable to obtain seats Inc deiay III
III. train service was partly accounted for by a
fifteen minute block in the subway shortly after
5 o'clock last night, when the rush started In
The block was caused by the burning out of a
feed wire on a northbound Lenox avenue local
inst before the train reached Worth street
The traffic on the new subway was far heavier
Yesterday than on the opening day. For the
first twenty four hours of the tubes operation
a. 600 tickets were sold at the Roroush HAN
station From midnight Thursday to o CLOCK
last night 81 600 tickets had been disposed OIL
With five hours of the twenty7four remaining
the sales showed an increase of more than 1our
thousand. This figure does not accurately ac-
count for all the persons who used the tunnel
TO come to Manhattan, as many people had
bought tickets in advance in anticipation of the
delay incident to the first day of operation
Especially noticeable the increase in the
westward bound traffic during the hours of the
dav between 10 a. nj and p. m. Where on
Thursday many of the cars had during these
hours carried only few persons, and these mostly
he trail Yesterday
were well filled Some estimate of the increase
in traffic to Brooklyn from the downtown sta
tions alone may be gained from the figures of
sales of tickets at the Manhattan stations below
Brooklyn Bridge. Where only S04 tickets had
been disposed OF at the Wall street station dur
ing the twenty-four hours of January 8. 5,266
were sold Thursday. At Fulton street 1,025
tickets were sold all day Wednesday, the num-
Der leaping to $3.50 for the twenty-four hours
ended at midnight Thursday, and the receipts
from the Bowling Green station on Thursday
showed that about thirteen thousand tickets, or
double the usual number had been sold there on
the first day of operation Of the extension.
Although there was a marked increase in
traffic during the rush hours at the bridge yes
terday, it is estimated that the second day of
operation of the tunnel showed a falling off of
at least Is per cent caused by the use of the
new route Brooklyn. The officials of the
Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company said it was
yet too early to give out comparative statistics
of the passengers Thursday and Friday with
those of Wednesday. None of the Public Ser
vice Commissioners in possession of figures
upon which could be based a correct estimate
Of the beneficial effects of the tunnel in reliev
ing the bridge congestion Commissioner Bas-
sett said that in the long the scent fare
would control the situation.
When the Brooklyn extension has passed the
new wonder stage it is estimated that Brooklyn
ties will be able to leave Borough Hall and i'll
fifteen minutes be at the Grand Central Sta
ton Twenty minutes at most, it is expected,
will be sufficient to allow a comfortable trip
with plenty of time TO catch trains leaving here
over the New York Central and the New York
New Haven & Hartford railroads.