New-York tribune., 1909-09-29
SW INDLED ON TICKETS
THOUSANDS FIND PLACES
.4LREADY TAKEN.
Reign Of Graft Mars Celebration
and Police Use Force to Re
strain Angry CrOscdS.
mt ON HER FIRST TRIP.

Several thousand persons bought tickets for
+te aldermen's stands yesterday and then were
not permitted 10 use them. These stands are in
Fifth avenue. between c3d and 2sth streets. The
seats We're all occupied and persons were stand
ing in the aisles long before 5 o'clock. when
ticket holders kept crowding up to the entrances.
Inspector Herlihy had 10 send for a special squad
of twenty men 10 hold the indignant ticket
holders in check
II was learned that passes for the aldermen's
stands were being sold, and there VIII be an in
vestigation TO discover how the sellers got hold
of their stock Many hundreds Of persons living
II this city and in the suburbs innocently
bought these worthless passes 70 the alderu1anic
seats long after there was more room the
stands and after the first rush had been thrown
back. The price asked for them, 81, attracted
many buyers. The police were powerless TO do
anything for The unfortunate men ana had to
force them to the sidewalks.
This was not the only place where this cams
of selling worthless tickets was practised There
were complaints up and down the line. Men
with families were turned away. and women in
parties, induced by the glib statesmen 70 buy
were gTiefstriclen when informed they had been
swindled.
At the aldermanic stands the police had 70
use force 70 keep the crowds away. There
seemed TO be no alternative, as urging did not
have any effect There was a charge on the
crowd bursting out OF 26th street. in which many
women were roughly thrown back IN tho crush.
One woman tainted and moro policemen were
hurried up TO prevent further trouble A kite
fell among the people there at this time, and
added 10 the excitement By the time the
head OF the parade appeared order had been
restored.
Seats on Fifth avenue stands that were good
Al -fa nav @o
roofs, IN windows. or stoops and wagons brought
As high as s., and there were not enough 70 20
around It was observed that men who had
bought worthless tickets sold them again There
was no way TO warn the people against the
fraud.
There were, Of course. many stands where
such deceit was not practised. This was true
of the stand at the Court OF Honor, and the
Hudson-Fulton reviewing stand al 18th street.
Al both Of these stands, as wei as at stands on
Central Park West. every possible means of
comfort and safety had been provided. At the
court OF Honor and the reviewing stand OF the
commission the Spectators were held in place
untl the crowd on tho walks had dispersed IN
measure.
me entrances we're numerous. so that in 1ha
exit there was no confusion To some NJ she
'afgest stands however. there were Inadequate
eh1shoes. This was true of the aldermanic
u H14Oh e1lt coIno not be made. Those
placed between exits were SO henned in tba,
N case Of an accident they would have been
penned in heIplessly.
Inc building inspectors men examined many
~ The stands yesterday, they had the first on
portunity 10 observe whether the entrances were
numerous enough for the crowds OF ticket hold
'rs. II was said by one OF the inspectors that
mere were many stands that should have more
means Of exit He pointed out the danger ~ a
stampede should occur. In some of the stands
The entrances were a hundred feet and mora
apart.
In the stands where the tickets had not bean
"Fersold late corners had no difficulty in getting
seats and in no instance We're there obstacles
~ The way 20 an unobstructed view This ar
Tangements in general were defective. II ia said
80 Tar as the suficiency of entrances was con-
'erned. This. OF course. did not refer 20 tbe
Court Of Honor stand the reviewing stand AZ
18th street
Ticket holders TO stands where there had been
no overselhng were permitted TO get through the
crowds at all times before the parade was mass
lHg, and whenever there was a pause in the
Pageant The policemen had instructions TO LET
mem through, matter from which direction
they might come. None of the streets was
closed TO people, except after the parade had
begun 70 pass.
Many persons had been in doubt whether II
would be possible to get their seats after the
SIDEWALKS were crowded but these doubts were
removed when they arrived at their destination
me doubt was especially strong regarding the
s1ands on Central Park West, where the street
-so 70 be crossed. There. as elsewhere the DO.
ice admitted ticket holders.