New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1909-09-27

sor all the world like rolls Of cotton. pinked by
the declining sunlight.
New Workers who mingled with the thrOngs on
Riverside Drive were amazed by the lack OF
confusion in the movement OF the people. The
police were eVeryRhe they were most needed
This was matter surprising TO some AT one
~ the subway entrances half dozen italians
were pressing through the crowd. They didn't
know where they wanted 20 go and asked the
policeman.
stay in the line buy tickets when you get TO
that window and then follow the crowd down
shat stairway Take the first train that comes
along" The policeman followed this up by
plotting the men 10 the ticket window.
did you see that?" almost gasped a native
III any one had told me that any Of our cops
would get down 30 that I wouldn't have be-
iieved st."
That was not the exception by any means
The police everywhere showed courtesy that
would put even a Boston patrolman TO the
blush.
RUSH TO VIEW THE FLEET
Decorations on the main thOroughfares drew
many OF the visitors Broadway almost all the
way 10 Cathedral Parkway, is blaze of color
and the principal cross streets are as attractive
The parkway. ga and 96th streets were the
main arteries OF travel because Of the feet land
ings at the river There was stream OF per-
sons bound for the 18th street pier all day
where the submarines Cuttleflsh Viper. Plunger
and Tarantula were tied up. And IL was just
below this that there was accident that
CAUSED diversion.
The police had difficulty in keeping the crowds
from dangerous places. especially along the rail-
road track. Two men on the retaining wall
ebove 72d street. Isidor Simon, an auctioneer,
and Joseph Rack, q barber. were craning their
necks 70 see the pleasure feet below when they
foppled over simultaneously. landing the
track. twenty feet below. Each fractured an
ankle They were taken TO Flower Hospital.
Clarence Keenan,. OF No. sos West li6th street,
fell and cut HIS forehead The injury was
slight.
Surveyor Clarkson had twenty men from 12d
street 10 l4ist street on the piers to prevent
overlooking. II was learned that several boats
had been checked in overlooking, but drastic
measures were found TO be necessary. The
price charged by the boats for a trip around the
warshp feet was so low that there was a con-
inuous crush for passage, a strong temptation
10 overload.
OF the attractions ashore the Aquarium, the
American Museum Of Natural History and the
Metropolitan Museum OF Art about divided at
tention. They were thronged all day, in the last
named the Hudson Fulton loan exhibition draw
ing the largest crowd. The hotels reported last
evening that their capacity tested. nearly
six hundred thousand being housed, almost as
many guests coming into the city yesterday as
had come the day before, especially for the ma
Fne parade. Restaurants that are usually
closed Sunday were doing thriving bust
ness and we're still at It al late hour.
Frank Hedley. the manager ~ The INTERIOR
ough Rapid Transit Company, said that all rec
nrds Of traffic on his lines had been broken in
she last two days He estimated the number
hErv1r -1,e nHer MoI --A
subway at 195o.too or $4,000 in all. Mr.
Hsdley said that the trains run under the
shortest possible hesdwsy. which made it APP
pear at times as il there were congestion.
All the vantage points along the Jersey shore
were filed with crowds. Thousands Of persons,
plainly strangers about New York and its vicin-
Sfy, crossed the ferries to the Jersey side, and
sn various ways reached the tops Of the Pail
sades and from there viewed the warships. The
ferries kept 10 their rush hour schedules all day
long and the Jersey trolley lines were crowded