The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1910-06-20
B. R. 7. MIEHAPS JOLT CONEE
GLAD DAY CANE AND TRANSIT
LINES CRCMPLED UP.
Rlsckads On the Bridge Caused . Great
Jam-Gaiss Closed for . I.ong Tlme
-msn . RtE Power HSuse Went Out
q Business Accidents ma the Resi.

-men q RiE Power HOuse Went Out
% Business Accidents ma the nest.
Coney Island got up Yesterday morn
ing. read the weather predictions. Saw
the warm summer sun. looked At the bright
sky and then saw that at last he day
had oome. There was gladness every
where. For a month IL had rained OF
logged and the Amusement PLACES and
restaurants said they had been starving
10 death. About OOOOOO people who have
been saving up their change decided 70
head for the place.
What hAppensdP The b. R. T. hFOhs
down in four or ave places. A hlgh
tension feeder In one OF tho big power
houses made up iss mind that Il dian
want 20 work on Sunday and didnG A
trolley car jumped the track On tho Brooh-
lyn Bridge. Two cars bumped oadh
other % hard on the Culver limo tAaa
both were smashed and half q dousR
people were knocked about. A mnn
got his leg between the plaaforua -of CAo
Elghteenth avenue station ofs9hs culvuw
line and a car.
AZ result Of these thing oonsyhlsna
trA6Bo was tied up for - much ~ an
hour 81 q time. Cars were stalled. Pc.
plo footed IL for miles. The policS a 10.
Manhattan end OF tho Brooklyn Rri&gs
called for help 10 handle the crush on tha
platforms and finally had 70 clOss ths
gates until tho platforms were cleared.
The first Of thess accidents happonsd
at 7:is p. N. A Myrtle avenue car splllsd
itself over both trolley roadways On tha
Bridge near tho slip joint on the Man.
haitian side. about where the stone roads
way begins. Nobody was hurt, but tho
car played hob with service. For hfty
minutes in the busiest part Of thu affair
noon you couldn't get q surface car 70
Coney and people In Brooklyn who wanted
20 hurry away from there had % walk OF
climb 10 tho elevated. The B. r. r..
transferred people ~ ths Feston ferry.
and the ferry for q time did about the
W&Aeet ounuaJ ~btnoon OuaheAa IN
reoent years.
Even " the accident hadn't occurred
the bridge squad under Police Capt
Bourks would have had its hands full with
the folk who swarmed for open cars IN The
loop. but WHEN the Myrtle avenue car
put ttseh out o. commission bourke
beat Il for the phone and said he would
like 70 have help and ulonty Of n Hor
mo next hour tmrty-nve poAieemen
ssrove ana sWeated win tne crowd
People Kept coming and coming ana com
ing. 1nd Just when bourfe was MAKING
up bis mind that he would have 70 throw
line OF men in 'front.' OF the loop and bar
everybody the repair gang Rot me car
back on the track and the service started
win q jerk ~
Inc accident didnt interfere win mo
elevated lines but t served 10 crowd
the platforms OF the bridge until there
was danger OF somebody setting hurt
me eievated enc Of tne p. H. 1. hAd ost-
Ter fortune than the trolley system nus
every time the woueys stopped tnS eie-
waited was overcro~ded ana ~ trans
we're delayed
Next thing was me trouble az me Dug
central power house IN Third avenns,
near IWenty-hfth street. The statoa
furnishes eiectrio energy IN soathsre
Brooklyn Tor me Ooney laland haes aAaa
y aesp@tehes eiectrio NUN ana SAy'
AZ s'l r. NJ, when inc TRANSIT peopls
were coneratnlating themselves mat ne
service was spinning snoothy' Consy
Island trains every where seoppeef deaas
Many Of them were just over the oridss,
many we're Tar out toward ne sea. Ihsy
quit altogether and AL the moeornnen
could say was mat they conldht 90 any,
thing OIL me power got there.
The queer thing about this bic 81 bad
luck was that the H. H. l. otneiAls for q
long time didn't know where 20 md ne
trouble. Willis rhey were tslephoning
and passengers were hdgenns me wlres
woke up and me cars got started bus
lt was long tedious wat, thlrg-nvo
minutes. Hundreds OF people VINO were
marOoned out on the nata walked ne
rest Of the way and it was not Walking
under Yesterday . sun.
what happened was mat Man tension
feeder supplying GLASS A set OF dynamos
let 20. After the electricians substituted
another e broke down. Ihe miro feeder
behaved Itself. but all Of the experiment.
ing took time.
~ C0ney they were Wondertng why no