New-York tribune., 1910-09-07
ROADS HAVE BUSY DAY
Carry Thousands of Passengers
and Tons of Baggage.
ALL TRAFFIC RECORDS GO
More than 100000 Persons Re-
turned to the City During
Last Two Days.

Despite the fact that yesterday was the
busiest day since the honeward movement
of passengers and baggage began, the
wheels at the Grand Central Station were
moving swiftly and easily on the
Quietest of other DAYS, They were not
moving noiselessly. for the Grand Central
Station is not exactly like a tomb in its
stiffness. but none of the cogs went awry
It's big day said H G Wood ba g
gage master al the Lexington avenue ter
ninal. Trunks have been pouring in and
cut OF this station like two avalanches We
have several mountains of EN- here: but
fortunately by using system, we are able
TO locate almost any piece We wish. with
practically no delay.
The movement has been very heavy
this year he continued ION Saturday we
handled 1929 pieces and Sunday we handled
over go The amount gradually increases
of course and yesterday we had to man
age S514 pieces. We cannot give the exact
figures yet for to-day. but II certainly
seems there will be over 10000 pieces in
and out of here during the day We have
already had two special baggage trains in
and will have two or three more tonight
You must remember that besides the bag
gage included in the figures I have given
there is a considerable amount that we do
not have 10 list, as much of it is checked
straight through"
The special baggage trains consisting of
eight and ten cars each, handle the bag
gage from the Catskills. the Adirondac cks
the Thousand Islands and other Western
points The baggage cars are generally
cut out of the regular trains at Albany
and then made up into specials. This
means that the passenger trains are not
delayed, and the baggage is handled in q
lump, instead of in driblets
A new system of checking a the Grand
Central terminus has been of much help
in relieving the congestion. The passenger
carries MS ticket and his check from the
transfer company TO the baggage window,
and handing both in, has his trunk checked
st1 aight through, without having person
ally to attend to it. The check is sent
fro m the baggage window to the baggage
room in a pneumatic tube, and there is
no delay.
About eight hundred and fifty trains were
expected to arrive in the terminus yester-
Gay. During one period of several hours
there were seventy-fve trains an hour
passing a given spot. The rush of Monday
night could not compare with last night $
enormous traffic. The Montreal express
and the Pittsfield express each ran in
twelve sections. Eighteen specials arrived
in the morning-two from Poughkeepsie.
four from Lake Champlain and a dozen
from the Adirondacks. There were one
hundred and twenty Pullmans in these
trains, all packed with passengers. The
mammoth special from the Adirondacks
and the Thousand Islands ran in fourteen
sections. About seventy-five hundred per-
sons were on board.
The New Haven system had nineteen
specials in the morning and about the same
number in the afternoon. The Pennsyl-
vania officials estimated that about seven
ty-fve thousand or one hundred thousand
persons would come into the city during
the day over their lines They expected to
run more than fifty special trains most
of them ten and twelve cars long. The Erie
and the Lackawanna roads We're pouring
their thousands into the city all day. All
the roads handled the immense traffic as
we'll could be expected. The trains en-
tering Jersey terminals were fifteen TO
twenty-five minutes late. in some instances.
and this SIDE of the river there were
also like delays. The trains were all run
ming 8 five and ten minutes headWay,
which made the problem a serious one for
the diSpatChers
All records have been broken according
to the railroad officials, who estimated that
bout five hundred thousand or six hun
dred thousand persons have been handled
in the last two days.