The evening world., 1911-03-02
REFUSED TO LEAVE
DYCKMAN TRAIN
AT 18TH STREET
Washington Heights Insurgents
Made Dispatcher Counter
mand Order.
WILCOX INVESTIGATES.
Says marlborough Must Obey
Order and Send Alternate
Locals Through.
WILCOX INVESTIGATES

Chairman Wilcox Of the Public Ser
wos Commission to-day made an In
vsstagation OF an attempt to turn bacl,
. northbound Broadway local. marked
with Dyckman street as It's destination,
81 One Hundred and Thirty-seventh
street yesterday afternoon. Several hun
tired insurgen, passengers resented the
revival Of the ancient order. Tale the
a aheai." which used to resound
through the land In days o. old surface
troubles. and declined to permit the car
20 be sent back south.
After the warning citizens had la.d
down the law to the tra!nmen. an order
wa issued to send the car on TO Dyck-
man street end the passengers were al
o as happy over their victory. even
II II did cost half an hours delay. as
they had been angry over the attempt to
ditch them.
Exact Status In Doubt.
When Chairman Wilcox arrived at
his office he looked into the situation.
There had been some doubt in the pub
lie and, for that matter, In the oficial
mind as TO the exact tatus OF the
Dyokman street locals.
Reference TO the order files developed
that an order had been issued Jan. .,
ieli, requiring the marlborough 70 op-
crate each alternate northbound train
through 20 Dyckn.an street between the
hours OF AS and els p. NJ. ami each
alternate s~outhSound train between 40
and 9 A. NJ.
This commission certainly does no:
antend TO let that order be violated"
said Chairman Wilcox. II Will have
a report made on 4 at once"
He found that the attempted turning
back of the train was due to an acc!-
dent that TOOK place at AS =. NJ, block
ing the entrance to the One Hundred
and Forty-Asth street yards on the
Lenoy branch, n preventing the conf
pany getting out Its reserve cars for the
rush traffic.
The Official Statement.
Frank Hedley. general manager for
the Interoorough Rapid Transit Com
pany. rave out an official statement ex-
planning the accident n containing:
I'm order to convenience the greatest
number OF passengers orders were given
10 turn uHe byCNIndI blTttl iOCdl trains
at One Hundred and Thirty-seven street
on the Broadway division and change
the destination signs accordingly, so as
10 make 1t possible to operate a greater
number OF trains south OF Ninety-sixth
street TO accommodate the large num-
Der OF people.
"On one OF these Dycknan street local
trains orders were not given at Brook
tyn Bridge. as was the case OF all the
other trains. and when the train tina;
did not nave the orders arrived at one
Hundred and Thirty-seventh street some
passengers refused to get out.
There was a delay OF two minutes
before the dispatcher decided that the
train would carry passengers through &c
D%yckinan street, although far more pas
esngers would have been accommodated
with better service than passengers dis
commoded had this particular train beer
turned at one Hundred and Thirty -sev'
enth street. Tine only object In turn
ing this train at one Hundred and
T'hirty-seventh street was to enable th'
company to give the best possible ser
vice to the majority OF people"