New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-09-05
RAILROADS TAXED BY
CROWDS COMING HOME
All Lines Put on Extra Trains
and FerrybOatS to Carry
ThrongS.
BAGGAGE ROOMS CONTESTED
Estimated That 10000 Pass
Through Pennsylvania Station
and rs, 200 Through Grand
Central During Day.

The homevard rush yesterday of eXcur-
sionsts and persons returning from vaca-
tions equaled an expectations and the
transportation lines entering the city We're
taxed 20 their utmost. Extra precautions
had been taken TO handle the crowds. and
up to 10 o'clock last night not a single ac-
cideut had been reported.
The railroad lines were compelled 10 press
into service extra trains and ferryhoats.
The handling Of the thousands of pieces OF
baggage was in itself mammoth task.
and officials of some railroads said last
night that II would probably be several
DAYS before some Of the trunks could be
delivered.
Excursion steamers. particularly those 10
Coney Island ana neighboring pleasure re
sorts. We're packed all day. The majority
Of the returning passengers on the Coney
Island boats landed AZ the Battery The
returning crowds NJ the Manhattan end OF
the Brooklyn. Efidge were handled sue
cessfuly hy police reserves in charge OF
Captain Bourke.
The boats plying along the Hudson River
carried thousands of excursionists. and
brought 10 the city hundreds who had
spent their vacations in the CatskiD Noun
tans and I'm the ueightorhood of West
Point. The steamer Heudrick Hudson. Of
the Albany Day Line. which arrived az
600 last night from Albany. carried not
less than 400 passengers The Robert
Fulton. OF the same line. also from Albany,
had not less than 5000 passengers aboard.
The Pennsylvania Railroad officials re-
ported that more than $1,000 persons had
passed I'm and ont Of the Pennsylvania
station during the day. the majority Of
the crowd arriving after o'clock in the
afternoon.
The taxicab mon reaUed harvest. and
E. was estimated that not less than two
hundred calls an hour for taxicabs had
been turned in from the Pennsylvania sta
ton one. The Pennsylvania officials say
they had no difficulty JIM handling baggage
a. r. Whaley terminal manager Of the
Grand Central Station. estimated the
crowd that had gone iu ana out of that
station yesterday at 1000. Special bag
gage trains were run from Buffalo to
New York. The baggage rooms of the
Grand Central Station We're crowded 20
their utmost. and improvisei places for
the storage Of trunks were sought
Two or three sections We're added to the
.
commodate the hundreds who returned
yesterday from summer resorts I'm Sui
livan County and the CatsHlis Mountains
The Erie Railroad pressed extra ferry
boats into service 90 transport the incom-
ing crowds. The ferry houses at 23d and
Chambe~s streets were thronged until late
ar night
The first section Of a Subsection
train from Buffalo over the Lackawanna
Railroad pulled into Hoboken at o'clock
last night. The officials Of the road had
been informed by telegraph prior 10 the
arrival Of the train and two ferry boats
were ready 10 accommodate the crowd.
The crowd on the one section alone was
estimated AZ one thousand.
The Central Of New Jersey, which Oper-
ates the Sandy Hook boats, added no the
dense crowd along West street last night.
when the passengers aboard the boats were
discharged al Cedar street.