Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1912-09-05
HOMEWARO RUSH
BRINGS $4,000
Special Trains Bring Many Thou.
sands of Vacationists Back
into the Metropolis.

New York, Sept. 3.--1nnumerable rock
ing chairs on the verandas of summer
hotels, boarding houses and camps sway
dismaly In the breeze to-day, for tho
people who held them down throughout
the summer have returned to their homes
In the city and its suburbs. Perhaps
there are a few visitors left at the
mountain. lake and shore resorts not
too far distant from New York. but
Judging from the number OF suitcase
laden vacatlonists who poured into the
city from every railroad terminal and
steamboat landing yesterday they are IA
small minority
AS early a. . O'Clock in the morning
the concur If me New York Central
and Pern-> n.rla railroads began 10
hum WITH activity as train after train
many of them specials, or the existence
Of which the time tables gave no hint
discharged loads of humanity, the ma
ioritv of It sunhurned. Those who went
| away merely for the triple holiday came
back as white skinned as they went
for tho rainy spell from which New York
has suffered since Saturday covered a
widt area.
The weather was also responsible
for falling off in the usual Labor day
rush to return to the city Fathers
AMI relatives who usually swell the
tide of travel stayed home Satur lay
when the lowering skies threatened =
downpour and contentcd themselves
with meeting their families at the Sta
lions here yesterday afternoon and
evening
TT was the lightest Labor day crowd
I've known In years. an employe at
the Grand Central station said yester-
day, "ani 1t is all on account of the
weather The last week has been
pretty cool. ana when it started 20
| rain Friday. with prospects OF a steady
spell OF bad weather, people stayed
| home"
In spite Of the contrary elements
the number of persons travelling was
anything but small. and at the Grand
Central station II Is estimated tha:
one hundred and fifty thousand per
sons passed through the temporary
portals. Fiftv-eignt special train ;
were run. most of them from points
North and West, INTO tho city, and
then there were the regularly sche
uIeu trains, most or winch We're We'll
filed The Pennsylvania did not run
any so-called specials" hut nearly Ill
the regular trains came in sections.
| The traffic on the Pennsylvania and .Jer-
| sey Central roads was heavier from
| points all along the Jersey coast The or
| binary popular water route from these
! places was Stunned yesterday because Of
the dr!zzle, and travel by rail was unus-
ually large. The Iackawanna railroad
| took care of the extra traffic over its line
| with 80 extra trains, in which 1t Is figured
| 1850 persons returned to the city. On
| the Erie all the trains from the West
were relayed in sections, and from De-
| post, n. Y, in the neighborhood of which
| are several of the most popular summer
resorts on the Erie. number of extra
| trains were run.
The handling of ba gCage was a big prob
| lem, though years OF experience have en-
abled those in charge Of that end of the
trans portation business to dispose OF a
mountain of trunks in short order. EX-
ira baggage handlers hustled all day yes.
| terday and night as we'll, and it will be
| tomorrow before the season of heavy
| travel on all the roads running into Now
| York is over. one trunk for every 10 per
| sons on Labor day Is about the way traii
and boatmen figure, and unless they be-
come overwhelmed baggage men must
keep things moving.