New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-06-23
VACATION CROWDS
TAX TRANSIT LINES
Railroads Split Trains and Add
Cars in Vain Effort to Keep
Up with Demand.
EXPECT RECORD JULY q
Pennsylvania Does Big Business
Departures at Grand Cen
trail Total 10000 a Day and
Boats Work at Capacity.

This week railroad men expect N coo
'he DIG vacationist getaway" in full
swing From now until July the tide
OF travel out OF this city TO vacation re-
sorts VIII be heavy. According to an
Official at Grand Central Terminal yes
terday one hundred extra sleeping cars
went out OF the terminal on Saturday.
and for fully a week all trains TO New
England have carried capacity loads and
nave been going out IN extra sections as
well as with extra cars.
we are handling seventy thousand
passengers a day" he said. and the
greater number are leaving the city for
the summer. For a week there has been
a steady stream. and it grows larger
daily. We are looking for record crowds
all this week and until after July T."
II was explained that trains ordinarily
made up Of eight cars were now going
out with four extra coaches The Bar
Harbor Express. which started on June
Is. has been going out I'm two sections
nightly with not a berth empty. and the
demand for space has been so great that
accommodations are now far from ade-
quate. Tho state OF Maine Express has
gone out with capacity loads and extra
coaches and sleepers. All Boston ex-
presses have been equipped with extra
cars.
The cool weather made the start FOR the
resorts about a week late this year, but
with the warm weather in the last seven
days there has come strong impetus to
get out OF town I'm a hurry. Yesterday
outbound trains took many passengers TO
nearby resorts on the New Haven. the
New York Central, the Pennsylvania and
the Lackawanua
The Pennsylvania is expecting TO handle
big seashore crowds this week and on
July T. The LackaWanua and the New
Jersey Central. while handling a daily iu-
crcasiug army Of vacationists. expect also
that this week the crest Of the tide VIII
lie near at hand.
At the Lackawauna station in Hubokcn
70 was said yesterday that expresses nos.
% and n have been carrying many pas
songers TO Delaware Water Gap and the
Mount Pocouo regions. leaving In two
sections and having extra cars ON bee
sides.
" a. are l'oLllE l'I NlH h''hf '"''
one of the officials for from now on the
vacation crowds Hill come with rush.
Thousands OF persons passed through IN"
Lackawauna terminal yesterday 10 visit
the Impcrator. thus causing the inbound
trains 10 take on more cars
At the Grand Central Terminal the bag
gage has swclicd 20 point whore there
are fully ten thousand pieces being ham
died daily. and this viii Dee greatly IN
creased from now ON by the Adirondack.
New Hampshire Vermont and Canadian
tranic
The heavy travel out Of the city is not
confined 10 the railroads by any means.
for many Of the boat lines show iiH
passenger lists The Commonwealth OF
the Fall River Line. carried a big crowd
out last night. and u was said al inc
offices that This next week would see the
boats taxed for accommodations Ihe
boat TO Providence. which went on sum
uer schedule Oh Friday. carried out
large number again ON Saturday Inc
Hudson River boats also reported heavy
traffic with tho expectation 81 even
greater thronss this week