The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-11-28
NEW HAVEN MOVES FOOTBALL CROWD
 IN RECORD TIME
Football Crowd Transported by Railroad Saturday
 TOtaled 66, 6,2O2.

In little over three hours Saturday morning, the New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad moved 32.423 persons into the station at New Ha- ven for the Yale-Harvard football game. In many respects this was the greatest performance in the his number of passengers transported to New Haven, Saturday morning, was 93S less than two years ago, yet the total movement into New Haven was considerably larger than it was for the previous Yale-Harvard game in New Haven in 1914. This was due to the large number of persons who went to New Haven on Friday af- ternoon and evening. It is estimated that between 5000 and 10000 passen- gers were moved into New Haven, Friday, and this heavy movement ne- cessitated eight extra sections of reg ular trains, and the transportation problem involved was consequently much more complex than any previ- ous movement of the kind.
 There were 31 trains moved on the New York Division into New Haven, Saturday morning, and they carried 1S,108 passengers. The average rum ming time between New York and New Haven was 1 hour and 59 1-2 minutes, a remarkable achievement considering the number of special trains. The Boston Shore Line han dled 15 trains with 5,330 passengers, trof ofy,0 yuifh 1912 passengers, and the Springfield route IA trains with 6,359 passen- gers.
 Leaving New Haven after the game 33,779 passengers were handled in Fl trains from D. m. to midnight. The total movement in and out of New Haven on Saturday was 142 trains and 66,202 passengers. As many persons went to New Haven on Friday preceding the game, so 1t was expect ed that many would leave Sunday and arrangements were made by the conn pany to run several extra sections of regular trains to handle this Sunday crowd. A conservative estimate of the number of passengers moved by the New Haven from Friday to Sun day in connection with the football game is placed at S2,000 passen- gers.
 Additional facilities in the way of tracks and platforms at the New Ha- ven station almost entirely relieved congestion, and passengers were en- abled to board the trains with great CT ease and speed. There were 16 more trains run by the. company than in 1914, and this, together with the greater seating capacity of the large number of steel cars purchased by the company during the past two years, practically avoided overcrowd- ing of trains and insured considerably more comfortable service.
 One of the remarka ble features o1 the New Haven record was the fac1 that while it took only hours and 16 minutes to mov 26 trains out of the Grand Central Terminal, the opera ton of the road between New York and New Haven was so efficient thai these 2e trains together with oth- CT trains between Stamford and New Haven arrived in the New Haven sta ton within hours and Il minutes In the five hour period from 9:3O A M. to 2:30 P. M. there was an average of 1O8 passengers detrained each min. utes at the New Haven station.
 Tn order to prepare for and handle this enormous extra business, tht Company had to move 34 specia trains on preceding days to properly distribute the passenger equipment. total of 612 cars. 175 Pullman and 437. coaches, over and above the nor mai requirements, were distributed tt the principal stations for use as extrs cars in regular trains or to make III the special trains. There were 7' steam locomotives and 22 electric To comotfves over and above normal re uuirements used to handle the addi tional business. many of which had tt Ina with drawn from freight service.