The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-10-14
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 AA (Continued.) I1 sjs Jim gazed out the open window nt yEhis elbow. A wide river with high banks lay before him-the Hudson q nfew miles below Poughkeepsie. A large passenger steamer of the sort which ply between New York and Albany was midstream, steaming north. Its decks were crowded with people far Sbeyond any legal limit. Indeed, it was evident, even from the train, that no more people possibly could be packed ahboard. A brown freight steamer -an f1cean tramp, hose pilot plainly was Believing the deepest channel as shown sIby the course of the Albany boat-was close behind. It carried no cargo It was high out of the water, but it's decks were jamme. with passengers, and heads protruded from the open port. 4
 Other light seagqing craft and har Dor boats now appeared. There kwas a tug. belchinG smoke, towing 2 string of lighters and scows. People packed the tugs narrow deck, and the tow boats were black and speckled with <hetr human freight. Motor launches
 pccled swiftly up the river in the 3tallower waters near the graceful pri- Aatc yachts which rushed past the &Scows, The yachts were private no @iongcr The only space which was un- saaoccupied was upon the crafts which were scurrying downstream. Their Clocks were Absolutely deserted The fugitives no longer could be numbered by the thousands. They were count . less
 "FIow long have we been passing i. tlsat sort sof thing?" Jim appealed in anlazements to Kflbane |. Since we've been beside. the river,r ! the Irishtnan returned. T woke be- l Eant Albany. sss
 3; Thousands! There must be millions fztn flight sAcroas the liver. below the Nhigh banks, the trains on the West Shore railroad were in plain sight. One long line of cars followed another, freight trains filling the gaps between passenger trains.
 'Fheyte T haullDg I population < be :sfreight over there the same as here" ]. IItt in. t4 Hxilhane observed. Y F
 :s Jim gazed out the windows on the aotler side of his car. A freight train -svas passing Every car was crowded
 with people. The traffic on, the two
 north bound, tracks of the New York SCcntral was almost continuous. Empty
 trains were returning to the great city
 on the other south bound track.
 "They're shelling New York, we've %heard," Kilbane explained.
 How P Jim asked. '.
 "Part by airsh1p dnropping bombs. ye know, Part from the sea-"
 s From thel sea The Sandy Hook
 forts have fallenw 6
 'ssThe ships that're doing the business are off beyant range from Sandy Hook. heard they're over be Rockaway
 beach tossing tn big. burstin' boys over Bhrooklyn-a rnatther of fifteen or eighteen miles, they say
 60on. the train was rushing beside
 tle Harlem river. Itcrpssed into Man.
 haitian, and above the noise of the cars ,E there rose distinctly at persistent regu- @1cr intervals of seconds the sound of
 shells bursting in the city.
 Tott Hancock, far out at the point
 Of Sandy, Hook, was replying. every zaone knew. Perhaps Fort Wadsworth
 on Saten Island and Fort Hamilton on #thc other side of the Narrows were Hf><ing their guns. But the sound of the ( American guns cane only as a low, dis z ktcnt rumble The. noise now and now and now was the detonation of great,
 high explosive shells striking only a
 pf1c1r so farther south.
 Suddenly the train stopped. 1t had ssnot reached the station. It was still
 up above One Hundred and Tenth street. But something was the mat -ter-pernaps only traffic congestion farther on. The order came for tie X men to leave the .krain, The sound <. of the shells rose to monstrous. thun-
 dcrous thudding. Jim took out his r watch and timed the intervals between 3 the eruptions. They came every six @seconds, ten every minute as regular %as tho ticking of his watch.
 Boys. we can't try to form much
 here by the tracks" the company off
 cers were callinr Madison avenue is Mts1c next street west. Every one gel Aoyer there as quick as you can and bring all equipment, please! Rally al
 company flags We'll form over there
 and cali the roll"
 CHAPTER XVIII.
 s...,, ereskfast Under, Fire.