New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-01-12
twisted Rails and Ties
BLOCK Commuters on
Boonton Branch
TRAINS SHIFTED
LONG WAY AROUND
EXPLOSION Means DiScom-
fort to Thousands of
New Jersey Residents

ror more than two miles the tracks
=, ~, Boonton-NOrthern division OF
-. n,laware. Lsckawsnns & Western
S,a,oss we're torn up by the Kings
,.,Ssxplosion. Twisted rails and splin-
..,.s ne, Uttered the gap which barred
.s.,,,nSs of commuters from homes
-, = few miles Of New York.
Tr,ips we're shifted to other divisions
"a through trains from Washington,
-. miles Of freight trains and az
las. 100000 gallons of New York'S
III supply we're halted by the peremp-
a., wireless. while the packed thou
I'D, Of commuters we're taken home
\, ,ireuitous routes. From the Hobo
han terminal W Buffalo the wireless
,r-ied the sudden messages which de-
l,v,d and diverted trains along hun
Ards Of miles of track so that New
york's workers could get HON in time
70 20 to bed st least.
Milk and produce tor New York may
be tventy-four huurs late in reaching
i,s destination. but she 10000 com
rptsrs who TANNED the Hoboken sta
Ian in clamoring. close-packed mass,
,rsrburdened the ferryboats and
roured out of the Hudson tubes in end
i,ss streams that fretted and grumbled
wen their regular course was inter
rppted. had the first call on the ser
vices Of the road.
Roundabout Trips Taken
Some travelled nearly eighty miles
n reach a destination hardly a quar-
,,r that distance away. The railroad
,respted communication tickets on all
speb detours, and will do the same this
morning when the return rush begins.
The Morris and Essex division to New
AK was crammed TO the uttermost
limits Of the last coach during the two
hours that 10 took 10 cope with the
situation. Passengers bound for points
rear Kingslsnd had to go to Denvllle
Iuretion and then retrace their route
toward New York on what remained OF
Tho Boonton-Northern division.
During the rush hour the railroad
sent train out of the Hoboken termi-
ra every three minutes, some OF which
made no stops for forty miles. II was
$50, however, before the first train
rsrted for Secaucus, which is within q
sw miles Of KingSland.
The throngs in the station soon be-
ran to grsvitste toward the restaurant,
and lines leading 20 the sandwich coun-
ters were formed early, while enter
prising hucksters did thriving bust
ness.
At $50, in the midst of the hubbub,
the Washington Express pulled out,
minus its diner, which was somewhere
in the eongested yards. At Denville,
however, smother aristocratic express
bound from Washington TO New York,
was tuning, and was TO be sent back to
the capital with the same crew that
brought it out. The passengers leaving
Hoboken we're promised that the diner
on the stalled train would be at their
service.
Hunger and Anger
So al Denylle the hungry passengers
from New York met the fretful ones
who had been waiting on a siding
while clerks, stenographers and other:
whose daily bread depends upon tneii
promptness had been cared for by the
lmpromptu eommuter service. Fifteen
Of the fretful ones were smotherine
their wrath in victuals at the time.
They vowed that they would no.
desert the diner until the last DEM
issss had been QuafFed, and the hungry
persons from New York could wait
The passengers from New York pro-
tested and reminded conductors, train
men, porters, switchmen, everybody
sho happened along in a uniform, OF
ne promises that had been made con
s.ring the diner that was waiting al
Dnville.
The puzzled railroad men finally in.
l.asd their predIcsment into the food
o. Eireless messages that rode the
ight and in the midst Of that delugt
complex orders their query was
caught and answered.
Railroad officials decided without
hesitation that passengers who were
oung could not be interrupted, but
a. soon as the fretful fifteen had filled
themselves they must give up the cal
70 the others. The fifteen progressed
ulnmphsntly from cherry stones Il
eeles grounds and made their escape
shie the trainmen were uncoupllnI
the car.
Although II seemed that not another
person could have edged his way intC
he hoboken terminal railroad officials
eotgrAtulsted themselves on a recen