New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-01-12
Ferry Seruice to
Staten Island and
Jersey Improved

SoilHluIeTS from Jersey ana staten
Island found it easier to get to and
from Manhattan yesterday, partly
because it was half holiday and be-
cause additional ferries were running.
Two moro ferryboats were added to
the Lackawanna Railroads fleet. max
ing nine boats plying between Man
haitian and Hoboken, which handled
hundreds of tons of freight; a moro
perfect schedule was adopted by the
Staten Island municipal ferries, which
had two boats running, manned by the
police and many of the strikers who
returned to their posts, and the eff
Gent service of the Hudson tubes was
still further improved by additional
trains and crews.
All fear of tie-up of incoming
transports was abated when Captain
hutchinson, in command of the floating
and equipment bureau of the port of
embarkation, operated eleven tugs
which the government Communicated.
These were manned by seventy officers
and 200 men of the navy, replacing the
striking civilian workers, and will be
used to aid the transports in docking.
The question of whether the strikers
are subject to army court martial for
the act in quitting is before Washing
ton authorities.
5000 Awaiting Boat
AS many as 5000 persons were in the
waiting room of the Staten Island ferry
before before the police-manned ferryboat
Manhattan left on her first trip yester-
day. The boat tied up late Friday night
IN order to give the tired crew a rest.
thousands were left behind when the
ferryboat pulled out.
Another municipal ferryboat went
into operation shortly after 10 o'clock
manned by returned strikers and
strongly guarded by police. This ac-
commodated thousands of the noon
day rush home.
Hundreds of shipworkers who were
IN the early morning crowd decided not
to go to Staten Island when they
learned that the ferry between Mar
iners' Harbor and Shooters Island was
tied up Wagons and trucks which
had been in line since Friday noon
were taken on for the first trip over.
The boat brought 1900 passengers back
on the first Manhattan trip. On the trip
which ended at the South Ferry slip
at o'clock, there was change Of
crews. The rudder gearing went
wrong when the Manhattan was off
Governors Island and the boat drifted
until 1T was abreast of the Battery.
100000 in Hudson Tubes
But it was the Hudson tubes again
that handled the bulk of the passenger
traffic. 1t was estimated by G.. S.
Hump, general superintendent of the
Hudson and Manhattan Railroad. that
100000 workers and shoppers We're car
rled over the road between Newark and
New York during the day, which is an
excess of about 10000.
1T is always easier to handle crowds
on Saturdays because it is a half holt
day for most. Some leave their office
at noon, others at l o'clock and some
stu later, but it is an easy stream and
the crowds were handled as if under
the most normal conditions" said Mr..
Klump.
AS an example of the amount of bus
mess handled at the train gates Mr..
Hump explained that one girl ticket
chopper punched 5000 tickets in one
hour yesterday afternoon while as manv
as 1000 nickels were dropped in one
coin box alone during the same period
Of time.
Lackawanna Clears Yards
officials Of the Lackawanna Rail
road stated last night that there was
put little freight congestion in the
yards in Hoboken. Virtually all the
being delivered throughout the dav 70
merchandise houses in Manhattan over
the ferries to Barclay Street after be-
ing unloaded from the freight cars.
Freight from other railroads was also
handled this wav