The sun., 1919-08-18
WEEK DAY CRUSH
MUST GO ON FOOT


day. Not 80 the East Side. And not
SO The Mronx.
These people poured out upon the
lines of the Third Avenue Railroad,
filled every available car as II is filled
on rush hours OF busy day, and over
flowed into the biggest fleet OF jitneys
that was run yesterday. The word
jitney Is misnomer for the price was
10 cents up. and chiefly up.
Beachgoers Stay ut Home.
Broadway and Forty-second street,
trail Park. the Pennsylvania Station,
South Ferry and Grand Central Station
at no time during yesterday held a
crowd as big as that of a normal SUM-
day. The people who usually throng
to the beaches and the resorts were
plainly among the home stayers. The
b. r. T. subway and elevated lines from
Manhattan to Coney Island showed a
marked reduction in trafflc and the
owners Of excursions steamboats, COM
planned bitterly when their patronage
on one OF the last Sundays OF the sum
mer was cut to third or a quarter
of it's profitable normal.
But the East Side and The Bronx in
sisted on visiting and Third avenue was
their Rialto 1t was along this thor
oughfare only that crowds could be OBJ
served waiting for cars and jamming
into jitneys It was here that the lit
neurs reaped their harvest In charges
ranging from a dollar TO a dime.
At 149th street there was a milling
| thDong on the pavement all day. About
10000 persons usually climb the sub
way and elevated stairs at this Hub of
/ The Bronx" Yesterday they climbed
on and off Union Railway cars and up
and down the stepladders which led TO
precarious seats on temporary benches
, on noisy and Earring motor trucks.
The swirl of vehicles on the street
became so heavy there early In the
morning that constantly increasing de-
tails of police were sent to this point
with the sole duty OF regulating traffic
BY nlghtfall there were sixty men busy
directing cars and motors.
Rus Traffic Under Normal.
The West Side showed few effects OF
! the strike. The buses of the Fifth Ave-
nue. Coach Company were less heavily
beseiged yesterday than they are on a
normal Sunday. Many Of them arrived
! at and. started from the uptown ter
minals almost empty There were few
| the ride along Riverside Drive. The
I company has few more than 800 buses
All were in service yesterday and all
| will be used to-day. But they will cover
only their usual routes. they will not de-
| part from their rule Of carrying only
the forty-flve passengers each for which
seats are provided and they will call on
the police n necessary to enforce this
| order.
Little use was made OF the North
River as a highway yesterday. Boats
Of the Iron Steamboat Company from
12sth street TO the Battery carried scant
| loads. A few pioneers with launches
| and other small craft found small pat
! ronage. This was laid to the difficulty
OF reaching the river landing places. 1t
! was predicted. however. that the mob OF
| Tbday, compelled to get downtown, will
| get to these landing places some way
and that the river boats on the East as
we'll as the North river will be crowded
| Arrangements have been made to limit
the number OF passengers to that pre-
scribed as the safe maximum In the
| licenses Of the vessels used.
Many Seek Hotel Rooms.
Hotels. already well filled. report that
they have had thousands Of reservations
ltCIn residents OF tne outlying sections OF
| the city who fail to see how they can
set home tonight and get TO work again
tom orrow. The War Camp Community
! Service announced yesterday that 1t al
ready had provided sleeping accommoda-
tlons for 200 telephone operators. and
! that it had several hundred cots and
blankets which II will place at the dis
posal OF any other public service corpo-
ration which is unwilling 70 scatter rs
working force tonight
The New York Telephone Company
realizing that the paralysis Of travel is
going to put a terrific strain on the al