New-York tribune., 1919-08-19

Everything or wheels helped to take
New Workers to business and home
again yesterday.
Flivvers. buses, taxis, lmousines.
horse-drawn trucks, brewery wagons.
milk wagons, hcarses, hanson cabs
touring cars, moving vans. coal wagons.
SIGHT seeing cars and ice wagons car
ried passengers. Jitney drivers from
New Jersey, Long Island and Connccti-
cut flocked into the city to pick no
travellers at fares varying from 10
cents 10 S..
Nchlcular traffic was more congested
than ever before Broadway during
the rush hours was one long lam.
Buses and trucks flowed into the main
artery from ali the side streets be-
tween She Battery and Washington
Helghts. On several occasions during
the rush hours all Broadway trait c
was choked and motionless.. At 9:30
a. IN. the traffic tie-up lasted almost
five minutes.
Rush Hour Begins Early
just as in the B. R. T. strike. the
people started on their way earlier
than usual. The morning rush hour
began at 4:30. Before 5 a. m. the cor
ner of 10th Street and Third Avenue,
the hub of the Bronx" was crowded
In the evening those who could left
their places of business an hour or
more ahead of time Those who
couldn't ate their suppcrs home at 8
or o'clock. if they lived in OUTLYING
sections. Journeys which normally
take one-half or three quarters of an
hour took three hours and sometimes
more. The evening rush began at 3
o'clock.
one business man who lives in the
Bedford Park section OF The Bronx,
spent three hours and fifteen minutes
travelling each way. TO get home from
his office he took the Hudson Tubes to
Hoboken and rode in New JERSEY on
the cars Of the Public Service CORPORA
uon to Edgewater. From there the
Fort Lee Ferry took him TO Manhat
tan and surface cars carried him to
his home.
fleasure Cars Used by EMPLOYERS
Many business men who own pleasure
motor cars used them to take their
once workers home. Expensive cars
were seen on Broadway filled with
:'enosraphers, whlle the owners rode
IN front beside the chauffeur.
In the morning rush one of Berden,s
MIX wagon drivers carried load of
passengers
Bay bottle Of milk and ride down.
town free he cried. ~ " i
Two girls rode home last night ON
an empty hearse. Two others Went on
horseback. The driver of truck AL
ready filled to capacity lifted them
10 the backs of his team, and there
tney perched until they reached their
On Fifth Avenue ice wagons. loaded
Mi.h W passengers, mingled with the
ouses and limousines. The New York
Telephone Company hired two SIGHT
seeing cars to carry some OF its en-
ployes.
The Fifth Avenue Coach COMPANY
kept 28O buses, its maximum. in con-
stant operation all day In order to
keep its conductors and motormen
content while working their hardest. it
paid them time and one-half for their
regular hours of service and double
time for overtime
Bus Terminals Congested
AT the chief terminals of the Fifth
Avenue bus lines-Washington Souare
ana l3eth Street, at St. Nicholas Ave
nue. and broadway-there was confu-
SION IN the morning and evening. The
1"ln aoun1eo lhe dlhcultles, and per-
sons IN the crowds jabbed each other
with umbrellas. At the 135th Street
terminal Traffic Policeman Cannon
and squad of policemen had great
trouble in keeping order. A policeman
was bowled over by the crowd and his
knee was hurt. At first an attempt
was made to start buses for women
on one side of the street and for men
on the other, but this proved imnrac-
ticablc.
In spite of the rain the tops of the
buses were jammed during the busy
nours. In the morning many persons
rode north to Fort George in the hope
OF getting an empty bus to take them
downtown.
Residents of The Bronx and West
chester used the lines of the New York
Central Railroad extensively. Sixteen
extra ten-car trains were operated ON
the Harlem Division and ten extras