The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-08-18
LOYAL EMPLOYEES
KEEP PUMPS GOING
Foreman and Two Men Work
at Power House to Pre-
vent Flooding.
QUIET GESTURES WOMAN
Used to Roar of "L" Trains,
She Is Unable to Sleep
without Them.
QUIET DIsTURBs WOMAN

Loyalty OF some Of the company's
employees enabled them to keep the dark
reaches Of the subway lighted last night
and to keep going the pumps which at
several points are all that prevent the
subway being flooded. This danger might
have been very real one in yesterdays
rain. After all of the employees Of the
seventy-fourth street power house had
walked out yesterday morning. apparent
IL shutting of the power and banking
the fires, foreman and two other men
volunteered to steam up and run the
lights and pumps
Police arrangements were under the
general command of Second Deputy
Commissioner William Lahey. who broke
Up the disorder III the B. r. T. strike.
His first Lieutenant was Acting Chief
Inspector Thomas Murphy. borough in
spector during the B. r. r. strike.
Just as in the B. r. T. strike hun
dreds OF Bronx patrolmen were shifted
into the unfamiliar wilds of Brooklyn.
so now hundreds of Brooklyn men are
pounding the to them untrodden path
ways of The Bronx. They are getting
back at their Bronx brethren for the
latter's ignorance about Brooklyn too.
The newspaper dealers were the first
people hit by the strike yesterday morn
ing. At 16sth street and Broadway and
at 1S1st street and st. Nicholas avenue
the elevators which connect the street
with the platforms. IT'S and 210 feet
underground, stopped before the arrival
L. in nd thA Aaal
had to toll up the long stairs with
their heavy Sunday editions.
Hotel Help Rides in style.
The next people hit were the big
hotels, who found themselves early yes
terday morning unable to gather In
their help. The McAlpin. Claridge and
Waldorf Communicated a big feet OF
taxicabs and brought bus boys and
chambermaids to work in luxury.
Taxicebs at the railroad stations also
did a thriving business during yester-
day morning with persons who arrived
with baggage and could not get into the
crowded street cars.
Ticket agents at most of the subway
an elevated stations remained on duty
with special watchmen and police. Lack
ing anything to do they proceeded to try
Jitney fares yesterday ranged from
ten cents to a dollar. and jtneys them
selves from well upholstered sight
seeing cars to trucks with solid tires
and the plain board benches like those
upon which the schoolboys who are now
old themselves wore their aged trous-
ers thin
Jitney' drivers were not permitted to
crab" about the crowded points. Grab
bing' means slowly circling about until
the bus is filed. They were permitted
by the police only to make a regular
stop discharge and take On passengers
and move ahead.
The jitney, as Manhattan learned yes
terday has a song of its own. Its warn
ing cry is not the soft purr Of horn nor
Yet the busy purr of klaxon. II is a
callopelike note from a whistle on the
exhaust. Terrifying and startling.
Old residents Of Third avenue pro-
fcssed it made them nervous not to hear
the elevated any more. One old lady
who has slept for many years in roar
ng room in house at the corner Of
Third avenue and Thirty-fourth street.
said she couldn't sleep a wink after 4
o'clock yesterday morning.
south Ferry Deserted.
South Ferry for the first summer Sum
day in many years was not crowded yes
terday. The sightseeing and excursion
steamers which depart thence were hard
hit. The Halcyon and Tourist, which
circle Manhattan Island.> carried less
than half of their usual complement.
The Highlander, for Bear Mountain, car
red 400 on decks designed for thrice
that number. The Grand Republic had
less than a third of her normal $500 on
~, lot thn
for Atlantic Highlands, was in the same
condition. Coney Island. Red Bank and
Staten Island boats carried less than
half the usual Sunday crowd.
The jitney cars borrowed from Jersey
were impressed into service to carry
Sunday crowds north and south on
lower Broadway so hurriedly that the
owners did not have time to take on
the route signs One bus perambulating
north on Broadway carried the sign
Via Broad street to Bloomfield"
Hero comes Jersey" shouted several
small boys carrying their shoeblacking
boxes around City Hall Park when the
first group of jitneys 5ourneyed up
through Park Row.
Stealing a ride on the coachlike cars
which Newark sent TO town was great
game among small boys. who tried 1t
out by squatting on the rear steps while
the conductor was busy inside taking up
fares
Cash registers in all the surface cars
Yesterday showed totals well up into the
hundreds for almost every trip. Wise
persons were heard to wonder what will
happen to all the fares when the jitneys
get running tomorrow. They also won
der whether the surface lines will put
on any Of the old cars in which the con-
ductor took your nickel in his hand.