New-York tribune., 1919-08-19
Cro,cds Ride on Surface Ca5. Roofs:
Makeshin Transit P,ores Sio,c

on the Hudson Division. Extra ticket
agents were placed at the crowded sta
ton, nevertheless lines two and three
blocks long were formed al the ticket
booths
Long Waits at Grand Central
Grand Central Station last nigh. was
besieged by thousands seeking to ride
o Harlem and The Bror1. he crush
was SO great that many had 10 wait
hours before they could get aboard
train.
Normally the suburban lines of the
New York Central carry about $4,000
persons Yesterday Il was estimated
that the traffic, morning and evening,
amounted to 40 900
I'VE VIII run every car We have dur
lng the strike. up to the limit Of safe
ty,' SAID Miles Bronson. superin tendent
of the electrical division of the New
York Central, which handles the sub
urban traffic. Our stations are all
we'll poiiced, and the congestion and
disruption Of service. though consid-
cradle. has been reduced to a min
imum'
The congestion caused many OF the
trains to be from ten minutes to half
an hour late.
Trains Delayed by Congestion
The New York, New Haven & Hart
lard Railroad ran trains on Il ten-min-
ute headway during rush hours. Many
residents of Harlem used the New
Haven lines between Grand Central
Station and 125th Street. The fare is
Is cents each way
Nearly every taNicab in the city and
many from outside the city worked
steadily all day long Some of the
Independents charged fares as high as
So for short trips
Complaints were filed at the Offices
of large taXicab companies that their
drivers were overcharging.
Nat D. 1acoby, vice president and
general manager Of the Black and
White Cab Company, stated that no
overcharge had been traced to any of
the chaufeurs actually driving n.s
cabs, and added that if any We're dis
covered the chautfeurs responsible
would Immediately be suspended.
"There are Il thousand taXicabs in
this city which are painted black and
white" he said, "and which. through
an apparent error. have been called
by some newspapers Black and White
taXicabs We have received a great
number Of complaints, but in every
case where the license number or the
chautfeur's number was given we found
that the car did not belong to us
Power Hard Taxed
Weather conditions and congest tion
on the lines made severe inroads upon
the power, according to a New York
Railways Company official, and the re-
suit was that the green cars started
out yesterday morning about 800 short
AT a. m. 440 went out, but this num-
Der was soon increased to 800. the usual
quota for the noon hour. The Second
Avenue (blue cars) and the Third
Avenue cred cars) Railway companies
reported an increase in traffic.
The B. R. T., operating the subway
from Fifty Street to Whitehall
Street and Coney Island, reported
service on the lines was increased 20
per cent. The Hudson e. Manhattan
Railroad Company, which operates the
Hudson tubes, reported traffic in
crease of from 10 to Is per cent.
On top OF the cars, in back of the
cars. outside rear doors, and packed
inside 20 the doors, passengers rode
on the surface cars. In some cases
the conductors were not able to close
their pay-as-you-enter doors because
OF the crowding. Along the Sixth and
Eighth Avenue lines of the New York
Railways Company there were MANY
delays because OF congestion. Sur
face cars on the Broadway and Am
sterdam Avenue and Broadway and
Lenox Avenue lines were crowded dun
Ing the morning and evening rush.
Truck Blocks Surface Cars
There was a ten-minute tie-up at
lhlrd Avenue and Forty Street
yesterday morning when furniture
truck was caught between the elevated
pillars. The tie-up caused cars AN,
vehicles to form a line which extended
from Forty-second to Fifty-njnth
streets. Persons who climbed on ton
OF the street cars during the tieun
would not come down when service vas
resumed and rode downtown on the
roofs of the cars. WV
The Third Avenue cars we're crowded
oy tne time they arrived at 125th Street
on tnelr early runs. In many cases