The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-08-07
Thousands Motor Home.

Thousands Motor Home,
Thousands of Brooklyn resident,
motored home last night In moving vans
delivery wagons, trucks and taxi cabs
when they left the Interborough sub.
way at Atlantic avenue and found they
could not use the Fourth Avenue sub.
way nor the trolly lines nor the ee.
waited.
During the rush hours when men and
women were coming from work In Man.
haitian the marlborough subway re-
leased thousands over whose faces
passed the signs of wonder, amuse.
ment, annoyance, and q how on earth
am 1 going to get homer expression,
as they gazed wide eyed at the throns
OF people standing, pushing and hurry.
ing this way and that.
Traffic cops at Pacific street Atlantic
avenue and the other streets and aven.
ues extending from the circle, Of which
the Atlantic avenue subway station Is
the centre, were busy last night The
streets were damned with motor vehicles
serving as transports. They would stop
in the middle OF the street or half way
across the street-anywhere they saw
fare. Traffic was congested.
People scooted in and out between the
press of automobiles. II is a wonder
no one was hurt. The only time an
ambulance appeared was about I
o'clock, when one wendell its way TO the
Long Island Station to get man who
had been caught In the crowd, overcome
by the heaviness OF the air and had
thrown a ft," as the patrolman on
duty there put It
At s 80 1t began to rain.
Few trolley cars were running and
nearly all of them were Sixteenth avenue
cars Two car elevated trains ran about
once every half hour.
BY the time the trolleys left Atlantic
avenue they were Jammed. Men hung
from the front and rear and stood on the
unused motorman's box at the rear Of
the car. holding their hats in their
hands.
al" Trains Are Packed.
The rear Of an elevated train looked
like q living lump Of humanity hanging
on to nothing and bullying out from both
sides OF the car.
The rain only lasted a few minutes
Many Of those who lived within reason
able walking distance walked home
Others waited for trolleys that did not
come or that did come bursting with
sweating people.
81 think, dearie," said a dainty miss
to her girl companion, that I'll take
truck"
Together they dashed across the street
Uttering frightened squeaks they mar
rowly missed being hit by a delivery
wagon loaded with men and women
willing hands helped the dainty miss
from a soap box up to the end Of the
truck. Willing hands helped "Dearis'
over the same course. And a willing
movie man recorded the shapes OF their
silken ankles as they made the step.
Prices varied according to where one
wanted to go and according TO the con-
science of the driver. Coney Island was
rs cents and 81. Bay Ridge was rs cent?
and q half a dollar. Shorter distances
varied from 10 cents TO a quarter,
From 6 o'clock TO 7 80 the district IN
front OF the Long Island station and
around the marlborough subway station
was a moving, orderly mass OF human
ity At 8 :06 1t began to rain in earnest
Covered moving vans became the
choice of the people. Other trucks with
no covering spread 'paulins over their
tops In those with no covering the oe-
cupants held aloft their umbrella with
one hand and grasped whatever was
handiest with the other to steady them
selves against tho joltings Of the oon'
veyanceA
Long Island station damned.
Persons living IN East New York and
the Ridgewood section were badly snsde
ed by the tieup of the B. r T. Ths
Long Island Railroad station ws
crowded to its doors, and q place near
the gates was Inaccessible Tbs Oh
was dank and the need OF many powdcr
puffs was evident wherever ono looked
Officials of the Long Island stAtsoa
said they had been rushed to death try
ing to accommodate passengers ThoS
sands OF persons waited on the plat
forms for trains, showing hopefully b
the gathering in front Of the dcos
when the train stopped