New-York tribune., 1919-08-17
Army Lends 500 Trucks
for Emergency Ser.
vice During Tie-Up of
the TractiO ION Lines
ALI Railroads to
Run Extra Trains
Discarded Taxicabs Are
Being OverIlauled to
Help Care for Rush

The city has made preparations tc
operate eleven lines of buses to move
the strikebound population of Man
haitian. There will be 700 automobiles
500 of which are big auto trucks lent
by the army. The operation will be
controlled by Joseph Guider, Commits
sioner of Public Works, of Brooklyn
and Police Inspector O'Brien, who hat
charge of similar service during the
recent Brooklyn strike.
The routes are as follows:
L. Leaving Bowling Green and
Broadway via Broadway to 135th
Street
2. Leaving Bowling Green and
Broadway, via Broadway to Frank
lin Street. to Varick Street, to Sew
enth Avenue, to 59th Street.
3. Leaving Chambers aud Hudson
streets, via Hudson Street, to Eighth
Avenue to 155th Street
d. Leaving Bowling Green and
Row, to the Bowerv, to Delaney
Street, to Manhattan entrance of the
Williamsburg Bridge.
.. Leaving Manhattan entrance of
the Williamsburg Bridge, via De-
lancey Street, to Kcnmare Street, to
Lafayette Street, to Fourth Avenue.
to Fourteenth Street to Sixth Ave
nue., to Fifty-ninth Street.
6. Leaving Eighth Street and
Fourth Avenue via Fourth Avenue.
Park Avenue to Ninety sixth Stree.
to Madison Avenue to 135th Street.
7. Leaving Duane and Lafayette
streets, via Lafayette Street to
Eighth Street, to Sixth Avenue, to
Greenwich Avenue, to Seventh Ave
nue., to :hirtytrst Street, to Eighth
Avenue, to Columbus Circle.
8. Leaving West and Spring streets,
via Spring ,rreet to the Bowery, to
Delaney Street, to Clinton Street.
8. Leaving Delaney and Clinton
streets, via Clinton to Houston Street,
to Avenue A, to Fourteenth Street,
to West Street, to Twenty third
Street ferry.
10; Leaving First Avenue and
Thirty-fourth Street, via Thirty
fourth Street, to Tenth Avenue, to
Forty second Street, to West Shore
ferry.
II. Leaving West Shore ferry via
Forty-second Street, to Lexington
Avenue, to Fifty ninth Street, to
Manhattan entrance of the Queens
boro bridge.
Taxicab companies began a mobiliza
tion of forces and material yesterday
Sunday is always a slack day in the
transportation world and more people
will pass their bath on Manhattan
Island to-day than in many years
Early Monday, however, the strain will
begin.
Taxi firms, from the big corpora
tions employing entire fleets of con
vcyances down to the newest "inde
pendent" with his metereG flivver, arc
making ready for the harvest. The big
concerns are busy rendering available
every car that can turn wheel, anC
are making provisions to collect THEN
drivers by truck, many of whom live
in the outlying sections and depend
on the Interborough to bring them tc
work.
The Fifth Avenue Bus Company
operates its maximum strength-27S
'buses-normally, SO can make no in
crease.
Ferries from Manhattan and The
the traveller may reach uptown ane
do vntown places. These ways are:
Manhattan
130th Street Ferry to Fort Lee
thence by trolley car to Hoboken; from
Hobokcn by tube to Cortlandt Stree
or to stations uptown to Thirty-thirc
Street and Sixth Avenue.
Forty-seoond Street ferry to Wee
hawken; trolley car to Hoboken ane
thence by tube to Cortlandt Street; o.
by Ferry from Weehawken to Cortland
Street
Bronx:
City Island ferry (north of Pelham
Bay) to Hart's Island; from HART
Island by ferry to East Twenty-sixtl
Street, Manhattan; then red cars (Thirt
Avenue Railway, uptown and down
town.
Clason Point ferry (east of West
chester Avenue), to College Point, L
l.; from College Point by ferry to Eas
Ninety-ninth Street; then Third Ave
nue. cars uptown and downtown
The New York Central Railroad will
put on eighteen extra trains from tn
Woodlawn station on the Harlem
branch to the Grand Central termina
Monday morning, and five or six extr
trains between Kingsbridge and tn
Marble Hill section on the west sid
to the Grand Central station. TIL
New York Central has retaine'
private policemen and many extr,
ticket sellers to work at the Gran
Central depot and stations along tn
Harlem Division and on the west side
The Long Island Railroad will pu
on extra trains from Queens, and tn
New Eaven Railroad officials promise
to do1ikewise on the Harlem Division