New-York tribune., 1920-12-05
New York Has Floating
Population of Millions
25O,OOO,O0O Persons Moved In aud Out of City
Last Year; Back and Forth Movement l. Like
Morning and Evening Tide Travel Is Growing

A Nosting population OF tremendous
s;,e swings in and out Of New York
svrrv twelve hours like the ehb and
snv Of ths tides. Every morning, eN-
cart holidays, trains come steaming IN
t~oo, ali points of the compass, from
noints twenty, thirty ana forty miles
swav. In the evening the movement IS
reversed. and out from the focal point
- tire morning travel streams train
ss.e- train loaded down with humanity
hound Tor countryside towns.
Taxing i, in another way. one may
well say that practically the entire man
mower of the countrys de for miles and
miles about the city Is to be found in
New York City between + o'clock in the
morning and 8 o'clock at night. At
abou. that hour the great receding
tide OF humanity from the city is in
-ull motion. shooting away from the
hub Of the great business center OF the
Western world.
Forty-one Times City's Population
Between January I, 1919. and Janu-
nv !. 1920. the railroads entering New
York carried in and ont of the city for
tv-ore times as many persons as make
Father kniCkerbocker's town their
permanent living place. 2. II. Wood
ward general passenger agent Of the
Long Island Railroad, IN an address be-
fore engineers in the Engineers Club
recently produced statistics which
showed that 295. 532 were handled
bv the railroads, ferries and the Man
haitian & Hudson tubes, which connect
with several q the big passenger car
rie-s coming into New Jersey. Allow
ing for duplication due to the close
connection between these roads and the
tubes. Mr. Woodward estimated the
in-and-out movement of people during
1919 az 250.000, 900. Estimating an in
crease in traffic based on the Increase
that the Long Island viii have .his
vear Mr.. Woodward said that the in
and out movement will reach 2SGOOO.-
coo persons by the end of the current
yesr
Great Avenues of Travel
Tie housing situation In New York
has added heavily to the SIZE Of this
everyday movement of population The
following table shows the great volume
Of yearly traffic on each Of the roads
in and out OF New York
New New 4s5s Ysr& Ss9''7' SEM }av:a III i55 2i3s5ts9
Pennsylvania Railroad ......... 1880 600
Central 4. r. Of New Jersey y.~.. l5.720 son
Delaware. iackawanna & w.. 90. 400 GOO
Erie Ra.lroaa ......'..'........ 25.ll6'S+a
New York. Wes-c chester & Boston 8'750.s6s
New yogs. ontario & Western. 58s. s.esa
1.1iiis 80 4nN.uN'
Baltimore & Ohio .............. $40 n0o
Lons Island Railroad .......... 4S,S6.v0o
The Pennsylvania Rai,road," said
Mr.. Woodward. in addition TO the 49,
100000 passengers carried in and out
Of tie Pennsylvania Station and the
ferry terminals at Cortlandt and
Desbrosses streets. also handled APO
900 passengers at its Jersey City
Terminal, and transferred to and from
the Hudson & Manhattan a Man
haitian Transfer a total OF 22.640 coo.
This would make a grand total for the
Pennsylvania Of II 100000 passengers
The Staten Island Rapid Transit
handled on Staten Island total of
1o.2o5,Q0Q.
IN The case os the Delaware, Lack
awanra & Western. it is estimated
thai so per cent Of the passengers
handled by It transferred 20 and from
the Hudson & Manhattan at Hoboken,
and in the case of the Erie so per cent
were transferred 70 and from the Hud-
son & Manhattan in Jersey City. The