New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-09-06
Hon1e-C coming
Holiday Rush
Jams ALI Lines
By Rail, Trolley and Motor
Huge Crowds Pour Back
Into City from Resorts
ON Shore and Mountain
Baggage Fills Terminals
Traffic Demand Is Declared
To Be Record-Rreaking;
Atlantic City Deserted

Railroad men, which include all who
minister to the travelling public from
| traffic managers to baggage men, from
early yesterday until long after mid
night, wrestled with their biggest task
of the year getting 100000 vaca-
tionists from points ali over New Eng
land and down the Atlantic seacoast
back into New York City.
Grand Central terminal and tne
Pennsylvania station were still crowd
ed early this morning with returning
New Workers. The baggage rooms were
high with luggage of every description,
and all lines of travel, including roads,
highways and ferries carried over
whelming traffic. Labor Day is moving
day for the American public, for tie
railroad man, the one real work day Of
the year.
Huge Crowd at Atlantic City
Two hundred thousand persons
crowded the travel exits Of Atlantic
City last night at the end of the great
est get away day" ever known in the
resort
While tremendous throngs jammed
the stations of outgoing steam and
electric trains, motorcars by the thou
sands ccngested at the outlets of the
resort leading to the boulevards and it
was hours before the traffic police we're
able to get the automobile lines in
proper shape to string out upon the
White Horse Pike, the New York mo-
tor highway and other roads from the
seashore to their destinations.
The great rush from vacation, holt
day and weekend visitors started at
noon when steady drizzle with a
ay<b oo Of beh =
sort of outdoor shore pastime dwindle
to it's least pleasure. At once the
family folk who travel by motor began
to pack and strap on their trunks and
bags, and the streams of the home
bound began to besiege the stations to
obtain seats or standing room on the
outgoing trains.
Within an hour the traffic managers
In charge had given up all idea of run
ming city bound trains on schedule.
Steam and electric trains were sent out
as soon as filled and police were called
in to keep the departing crowds in line
and to shoe back the children who
started to elude excited parents in the
station throngs.
Up to midnight the traffic handling
had been conducted with high efficiency,
1T was said. Immediately the drizzle
started. the railway managers wired
and phoned for trains and cars to be
rushed to the resort from every posi-
Bile point on their lines and but for I'M
patience OF the rushing homeward
bound travellers there would have been
little trouble in handling the throngs.
New England Trains Filled
All the trains from New England.
those from the Cape Cod and Northern
Massachusetts, and Maine sections. as
we'll as the trains from the Berkshires.
and the Green and White Mountains
were loaded with returning vacation
lists. So were the trains on the New
York Central coming from a radius of
100 miles from. the city.
They ran in several sections each
crowded to capacity, and when a train
nuloaded at the terminal the big crowd
which was there all day, suddenly be-
came dense for a few minutes. Last
night the sleepers were coming in.
trains running in several sections from
points further north and west. The
crowd was estimated at we'll over 15o.
600, with from 10000 to 10000 pieces
of baggage
The Pennsylvania had an even more
complicated problem. The station held