New-York tribune., 1922-07-05
Trains Bring
Back a Million
Without Delay
Record Holiday Crowd Fills
Stations as Never Before;
Reads See Strike Broken
as Schedules Are Kept
More New Hands at Work
Officials of Shopmen Here
Show disappointment in
Track Workers Action

More than million persons who had
gone out Of town for the holidays
returned to the city last night. The
roads, bridges, ferries, subway, elevated
and surface lines leading to the city
were crowded, and the Grand Central
and Pennsylvania terminals were never
so thronged. IA
The strike Of the railroad shopmen
seemed to have little effect on the
schedules of the railroads.. In few
instances only were trains late. All
the suburban trains were on time.
Extra policemen were on duty at the
stations, but there was little for them
to do.
Rail Officials Encouraged
Railroad officials said the apparent
workability of their operating sched-
ules indicated that the strike was fu-
tile. To them, yesterday was an indi-
Gator. If the strike was to be a him
drance, it would have shown itself dur
ing the great influx. That there was,
on the contrary, no confusion, or in
terruption of the extra heavy traffic
program was considered a good omen.
The New York Central system oper-
ated about sixty special trains in ad-
dition to it's regular schedule. Every
train coming from any considerable
distance ran in from three to seven
sections, so that every two minutes a
new food of passengers was let loose
in the terminal.
On the shore line of the Pennsylva-
MIA Railroad the trains ran in seven
and eight sections. Every car was
crowded.
Extra ferries had to be employed to
handle the crowds coming from Jersey
and Staten Island. Newark became q
gateway for thousands who preferred
to come into the city by way Of the
Hudson and Manhattan tube.
Automobiles jammed the roads lead
ing into Manhattan from the north and
the bridges connecting it with Long
Island on the east.
Those who are yet to come are ex-
pected to arrive on the sleepers in the
morning.
Union Leaders Disappointed
There was little worthy of note in
the days developments in the strike
situation. Dave Williams, secretary of
the union committee in charge. Of the
strike, with headquarters at the Con-
tinental Hotel, was the only repre-
sentative in. the committees rooms.
He said that so far as he could learn
there had been no new moves in the
walk-out, intimating that the union
leaders were disappointed at the atti-
tude of the naintenance-of-way work
ers.
Railroad executives, on their part,
treated their striking shopmen to a
cold shower of indifference yesterday.
The company officials without excep-
tion remained quietly at home, desert
ing their Offices, which seemed to join
in a dumb chorus Of, "See how little
the railroads. worry about the walk
out"
Only through the activity Of the en-
ployment Offices opened up to take on
NIT that anything out Of the ordinary
was in the air.
All work at local car shops was
closed down. Freight service was linn
tied to the movement Of food trains,
while only passenger cars were shifted
at the round houses.
Protest to HyIan To-day
Beyond little trouble at Long
Island City there was no disturbances
incident to the walk-out. A short dis
tance from the Sunnyside yards af the
Long Island Railroad, q boy naHed
Martin, who was conducting some nss,
employees into the yards, was chased
by group Of strikers. Martin rushed
to policeman and the strikers and his
charges diSappeared
There were few picketa scattered
about the various freight terminals, but
no interference other than the one Just
noted was observed. The, committee
Of Long Island strikers which was Il
visit Mayor Hylan yesterday did not
appear at City Hell. They probably
will appear and register thAir protest
with the Mayor this morning.
1t was reported that about 100 new
employees were put to work yesterda,
In the Now York Central electric ant
steam motiye-power shops and round
houses. The new recruits were taker