Evening star., 1942-09-06
Holiday Travel
Jams Railroads,
Bus Lines Here
Highway Troffic
Lighter Than Usual,
Nearby Resorts Busy
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transportation admonitions for civil
lians to stay at home.
BY nightfal Washingtonians by
the thousands had left for resorts
only to be replaced by incoming
throngs seeing the Capital for their
last vacation of the summer season.
Union Station was bedlam last
night, and all railroads added extra
section or heightened trains to take
care of the crowds.
Greatest Labor Day weekend
traffic by far" was the opinion Of
w. H. Marks, station master in
charge.
Auto Traffic Reduced.
Gasoline and tire rationing cut
motor traffic below normal Labor
Day proportions, with resorts within
a 150-mile radius getting the
heaviest play. an official of the
American Automobile Association
said.
But what the highways lacked
in number was more than made up
by railroads and bus lines.
Bus lines, out of the city were
carrying record loads, with many
of the regularly scheduled trips
running in two and three sections.
A good portion of the travellers
was military-at off ff-peak times as
much as so per cent-observer
estimated. Heaviest percentage of
uniformed travellers was into the
Capital.
Gathering momentum from
early Friday evening, the exodus
reached its peak yesterday after
noon and evening. Top throngs
passing through Union Station were
between 2 and pm. and 6 and
q pm.
No Civilians Turned Down.
The military had priority travel
ing rights, but up to late last night
there was no record of civilians
being turned away for lack of ac-
commodations.
The return rush by rail, bus and
automobile is expected to start
early tomorrow night and continue
through early Tuesday.
Washington will have no Labor
Day celebration, and the War anc
Navy Departments and Other
government divisions essential tt
the war effort will work. War pro.
ducing plants will operate at full
blast.
Traffic through Union Station
busiest point in Washington at an,
given hour-was principally to th'
| north with New York drawinl
heavily. Heaviest traffic went owe
the Pennsylvania Railroad which
dispatched % extras, all loaded tt
capacity. between 8 a m. and IL pm
yesterday. Only II extras cam
into Washington over this line.
Pullman cars were pressed int,
service on at least two Pennsylvania
trains to accommodate an overflow O
day coach ticket holders. Empt
trains were shuttled from the Phila
delphia yards to relieve the demand
of trafic here.
Train Every Is Minutes.
Railroad officials estimated tina
during all of yesterday a fully loade
train departed from Union Statiol
every Is minutes.
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad off
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heavy, it was not quite as volumin
Gus as they had anticipated. Al
other lines coming into Uniol
Station reported traffic EXCEPTIONAL
high.
The automobile exodus starte,
early Friday night and had soothe'
out to about normal Saturday traffi
by nightfall
Resorts in Virginia and the Chesa
peake Bay area attracted overflow
crowds, most of them arriving b,
automobile Some of the more fore
sighted patronized public transpor
tation facilities for the last tw'
weeks to save gasoline for trips t,
more distant Ocean City, Md, ant
Rehoboth Beach, Del, an American
Automobile Association official Said
| Libraries Will Be Open.
The highest point of the highwa,
travel is expected to be reached lat
tomorrow night.
All stores, with the exception o
drug stores, will be closed tomorrow
The Public Library, Eighth and T
streets NV, and all branches of tn
system will not be closed.
The Washington Industrial Unio
Council will hold a Labor Day rail-
and picnic from to 10 pm. toda
at Kemble Park. Henry l. Adam:
WPB labor consultant, and Krame
Goshal, lecturer and writer, will
the speakers.
One of the Labor Day highlight
in this area will be the review O
the 18th Infantry Division at For
George G.. Meade, Md. Forty-sevel
ranking officers of the Army an
\ Navy and Embassy officials of Bra
zil, headed by Ambassador Carlo
Martins, will attend.
Garbage Collection Delayed.
Householders were advised by tn
District Refuse Division that col
lection of trash would be delaye
one day throughout the next wee
because of the holiday. Garbag
collections will also be delayed il
some areas. but efforts will be mad
to get back on regular schedule be
fore the week ends.
The main city postoffice will b
open all day, with substations opel
until noon.
There will be no holiday at tn
Red Cross Blood Donor Center
Twenty-third and c streets NV
To prevent break in the flow o
blood into the Districts plasma ban
for the armed forces, $50 moderl
Minute Men" will make contribu
tions tomorrow.
The donors, according to Mrs
Dorothy Walter, director of the cen
ter, are from the Federal Bureau
of Investigation. the Civil Servic
Commission, the General Account
ing Office and the Chesapeake
Potomac Telephone Co. The Min
ute Men" are being organized t.
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