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Show TRAVEL THE SUBWAY. New Yorkers Flock to the Big Bore. NEW YORK, Oct. 2S. None of the surface car lines showed during the night an appreciable diminution in trafTic as a result of the competition with the subway, which opened ror public service at 7 In the evening. At thp Intersection of Herald square and Broadway, Sixth avenue and Thirty-fourth street lines (the busiest place in New York), there seemed to be no decrease In patronage so far as the conductors and transfer men could judge. This was true also at Forty-second Forty-second street and Broadway. On the "L" lines, however, tralllc was noUoeably lighter. The theater-going rrow"d from Brooklyn that nightly jams the Parle place station of the Sixth avenue line v.'au not 50 large and there were few strap hangers in the trains bound up town. Hundreds of Brooklyn theater-goers who traveled up town on the "Ij" look the subwayroute home. As the curtains were lc7w,-red for tliL last time in lh various theaters along Broadway, crowds turned as if with one impulse toward the neatest subway sub-way station. The one topic of conversation conver-sation seemed to be "subway." Cabmen Cab-men all along tho street sLood by their vehicles looking longingly at many of those who on former occasions were good fares, but who now cared only to bo whirled about on the new road. There was a decided falling off alpo.in the restaurants among after-theater diners. |