Show l THIRD RAIL HAVE HARD TIME NEW YORK Dec 12 For For the second see sec ec- ec ond end time within a week the recently recently- Installed electric system on the elevated railroads railroad's has received ed a f serious setback When the drizzling rain that had fallen most of oC the day turned Into Inlo a thin layer of or Ice lee on the contact or or- or third rail after 4 I o'clock In the afternoon and Prevented tIre the transmission u of power from that rail Into the motors in the Propelling cars cats the trouble began be Passengers wore were fl shifted along from one train to 10 another anI and thence to the I station pIa platforms where they were I lumped out and received block trans trans- to them to ride on the surface ur- ur aur- aur fer eve entitling face ace lines lineA street service ice above third Fifty All was practically abandoned at p p. m. m were brought Into Inlo rc requisition and antI towed long lines s of oe electric cars from rain S SOuth uth Ferry and third Fifty-third streets where the pa passengers were transferred to the surface lines The near nearly led to a riot at atthe atthe the rw Twenty third nt street treet station More ort off train that had than people got ft a w c l in about half hair an hour from Fourteenth street and arid demanded their money The crowl crowd said laid fald they would get their money by violence If Jt not otherwise The ticket seller t Mn sent Rent for forthe forthe forthe the police and half hiatt fi f t doz dozen n officers dispersed dispersed dis dis- dis persed persell th the crowd Surface cars on the Brooklyn bridge had almost as hard a time but managed man managed man- man aged to keep going without an any great delay trains across the bridge were almost at a standstill and anel none but trains drawing loads tried to cro cross A train was stalled rl on the Third avenue awe ave nue line at Sixty fifth street and another another another an an- other at nt ninth Eighty street tying u up uj that rat road completely for an hour These two trains were finally got moving and then their a It much delayed and Irregular system tern tem st started again |