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Show NEW- YORK, Oct. 2S. None of. the surface car lines saovved. during,,, the night an appreciable diminution In tiaffio as a result of the competition with the subway, which opened tor public Bervlce at 7 In the evenings At the 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-necond Forty-necond street and Broadway. .On the "L" lines, however, traffic was noticeably lighter. The theater-going rrowd from Brooklyn that nightly Jams the Park place station of the Sixth avenue line was not to large and there Mere few- strap hangers In the trains lound up town. Hundreds of Brooklyn theater-goers who traveled up-town on the""!." look the subway route home. As the curtains were lowered for the last time In the various theaters along ' Broadway, crowds turned as if -with one . impulse toward the nearest, sub-uay sub-uay station. The one topic of conver-ftation conver-ftation seemed to be "subway.'" Cabmen Cab-men all alone- the street stood by their vehicles looking" lohsirgly at many of those who on; former occasions were good fare?, but who now cared only to be .whirled about on the new road. There was a decided, falling off al?o In the restaurants among after-theater diners.- -- |