Show I IN INN N It Y V SARDiNES I 1 Mighty Crowds Park Sub Subways ways on Way to I Theatres NEW l YORK TORK April 23 By 23 3 By Bythe Bythe the Associated Press Tho Tho sar s r dino dine life lire led by playgoers pla pIa who nightly struggle their ther way In InI I Great Groat crowded subways to the White Way Is graphically dc described and characterized as aa almost alarming In a report Issued by Nelson P Lewis ls formerly chief engineer of the city elty board of esti- esti estimate estimate esti estimate I mate and apportionment recently retained to study tho the problem recentlY When smiling Broadway man man- managers man acers agers hang hanf out the Standing On sign as they hey frequent I frequent frequent- frequently frequent I ly Iy are doing nowadays now d ys It mean means not e even een e en standing room In the tho subways s the report disclose with sometimes as many as passengers over o a capacity load trying to get cot on every eter e ery tram train leas lea Inc leai-Inc lag Ing through each of the tho five tun- tun tunnels tun tunnels nels that lead sear away from Times Square I I I Failure of the city to limit the number of public halls In any given area artA as is done dono in London and other old world cities is blamed by the report for the condition I I Between 3 th and streets and between Sixth and Eighth a says the report there are aro no less lees than 78 IS theatres theAtre Their I combined seating capacity Is qs 55 four Forty of them with a ac capacity elp of 66 are within a 1 circle Ila a radius of feet fett from the the center of Broadway and 4 nd street Assume for a moment that of oC these e 56 amusement seekers come como from the tho Times Square station between een 8 and S 30 I II I rom roni this station nod and Brooklyn Rapid Transit trains run both north and south while a shuttle train runs to the tho Gran Grant 1 Central station and the east side I line If It these people were acre equally tn these thee fl five fire e routes it would I mean that people tople would o haia oto ha to be accommodated by each Now If thirds two of o this total arnica cl bet een S 8 and and one thin one bet 8 S 15 and It in mean meIn that people would ar- ar arnco ar arrive rive rh e from each of these fl five fire e directions directions lions in the latter quarter of a all 1 hour II The performances are ro over try nearly at the same am time and the which the Os ds Ish wish nish to reach the tho sub subway ay trains 10 considerably shorter Let U us assume however er that they will be I oblIged to occupy the tho same half hour in dispersing A ten car train I loaded to capacity holds about 1300 while with all the tho stand In room occupied to the limit of or do- do de decency it hold 1000 It If then I such ten-car ten trains left in each ench of these five directions every three minutes it ft would mean moan that passengers would try to crowd Into I these trains train without regard to the number already on them I The conditions are actually I even worse worst than this as the shuttle trains while they start from Times j I Square station and may be I for the theatre crowd are generally made up of less than one halt the they number of ot cars assumed for theother I other trains they To this problem a little more clearly attention Is called caled to the tho fact that the people attending the 78 7 places oft ot or j when ahen all stats seats are ar occupied Is more than equivalent to the combined population of Mount Vernon New Now Rochelle Roe helle the anJI and I carsdale Scarsdale It I Is also 1110 more than th tool tol I population men women and children of or Montclair J Bloomfield Nutley Glen Ridge I Cedar Gro Grove Grote e Caldwell Essex rails Verona and tho the remainder of the tho Borough h of Caldwell Another comparison Is that the number exceeds the total population population tion of Orange Orance East Eat Orange and South Orange e and Is almost equiv equiv- equivalent equivalent alent to tho the total population of Clifton and Little Falls |