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Show TIMII WITHOUT I SOFjMRS Students and Business Men Volunteer to Substitute For Insurgents. NEW YORK. April ,1-L Restoration Restora-tion of passenger train service on the principal railways Into New York, made headway tonlghL Tho rush of volunteer students and business men eager to substitute for the strikers, evidently has had an impressive im-pressive effect and Is believed by lallroad officials to be responsibly for another meeting by the rebellious workers in Jersey City tonight. Their defiant attitude toward the roads was reported to have undergone a change following optimistic reports of tho movement of trains without their assistance. as-sistance. It was expected that tonight's to-night's meeting would find many advocates ad-vocates of a more conciliatory stand. FiM-rvlinnLs Handle Traflic f Ferryboats plying the Hudson river irom Manhattan to the Jersey terminals termi-nals were nblo to handle the heavy ti-nffic Increased by the shutdown or the Hudson tube3. Extra boal3 have been pressed into service. Lehigh railway officials announced tonight that through passenger service serv-ice from the Pennsylvania station Id being maintained without interference interfer-ence or delay. Conditions Near Normal' Conditions in . the Grand Central terminal late today more nearly ap- proached normal than during any period pe-riod ofJ.he strike. The only train that had to bo annulled was the Spring- field Express over the New York, New Haven and Hartford road. More than 5000 students at Columbia Colum-bia university, it was- announced tonight, to-night, are "rrady to act in any way. the railway managers and brother-1 Jiood chiefs might determine." Dr. Richard Dreby, i,on-in-law of the late Colonel Theodore Roosevelt, fired the Oyster Bay Express into Jamaica this evening, having volunteered volun-teered when another amateur fireman fire-man gave out. After tho journey, the ' begrimed and perspiring "fireman" j ; washed up in the Morris Park shops i and lunched with tho train crew. c n i - |