Clipping:Transit problems to Staten Island
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| Date | Saturday, July 16, 1887 |
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| Text | Staten Island would be one of the greatest baseball resorts in the world if they paid the slightest attention to the accommodation of the public, but in this particular they are sadly at fault. They succeeded on one occasion of getting 8,000 people to go down to St. George to see the Metropolitans play ball. When the game was over there was no way for this vast assemblage to reach New York City, except by boat. There was only one boat in, and it would not begin to accommodate more than one quarter of the crow. The boats only run every twenty minutes or half hour, and those who could not get on the first boat had to stand out in the street, packed together like sardines, until they got a chance to catch a boat, and it was an hour and a half to two hours after the game was over before the last of them got a chance to get a boat home. The attendance at the games has been gradually diminishing ever since. The same trouble was experienced at other night entertainments, and on one occasion, when there was not much of a rush, the twelve o'clock boat was discontinued and a number of passengers were left on the island over night, among whom were a couple of young gentlemen and ladies, and one of the ladies sat in the ferry home and cried until morning. |
| Source | National Police Gazette |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
| Origin | Initial Hershberger Clippings |
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