Word: crowded
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...Haven, either by train or automobile. The game will start promptly at 2 o'clock. Ticket holders should make every effort to reach the grounds early and thus avoid the inevitable rush of the last half-hour. Sixty-eight thousand tickets have been sold, and the handling of the crowd will tax transportation facilities on railroad and trolley lines to the limit. Traffic of all kinds in the city will of necessity, be slower than usual. The Bowl is a mile and a half from the centre of the city and ticket holders should therefore, allow at least an hour...
...trolley facilities have been talked over at great length with the local company officials and problems have been presented which it is impossible to solve until one game has been played and the transportation needs of the crowd discovered. Cars going out Chapel street to Derby avenue will use the same loop as formerly on Derby avenue, while cars going out Edgewood avenue will be provided with a loop to be constructed shortly, which will let them come back by the same route. It is impossible for the trolley company to do at present all it intends...
Sixty-one thousand people is a larger crowd than has ever attended an event of any kind in New Haven, and while it is expected all tickets will be sold, it is nevertheless quite a problem as to how to take care of the ticket holders. The price of seats will remain at $2 each and each graduate of the university will be entitled to apply for four tickets. Persons holding a ticket privilege will have this opportunity in addition to their present right to seats. The same restrictions as to transfer or disposal of tickets will be enforced...
...total of sixty-one thousand visitors will tax facilities of the trolley and of the management to the utmost. The New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad Company estimates that it will take twenty-two trains to carry those coming to the game from New York, and as this will crowd their facilities in the Grand Central Station to the utmost, it is not expected that private parlor cars will be allowed on the day of the game...
...soldiers do not hold torchlight processions or make public demonstrations. Above all, do not take part in "rooting" to encourage others to do what you will not do yourself. Do not have so poor an opinion of your fellows as to think they need the stimulus of a cheering crowd to make them do their duty, love their country, or have the courage...