North from Florida in a gritty whirl of orange peels and wax paper rattled a train of ancient, ill-assorted day coaches last weekthe first "relief train" hauling stranded escapists home. Its faded red & green cars got to Manhattan five hours late, released some 500 battered passengers, and went back empty to haul another load away. Next day the second of the two extra coach trains allowed by ODT for the Great Evacuation arrived three hours late. The sordid shuttling will go on; by midsummer, said ODT, all the suntanned refugees may get...
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