10 a.m.
A vanman was offered fifty shillings a week , a housekeeper thirty shillings a week all found ; for an errand-boy fifteen shillings a week was suggested , and ten pounds as a bonus to the parents of the child that was to be adopted . The officials at Putney Bridge station were puzzled to account for the extraordinary increase in the westward-bound traffic on that Saturday morning ; but what particularly surprised them was the stream of dogs that each train seemed to pour forth . The run upon dog-tickets at certain East-end stations broke all records , and three stationmasters had to telephone to headquarters for a further supply . Dogs occupied the gangways of every train arriving at Putney Bridge station between 10 a.m. and 10.40 a.m. Dogs growled , fawned , and quarrelled . The stream of dogs , however , was as nothing to the stream of men , women and boys , and small children for adoption . The station officials and the bus-men outside wearied of instructing people how to get to Fulham High Street . The congestion of traffic in Fulham High Street was felt as far east as Piccadilly and the Strand , where the police on point duty were at a loss to account for it .