New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1886-03-03
HIGH WINDS STILL BLOWING
STEAMERS AND VESSELS DELAYED.


FERRYBoArs FAST IL THE ICE-MtAY SHIPS OVER
DUE.
High winds. dust and cold continued yestcr-
day II was clustering March weather of the most
tentaous kind and made every ono who was unfortu-
nate enough lie out in 1t an advocate OF reformation
OF the calendar which should take March out OF the
Category of spring months. The cloud of dust swept
through the streets were prominent feature.
Word was received last night that the revenue cutter
Grant Captain Abby fast in the ice Off Clty Island
The Grant has been cruising in the the Sound during tho
recent gales tho lookout for distressed mer
chant vessels On Friday she discovered the schooner
Clara Jane, OF Lubec. Ne. anchored of OAK Neck
Point with her coiOrs uuiou down Steaming up to
the schooner 1t was learned that she had lost her ib and
split her sails and unmanagedJlc. She had crew
OF five persons board, and loaded with cargo Of
sardiues and empty barrels valued at 100000
THO vessel coated with ice. ana her
boat was filed with water which had frozen
solid. Tho Grant tried TO got a
line to her. bat owing to tho high wind and heavy seas
was unable DO Night coming on and the peo-
pic the schooner begged not to be left to their fate
Captain Abby them that he woIld lie by unu
morning The gale increased III fury during the right
aud the Grant was obliged ride with both anchors
down and sixty fsthoms OF chain out on each The sea
broke her aud froze ms fast as il struck.
The schooner plungiug bows under at every sea-
and her captain ot,soned so barrels in order to keep
his decks clear When saturday morning dawGed both
the schOOneraud the cutter eruscd VITA gllterng
icN The Grant got up her anchor and going
nearer to the schooner managed 20 get nine
inch hawser TO her At that time the
schooner Was in portions position that her cap
tam preparing 10 cut away the maats. she was
drtin. nearer the shore and wndlass entirely
disabled that the captain could not get uD his anchors
The pcrsistercy with which tho Grant stood by tho
schooner however, gave her crew now hone and when
the hawser gOt board Captain Abby sgnaed the
schooner 10 slip chains which done and she was
towcd Into Hunting tOn IIaThor Thirty hours OF nara
and pcroGs work on the part OF the Grant haG saved
her ,, =, ,
the schooner Helen Iurvis had hlled and sunk
there the previous night. Tie Grant lay ~
Huntington Bay night ana on sunday started
tow the Clara Jane to This Guy IAe Dny was nsu
gale Saturday night, and II was only after hald
strugg that the Grant succeeded In forcing pas'aS"
being encoup by fields OF floating Toe sho anchored
when night came on OF Execution Rocks. = on. aty
morning she asan started with the schooner ana got AZ
CITY Island where she remained pinned III the Ice
Tie ice about the city not SO great in
quantity yesterday as on previous Gays, Out
waterfront Tho engines OF the South Ferry boat Pacific
stopped the centre in immense icehed soon nftrT
size left her Brooklyn Slip the morning and she could
not work our OF the ice. Hamilton Ferry boat started
20 her assistance bnt cond not reach her linen
tho south Ferry boat Umon went to the facihc's as
sstancc ANA her cigiaes also stopped on me cene;
Then 10 aid both helpless boats, ana pulled
them clear OF the lceed after the passengers hai been
ed hours. The Governors lsllhu Doat AlIan-
TIC losJ her propeller Inc Steamboat Tile was ice;
bound of Harts Island all day. The sound steamers
had tedious time battling win tho wind ahd roHsh
seas Monday night, and they were Delayed on thelr
trips To NoV.York The Providence and Clly oI B"s.oH
did not arrive ti about 10 aud the MassHchGselt-
CITY o. Lawrence and city OF Fail River followed TWO
hours later.
The continued high winds blowing from tho west have
seriously interfeIcA WITH he arrival OF ocean vessels
several OF which aTe overile IAe Cnnatd steain7nP
Galia. upon which Archbishop Elder sailed with the
pd!lium with which Archbishop CorrSan IS TO De ~
vested vas duo from Liverpool on Monday morning,
but she was schled TIL 1880 yesterday. The
National Line Italy, from London; the Gotardo
OF the Florio Line. from Mediterranean ports ANA TIE
Lcnrdar from Rotterdam, due sunday but they
had not arrived last nj ght