Morning journal and courier., 1889-04-30
HANGING IN mED.AIR.
Two Rtver Boats suspended over tn
 Nantucket Dam-The Crews Escape.

yesterday and was taken in tow for the other side of the river, where she was to receive her machinery by the steamboat City of Nashua.
 As soon as the boats swung out into the river the current. swollen by recent rains, and the strong wind were too much for the Nashua, and the steamboats drifted upon the dam, over which more than four feet of water was pouring. They were kept from going over by the iron rods supporting about three feet of flash boards, but these bent and broke under the pressure and threatened to let the boats over. The crews of the steamboats escaped to the shore in Dories.
 Efforts were made throughout the after noon to pull the Nashua off by means of 8 windlass, but after two cables had been bro ken the attempt was abandoned until to-day. The opening of the Mills Canal gates may re- lieve the pressure. The boats are used for picnic excursions and for regular trips on Sundays between this city and Nashua. SHALL NEW HAVEN HELP. New York To-Day and TO-Morrow The Myrfads of visl tors Muss be Fed.
 NEW YORK, April 29.-The city is in dan- ger of bread famine on account of the cen- tennial celebration and the myriads of visi- tors. There is no joke in this and according
  ply is going to be in as great danger of being exhausted, and more so, as during the great \ blizzard. Every bakery in town has been | running night and day for two days, turn | ing out bread for Monday morning, but all \ this extra stock was snapped up by o'clock | this morning, much to the surprise of the bakers, all of whom were forced back to work ! again after working all night
 | At the corner of Third avenue and Ninth street the crowd arc und the Percy Rockwell ! bakery somewhat resembled 8 bread riot. | People from all sections of the city were clamoring for bread and offering % cents for ! small loaves.
 MT. Rockwell's superintendent, said: 'l never saw anything like it. Our regular customers demand 80, ,0e0 loaves per day They have unexpectedly doubled their or ders. We had 125, 900 extra loaves on hand this morning, which we thought would last all day, but we have not got one loai left We have had demands on us this morning
 for 800, ,000 extra loaves. More than we
 could supply: We can, by hard driving make 1000 loaves each day, but owing to l the regular customers increasing their orders, we will have as much as we can do to supply
 them" w. W. Wall of Forty-fifth street and Sixth avenue is another large baker who is per- ' " | said that Brooklyn was aleo very short ot
 bread supplies. We have been obliged te
 refuse number of large orders for bread from Brooklyn and many of the army head
 quarters. We can produce 50,000 loaves {
 day easily with our present corps of bakers, ! and if we doubled up our forces we could l also double up our production, but even ther
 we could not fill half of the orders which art
 hourly pouring in on us. I am at loss te
 know what our visitors are to do for bread
 unless some of the outside towns come to oul
 rescue"
 The bakery of c. B. Decker, Eighth stree
 and Sixth avenue, tells a similar tale of woe
 "We have disposed of 150, GOO extra loaves O bread since daylight this morning and re fused orders for 350, 900 more."
 q am turning out 75, 900 per day, bu
 even this will not help matters much. Yol will find similar condition of affairs al
 over town. The truth of the matter is tha there are great many more people in thi ] town than anyone can form an estimate of.
 Some enterprising Yankee ought to mak fortune now sending bread here from NeV Enoland