The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1891-05-19
AN ICE DELAY.
How the State of the North River Infiu-
ences European Travel


New dangers are often added to thu
undertaking Of a European tour by tn,
presence of ice in the North river, say,
a writer in the New York Herald. l.
you think that fanciful proposition
you should have been with me when
went over to Hoboken.
1t was cold day and the river was
lpretty full of ice-a good deal fuller
than it had been the day beforc-a fact
that some of my fellow passengers
learned to their surprise and agony
when it was too late. Why agony, I'M
less the boat was smashed? Because
they were crossing to take an outgoing
steamer. They were three we'll
dressed, gentlemanly fellows-that is,
they were very gentlcmally when they
came aboard with their sticks and their
rugs and their umbrellas neatly
strapped up. and their handbags shin
ing like Xmas presents, with silver mi
tails.
They sat down together, and one,
pulling out his watch, remarked easily
that they had plenty Of time, and an
other said that it was "beastly to be SO
carly, don't you know, with all the fell
lows. that are bores, you know, hang
ing around talking to you for hours
and the third said: Eyes, and the plank
was always so choked with the visitors
you couldn't find your state-room with
out lot OF fuss" and that steamer
the hour before she sailed was the best
place for picl1pockets in the world, and
that he never wanted to be on hand
fifteen minutes before the gangplank
was drawn in.
Meanwhile the boat had drawn out
and was putting on steam to crush her
way through the ice. The three gen
tlemanly fellows had done everything
just as they had meant to, and were
beautifully satisfied with themselves,
but they did not seem to know a great
deal about ice in the North river Pref
ty soon the boat stopped-that is, she
ceased to go forward, and, as one of the
passengers said, ''began to chaw on the
ice" The ice did not seem to mind it,
nor at first did the three ocean-bound
travellers. But time went on and the
boat didn't, and after awhile it began
to strike them that this was bad com
bination. and that if it kept up long
enough it might be inconvcnient. One
went CIT OF the cabin, saying he was
yoiag to find somebody to ask about
things. This Napoleonic measure did
not perceptibly increase our all but inn
progress. When he came
back the three looked at each other
7ery banlly, then they looked at their
aa5ches and looked banker. They did
lot seem to find much consolation in
They began tramping
bout uneasily. One discovered that
rom window they could see their
steamer lying at her dock. They all
tarcd 1t her in turn long and earnest
J. Still the boat chawed on the ice.
Tho rnutterings of profanity could be
icard from their once gentlemanly lips.
At last the boat forged ahead for few
ect, and the trio in woe looked each
thcr in the face and smiled once more.
When progress again stopped and the
having was renewed their last estate
vas worse than their first. When finally,
" backings and sJartlngs and many ma
euvers that all CONSUMED time, we gotin
o the clear water, they looked ten years
ldcr than they did when we left New
York. Never had trip to Europe used up
aorc vitality in the same length Of time.
hey tried to exchange few words
bout the mprobability of the steamer
saving exactly on time, but their voices
eemed to stick in their Threats, and it
vas plain to any man with watch in
is pocket and an advertisement of the
ne in his paper that they were still
eft, even if the steamer should be a
God many minutes late.
When at last we got in they had their
leasures arranged for the best fight
hey could make. They had taken all
leir traps and bags to some employee
n the ferryboat to keep till called for,
My putting in their pockets some small
lings from their contents, for carriages
ld hacks are not common around that
art of Hobolren, and they were wise
lough to prepare for the run that they
ION took. They started from the boat
very nearly full speed, in spite of j
leerful warnings from their fellow i
issengers, newsboys and others to t
I'VE their wind. t
A number of them followed at lesser
iced to see how they came out. A cry
stop thief" was raised by an unen- s
yhtened Hobokener, but he was '
loked off. The three gentlemanly fell S
WIS were for the time hardened to all {
e sings and arrows of outrageous
rture. Not SO when one of them had
come back alone. He was shorter
id fatter than his companions; they I
w over the wavering gangplanlz just [
it was trembling on the very point of I
tirement from public service. He I
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