The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1893-09-24
FALL RIVER LINE DOCK


| HOW SHE STRUCK
| grinding OF her guards a crunch OF break
| ing squeaking wood. and she came to dead
| stop.
| She had got out only far enough to have her
nose poking out about twenty feet beyond the
| end Of her pier. There is jog along tho
outer end OF the Fall River line pier.
The work Of rebuilding the pier has been
| begun. and row Of ping and q stringpiece
have been put down three or four feet further
| out into tho slip than the old stringpiece Is.
and then run for forty or fifty feet from the
end OF the pier on tho south side.
| That was the side the Pilgrim had been slid
| ing along. What halted her was this:
The pier to the south Of the Pilgrims at the
foot Of Park place is one Of those used by the
New York Central and Hudson River Railroad.
| They bring big car floats and freight barRes
| to it
Just BE- ore the Pilgrim started there was a
| car floa' with ton cars aboard tied up at the
| outer end OF that pier opposite the Jog on the
| Fall River pier.
| At the bulkhead at the head OF the slip was
the covered freight barge Rochester. loaded
with miscellaneous merchandise for the Sixty
eighth street yards. The float. with the cars
on it 10 about 200 feet long and SO feet wide.
and the barge is pretty nearly as big,
| The barge goes out loaded every night In tow
bs River SoSss
20 out The Depew had hitched UP to her at
the usual time last night. and was pulling her
the Rochester had begun to lap the car floa.
when the tlsrim stared H., sh9 had got ,ust
her own fiity feet Of width into that narrowest
hard against the spring pling OF her pier on
tho starboard side and crowded against the
| It was too late to stop her when Capt Davis
| discovered that he was two or three feet short
%adsns to fS eP5 e hsr weight carried her.
The barge was driven over against the font.
and the float was CRUSHED foot ortwo into the
Of the three vessels, and her sides gave way:
pig hole was stove In her The Pilgrim
| went on until her broadcast part: lust ahead Of
Barge S and then s' she stopped. '' ' p''' "nO
| or eight Central Railroad tugs flying around
trying to undo the ,snFe Watching their
| drill OF cavalry squadron.
They formed p line g p fnge e By column
ReS wese pna dn
foTs.in-hands; in six lin hands, and single.
The TUNED smoked !, pulled. kicked out
pushed. but without avail.
First they were hitohed up to the steamboat
| her own big engines: then they tried to push
her backward Again. their efforts were
directed to trying to move the barge or the
ut was no go. Nothing you'd move an inch.
lu6J hepJ ~ UP O'oO W q " clOCk OF HlttT.
Then they fell Into spirit OF mastery inac-
| tivity. broken. however occasionally by some
s W sas as os s ACNE o%t Of "x ns
stretch 1t out with snap. and then sway back
into the rucs. Then occasionally. PERHAPS e
turn her paddle wheels forward or backward.
This served to use up some some OF the surplus
other 9TH eood ANN about that time
"She will be out in about ten minutes" said
the Waterman on the dock.
not m owed one way or the other, Then now
a W low % tide e' Goats sa will Hp' ss s"S do% Ss
enough below the stringpiecs TO let them out
BY La ns sRFnE ESs 'as II o'clock and
! midnight. Meantime aboard the boat some OF
gs sEusf Was ony eo
"A ( little later IT began to develop the charac;
tsristics OF the persons aboard. some enjoyed
the aSts sn a ssS.s to ana
ia y, wsns, to bed: Others walked the decks
The gangplankt, was not let ct, down until
Second doom III the at
was lowered from the second story OF the shed
aoe ke SRsn
went ashore. Amone those ON board who dis;
embarked were MIR. beOrgo Nelly OF l.blU
Arch street, Philadelphia; ]. MorawskI Of l40
fremont street, Boston, ma q: W: Wilson OF
Newton. Mass Two Sisters OF Charity also
came ashore. The passage money OF those
who dlssnibark was refunded TO them.
The tugs still lay by. ming Ing black smoke
with the Pilgrims column OF steam, and max
ing shifting illumination with their white,
red. and green lights around the big boats
The freight float was discovered to be leak
ing badly. Men were SGT to work upon her and
her freight was taken across the float to the
pier One OF the things that complicated the
situation was the Likelihood that she would
sink as soon as she was released from tho nip.
AT IL 80 six tugs gathered around the
Pilgrim. Three more took hold OF the barge.
The six tugs took short hawsers and pulled
the nose OF tho Pilgrim shoreward.
Tho three tugs yanked at the barge trying to
pull It out into tho river. The Pilgrim re-
versod her engines. For ten m inutes the boats
tremhled, the hawscrs creasod. ind the water
Then the Pilgrim slid back. hesitated, slid
again. then stuck for q minute, and finally
sIipped back into her slip. The three tugs
with the barge shot out into the stream. A
feeble cheer went up from tho passengers on
the Pilgrim.
into the stream. Two OF the three tugs that
were hauling the barge Joined them. The
bargo moved off in tow Of tho single tug,
The Pilgrim glided out into the river. turned
her nose toward Liberty. and steered away,
while the eight tugs blew their whistles three
times each IN salute.