New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1895-12-15
BETTER FOR COLD WEATHER
THE NEW PILOT SYSTEM ESPECIALLY DE-
SIGNED FOR THE SEASON OF STORMS.
,-s s,r,sr,c-roRy WORKINGS THUS FAR-Ap-
yANTAGEs Of STEAM OVER sAffIN"
PILOT BOATS.


PILOT BOATS.
THE new Sandy Hook pilot system said ID. A.
Nash the veteran secretary Of the Board OF Pilot
Commissioners in response to inquiries oy INV
une reporter yesterday. has worked very salts
factorly SO far II has been in operation for only
nine or ten days and OF course. could not be thor
oughly tested in that brief time, especially at this
season OF the year. When severe wintry weather
sets in and heavy Ice begins to run the advantages
of the new system will be more clearly demon
strated because when Ice is running steamer VIII
be better able reach both incoming and outgoing
vessels which wish to take or drop pilots than
mere sailboat
THE new steam station boat. Walter Adams Is
not just the boat that the pilots require She ~
tender and rolls a great deal. Ultimately the plots
will be compelled build new boat expressly ior
the purpose and they may have to build two or
three boats before they get one that Is entirely
suitable 10 their purpose.
'"rhe Sandy Hook plots have been building boats
for over fifty years and have not yet succeeded IN
constructing a single vessel that was not open "
some adverse criticism. Under the old pilot system
speed was a very important consideration Out UNI
der the new system II is not 50 vital Competition
between the New-York pilots themselves ana De-
tween them and the New-Jersey pilots, particularly
to secure large ocean steamships. was very strong
under the cd system, and the fastest plot-poat
was most likely to get the steamship Onuer inc
now svsten however there viii be regularity IN
rotation as far possible and the boat stdtioi'e'
farthest to the eastward viii probably get the
steamships a. long as she has any plots lett on
board Occasionally a steamship or even saiiiiS
vessel might manage to slip through the line Oh
station boats and reach Sandy Hook without taxing
a pilot, done by the Finance OF the No.u"
bian Line, from Colon week ago to-day. VINE"
the Finance got through the new system had Deei
in operation only two days, and. of course WAS
not in thorough working order Such occurrences
will be rare II not impossible In the future s,,o
Eight schooner-rgged plot-boats OF which nve
belong to the New-York pilots and three to the
New-Jersey pilots. with the steam statIonppUa5' hv
now doing the work formerly accompiIshe1 ny
twenty schooner-rgged piiot 90 ~ uhich ito
belong TO the New-York and forty-eIsnt, a. ' ~
New-Jersey fleet. Their interests are cared ior py
conference committee, to when eyerf rSG dem The
old system the boats crused as SCUM as Edp
Hatteras and east to Cape Sable. out the cruising
distance Of about fifty miles, extending from Fire
Island TO Barnegat, the system VIII oe very '"O0"
smPlhed boats formerly picked up ships 600
more miles at sea- especially transatantic liners the
pilots had often been two or three weeks out Vi
port and ere not posted as to what had r.eai-
OF the steamships, who had left the other soc ory
six or seven days before taking pilot hhd PEI
haps heard by cable OF some opstruGo!oh "d ,ne
entrance TO this port Of which the pilots had Lot
yet been informed. Under the new system TINS
difficulty will be done away with. as the t,iots
cruises will be limited to few days, ana Al me
serve the latest marine intelli gence. -.
Tho new system viii. probably be a grea, I'M
provsment on the old one n me no; IL WI o Ie-
ouire time patience and capital to work II up prop
s W p pos succeed especially # it passes salts
factorily through the coming ice test.