New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1895-09-02

Police Superintendent Mckelvey was rouseo
from what he says sound sleep. and rang up
Headquarters to ask II there had been an explo-
sion Deputy Police Commissioner Crosby VINO
spends Saturday nights and Sundays at Coney
Island. sent a similar inquiry over the wire to
Headquarters
Dr. H. Taylor Emery. Of No. 4Sl Washington
ave. Health Commissioner Of Brooklyn, was
awake when the shakeup reached town. Il was
I in bed trying to go to sleep again." said Dr.
| Emery last night. when all at once the bed be-
| san to shake and the chandeliers to rattle all
! through the house | listened for the truck that
! thought might nave made the racket, but as there
was no truck passing didn't know what to make
of it till got out among my patients Then
| concluded that 1t must have been OF seismic orr
| gin. Nearly all my patients had plainly felt the
shock. some of them unpleasantly
People living on Greene-ave. where the forty
foot excavation has been made recently for new
sewer thought 1t was the "crack o doom and no
| mistake Their nervous systems are overwrought
from the settling Of their front doorsteps and the
| impossible condition Of the streets. Yesterday
morning when their houses began to shake they
rushed to the windows. fearing that an explosion
! had taken place in the sewer.
A SHAVE RUDELY DISTURBED.
At the Pierrepont House, on the Heights. the
guests had something 20 talk about all day In
several Of the rooms bric-a- brac had been tumbled
| from the shelves 1t Is said that one man whose
| beard grows fast and who has to shave himself
SUNDAYS because the Brooklyn BARRIERS don't
work was shaving when the earthquake made IT.
self felt on the Heights His lather-cup suddenly
| tumbled from the edge Of the marble basin, MS
razor slipped and cut him across the jaw, and ne
| was so thoroughly ratified at the way Things
| danced around the room that his wife had no
trouble in inducing him to sign the pledge for two
years telling him that If he kept on In his mad
career he'd 'llave 'em" right along When ne
| learned that an earthquake was at the bottom OF
1t all he was so angry that he couldn't eat his
breakfast
A. b. Thorn an insurance agent Of NO 80 Or
mond Place thought it heavy truck pass
ing the house He got up and looked out OF the
window and there was no truck. Then he looked
at the clock and discovered that 1t was stopped
The shock was hardly noticed at the Hotels 81
George or Margaret
Frank Ourk. of No "a Fourth-ave. heard a
heavy rumbling. and in his mind roundly berated
the truckman who broke the Sabbath at that
hour OF the day He looked at the clock and
found it stopped at $40.
James Jackson the colored watchman at Poice
Headquarters. says that about o'clock ne felt
distinct
ones.
G. c. Martin an artist. who lives at the Con-
tinental Building in Montague-st. was dressing
at 6I5 O'Clock according to his watch, when ne
felt the house shake. He looked up and noticed
| that the pictures were swayirg gently. He heard
q rumbling noise something Ike thunder Mr..
| Martin has stood within the shadow of Nesuvius
| and clambered over the rockribbed Nils OF
| ancient Greece where earthquakes are no great
shakes" He recognized the stranger at once
He was in Brooklyn fifteen years ago wnen
Long Island was visited by an earthquake This
ono he saws was much less violent than the
other.
SOLDIERS TOOK 1T FOR GUNS.
The soldiers at Fort Hamilton were reused by
II many Of the boys thinking that II was spe-
cal gum The soldier who carries the mail from
the village to the fort was raking down the stove
when the quake "shook hands with his house
His sleepy wife from the first-noor bedroom said:
| Tom for heavens sake don't make so mucn
noise. You fairly shake the bed. rafting around
that stove" tom" had lived In California. and
after listening to the rumble made up his MIND
| that the disturbance was an earthquake.
All over the city there wore similar experiences,
but SO far as learned no damage was caused by
| the earthquake.
| The pilots Of the New-Yolk and Brooklyn Ferry
| Companv who were on the water at the time say
that they felt IT, candle fell from the altar OF
Ss Peter and Pauls Roman Catholic Church,
on Wythe-ave. and South Second-st. ana ru-
NOR was prevalent AT the time that the aitar
had been wrecked by the earthquake
IN THE NEW-JERsEY TOWNS.
New-Jersey felt the force Of the tremor through
the northern part. while the low-lyng southern
III 700
entirely From all Of the cities and villages Of
the northern counties the story Is the same The
shock was preceded and accompanied by the low
| rumbling sound which marks the true quake
| The trembling lasted several seconds. In some
nlaces the estimate of time IL as low as three
seconds while others place the duration OF the
disturbance at fifteen To twenty seconds. There
is much difference Of report as 10 the true drec-
ton from which the shock came. Tne early hour
at which the shock was felt caused much OF in's.
| as the majority of those who heard ana felt y
were awakened from their sleep py IL, ana the
| sound and vibrations We're present before they
! were sufficiently awake to realize what the trou-
| ble
NOT MUCH DAMAGE CAUSED.
The shock does not appear to have been severe
enough TO cause much damage In all places the
effect, appear to have been the same. The
houses shook and dishes ratified, but outside Of
| IN. breaking of a few vases and the upsetting OF
dishes which careless housewives had set too
close to the edges Of the shelves nothing has been
! recorded The mountain districts felt the viDra-
tions most That section of Paterson which is
situated on the higher ground was generally
shaken while the people living In the lower end
report having felt nothing of the shock
NEWARK IN THE PATH OF THE SHOCK.
:. Newark was in the path of the shock. and build
! ings in all parts Of the city trembied vlsioy.
Glass and china were ratified on their shelves ana
suspended objects swayed Tor some httie time
! after the trembling of the earth had ceased In
a now house on the Hill the owner yesterday
showed a number of cracks in the walls which he
| said were not there on Saturday and he said the