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

even though in his estimation Britannia rules the
waves she doesn't rule the Ice that sometimes
fills the great harbor of the American metropolis
The steamship Greetands. Captain Couillard
which was to sail for Cuba yesterday. was frozen
fast in the ice at Commercial Wharf and unable
to leave II. Staten Island Sound was frozen over
from the island to the Jersey shore SO sohdly
that 1t was absolutely unnavigable
AN ASTORIA FERRYBOAT IN COLLISION.
About midnight of Thursday the Astoria ferryboat
s,einway was run into by freight-car float OF the
New-York and New-Haven Railroad Company OH
-second-st, the float having been swept from
It's course by ice foe. The Steinways port
paddle-box and wheel were demolished and the dis
abed boat drifted helplessly to Nineteth-s. where
she was thrown violently against the pier by the
strong tide then running. Some ten or twelve
passengers who were on board became panic
stricken and would have jumped overheard had
they not been forcibly restrained by the deck
hands They shrieked wildly and struggled des-
nerateIy for life-preservers but were finally Gained
by the crew. A little later the ferryboa' having
drifted alongside the pier. four men VINO were
messengers insisted upon running plank ashore
hut were prevented from doing So Policeman Car
nav who then appeared the scene, summoned
a tugboat, which took the boat TO her shp at
N,netv.second-st where her passengers were land
cd Nothing was Of the float AFTER the COL
lison.
STORMY SCENES AT SOUTH FERRY.
Tho South Ferry whose boats run from White
h,lls to Atlantic-ave.. Brooklyn. was the uniuck-
Test OF the East River ferries The ferryboat At
iant,c in charge OF pilot named Losee' which
started from Brooklyn at p m. encountered dense
ee,ds OF heavy Ice, In which she was firmly he.d
while helplessly drifting about for nearly an hour
At last when she reached her slip at Whitehaii-str
II was so packed with drift Ice that she was una
bic TO enter IT, After several fruitiess ATTEMPTS te
boat succeeded in getting her bow against the rack
on the north side Of the slip. where she remained
imprisoned by the Ice unable to go either aheao Vi
sstern After waiting long time. seventy-ohe men
who were passengers managed TO get upon the rack
and scramble ashore. Fifteen women, VINO were also
nassengers watched the men, and wished FOR the
time being that they too were or the male sex
while the women were lorgingly looking landward
.he tide took turn. which threw the boat over
against the middle rack, but she could get no iur
Their into the slip. gangplank was then thrown
,ron the ton OF the boats cabin TO the timber tops
of the rack and the women had an opportunity 10
go ashore At first they hesitated but after WINE
AL resoutely climbed the iron ladder from the deck
IN the top OF the cabin and were safely landed. be-
ing assisted in their perilous passage along the slip
merry timbers by several reporters and employees OF
the ferry company. The Pierrepont ana other Doats
OF the same route had similar experiences Al
o'clock a placard posted in front OF the ticket
office saying: NO boats will be run on '~s ferry
tonight" The Hamiton-ave. ferry continued In
operation
STATEN ISLAND FERRYBOATs SERIOUSLY
DELAYED.
c,,orn,srdent Cannon Of the Staten Island Ferry
Comnanv has been almost continue usy on duty
since the storm broke over the city. HIS boats
yesterday forenoon were seriously delayed ny 'ne
Immense quantities of ice which accumulated IN the
Bay and the East River. forming an almost I'M
pregnabe barrier from the Staten Island Terry s"ps
10 Governors Island and across to Bedlow s. "here
the tugboats Boy and Croton were Tor a long 'l''e
hemmed in and unable 10 move In any direc''oh
About 2:3o p. there were seventeen feriypoa's'
tugboats and other craft fast in the ice between
the Battery and Governors Island. and they were
unable to move Till the turning tide loosened the
ice sufficiently to enable the more powerful OF the
boats to plough through 1t and open avenues OF
escape for their weaker consorts.
The Staten Island ferryboat Robert Garrett
started from her slip for Staten Island about 2A5
%. m, but had proceeded more than a hundred
yards before she encountered a tow OF canalboats
and barges. which were driven into her track by
Which she was blown by the wind and carried BY
the tide squarely across the slip completely block.
ns waA Then S he ro@
sought to enter the slip but vas S Sk
ashore but others refused to the risk Of slipping
icy wind which swept across the Battery in fierce
gusts that nearly carried pedestrians from the'r
The Stapleton OF the same route, was. mean,
while. stuck fast In the ice between her SIP ana ana
Governors Island After time Teen slim. ins ans
resume their trips, though at infrequen and rregu
lar intervals.
THE IMMIGRANT BOAT IMPRISONED.
The ancient sidewheel ferryboat which formerly
piled on the Delaware River. between Pniia-
dephia and Camden but now runs between the
\arge office at the Battery and Ellis Island, in
charge of the Bureau of Immigration. was carried
by ice and tide "alI around Robin Hoods barn.