New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1895-11-07
ENVELOPED IN MIST.
a FOG THAT COULD BE CUT HANGS
OVER BAY AND RIVERS.
NO STEAMER VENTURES TO COME IN FROM THE
sEA-UNUsUAL DELAY TO sHIPPING-MANf
INQUIRIES AT THE OFFICES OF THE
VARIOUS LISEs-TRoUBLEs OF
SUBURBAN JEWELLERS

VARIOUS LINEs-TRoUBLEs OF
SUBURBAN JEWELLERS.
Bay and rivers were shrouded in mantle OF
dense fog yesterday. which made navigation ooth
slow and per.ous The TACT that few or no ac-
cidents weie reported Is due entirely to the care
and cautiousness Of the pilots Of the steam vesses
plying the waters OF New-York. Throughout the
entire day bank OF fog concealed New-York from
her neighbors and looking from the Battery sea
wall nothing could be dlscerned 100 feet away
Governors Island and the Statue OF Liberty were
shrouded and Staten Island might have d'sap-
peared from the face OF the earth for all Ne"
Workers. could
Down the Narrows and away out at SANDY hooN
the fog was even denser. and the Incoming Steam
ships which were due did not venture TO thrust
their inward. No vessels. Of course couiu
he made by the observer there, and even d.
Quarantine II could not be seen IL any vesses were
lying at anchor and awaiting the visit OF the uoc-
tors boat
A large number OF vessels were due yesterday anu
a large fleet OF steamships doubtless crulsed up ana
down outside the Hook or anchored unu' 'i.S
could their way to creep into port. Aihone ''
vessels due were the White Star liner Majestic
the North German Lloyd steamship spree tne
Finance from Colon; the Seneca, from havana
the Clar.bel. from Navassa; the FL Norte' rom rom
New-Oreans: the Ailsa. from Kingston; the O''E
OF Lincoln from Shields: the Russian Prince from
Shields: the Tallahassee from Savannah tne
Batoum from Gibraltar; the Nestor, from va"
rahar: the Peconic from Gibraltar; the seminole
from Jacksonville the Red Star liner Kensington
from Antwerp and the Lord Warwick. from Medi-
terranean ports OF this long list only TWO nave
arrived fhe last two mentioned. and they arrlVei
late on Tuesday night and anchored. 1t is thous"'
off Quarantine -
Many inquiries made at the dinerent steam
shin lines and at the ship news office az to the
overdue steamers. but all received the same reply
and explanation: NO ships reported to-day; Ios
too thick" ,,,u.o ,
The Majestic usually arrives with clocKlIke regu-
larity. and a number of the friends OF MI I.Sssl7i
the American Ambas sador 10 franc na4 "a -
al the pier 10 await the arrival Of the BODY OF MIS-
Eustis which Is board In charge oil ID. rrSsrS,
ir The thick weather also inpelel OutsO.ns
steamships. and no report was receive! - vi. ~
HOOK OF their passing out 10 sea IL IL P,OolDic
that most OF them anchored In the Lower BAY 70
await the lifting OF the fog. Among the Vsssels
that passed down, eastward bound, were the ham,
burg-Amerlcan liner Augusta NictSria me, the D.
star steamer Noordland, the White star liner BIT
tannia the Amer liner Berlin. the isIdhC!a,
the Algonquin, the City Of Perth ana the "eo's
| Dumois. - . -
saler steamer IS reported as entering the harDop
OF the greatest commercial city OF the western
Hemisphere and II means great trouble ana deiay
10 shipping men. steamship men and passengers
alike At $50 o'clock last night the observer re-
ported that a light sOutherly wind was Dlowlhg'
and that the fog dense as ever. -,
The suburban jewellers who daily come 70 pusl-
ness in New-York the chief sufferers from me
pail that had settled down over the Bay and rivers
Every ferryboat delayed more or less, &c.
cording 10 the distance IL had to cover. and chei
EVERYBODY said that It the worst fog in years
The ferryboats anG tugs that were compelled 20
he abroad In such weather tangled bells and footed
whistles as seldom before.