The record-union., 1896-01-27

LONG BRANCH IN. J.), Jan. %
Ten thousand visitors from the numer-
Gus resorts north and south OF TINS
place, as we'll as from New York, Phll-
adelphia and the larger New Jersey
towns focked here to-day and repaired
to the beach to watch the efforts made
TO pull the steamship St. Paul, the ia
NOUS ocean greyhound, which was
grounded during a dense fog yesterday
morning, over the bar into deep water.
The ship was moved ITO feet seaward,
but the flood tide was not of sufficient
duration to enable the crews OF the
steamship and the wrecking companies
to haul her into water deep enough TO
float
There were fifty powerful tugs op-
posite the st. Paul ready to render as
sistance, but they were not utilized.
Sly immense anchors were planted IN
the sea about a thousand yards from
the stranded vessel. Fastened to the
anchors were several steel hawsers,
which were connected with the powerful
cspstan bar on the stern of the ship.
This capstan was rotated by steam
power furnished by the steamship $
boilers and engines.
Everything was in readiness for the
haul, and soon after midnight the en-
gines were started. The hawsers tight
ened. the capstan creaked and inch by
inch the big steamship was pulled sea-
ward. When the tide turned to the
ebb the boat had been moved nearly
one-third of her length, and placed in
a more advantageous position, as at
low tide she was only six feet in the
sand and in eleven feet of water. The
strain on the hawserS was kept up
moderately during the day, in order
TO keep the ship from again moving
toward the beach. No attempt was
made to float her while the afternoon
tide was at the ebb.
Those in charge predict that to-mor-
rows high tide will be higher than that
OF to-day, and with favorable condi-
items they expect to complete the work
begun last night The sea was almost
as quiet to-day as the proverbial mill
pond This state of affairs caused the
life-saving crews to remove from the
ship the line thrown to her when she
stranded, which was used to run the
breeches buoy to and from the liner
Messrs. Clement A. Griseom. senior
and junior, of Philadelphia, President
and Manager, respectively, of the In
ternational Navigation Company; Will
lam Cramp a member of the firm that
built the ST. Paul; Marine Superintend-
ent Shockford and other high officials
of the American line visited the un-
lucky ship and spent hours in consulta-
ton with Captain Jamison and his
staff.
They gave out no official statement
for publication, but the petty officers
deny that the ST. Paul was engaged in
a race with the Campania prior to the
accident This story is not generally
believed, as Captain James MuIligan of
Life Station No. 4, who was the first to
board the ship in the breeches buoy on
Saturday morning, states that the first
question put to him by the passengers
when ne stepped foot on the deck was,
ssWhere is the Campania?'
All the passengers Of the St. Paul were
taken to New York in tugs late yester-
day afternoon, but the entire crew,
numbering 400, including many women,
remain on board, and have not come
ashore since the St. Paul struck.
One of the novel features of the day
was the rigging of a telephone on board
the boat to connect with the shore. The
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telephone system, and by this means
the ships officers are able to commune
cate with their agents in the city.
At 8 o'clock tonight Custom House
Officer Patterson telephoned from the
St Paul that determined effort will be
made at 5 a. m. tomorrow to pull the
ship from her cradle in the sand Mr..
Patterson said the attempt would
doubtless be a failure, unless wind
from the east was blowing that would
make tha tide evfTa bi5h