The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-08-02
BLOCKED THE FERRY SLIP.
THE FosTER's now COT STUCK De-
TWEEN PILES WHILE DOCKING.

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the Tide swung the Fishing steamer Around
beat wests,de In the slip-Tho Enstside HAD
to HELP Got the Foster Out or the way.
The fishing steamboat AL Foster had a hard
time making her dock at the foot Of East TWEEN.
ty-third street on her return from the Cholera
Banks at 8 O'Clock last evening, and the passen-
gers were not able to land for nearly an hour
after her bow touched the pier, The Foster is
commanded by Capt, Al Foster, and is one Of tho
most popular Of tho craft that go TO the fishing
banks every day.
After landing some OF her passengers at tho
Battery, yesterday afternoon, she steamed up
the river with about 450 men, women, and chill
dren on board. She struck an obstruction of
the Battery, and the incident excited some Of
the passengerS. They had hardly become calm
when the boat got to the Twenty-third street
pier, to the north side OF which she ties up.
The passengers were all anxious to get ashore.
Capt. oster usually runs the steamer up even
with the pier, and then, clearing the pier by q
few feet with the bow of the boat, swings her
around 30 that she can be backed into the dock.
He tried to do this yesterday. The tide was rum
ming SO strong that instead of clearing the pier
the bow Of the Foster was thrown against it
She ran in between two piles that held her fast,
and the tide swung her around so that she lay
pTohuhiuo uCTObS inc b1DB OF Inc Grcen-
point Ferry Company's landing, shut
ting in the ferryboat westslde, which was
ready to start for Williamsburg with a
crowd Of Brooklynites or board. Her captain,
thinking, that, he might. DO able to help the
Eos Fo. started ,I the fsfrybost and tried to push
Foster set the steamboats, engine going at the
away Tor hfteen minutes, trying to raise the
blockade on the slips and force the steamboat
out INTO the stream. -,
dren on the Foster got frightened and began to
scream some OF the mon lost their nerve, too,
s sns they thai sdd e tho to s sas p %as iora Tae INTO wop pSo
stream she would be carried of at the will Of
the tide, and many made a scramble to, get
the pier. and ak women clambered over the rail
fencing on the. lookout's station and climbed
Policemen Connors and Kineaeh, when on
duty in the vicinity, had been attracted to the
Ppi lef y Wien lhs nG they m save q The the w e9aes a ,sls th1 RsS,
ashore they ran to the pier head and helped them
land. About a dozen men also got ashore over
them. One fat man tumbled from the rail to tho
pier and rolled eight or ten feet. He wasn't
The efforts Of tho West Side to get the Foster
out OF trouble proving useless, the three blasts
On : inc woieu .sd That W.r as sn,Eds bring NJ q Meet Of tugs
tugboatmen who cruise about the East River
was at hand. About that time tho Greenpoint
ferryboat East Side steamed up from Williams
burg. Tho situation was explained to her Cap
tain. and he put Q two-inch hawser on board Of
the fishing boat. The line was made fast to the
Side pushed, the East Side pulled, and the
Foster started her propeller. They worked
together for q few moments, and then the
hawser parted. Another was substituted for 1t,
and after a few minutes hard work the stern OF
around into the stream. The ferryboats stood
by, and Capt. Foster ran his boat bow first into
the dock. She was made fast about GAS O'Clock,
and the passengers got ashore in a few minutes.
No one was injured during tho hour they were
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