The daily morning journal and courier., 1897-07-29
sEAsIox NxoUmsroNIsrs.

Steamers John II. starin and Now Bruns-
 wick Reached Their Docks in This City
 Yesterday With Bedraagled Crowds
 Aboard-A Terrible Nights Experience
 Nearly All on Board Both Boats Were
 Seasick,
 As stated in the Journal and Courier yesterday morning the two steamers. New Brunswick and John H. Starin, each with several hundred excursion ists aboard, did not arrive in New Ha- Ven Tuesday night, but put in at haVens along the sound to wait until the storm abated.
 The New Brunswick, which had on board the members of Canton Sassacus, l. o. O. F., left Bay Ridge on the return trip at o'clock Tuesday evening, and although the sea was run ming high, Captain King, at the earnest solicitation of the members or the ex- cursion committee, attempted to Keep on his way to New Haven until he was finally compelled to put in at COW pay at o'clock. After remaining in the bay a short time an attempt was made to continue on the homeWard trip, put the boat was driven back into the bay by the heavy seas and remained there until o'clock yesterday morning. At that hour the steamer left Cow Bay and arrived at Belle dock at Il o'clock yesterday forenoon. During the storm nearly everyone aboard the boat was sick and the experience of the night was one which those on board will not soon forget.
 The steamer John H. Starin, which carried about 450 members of Clan Me- Leod and of the K. o. J. societies to Glen Island left the island late Tues day afternoon for New Haven, encoun- | tered rough weather soon after starting on the homeWard trip, was finally oblig- ed to put into Huntington bay and re- | mained there until o'clock yesterday morning, when she resumed her return trip. She arrived at her dock in this city at 12 o'clock yesterday.
 The passengers who were aboard the Starin tell terrible story of the night. They say that fully two-thirds of those on board the boat were seasick and the the saloon floor and the decks were strewn with those who were too i'll to stand up. Every stateroom on the boat was taken, as was also every berth, and those who could not secure either were left in a plight more dis agreeable than can be imagined. Some of the passengers succeeded in reach ing shore, and after walking about five miles found a telegraph office from which they endeavored to send mes sages to their friends in this city. The | messages were so numerous, however, that the operator would only receive them subject to delay and some of the messages did not reach New Haven un- ] til o'clock yesterday morning. ; There was a Scanty stock of provis- ions aboard the steamer and the supply was not enough for the passengers and it soon gave out There were on board a large number of babies, and their cries when there was no milk with which to feed them were piteous. Some of the party who went ashore attempt ed to get food at the farm houses. They found that the price of bread had sud- denly advanced to fifty cents per loaf, and sandwiches to fifteen cents apiece.
 James H. Macdonald, who was one of
 the party which went ashore paid $1. 50 for small pail of coffee.
 The cabin floor was packed with sick
 men, women and children, and when
 the steamer reached it's dock in this
 city yesterday noon its cabin seemed
 more like a hospital than a steamer
 cabin.
 Hundreds of the anxious relatives and friends of the excursionists were
 at the dock all yesterday forenoon awaiting the arrival of the boats, and
 many had carriages ready to take the
 seasick passengers to their homes.