The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1898-12-22
UNDER A MIN Ii
OF MIS- I.
/ Fog Again Envelops the
City and Delays
Traffic.
BIG BLOCK AT THE FERRIES
Lines of Teams Extending to
Warren Street Impede
Trolley Travel.
HARBOR ALMOST SHUT TO VESSELS
ocean Steamships Remain
At Anchor Near Sandy
Hook.
HARBOR ALMOST SHUT TO VESSELS

The weather man has made plenty OF
enemies within the past three days, es-
pecially among express companies,
Christmas shoppers and pilots. The
weather served up has been unusually
disagreeabe, making life miserable for
almost every one. Nine out of every ten
people complain of a cold in the head,
and the tenth universally has a cough
to complain about. The grip has taken
hold of some, and, with this combination,
people certainly have excellent grounds
for complaint. This too, coming around
the busiest part of the year, when stSre-
keepers are endeavoring to dispose of
their large stock of wares. and express
companies trying to deliver enormous
numbers of packages. For Christmas
time, this weather is cereainly very det-
rimental to business and many COM
plants have been registered by shop
keepers.
The fog which has been hanging over
the city and river during the three days
past, has impeded traffic on the river and
in the city. Passengers on the ferryboats
were delayed more than a half anshour
this morning, IN fact the boats could run
on no kind of schedule time. The COM
parry has always made 1t rule in foggy
weather to keep only one boat of each
line on the river. Otherwise where pas
sengers could cross in from ten to fifteen
minutes, this morning the boats only ran
at halt speed only felt their way through
. the heavy atmosphere. Pilots were un-
usually careful and took no chances in
making time. In some cases the boats
would miss the slips and would have con-
siderable difficulty in land the passengers.
The Pennsylvania boats were. as a rule
trucks We're carried across about every
hfteen minutes on the Cortlandt and Des-
brosses street lines.
The truekmen had ample cause for COM
plant, for they were stalled for hours
along Montgomery street Old timers
about the ferryhouse at the foot of Ex-
change place. say they never saw suen a
thick fog. This, however, may be exag-
gerated a little for on several occasions
within recent years, fogs as heavy have
visited the city and made things disagree
able on all sides. Express wagons,
peddler wagons and the hundreds of ve-
hfcles which daily come from Newark
and this vicinity made up the long line,
which blocked Montgomery street and
Exchange place from about eight O'clock
this morning until nearly noon. The line
extended at ons time as far as Warren
street and on Washington street as far as
Grand street. The line on the Desbrosses
street side, was perhaps greater than the
for the Twenty-third street ferry. Police
men were scattered all along the line to
keep the crosswalks clear, but consider
able difficulty was experienced. as tae
drivers We're in anything but a submissive
mood.
About noon the fog began to lift a lit
tie and the boats were run more fire.
quently, but not on the regular schedule
time, which is every ten minutes The
pilots OF the Brooklyn Annex boats had
a hard time of it trying TO round the Bat
terry, but up to three O'Clock they had
succeeded in running without mishap.
The North Jersey Street Railway Com
pany had some difficulty at the ferry this
morning where the cars come out of the
sheds. Before patrolmen We're sent to
keep the drivers from pulling up on the
tracks, many had accomplished that trick
and consequently the cars were unable
to leave the shed. This delay lasted for
about fifteen minutes, until a boat came
in to take the trucks aboard. Occasion
ally q couple of drivers would manage to
squeeze through and get on the tracks
INT no long DELAYS ~ere caused If the
fog continues to be as heavy by tonight,
trick arivers viii have the same diff
Guilty as they experienced early this morn
ing. al LII EalM