New-York tribune., 1899-02-15
BIG LINERS COME INTO PORT.
A PROCESSION OF ICECLAD INBOUND
VESSELS.
TALES OF STRESS AND STORM TOLD BY THE OF
TICERs OF THE GREAT SEA COURsERs-THE
BAY AGAIN PLACID-TROUBLE FOR
SOME OF THE FERRIES.


with the passing Of the storm navigation in
the Lower and Upper bays opened up again yes
terday morning II n giant drawbridge had
been nung to let the sea coursers in and out
The sun rose clear and cloudless and the air
rapidly grew warm and mild. The Bay which
had frowned so darfly and threateningy
through the hurricane Of snow the day preced-
Ing looked as placid and harmless as If it had
never sulked in its life. What ice remained
had drlfted toward the Long Island shore. At
10 o'clock the thermometer at Quarantine reg
istered Is degrees above zero.
The big ships came into port with rush. and
every one Of them had tales Of stress and storm
and ice and snow and suffering to tell. Fore
most among the liners came the Cunarder
Etruria She carried a good deal o. ice, and
she had had the toughest trip in her history
and had narrowly escaped running down the
United States cruiser Marhlehead seventy miles
east Of Sandy Hook as told elsewhere, but she
signallcd to be reported all well The American
liner Paris due last Sunday, reported one Of the
worst voyages In her existence, but she came
through without special incident.
The Anchor Line steamer Anchoria bowed in
from Glasgow with a story about hard times on
the deep. she was well iced up. and had lost
seaman John Smith who swept against a
rail by huge wave, and received q fractured
skull. The man was buried at sea. The An
choria waited of the Hook from early Monday
morning until yesterday morning before daring
10 come up.
The German tank steamer Excelsior, from
Rotterdam reported q terrific time Of II with the
hurricane. Captain Muller never had worse
trip in all his eighty voyages. The Holland
America steamer Spaarndam from Rotterdam,
la .rr ard limo
and the Clyde liner Algonquin were among lhe
coastwise arrivals Both We're overdue, the Al
gouquin being due 20 sail for Charleston agaIh
YESTERDAY Not long afterWard appeared the
Tweedie Trading Companys Catania, which had
10 put into the Azores for repairs in December.
At o'clock in the afternoon the observer at
Fire Island reported sighting the trenchman
La Bretague the last of the more important
overdue vessels She did not get IN IN time TO
come up to her pier last night The White star
freight boat Cymric and the North German
LI0vd liner Gcra. from Bremen. are stiL over
due They are expected tomorrow or the next
day
The marine observer at Sandy Hook reported
ri "A ID. ~ Yesterday q fresh breeze from the
west and "much ice coming out Of the bay. WIN
lee all around outside Sandy Hook AT ia
D. m the British steamer Venus, outward hound
for Boston. could not turn the southwest SPIT
for the ice. and went out with 1t stern mrs.; car
ried 10 sea boy the ebb tide. The schooner Henry
sutton was also IN an ce-driit
The Wilson Liner Ohio passed out by 'luaran-
tine at > ?. n. bound to Hun. England. When
off Sandy Hook two hours later. she was seen
o. be- in trouble IN the ice i'm the ship Channel
Tugs put out 20 lend assistance. but their ser
vices were not engaged. The steamer was not
seriously disabled. she was able 10 turn back
10 Quarantine. where she arrived unasssted at
g o'clock. nd dropped anchor. Owing % the ice
the ohio could not be reached from tho Quaran-
tine boarding station last night. il is possible
that as she was going down the Lower Bay the
ice ground off several rivets and started plate,
causing her - leak
The ferries on the East ard North rivers had
not recovered from the storm yesterday The
ice that swung up and down with the tides
proved particularly troublesome IN the East
River where it Kept the WaiI-st.. Thirty-ninth-
st and James sip lines from operating all day.
TIE Fulton ferry operated at irregular int ~
yais. and the others. although IN operation. We're
unable TO run on schedule time. in the North
River although there was much fec, the ferries
We're making reasonably good time. The boats
mad some difficulty in making their slips on this
side o. the river. and the upper ferries had
particularly hard tine The pilot of one Of the
Hoosevcit-st ferryb.ats said that one trip be
made took an hour and q quarter. H. had
never seen things so had i'm the East River be-
fore. At South FERRY things We're in a better
condition. and the Staten Island boats We're
running on their regular time.