New-York tribune., 1899-02-14
RIVERS AND BAY ICEBOTND.
NONE OF THE OVERDUE OCEAN LINERS
YET IN PORT
SOME or THE FERRY LINES SUSPEND TRAFFIC
OTHERS SEND OUT BOATS AT INFRpQUBNT
INTERVALS - ALI. THE ELECTRIC

SOME OF THE FERRY LINES SUSPEND TRAFFIC.
OTHERS SEND OUT BOATS At INFRrouDNr
INTERVALS - ALI, THE ELECTRIC
BroYs N THE HARBOR OUT
The continued cold weather. with snow ana
wind accompaniments played havoc with snip
ping Interests yesterday. 40 steamers left port,
and not one OF the many overdue steamers were
reported as being sighted last night Both
rivers are filled with ice, and the various Sips
along the waterfront so jammed with Zee
that il il almost Impossible for boats either 20
enter or leave them with safety. The various
ferry lines made heroic efforts TO keep up tIai-
fic under most adverse circumstances. None OF
them ran on schedule time but this did not
cause any great Inconvenience 10 passengers as
the traffic was light, owing 70 the iact t"a'
yesterday a holiday.
The first ferry line to succumb 10 the exist
ing conditions OF tho weather was that to rhir-
ty-ninth-st South Brooklyn which was aban-
doned early in the morning The staten Island
Ferry had a severe battle with the storm, ana
yesterday afternoon stopped traffic entirely
much 10 the Inconvenience Of tho residents or
the Borough Of Richmond. Steamers which
were due I'm port last Friday had not been re-
ported. and at a late hour last night th" OBJ
server at Sandy Hook reported that none OF
them We're in sight.
A gale Of over nifty miles an hour was blow
Ing at the Hook all the afternon and laet night
and the air was 50 filed with nying SNOW that
it was impossible to any great distance oht
to sea with the telescope. so anxiety is foli
for the overdue steamers, a. they are all stanch
vessels and can weather the gale without dan
ger.
THE DELAYED OCEAN LINERS.
Among the Atlantic passenger liners duo from
Great Britain and the Continent that regularly
arrive here lt the end OF the week. are The
American Line steamship Paris. nine daYs our
from Southampton. which 10 have equaIlod hor
hest record should have arrived here or G3l
p m on Friday; the Cunarder EUuria, eieht
days out from Queenstown which To have
equaled her pest record. would have arrived
here at 720 Il m. on Saturday; the French
Liner La Bretagne. nine days out from Havre'
which 10 have equalled her best record. would
have arrived her, at 124O D. n. on Sa uriay,
the Anchor Liner Anchoria. sixteen days out
from Glasgow: The Holland-America Liner
spaarndam. eighteen days out from Rotterdam;
the Hamburg-American Liner Pretoria. fifteen
days out from Hamburg. tho North German
Lloyd Liner Gera. thirteen days out from
Bremen; the white Star Liners Nomadic
freightcr). thirteen days out and Cymric. ton
days out. from Liveroool.
Freight steamers whose voyages arc growing
uncomfortably long tho Eastern Prince.
twenty four days ont from Shields; Deike Rick
mers. twenty-five days out from Havre; Salerno,
twtnty-six days out from Newcastle. England.
and the Catana, eighteen days out from s..
Michaels The Amda, ffty-eight days out
from Shields. has about been given up as lost.
Nothing has been heard or her since she sailed.
an1 it mas become general conviction that she
has foundered with all on board.
40 doubt a large fleet OF steamers have ar
rived in the vicinity Of Sandy Hook Bar. and
are waiting outside FOR the blizzard to pass and
among them are probably all the delayed liners
SOUTH BROTHER ISLAND LIGHT OUT
Captain Edwin NJ. Shepard. inspector IN
charge OF the Third Lighthouse District sent
out notices 10 mariners last night in regard 10
the lights and buoys in New-York Harbor which
have been affected by the storm and the ice in
the Bay
The South Brother Island ledge light. East
River is out. the spindle for its support having
been carried away. All the electric buoys IN
the harbor are extingulshed. and it Will be i'm
possible to reght them until the now OF ice
ceases
All the bell buoys IN the Bay have been re-
and their places have been marked by spar
buoys OF the same color Spar buoys have also
been substituted FOR the can and nun buoys,
but Captain shepari warns mariners that even
these buoys must not be relied upon while the
ice foe continues.
Along the cty's waterfront the storm was
raging more fercely than inland yesterday. At
the Battery in West and South SITS. the snow
banks are several feet deep. and the howling
wind from the Bay and across the rivers was
biting. The tugboat Annie p. Skeers, owned 10y
the Lehigh Valley Railroad Company. COM
manded by Captain John p. DAILY. went down
suddenly on Sunday evening at Pier . North
River. The crew Of nine men had difficulty i'm
reaching the wharf. The pilot of the boat was
Edward Kelly, and the two nremen were named
Curran and Kelly. The tug Mamie Iambertson.
owned by the same company, has two holes iu
her bow. and is tied up at the same pier The
Skeers was sunk by floating ice. and the Lam
bertson was injured in Ike manner. owing to
the stormy weather OF the last few days. both
boats were manned by double crews. The
skeers is an old vessel and was valued Mt
$4,000
The New-York. New-Haven and Hartford
transfer tug No. 9, while coming down the East
River yesterday morning with big railroad
float. disabled her machinery. and 20 avoid ac-
cident made fast to the Barge Office pier
IT'S a lucky thing that to-day is holiday"
said 4 longshoreman yesterday morning at the
Ward Line pier. This expressed the sentiment
Of all river men. The fierce wind blowing along
the waterfront made the streets almost inn
passabe. South-st was practically deserted.
and the only vehicles to be seen were occasional
freight trucks or now and then bclatcd street
car struggling through the drifts
FERRY LINES BADLY CRIPPLED.
At the Catharine-st. ferry it was said that
only one boat was running. and the James
Slip line was not in operation. The Roosevelt
ferry was attempting to run boats on the half
hour instead Of every twenty minutes. on the
Fulton Ferry Line two boats were trying ID
make the trip every haf-hour All the lines