New-York tribune., 1901-02-06
WIND DELAYS STEAM MERS.
SLIPS PACKED WITH ICE - GENERAL
DISCOMFORT To PEDESTRIANS

The weather yesterday extremely dis
agreeable. There was northwest wind that
whskcd across the city at average speed Of
nearly sixty miles an hour. and rose as high as
seventy-two miles. II reached its maximum
speed shortly before noon The discomfort Of
the wind was Increased by the freezing tempera-
ture. The mercury did not rise above 20 de-
erees ali day The minimum temperature was
20 degrees at p. m.
Notwithstanding the cold. the ice and snow on
the sunny side OF the streets melted, and the
walking was in consequence another disagree
able feature of the day. for when one was not
slipping on the adamantine ice on one side he
was soaking his feet on the other.
But II Is always we'll TO look the bright
side Of things and yesterday had its bright as
well as It's dark side. 1t was a glorious day on
which 10 FIJI the lungs and set the blood rushing
through the veins.
The wind was the chief feature. The tide was
abnormaIIy low because of II. II drove the large
cakes Of ice floating down the North River into
the slips so firmly that 1t was with difficulty that
steamers could enter them. The Andes and the
Cvmrie were both delayed over an hour in dis
charging their passengers. They found 1t almost
impossible to force their way into the compact
masses.
The wind blew the spray back from the bows
of vessels and the cold froze it upon everything
u toucbed. Tugs passed up and down the river
With cabins and pilot houses hecked with ice.
Tho rails and other fixtures on the bow of the
steamer Mexico which arrived here from the
warm climate of Havana, were incased I'm a coat
Of Ice 1t was so rough in the Lower Bay that
the pilots had difficulty In boarding steamers
The British steamer Drumelzier was Obliged 10
anchor outside the Sandy Hook bar to walt for
q niIot The water so rough that the pilot
couId not board her. The American ship Astral.
which sailed Sunday for Shanghai was anch-
ored off the Sandy Hook bar also.
The wind was supposed to be responsible Tor
the grounding OF the steamer Oloers. snort
distance north of Fort Hamilton. The OIbers,
a Lamport & Holt steamer arrived here from
Rio Janeiro and St Lucia with cargo Of cof-
fee on Monday night. She anchored at Quar-
antine for the night TO wait for change of tide
ir order to dock at a Brooklyn pier in the East
River. When she got her anchor UP to proceed
the pilot supposed that the steamer would have
nlenty of room to turn. but the strong north
west wind which prevailed forced the ship TO
leeward so fast that she grounded In the mud
on the Long Island side of the harbOr. Her
agents Busk Il JevOns, ordered the Merritt K
Chapman WreckinS Derrick Company 70 send
yreckIng apparatus TO assist the vessel TO get
out of her predicament IL was hoped that sne
would float when the wind had subsided sut1-
ciently to allow full tide to come In
Arbitrage houses on the Stock Exchange ex-
Derienced some inconvenience because of the de-
lay in cables from London. ABOUT every com
many having lines to the British metropolis
ported more less delay
The Commercial Gable Company lost its direct
wire to London, and had to send and receive by
way of Liverpool The Anglo-American Com
pany's wires were out of order. and during the
morning only one of those to London could be
used
The Central Office of the Western Union Tele-
graph Company announced that severe storm
was prevailing in England and Ireland, and
that all telegraph lines were seriously anected
The weather to-day will be colder than 1t was
yesterday but the wind will drop TO a normal
velocity